# Head of Executive Recruiting at Zoox

- Company: Zoox (zoox.com)
- Location: Foster City, CA
- Places: Foster City, United States
- Posted: 2023-08-01
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/c7ae5688-4bee-4378-b4de-6c9ad0c186ec
- Page: https://ye.saranatour.dev/jobs/head-of-executive-recruiting-zoox-kn7ahcve5q91p27v46mtykvps58hcfyx

## The posting

Head of Executive Recruiting
Zoox · Foster City, CA

Zoox is seeking an impactful and visionary **Head of Executive Recruiting** to architect and scale our in-house executive search capabilities. Operating as a strategic player-coach and trusted advisor to leadership, you will engineer the executive recruiting strategy and infrastructure, personally lead high-impact Director+ searches, and manage a dedicated team to deliver our most mission-critical hiring needs.

### In this role, you will...

- **Leadership:**Design and scale a world-class executive search function, including managing/coaching a small team, development of internal executive research capabilities and long-term succession planning.
- **End-to-End Recruitment:**Own and drive the entire executive recruitment lifecycle, from initial strategy meeting to candidate offer and closing, ensuring a seamless and high-touch experience for all executive candidates.
- **Hands-on Executive Search:** While leading the function and team, remain actively involved in the full-cycle execution of high-priority, mission-critical searches, personally driving candidate generation, engagement, and closing for select senior-level roles.
- **Market Mapping & Sourcing:** Develop sophisticated, data-driven market maps of executive talent in relevant industries (e.g., autonomous technology, automotive, software, hardware engineering, operations, finance).
- **Candidate Engagement:** Articulate the Zoox mission, vision, and unique culture compellingly to high-profile executive candidates, often involving complex compensation, negotiation, and relocation strategies.
- **Confidentiality & Discretion:** Handle extremely sensitive and confidential candidate information and internal organizational details with the utmost professionalism and discretion.
- **Partnering with Leadership:**Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the CEO, Co-Founder, C-suite, and other senior leaders on talent planning, and executive hiring best practices.
- **Process Improvement:**Drive continuous improvement in executive search processes, leveraging tools, metrics, and interview methodologies.
- **Passive Candidate Conversion:** Develop and execute tailored strategies to attract and successfully engage highly passive, hard-to-reach executive candidates, effectively converting passive interest into active candidacy.

### Qualifications

- **Experience:** 8+ years of experience with executive searches (Director+) and 15+ total recruiting experience.
- **Technical Domain Expertise:** Proven experience recruiting executive talent in a highly technical and/or rapidly scaling environment (e.g., hardware, software, AI/ML, autonomous systems, high-growth tech).
- **Leadership:**Successful multi-year track record as a player-coach, managing small team/direct reports.
- **Communication:** Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and present to C-level executives.
- **Closing:**Expert-level negotiation and closing skills, particularly for complex executive compensation packages.
- **Executive Sourcing & Talent Mapping:** Providing real-time competitive intelligence and talent benchmarking to the executive team, identifying shifts in the talent landscapes that may necessitate pivots.
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

### Bonus Qualifications

- Experience at a retained executive search firm focused on technology.
- Interest in the autonomous and e