Executive Recruiter - Talent Acquisition

About the role

Employer: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

IBM is seeking an Executive Recruiter to identify, engage, assess, and attract senior leaders across a broad range of functions and industries. This role is designed for a curious, technology-forward professional who is motivated to explore AI, emerging tools, and new ways of working. Prior recruiting experience is helpful but not required; structured development will build the Talent Acquisition capabilities needed for success.

The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of executive search, business strategy, and AI-enabled transformation. The recruiter will support executive hiring across different functions and disciplines while helping build, train, evolve, and manage responsible AI agents and new tools that improve appropriate recruiting workflows and team productivity.

This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who can engage credibly with senior leaders across different fields, learn new domains quickly, translate business strategy into executive talent requirements, and help define the next level of executive recruitment.

Your responsibilities may include:

• Partner with business, functional, and HR leaders to define executive role mandates, success profiles, capability requirements, and assessment criteria.

• Lead or support end-to-end executive searches across a broad range of business, functional, industry, and leadership domains.

• Translate business strategies, functional priorities, and leadership requirements into targeted search strategies and compelling candidate narratives.

• Identify and engage senior leaders across different fields through disciplined research, market mapping, professional networks, referrals, and talent communities.

• Assess candidates for functional expertise, leadership scope, business impact, learning agility, and alignment with the role mandate, in partnership with qualified subject-matter experts.

• Advise stakeholders on talent availability, competitor landscapes, compensation signals, search risks, and pipeline quality.

• Deliver a differentiated, high-touch candidate experience across outreach, assessment, interviews, offer, preboarding, and transition to executive integration.

• Build trusted relationships and maintain long-term pipelines for critical leadership and functional capabilities.

• Build, train, test, evolve, and manage AI agents for appropriate recruiting workflows, including research synthesis, content preparation, process support, knowledge management, and reporting.

• Create clear agent instructions, grounding approaches, quality checks, escalation points, and human oversight.

• Monitor agent performance and feedback, identify failure patterns, and improve workflows, prompts, knowledge sources, and controls.

• Maintain accurate search data, surface risks early, and provide concise progress updates to senior stakeholders.

• Continuously build expertise in executive search, sourcing, candidate management, stakeholder advisory, assessment, and Talent Acquisition governance.