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Recruiter, Leadership and Specialized Searches

Peregrine Technologies· Talent Acquisition
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San Francisco, CA$175k - $220kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Leadership Recruiter focused on partnering with executives and senior leaders to identify and hire exceptional leadership talent across the company, owning end-to-end leadership searches and providing market intelligence to inform hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end searches for leadership roles across the company, with a focus on Director, VP, and executive-level hiring.
  • Partner directly with executives and hiring leaders to translate business needs into clear leadership profiles, competencies, and search strategies.
  • Lead the research and market-mapping strategy for each search, developing a comprehensive view of the relevant talent landscape before and throughout execution.
  • Build detailed target-company ecosystems, identifying companies based on stage, scale, business model, functional maturity, growth trajectory, and other factors relevant to the search.
  • Map leadership teams and organizational structures within target companies to identify the individuals who own the relevant scope, as well as high-potential leaders operating one level below.
  • Use research to identify non-obvious and adjacent talent pools, rather than relying solely on obvious competitors, titles, or previously known candidates.
  • Develop and continuously refine hypotheses around where the strongest talent is likely to sit, using candidate conversations and market intelligence to improve the search.
  • Translate research into actionable market insights for hiring executives, including talent availability, compensation, organizational structures, candidate patterns, and potential tradeoffs.
  • Proactively identify and engage passive leadership candidates through thoughtful, highly personalized outreach and relationship building.
  • Conduct substantive candidate conversations that assess leadership trajectory, scope, impact, motivations, and alignment with the opportunity.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring executives throughout the search, providing market intelligence, candidate calibration, and recommendations rather than simply facilitating the process.
  • Design and drive disciplined search processes, including kickoff, research strategy, market mapping, candidate development, interview strategy, references, compensation discussions, and closing.
  • Maintain a high bar for candidate experience and discretion, particularly for confidential or highly sensitive searches.
  • Build long-term relationships with exceptional leaders who may become relevant to the company over time.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of recruiting, executive search, or executive talent research experience, with meaningful exposure to leadership hiring.
  • Experience in one or both of the following environments: executive search (venture-backed, growth-stage, or technology companies) or in-house leadership/executive recruiting within a high-growth technology company.
  • Exceptional research and market-mapping capabilities, with demonstrated experience building leadership talent markets from scratch.
  • Ability to develop sophisticated target-company strategies based on company stage, scale, business model, growth trajectory, organizational maturity, and functional relevance.
  • Experience researching organizational structures and identifying actual scope and reporting relationships of executives and senior leaders—not simply searching by title.
  • Ability to synthesize large amounts of market information into a clear point of view and communicate that perspective to senior stakeholders.
  • Strong investigative instincts and intellectual curiosity; ability to identify non-obvious talent pools.
  • Demonstrated experience owning or contributing to searches for Director, VP, and/or C-level leaders.
  • Strong candidate assessment skills and ability to distinguish scope, trajectory, and leadership impact from title or company pedigree.
  • Experience partnering directly with executives and senior hiring leaders.
  • Strong judgment and discretion when handling confidential searches and sensitive information.
  • A highly proactive approach: systematically build the market rather than waiting for candidates to appear.

Skills

Required:Leadership recruitmentMarket mapping and researchStakeholder managementCandidate assessment

Benefits

  • Annual Salary + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
  • Information on the benefits offered is here
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Peregrine Technologies

Effective, efficient and easy to use, Peregrine is the real-time public safety and police data management platform that delivers true interoperability.

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