Senior Leadership Recruiter

About the Role

Zipline is seeking an exceptional Staff Leadership Recruiter to help build the leadership team that will define our next stage of growth as a company. This highly strategic individual contributor role focused on identifying, engaging, assessing, and closing world-class leadership talent that will be critical to Zipline’s continued success.

Responsibilities

• Build an Exceptional Leadership Team: Lead end-to-end searches for Director, Senior Director, VP, and executive-level talent across multiple functions.
• Develop and execute proactive talent strategies to identify and attract top leadership candidates from highly competitive markets.
• Build deep pipelines of passive talent and maintain long-term relationships with high-potential leaders.
• Deliver exceptional candidate experiences while effectively representing the company's mission, culture, and growth opportunities.
• Serve as a Strategic Talent Advisor: Serve as a trusted advisor to executives, hiring managers, and business leaders.
• Develop a deep understanding of Zipline's strategy, operating model, and leadership needs.
• Influence hiring decisions through data, market intelligence, organizational insights, and talent assessments.
• Conduct proactive market mapping and benchmarking to stay ahead of talent trends in key functional areas.
• Assess Leadership Talent: Evaluate candidates for leadership capability, organizational impact, strategic thinking, execution excellence, and cultural contribution.
• Conduct rigorous assessments that go beyond experience to identify leaders capable of scaling teams, navigating complexity, and delivering results.
• Shape Talent Strategy: Conduct talent mapping and market analysis to inform organizational planning and hiring priorities.
• Partner on succession planning and long-term leadership capability development.
• Drive continuous improvement in leadership recruiting practices and processes.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: 8+ years of full life cycle recruiting experience, including significant experience hiring Director-level and above leadership talent.
• Demonstrated success recruiting senior leaders in hyper-growth, high-growth, or transformational companies.
• Experience partnering directly with executive leadership teams and senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of independently leading complex leadership searches from strategy through close.
• Expertise in executive sourcing, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and executive-level candidate management.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.
• Strong organizational skills & ability to multitask and adapt to a fast-paced startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting leaders across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, aviation, robotics, autonomy, hardware, software, or logistics organizations.
• Possession of strong analytical skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.
• Experience with Hardware recruiting.
• Experience with Greenhouse, GEM, Goodtime, Google Suite.

Pay

The starting cash range for this role is $150,000 - $240,000. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, working location, and projected impact.