Head of U.S. Private Bank Recruitment - New York, NY

Job Responsibilities

• Recruiting leadership (strategy + execution)
• Set and deliver the recruiting strategy aligned to business priorities, growth plans, and evolving skill needs.
• Build a scalable operating model: intake, prioritization, capacity planning, sourcing strategy, and service levels.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality assessment and selection practices; raise the bar on candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Personally lead selected senior-level searches from search strategy through offer close, partnering closely with business leadership.
• Maintain strong judgment, confidentiality, and rigor throughout the process.
• Senior stakeholder & “high-touch” client management
• Serve as the primary recruiting partner to senior leaders; provide clear guidance on talent markets, trade-offs, and hiring approach.
• Lead recurring executive readouts and presentations; proactively manage escalations and shifting priorities.
• Establish strong relationships with demanding stakeholder groups through credibility, transparency, and follow-through.
• People leadership
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of ~20; set clear expectations, performance standards, and development plans.
• Build a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen recruiting capability across sourcing, stakeholder management, and search execution.
• Analytics, reporting, and operational rigor
• Own recruiting reporting and frequent ad hoc analyses; translate data into actionable insights for leaders (pipeline health, timing, sources, capacity).
• Drive process discipline, risk awareness, and consistent execution across the recruiting lifecycle.
• Clear prioritization and operating rhythm reduce firefighting and improve predictability.
• Recruiting performance improves across speed, quality, stakeholder satisfaction, and team effectiveness.
• Senior searches are executed with strong calibration, high-quality slates, and effective closing.

Requirements

10+ Extensive talent acquisition and prior leadership experience, including leading a sizable team.

Proven success in high-pressure environments with frequent executive presentations, escalations, and competing priorities.

Demonstrated experience leading senior/executive searches directly.

Strong analytical and operational discipline, including comfort with metrics, reporting, and capacity planning.

Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and executive presence.

Track record building sourcing strategies in competitive, talent-constrained markets.

Experience recruiting in financial services or another highly regulated, large-scale environment.

Strong partnership experience with Finance/CFO stakeholders on workforce planning and prioritization.

Hands-on leadership: team management plus direct ownership of priority senior searches and executive deliverables.

Qualifications

• Operator + strategist: can run a high-throughput recruiting engine while shaping the future-state approach.
• Resilient and decisive: thrives amid ambiguity, urgency, and high expectations.
• Direct, credible client leader: can influence and challenge constructively.
• People-first leader with a high bar: develops talent and drives accountability.
• High visibility and high accountability.
• Fast pace with frequent pivots and urgent stakeholder needs.