Senior Global Executive Recruiter

Spire Global; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Vacation, sick, personal time off

Job summary

Spire Global is seeking a Senior Global Executive Recruiter to drive leadership, commercial, and G&A hiring across North America and international markets. The role reports to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition and focuses on executive search, market intelligence, and proactive sourcing to build high-caliber leadership teams.

You will own the full lifecycle, build strong networks, and partner with compensation and HR to deliver timely hires in a fast-paced global organization.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 IC, 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.

Skills

Executive search

Passive candidate sourcing

Relationship building

Market intelligence

Communication skills

Sourcing strategy

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Greenhouse ATS

Job description

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.

Your primary focus will be executive, commercial, and general and administrative (G&A) hiring across North America and other international markets. We are looking for an accomplished search professional who brings a strong track record, established market networks, and the ability to engage high-caliber passive talent across a broad range of corporate disciplines and leadership levels.

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, you will act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders. You will combine executive search discipline, market intelligence, proactive sourcing, and sound judgment to shape effective hiring strategies and deliver high-quality talent in a fast-paced global organization. You will also flex into other complex or specialist searches when business priorities require.

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.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Final base salary for this role will be based on the location, skills, experience and qualifications. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for annual equity awards and our employee benefits program, including vacation, sick, and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage; a 401(K) plan; health and wellness reimbursement program; and participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Vacation, sick, and personal time off
• Optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• A 401(K) plan
• Health and wellness reimbursement program
• Participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Salary Range

$130,000 — $171,000 USD

Spire improves life on Earth with data from space.

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