Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Executive & Leadership

What You'll Be Doing     Full-Cycle Recruiting:  Own requisitions end-to-end, with a core focus on executive and senior leadership roles (Director+), and additional complex and critical searches (typically hard-to-fill positions, or roles with elevated business risk).

Sourcing and Network Building:  Proactively source and engage executive and senior talent through outbound outreach, referrals, networks, and targeted market mapping. Build and maintain long-term relationships with leadership-level talent, even outside of immediate hiring needs

Hiring Manager & Senior Leader Partnership:  Partner closely with our leadership on sensitive, high-stakes, or confidential searches and act as a trusted advisor by shaping role definitions, success profiles, and hiring strategies; calibrate expectations, provide clear market perspective, and influence decision-making with confidence.

Funnel Ownership:  Track and improve interview velocity, pass-through rates, and time-to-fill for each role you own, with a focus on executive and senior hires.

Candidate

Experience:

Deliver a high-touch, white-glove candidate experience for executive searches, while ensuring all candidates receive timely, professional, and human-centered engagement

Collaboration with Talent At tractors:  Partner closely with Talent At tractors when sourcing support is provided, ensuring pipelines are targeted, diverse, and converting effectively

AI-Enabled Recruiting:  Leverage existing and emerging AI tools for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and reporting to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability

Data, Reporting & Insights:  Own weekly reporting for your roles, translating funnel data and qualitative insights into clear actions and recommendations. Surface risks, trade-offs, and decision points early, particularly for executive searches.

Experimentation:  Test and refine interview structures, assessment approaches, and candidate experience improvements to continuously raise the bar on leadership assessment quality, ensuring high-signal, well-calibrated hiring decisions.

Who You Are    You bring  6+ years of recruiting experience  in high-growth environments, with end-to-end ownership of executive and senior-level searches (in-house and/or agency experience is a plus)

You are equally effective recruiting executives and operating hands-on across other critical roles when needed

You are thoughtful about prioritization and comfortable making trade-offs to protect executive hiring outcomes.

You are confident sourcing, pitching, and closing senior talent. You do not wait for candidates to come to you

You are data-informed and outcome-oriented, using metrics and judgment to guide decisions

You communicate with clarity and authority, earning trust with senior stakeholders

You thrive in fast-paced, high-accountability environments where priorities shift and impact matters

You care deeply about candidate experience, quality of hire, and long-term success

What Success Looks Like     Executive Hiring Impact:  Senior leaders hired through your searches are strong performers and culture carriers

Hiring Predictability:  Roles, particularly executive and senior leadership roles, are filled within forecasted timelines with minimal surprises

Quality of Hire:  New hires, particularly at the leadership level, demonstrate early impact and sustained success

Stakeholder Partnership:  Hiring managers and executives see you as a strategic partner, not an order taker

Continuous Improvement:  Hiring processes, funnel efficiency, and candidate experience improve quarter over quarter

Our Commitment to You     Competitive salary and meaningful equity:  Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary.

Comprehensive health benefits:  enjoy full health benefits from day one. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.

Flexible vacation and time off:  every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays so you can take time off to recharge and come back better for our customers.

Parental leave with top-up:  we offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive.

Hybrid work environment:  we value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days a week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.

Dog-friendly space:  can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.

Personal and professional growth:  through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success.

Top-tier equipment:  as a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to…