Director, Executive Recruiting

Join a team that shares your calling at MultiCare, where you’re more than just a job title. You’ll be part of a mission-driven team built on trust, caring for each other, our patients, and our communities. Here, you’ll live our values every day, grow your career, and do meaningful work in a community that feels like home.

About the role

As the Executive Recruiting Leader, you will build and operationalize a modern, high-performing executive search function. This role is accountable for transforming the current model into a scalable, strategic enterprise asset, ensuring the organization has the leadership strength required for current operations and future growth.

FTE: 1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Business Hours

Responsibilities

• Design and implement standardized enterprise processes for all executive-level searches to ensure consistency, transparency, and repeatable excellence in hiring outcomes.
• Build, lead, and train a high-caliber executive recruiting team—including recruiters and coordination support—aligned to the specialized demands of executive search.
• Create and manage an enterprise governance model that strengthens visibility and communication with hiring leaders and senior executives throughout each search.
• Establish and continuously refine performance measures based on healthcare industry benchmarks and best practices from leading internal executive search teams and premier search firms.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing market intelligence, competitive insights, and guidance on talent strategy.
• Create an enterprise sourcing capability that leverages national networks, professional associations, targeted research, and digital sourcing channels to ensure MultiCare competes effectively for top leadership talent.
• Partner with HR including Business Partners, Compensation, Talent, and Workforce Strategy to build an integrated approach to leadership talent—ensuring compensation, recruiting, development & succession, and workforce planning operate as a connected ecosystem.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional recruiting experience, including 3–5+ years managing senior-level or executive search assignments (C-suite, VP, physician leadership, or healthcare administration).
• Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle executive recruiting processes, including research, sourcing, assessment, interviewing, and executive-level stakeholder management.
• Prior experience working within the healthcare industry—including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory groups, or payers.
• Proven track record partnering with senior executives, CHROs, and service line leaders to define leadership profiles and advisory-level recruiting strategies.
• Experience conducting complex, confidential searches and navigating sensitive leadership transitions within competitive healthcare markets.
• Strong proficiency in advanced sourcing techniques, executive research, market intelligence gathering, and pipeline development for hard-to-fill leadership roles.
• Experience negotiating executive compensation.
• Prior experience managing a portfolio of 6–12 concurrent executive searches or equivalent high-complexity workload.
• Ability to evaluate leadership competencies, cultural fit, and organizational alignment for placements in mission-driven healthcare environments.

Benefits

• Growth and education: Competitive tuition assistance, award-winning residencies, fellowships, and career development to invest in you.
• Well-being and support: Generous PTO, Code Lavender, and Employee Assistance Programs to help you maintain balance and feel cared for in your work and life.
• Living our values: Respect, integrity, kindness, and collaboration guide how we care for patients, communities, and each other.
• Belonging for all: Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard, and valued.
• Comprehensive benefits package: Includes competitive salary, medical, dental, and retirement benefits, and paid time off.

Pay

As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for this position: $163,113.60 - $234,707.20 USD. Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will reflect the appropriate step on the pay scale aligned with the applicant’s years of experience.