Senior Global Executive Recruiter

Spire Government; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Spire is seeking a Senior Global Executive Recruiter to build leadership, commercial, and corporate teams that drive growth and customer value worldwide. You will partner with senior leaders, own end-to-end recruitment, and shape talent strategies across international markets.

In this hybrid US-based role, you will lead complex searches across executive and G&A functions, leverage LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse, and advocate inclusive hiring, data-driven decisions, and stakeholder alignment

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-cycle recruitment or executive search in tech/SaaS/aerospace/geospatial.
• Experience delivering complex executive searches across commercial and G&A functions.
• Strong network for delivering difficult-to-find passive talent.
• Independent management of searches from intake to offer acceptance.
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse or similar ATS.
• Experience recruiting across North America and EMEA.
• Authorized to work in the United States and able to work in a hybrid Tysons, VA office.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to define priorities and hiring needs.
• Lead intake meetings and define search strategy, candidate profiles, and timelines.
• Advise on talent availability, compensation, market conditions, and pace of searches.
• Influence hiring decisions with evidence, market intelligence, and recommendations.
• Coach teams on assessment, inclusion, and decision-making.
• Own full lifecycle recruiting for executive, commercial, and G&A roles.
• Manage complex searches across multiple regions with external firms as needed.
• Provide decision-useful management information on active searches and timelines.

Skills

Executive search

Professional network

G&A & commercial recruiting

Market intelligence

Stakeholder influence

Research & market-mapping

Communication skills

Ownership & discretion

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Greenhouse

Applicant Tracking System

Job description

About the Role

As a Senior Global Executive Recruiter, you will play a critical role in building the leadership, commercial, and corporate teams that enable Spire to grow and deliver for customers around the world.

Location

• Washington
• District of Columbia
• United States

Department

• People

What You\'ll Do

Strategic Partnership & Search Advisory

• Partner closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand business priorities, workforce plans, and current and future hiring needs.
• Lead intake meetings to define the search strategy, candidate profile, assessment approach, interview plan, and realistic delivery timeline.
• Provide clear advice on talent availability, competitor activity, compensation, market conditions, and factors that may affect the quality or pace of a search.
• Influence and, where appropriate, challenge hiring decisions through evidence, market intelligence, and thoughtful recommendations.
• Coach hiring teams on candidate assessment, interview quality, inclusive hiring, and effective decision-making.

Executive Search & Full-Cycle Recruiting

• Own the full recruitment lifecycle, from intake and market mapping through outreach, assessment, offer acceptance, and pre-boarding partnership.
• Lead complex and business-critical searches across executive, commercial, and a broad range of G&A disciplines, including senior individual contributor, management, director, and executive-level appointments.
• Apply rigorous search methodology to identify, approach, and convert passive candidates, including confidential or highly sensitive assignments.
• Leverage an established professional network, referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry relationships, and targeted market mapping to reach exceptional talent.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior professionals and future candidates, creating sustainable pipelines ahead of hiring demand.
• Partner with Compensation, HR Business Partners, HR Operations, and hiring leaders throughout the assessment and offer process.
• Manage external search firms selectively where additional specialist reach or capacity is required.

Management Information & Decision Support

• Provide concise, decision-useful management information on active searches, including pipeline quality, market coverage, candidate conversion, delivery risks, and expected timelines.
• Translate search data and market feedback into clear recommendations that help leaders refine requirements, remove process barriers, and make timely hiring decisions.
• Present search progress and talent-market insights through regular stakeholder updates, using appropriate dashboards, reports, and narrative commentary rather than data in isolation.
• Use recruiting metrics and search outcomes to identify trends, improve forecasting, strengthen search strategy, and continuously improve hiring effectiveness.

Talent Attraction & Operational Excellence

• Develop a strong understanding of Spire's markets, products, customers, competitors, and growth priorities so you can represent the opportunity credibly.
• Act as a compelling brand ambassador, communicating Spire's mission, culture, and employee value proposition to senior candidates.
• Maintain accurate and timely recruiting activity in Greenhouse ATS and related recruiting technologies.
• Manage multiple concurrent searches while maintaining pace, quality, confidentiality, and an excellent candidate experience.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve search processes, documentation, interview consistency, and stakeholder capability.
• Ensure recruiting practices remain compliant with applicable employment laws and company policies.

What You\'ll Bring

• A strong track record in executive search or senior-level recruitment, ideally gained within a high-quality search agency, in-house executive recruiting team, or a combination of both.
• An extensive and relevant professional network, with demonstrated success leveraging relationships to identify and engage high-caliber passive talent.
• Broad experience recruiting across commercial and G&A disciplines, with the versatility to move between functions, leadership levels, and international markets.
• Strong business acumen and the curiosity to understand complex roles, markets, operating models, and organizational challenges.
• A consultative style and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based advice and clear market insight.
• Excellent research, market-mapping, outreach, assessment, and candidate-management capability.
• The ability to synthesize search data, identify meaningful trends, and present management information that supports effective decisions.
• High levels of ownership, judgment, discretion, resilience, organization, and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-cycle recruitment or executive search experience within technology, SaaS, aerospace, geospatial, data and analytics, or another complex, high-growth environment.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, senior, and executive searches across a broad range of commercial and G&A functions.
• A proven record of building and leveraging professional networks to deliver difficult-to-find and passive talent.
• Experience independently managing searches from intake and market mapping through assessment and offer acceptance.
• Strong experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, modern sourcing tools, and an Applicant Tracking System, preferably Greenhouse or a comparable platform.
• Experience recruiting across multiple geographic regions, including North America and EMEA.
• Authorization to work in the United States and ability to work in a hybrid environment from our Tysons, Virginia office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting within satellite, aerospace, geospatial, Earth Intelligence, data analytics, or a global technology organization.
• Experience supporting a publicly traded company or other complex, internationally distributed business.
• Experience partnering with Compensation and HR Business Partners on role design, hiring strategy, and offer development.
• Familiarity with compensation benchmarking, labor-market analytics, recruiting dashboards, and executive search reporting.
• Experience managing confidential executive or leadership searches.

Why Join Spire?

At Spire, you’ll help build the teams developing technology that improves how the world understands our planet. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the globe, partner with innovative business leaders, and contribute to a company where your work directly influences our ability to grow and deliver for customers.

We’re committed to creating an environment where people can do their best work, grow their careers, and make a meaningful impact.

Our Values

• We Are Global - We embrace diverse perspectives and work as one global team.
• We Are Unbounded - We think boldly, challenge convention, and continuously innovate.
• We Are Faster - We move with urgency and focus on delivering value.
• We Are Reliable - We build trust through accountability and consistent execution.
• We Are Relentless - We continuously improve ourselves, our products, and our customer experience.
• We Are Collaborative - We achieve more together than we ever could alone.

Compensation

• Base Salary Range: $130,500-$171,000 USD
• Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs. This position may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation, equity, and Spire’s comprehensive benefits package.
• Salary Range: $130,000—$171,000 USD

Global Perks

• Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
• Launch Attendance
• Generous Time Off Policy
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Family Leave
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Program
• Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

About Spire

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/8 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

Spire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

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