Executive Recruiting Researcher, Cloud Executive Recruiting Research Team

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and disb

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days / year

Sick Time: 40 hours/year

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days/year

Job summary

Google is seeking a Sourcing Specialist to identify leadership talent and manage executive searches across multiple functions. You will build long-lasting relationships with passive candidates and collaborate with recruiters to advise executives on talent needs.

You will own strategic searches, drive projects, and contribute to process improvements in our talent systems. The role emphasizes integrity, accountability, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in sourcing or equivalent experience in Sales, Customer Service, Account Management, Business Development or Operations, Lead Generation or a related field.
• 1 year of sourcing experience at a recruitment agency or in-house recruiting team.
• Experience in executive recruiting (outreach, engagement, evaluation, and presentation).
• Experience maximizing teams as well as individual performance while being a collaborative team player.
• Demonstrated success delivering executive services, especially board placement.
• Open learning mindset and demonstrated capacity to quickly grasp new complex subject matter and to understand new markets, areas, roles, business initiatives.
• Ability to be accountable, have integrity and authenticity.
• Capability, credibility, and consultative skills to influence senior colleagues and stakeholders without authority.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own search strategies and deliver research against those strategies for executive searches across various non-technical and technical functions (e.g., go-to-market, engineering, product management, etc.).
• Provide effective project management, driving searches forward and creating consistent experiences for hiring managers/clients, applicants and colleagues.
• Partner with executive recruiters and closely collaborate to provide domain and market insights and trends, and to advise executives on talent for their most exigent business needs.
• Build relationships for the future with passive candidates and talent.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation in the efficiency and effectiveness of our systems, services, and processes.

Skills

Executive recruiting

Leadership talent

Stakeholder management

Board placement

Sourcing

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

The application window will be open until at least October 21, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Austin, TX, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in sourcing or equivalent experience working in Sales, Customer Service, Account Management, Business Development or Operations, Lead Generation or a related field.
• 1 year of sourcing experience at a recruitment agency or in-house recruiting team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in executive recruiting (outreach, engagement, evaluation, and presentation).
• Experience maximizing teams as well as individual performance while being a collaborative team player.
• Demonstrated success delivering executive services, especially board placement.
• Open learning mindset and demonstrated capacity to quickly grasp new complex subject matter and to understand new markets, areas, roles, business initiatives.
• Ability to be accountable, have integrity and authenticity.
• Capability, credibility, and consultative skills to influence senior colleagues and stakeholders without authority.

About The Job

Our Sourcing Specialists tell the story of Google to the world. They care deeply about cultivating relationships, have lively, thoughtful conversations with their candidates, and know our organization and its products well enough to articulate life-changing opportunities. As an expert in the talent needs of our business, you'll be an adviser to the extraordinary people you find, engage, and guide through Google's hiring process. By the time you've introduced a would-be Googler to our partners in recruiting, they are comfortable, well informed, and excited about the possibilities that await them here. The demands of our company, as it continues to grow and transform the industry, are great. Your analytical mind, curiosity, and sincere approach to your work make you exceptional enough to meet them.

The Executive Recruiting Team (ERT) helps find, engage and hire the next generation of leadership talent across Google. The team's work is focused solely on the critical leadership roles that will be responsible for the future of the company.

You will focus on identifying and cultivating leadership talent who will help build, deliver, and drive our innovative technologies and services. You will own the talent market(s) for a particular business or function with Google, utilizing various tools, resources and sourcing methodologies to uncover and engage the talent in the space, to develop long-lasting relationships, and to match them with the leadership opportunities to which they are best aligned. You will be an investigative and detail-oriented problem solver, and a strong resourceful manager of projects and processes who delivers outcomes. You have a passion for learning, discovery, solving business puzzles, and developing relationships.

Great just isn't good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as "Human Resources"). We bring the world's most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $111000 - $159000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop and own search strategies and deliver research against those strategies for executive searches across various non-technical and technical functions (e.g., go-to-market, engineering, product management, etc.).
• Provide effective project management, driving searches forward and creating consistent experiences for hiring managers/clients, applicants and colleagues.
• Partner with executive recruiters and closely collaborate to provide domain and market insights and trends, and to advise executives on talent for their most exigent business needs.
• Build relationships for the future with passive candidates and talent.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation in the efficiency and effectiveness of our systems, services, and processes.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .