Executive Senior Recruiter

About the role

Northwest Partners is supporting a major initiative with a top-tier organization in the mortgage technology space and is looking for an experienced Executive/Senior Recruiter to contribute to the success of this work. This role will manage full-cycle recruiting, build proactive talent pipelines, and partner with hiring leaders across technical and business functions.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle from sourcing through offer and hire.
• Develop proactive talent pipelines through headhunting, LinkedIn sourcing, cold outreach, networking and other channels.
• Lead outbound recruiting strategies for hard-to-find technical and business talent.
• Recruit across software engineering, product management, design, customer, go-to-market, and corporate functions.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand requirements, build sourcing strategies, and deliver qualified candidates.
• Conduct candidate outreach, screening, interviewing, and assessment coordination.
• Track recruiting activity and performance metrics, including sourcing activity, interviews, and hires.
• Maintain accurate candidate and requisition information within an applicant tracking system.
• Support recruiting operations and compliance throughout the hiring process.
• Manage multiple requisitions and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Help strengthen recruiting processes and contribute to an effective talent function.

Requirements

• Recruiting experience within a technology or startup environment is mandatory.
• Proven success in full-cycle recruiting.
• Strong outbound sourcing and headhunting experience.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and engage passive candidates.
• Experience recruiting engineers and product managers; experience across design, customer, or go-to-market functions is a plus.
• Strong LinkedIn sourcing and direct outreach skills.
• Comfort with cold calling and proactive candidate engagement.
• Ability to demonstrate measurable recruiting success, including sourcing activity, interviews, and hires.
• Ability to operate with speed and flexibility in a fast-paced organization.
• Excellent communication and candidate relationship-building skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage medium-high volume of permanent requisitions.
• Experience with an applicant tracking system (Ashby preferred or similar)
• Ability to work independently within a lean recruiting organization.
• Ability to work in a hybrid office environment three days per week (Mon, Tues and Thurs on site in Frisco, Dallas office).

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits available to full time employees.