Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service, on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to essential goods. They are seeking a Senior Leadership Recruiter to build the leadership team critical for their growth, focusing on identifying and engaging top leadership talent while partnering with executives to shape talent strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end searches for Director, Senior Director, VP, and executive-level talent across multiple functions
• Develop and execute proactive talent strategies to identify and attract top leadership candidates from highly competitive markets
• Build deep pipelines of passive talent and maintain long-term relationships with high-potential leaders
• Deliver exceptional candidate experiences while effectively representing the company's mission, culture, and growth opportunities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, hiring managers, and business leaders
• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline's strategy, operating model, and leadership needs
• Influence hiring decisions through data, market intelligence, organizational insights, and talent assessments
• Help leaders define hiring profiles that align with both current business needs and future organizational growth
• Conduct proactive market mapping and benchmarking to stay ahead of talent trends in key functional areas
• Evaluate candidates for leadership capability, organizational impact, strategic thinking, execution excellence, and cultural contribution
• Conduct rigorous assessments that go beyond experience to identify leaders capable of scaling teams, navigating complexity, and delivering results
• Develop structured interview processes and assessment frameworks that improve hiring quality and reduce bias
• Conduct talent mapping and market analysis to inform organizational planning and hiring priorities
• Partner on succession planning and long-term leadership capability development
• Drive continuous improvement in leadership recruiting practices and processes
• Raise the bar for how Zipline attracts, evaluates, and hires leaders

Skills

• 8+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring Director-level and above leadership talent
• Demonstrated success recruiting senior leaders in hyper-growth, high-growth, or transformational companies
• Experience partnering directly with executive leadership teams and senior stakeholders
• Proven track record of independently leading complex leadership searches from strategy through close
• Expertise in executive sourcing, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and executive-level candidate management
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Strong organizational skills & ability to multitask and adapt to a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience recruiting leaders across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, aviation, robotics, autonomy, hardware, software, or logistics organizations
• Possession of strong analytical skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team
• Experience with Hardware recruiting
• Experience with Greenhouse, GEM, Goodtime, Google Suite

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Overtime pay
• Discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• Sales incentives
• Benefits such as medical, dental and vision insurance
• Paid time off

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