Your role and responsibilities
IBM is seeking an Executive Recruiter to identify, engage, assess, and attract senior leaders across a broad range of functions and industries. This role is designed for a curious, technology-forward professional who is motivated to explore AI, emerging tools, and new ways of working. Prior recruiting experience is helpful but not required; structured development will build the Talent Acquisition capabilities needed for success.
The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of executive search, business strategy, and AI-enabled transformation. The recruiter will support executive hiring across different functions and disciplines while helping build, train, evolve, and manage responsible AI agents and new tools that improve appropriate recruiting workflows and team productivity.
This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who can engage credibly with senior leaders across different fields, learn new domains quickly, translate business strategy into executive talent requirements, and help define the next level of executive recruitment.
Your responsibilities may include:
• Partner with business, functional, and HR leaders to define executive role mandates, success profiles, capability requirements, and assessment criteria.
• Lead or support end-to-end executive searches across a broad range of business, functional, industry, and leadership domains.
• Translate business strategies, functional priorities, and leadership requirements into targeted search strategies and compelling candidate narratives.
• Identify and engage senior leaders across different fields through disciplined research, market mapping, professional networks, referrals, and talent communities.
• Assess candidates for functional expertise, leadership scope, business impact, learning agility, and alignment with the role mandate, in partnership with qualified subject-matter experts.
• Advise stakeholders on talent availability, competitor landscapes, compensation signals, search risks, and pipeline quality.
• Deliver a differentiated, high-touch candidate experience across outreach, assessment, interviews, offer, preboarding, and transition to executive integration.
• Build trusted relationships and maintain long-term pipelines for critical leadership and functional capabilities.
• Build, train, test, evolve, and manage AI agents for appropriate recruiting workflows, including research synthesis, content preparation, process support, knowledge management, and reporting.
• Create clear agent instructions, grounding approaches, quality checks, escalation points, and human oversight.
• Monitor agent performance and feedback, identify failure patterns, and improve workflows, prompts, knowledge sources, and controls.
• Maintain accurate search data, surface risks early, and provide concise progress updates to senior stakeholders.
• Continuously build expertise in executive search, sourcing, candidate management, stakeholder advisory, assessment, and Talent Acquisition governance.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in technology, engineering, data, consulting IT.
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI, digital tools, automation, and emerging ways of working, with the ability to learn and apply new technology concepts quickly.
• Ability to evaluate executive experience and role-relevant proficiency through structured questioning, evidence review, and partnership with functional experts.
• Interest in building, configuring, training, evaluating, or managing AI agents, copilots, automation, or AI-enabled workflows.
• Strong analytical, research, problem-solving, and written communication skills.
• Executive presence and the ability to build credibility with senior candidates and stakeholders across different fields.
• High learning agility and genuine interest in developing expertise in Talent Acquisition and executive search.
• Sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and the ability to manage confidential information and multiple priorities.
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Hands-on experience with generative AI, agentic AI, automation, digital tools, analytics, or technology-enabled business transformation.
• Familiarity with prompt design, low-code or no-code tools, workflow automation, data analysis, or programming and scripting.
• Experience translating complex concepts for different audiences and influencing decisions through data and insight.
• Exposure to executive research, consulting, talent intelligence, strategic sourcing, leadership assessment, or complex project delivery.
• Familiarity with responsible AI principles, evaluation methods, data privacy, risk controls, and human-in-the-loop operating models.
• Experience working across geographies, business units, functions, or matrixed organizations.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
