• Lead VP-level and other senior leadership searches end to end, from search strategy and market mapping through assessment, selection, and closing.
• Advise C-suite executives and senior business leaders on hiring decisions, challenge assumptions, and navigate complex stakeholder dynamics.
• Develop talent strategies using market mapping, competitive intelligence, creative sourcing, and recruiting data to guide each search.
• Build relationships with passive executive talent, understand their motivations, and connect opportunities to GitLab’s mission and business priorities.
• Partner with hiring leaders to define success profiles, assess executive capabilities and business impact, and guide evidence-based hiring decisions.
• Own executive candidate relationships and deliver a high-touch experience through compensation discussions, competing opportunities, and negotiations.
• Manage multiple confidential, business-critical searches with discretion, balancing urgency, quality, stakeholder alignment, and candidate experience.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition leadership and executive recruiting peers to improve search frameworks, assessment practices, reporting, and tools.

What you’ll bring

• Experience independently leading VP-level and senior executive searches through successful hires in an executive search firm, an in-house executive recruiting function, or both.
• Executive recruiting experience across functions such as Sales, People, Legal, Finance, or other corporate teams, with the business acumen and curiosity to learn new domains.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with C-suite executives, influence senior stakeholders, and provide candid, evidence-based guidance on hiring decisions.
• Skills in talent research, market mapping, creative sourcing, leadership assessment, and engaging and closing passive executive talent.
• Business judgment, communication, and negotiation skills to navigate sensitive searches, complex compensation discussions, and competing executive priorities.
• Experience developing or improving executive search methodologies, frameworks, and processes while maintaining speed and flexibility.
• A hands-on approach to managing multiple high-priority searches independently and working through ambiguity.
• Experience in high-growth technology or enterprise software organizations, global executive searches, and distributed organizations is helpful.
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