Senior Business Recruiter

CLEAR - Corporate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Family benefits

Flexible time off

Wellness stipend

OneMedical membership

CLEAR Plus membership

401(k) with match

Catered lunches

Job summary

CLEAR, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a Senior Business Recruiter to lead strategic, full-cycle hiring for senior and specialized roles. You’ll partner with leaders to shape talent strategies, build pipelines, and deliver high-quality hires while elevating recruiting standards across the company.

You’ll design interview processes, map talent, and negotiate offers with cross-functional partners. The role rewards strategic thinking, data-driven decisions, and strong leadership in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience for senior or specialized talent.
• Proven ability to partner with leaders and translate business needs into talent strategies.
• Experience building pipelines and conducting proactive sourcing to fill critical roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for senior, specialized, and business-critical roles with tailored search strategies.
• Act as trusted advisor to leaders, using market data to influence hiring decisions.
• Develop long-term pipelines through sourcing, talent mapping, and relationship building.
• Design interview and selection processes for complex searches with high-quality candidate experiences.
• Collaborate with Compensation and People leadership on offers and negotiations while improving TA processes.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Senior talent recruitment

Talent strategy

Market intelligence

Sourcing pipelines

Tools

ATS

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

As a Senior Business Recruiter, you’ll lead business-critical searches across CLEAR, with a focus on senior and highly specialized talent. You’ll partner closely with leaders to shape talent strategies, build high-caliber pipelines, and deliver exceptional hiring outcomes while raising the bar for recruiting across the organization.

What you'll do:

• Full-cycle recruiting for senior, specialized, and business-critical roles, developing tailored search strategies to attract and close exceptional talent
• Serve as a trusted talent advisor to leaders, translating business needs into clear talent strategies and using market intelligence, data, and insights to influence hiring decisions
• Build long-term talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, talent mapping, and relationship building, strengthening CLEAR’s access to high-caliber talent for current and future needs
• Design and drive thoughtful interview and selection strategies for complex searches, proactively identifying risks and creating efficient, high-quality experiences for candidates and hiring teams
• Partner with Compensation and People leadership on competitive offers and complex negotiations, while leading initiatives that strengthen recruiting processes, interviewer capability, employer brand, and Talent Acquisition effectiveness

How you'll measure success:

• Time-to-fill decreases while quality-of-hire increases
• Offer acceptance rate increases
• Hiring manager and candidate experience

What you're great at:

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a track record of hiring senior or highly specialized talent in competitive markets
• Building trusted partnerships with senior leaders and influencing talent decisions through market expertise, sound judgment, and data
• Developing proactive talent strategies through sourcing, talent mapping, pipeline development, and long-term candidate relationship management
• Leading complex searches and interview processes from strategy through close, including sophisticated compensation and offer negotiations
• Using recruiting analytics and ATS insights to improve hiring outcomes, while mentoring recruiters and raising recruiting capabilities across the Talent Acquisition team

How You'll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Located in New York City, our Headquarters offers close collaboration with and access to a hands‑on senior leadership team, a bright and energetic space with an open concept, and plenty of conference rooms and casual co‑working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well‑being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs.

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $140,000.00 - $170,000.00, depending on levels of skills and experience.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.

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