Senior Executive Search Partner (Remote)

Stryker; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 103,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking an Executive Search and Talent Advisory leader to deliver executive hiring outcomes across Technology & Engineering. You will own end-to-end searches, align stakeholders, and translate business needs into effective talent strategies.

You will build pipelines in digital, software, data and analytics, AI, cybersecurity, and robotics while leveraging market insights to inform leadership decisions and strengthen the leadership bench for critical capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 8 years' work experience.
• Preferred: 4+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience.
• Experience managing an executive search process and adhering to best operational metrics.
• Track record of developing and executing innovative sourcing strategies that identify and deliver high-caliber, highly compensated executives.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit diverse individuals and negotiate complex compensation packages.
• Understanding of legal issues that impact executive recruiting activities.
• Ability to translate a business strategy into an actionable recruiting strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end executive searches for Technology & Engineering leadership roles, owning search strategy, stakeholder alignment, candidate calibration, execution, and hiring outcomes.
• Translate business and technology priorities into effective executive talent and recruiting strategies.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to define leadership requirements, selection criteria, and executive assessment approaches.
• Conduct structured executive assessments, evaluating leadership capability, functional expertise, business impact, organizational scale, potential, and overall fit.
• Build and maintain executive talent pipelines through proactive talent mapping, sourcing, and relationship development.
• Leverage market intelligence, competitor insights, industry trends, and talent mapping to identify executive talent and provide actionable hiring recommendations.
• Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders, HR partners, Talent Management, and key stakeholders to align executive hiring with business and talent priorities.
• Ensure search governance, reporting, documentation, compliance, and operational discipline while proactively managing milestones, risks, timelines, and stakeholder communications.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

What You Will Do

Serves as an Executive Search and Talent Advisory professional responsible for delivering executive hiring outcomes across Stryker's Technology & Engineering landscape. Leads end-to-end executive search engagements across enterprise technology and product-focused technology capabilities while serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders and HR partners on executive talent decisions. Partners closely with business leaders and HR to understand business, technology, and talent priorities and translate them into actionable executive search and talent strategies. Develops and executes sourcing strategies, assesses executive talent, and builds external leadership pipelines across areas such as digital, software, data and analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, enterprise technology, engineering, robotics, and other emerging technology capabilities. Brings strong external market perspective, sourcing expertise, and executive assessment capabilities to strengthen hiring decisions and leadership bench strength. Leverages market intelligence, technology industry knowledge, and external talent insights to provide informed perspectives on leadership talent, emerging capabilities, and competitive talent markets. Builds trusted relationships with executives, HR partners, and candidates while delivering a high-caliber executive search experience from search initiation through offer acceptance.

Executive Search Leadership

• Lead end-to-end executive searches for Technology & Engineering leadership roles, owning search strategy, stakeholder alignment, candidate calibration, execution, and hiring outcomes.
• Translate business and technology priorities into effective executive talent and recruiting strategies that drive successful hiring decisions.

Executive Assessment & Talent Advisory

• Partner with business and HR leaders to define leadership requirements, selection criteria, and executive assessment approaches.
• Conduct structured executive assessments, evaluating leadership capability, functional expertise, business impact, organizational scale, potential, and overall fit.

Executive Talent Pipelining

• Build and maintain executive talent pipelines through proactive talent mapping, sourcing, and relationship development across technology, engineering, digital, and emerging capability areas.

Talent Intelligence & Market Insight

• Leverage market intelligence, competitor insights, industry trends, and talent mapping to identify executive talent and provide actionable hiring recommendations.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders, HR partners, Talent Management, and key stakeholders to align executive hiring with business and talent priorities.

Operational Excellence

• Ensure search governance, reporting, documentation, compliance, and operational discipline while proactively managing milestones, risks, timelines, and stakeholder communications.

What You Need

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum of 8 years' work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years business-facing HR, HR COE, HR Operations, or role-related experience
• Experience managing an executive search process and adhering to best operational metrics
• Track record of developing and executing innovative sourcing strategies that result in identification and delivery of high caliber, highly compensated executives
• Demonstrated ability to recruit diverse individuals and ability to negotiate and consult on complex compensation packages
• Understanding of legal issues that impact executive recruiting activities.
• Ability to translate a business strategy into an actionable recruiting strategy.

Posted Date: 08/21/2026 This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

United States of America Pay Ranges

• USN: $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
• US5: $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
• US10: $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
• US15: $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
• US20: $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
• US30: $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual

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Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.