Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Modern Executive Solutions is a fully integrated talent management consultancy serving large, global companies. They are seeking an Associate Director to lead core components of retained executive searches within their Technology Practice, focusing on research strategy, candidate engagement, and market mapping.
Responsibilities
- Lead research strategy, including systematic market mapping and target company identification
- Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines
- Achieve 80%+ mapping accuracy through disciplined and creative sourcing methods
- Conduct first-round candidate interviews
- Contribute to structured candidate assessment and slate construction
- Produce client-ready candidate summaries and search materials
- Maintain disciplined search workflow and data integrity
Skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage ~5 concurrent retained searches with consistent quality and pace (approximately 12+ searches annually)
- Proven strength in research strategy and systematic market mapping
- Track record of building accurate target company lists and candidate pipelines, achieving 80%+ mapping accuracy
- Experience conducting first-round candidate interviews and contributing to structured candidate assessment
- Ability to independently draft client-ready materials with minimal edits
- Strong discipline in maintaining accurate search workflow within an ATS
- Experience supporting VP, SVP, or C-suite searches
- Candidates should demonstrate rigor in market mapping, structured candidate assessment, and executive-level engagement
- Technology search experience is helpful but not required
- We are open to outstanding researchers from retained executive search firms with a strong interest in building depth within technology leadership markets
- We will also selectively consider executive search researchers or executive recruiters from in-house executive recruiting teams supporting VP, SVP, or C-suite hiring within technology companies or large, complex enterprises (e.g., Fortune 500 organizations)
- This may include executive-level technical recruiters who have experience engaging senior technology leaders
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible remote work environment
- Paid parental leave
- Office setup stipend to support your work-from-home needs
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