Executive Recruiter - Talent Acquisition

IBM

North Carolina

Hybrid

USD 46,000 - 92,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

IBM Corporation in North Carolina seeks an Executive Recruiter to identify and engage senior leaders across functions. This role blends executive search with AI-enabled transformation and will build recruiting workflows and AI agents to improve productivity.

Responsibilities include partnering with leaders to shape mandates, leading searches, translating strategy into search plans, and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders. Bachelor's required; Master's preferred.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in technology or data fields.
Curiosity about AI, digital tools, automation, and emerging ways of working.
Ability to evaluate executive experience with structured questioning and evidence review.
Interest in building or managing AI agents and AI-enabled workflows.
Strong analytical, research, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

Partner with leaders to define executive role mandates and assessment criteria.
Lead or support end-to-end executive searches across domains.
Translate strategies into targeted search plans and candidate narratives.
Engage senior leaders through research, networks, and talent communities.
Assess candidates for leadership scope, impact, and learning agility.
Advise stakeholders on talent availability, risks, and pipeline quality.
Deliver a high-touch candidate experience throughout the process.
Build and maintain long-term leadership talent pipelines.
Develop, train, and manage AI agents to support recruiting workflows.

Skills

Executive presence

Analytical thinking

Research skills

Communication

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Automation

Low-code/no-code tools

Workflow automation

Data analysis

Programming/scripting

Job description

At IBM Human Resources & Talent Transformation, we reimagine the way people work by combining AI, data, and human centred design. Our teams help close skill gaps, modernize HR models, and create engaging employee experiences at scale. Working in HR at IBM means bridging technology and people. Streamlining processes, driving agility, and enabling leaders and employees to thrive. You’ll collaborate across the business to shape the future of work. With continuous learning, career growth, and a culture built on empathy and innovation, IBM offers the opportunity to make a real impact on organizations and people worldwide.

Your role and responsibilities

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.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in technology, engineering, data, consulting IT.
Demonstrated curiosity about AI, digital tools, automation, and emerging ways of working, with the ability to learn and apply new technology concepts quickly.
Ability to evaluate executive experience and role-relevant proficiency through structured questioning, evidence review, and partnership with functional experts.
Interest in building, configuring, training, evaluating, or managing AI agents, copilots, automation, or AI-enabled workflows.
Strong analytical, research, problem-solving, and written communication skills.
Executive presence and the ability to build credibility with senior candidates and stakeholders across different fields.
High learning agility and genuine interest in developing expertise in Talent Acquisition and executive search.
Sound judgment, discretion, attention to detail, and the ability to manage confidential information and multiple priorities.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Hands-on experience with generative AI, agentic AI, automation, digital tools, analytics, or technology-enabled business transformation.
Familiarity with prompt design, low-code or no-code tools, workflow automation, data analysis, or programming and scripting.
Experience translating complex concepts for different audiences and influencing decisions through data and insight.
Exposure to executive research, consulting, talent intelligence, strategic sourcing, leadership assessment, or complex project delivery.
Familiarity with responsible AI principles, evaluation methods, data privacy, risk controls, and human-in-the-loop operating models.
Experience working across geographies, business units, functions, or matrixed organizations.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world's most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Date posted

24-Sep-2026

Job ID

133951

City / Township / Village

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK

State / Province

North Carolina

Country

United States

Work arrangement