Senior Manager, Executive Recruiting

About the role

As part of Talent Acquisition, the Executive Talent Acquisition team is a leading in-house search team partnering closely with company leaders to identify, engage, and cultivate top talent that drives impact. This role focuses on attracting passive, market-leading talent to Capital One and leads the design, delivery, and implementation of holistic executive recruiting strategies across various lines of business and functional areas. You will partner with senior executive stakeholders across the enterprise, including Product Management, Tech, Design, and Risk Management. You will independently manage executive search (VP+) direct sourcing strategies, delivering an exceptional candidate and client experience.

Ideal Candidate Traits

• Curious: Loves understanding people, their attitudes, needs, and behaviors
• Rigorous: Understands what is required to get quality insights
• Bias for Action: Can assess when and how to make tradeoffs between speed and quality; motivated self-starter
• Organized: Can own and drive projects to completion, prioritizing and influencing across multiple stakeholders
• Storyteller: Comfortable packaging and presenting insights in a compelling way to senior-level audiences
• Problem-solver: Loves breaking down complex problems and artfully pushing toward a solution
• Collaborative: Brings a positive attitude and is enjoyable to work with

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of the executive search lifecycle: search/market intelligence strategy, sourcing and identification of top talent communities, candidate cultivation, client management, offer negotiations, and executive onboarding
• Act as a trusted advisor and expert on trends within the market and industries, as well as internal shifts that may impact business and hiring demands
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing strategies, drive proactive market research, and promote referrals, especially in competitive talent landscapes
• Integrate primary research, internal data, secondary sources, and marketplace intelligence in analyses that drive business decisions; embrace data and analytics
• Manage client and candidate expectations, advising on best practices when engaging passive candidates
• Influence and educate stakeholders and interviewers, delivering a consistent recruiting process for both clients and candidates
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners (e.g., search firms)
• Collaborate with extended teams (Business, HRCs, Compensation, Legal, Risk, Interview Logistics, etc.) to drive alignment, particularly in managing candidate expectations and experience through offer negotiation
• Stay current on emerging technology disrupting the talent acquisition lifecycle and identify opportunities for innovation
• Share Capital One’s compelling value proposition and mission with the external talent market
• Contribute to the knowledge base of executive recruiting and Capital One by mentoring and coaching teammates and training on relevant industries and talent communities

Requirements

• Be proactive, with a high level of initiative and ownership, and the ability to coordinate efforts across diverse functional groups
• Exceptionally strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to present complex topics in a clear, concise, and compelling manner
• Impeccable judgment and ability to balance the needs of the organization, leaders, and associates; know when to push and when to move on
• Preference for a team environment where fast failure, change, and evolution are expected and encouraged
• Diligent listening skills and the ability to adapt approach among diverse audiences to tease out insights and pain points
• Penchant for laughing often and celebrating wins—both big and small
• Team orientation, with a love for drawing connections across a matrixed organization
• High degree of comfort bringing ideas to the table that may initially seem absurd, then quickly build a case for testing, scaling, or abandoning
• Confidence to ask hard questions and push into uncharted territories without defaulting to the status quo before exploring new paths and quantifying risk/reward
• Demonstrated aptitude for, knowledge of, and agility with technology in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience
• At least 5 years of recruiting or research experience at a global in-house recruiting team, executive search firm, or multinational organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience advising and influencing executive leadership
• 2+ years of experience recruiting tech or product executive talent

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based on the agreed-upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

• McLean, VA: $177,700 - $202,800 for Sr. Manager, Recruiting
• Richmond, VA: $161,500 - $184,300 for Sr. Manager, Recruiting

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location. The actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.