Sr Recruiter, Executive Search & Talent Intelligence

Sonos Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 124,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

Open Time Off (OTO)

Sick time and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Employee discount program

Job summary

Sonos is seeking a deeply experienced Sr. Recruiter, Executive Search & Talent Intelligence in Boston to lead high-impact, confidential searches across hardware, software, product, design, AI, and leadership.

You will build proactive leadership maps, engage senior candidates, and partner with executives to shape talent strategy while spending three days per week in the Boston office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive recruiting or executive-search experience, including ownership of senior-level searches.
• 4+ years leading complex or confidential searches end-to-end.
• 2+ years developing market maps and talent pools with written insights.
• Experience identifying passive leadership talent via research and networks.
• Experience recruiting across hardware, software, product, design, or corporate leadership.
• Advising senior hiring leaders on talent availability and market conditions.
• Designing structured assessment and calibration for senior roles.
• Handling sensitive candidate information with discretion.
• Strong written and verbal communication for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead full lifecycle of Director to executive searches, from search launch and market mapping through assessment, offer, and close.
• Develop tailored search plans translating business needs into target profiles, priority companies, sourcing channels, candidate-engagement strategies, and progress measures.
• Identify and engage high-caliber passive talent through original research, trusted networks, outreach, and relationship building.
• Create high-touch candidate experiences that reflect the Sonos brand and meet discretion for senior and confidential searches.
• Build proactive leadership and niche-talent maps aligned with future capability needs.
• Turn market signals and candidate intelligence into insights for TA leadership and hiring leaders.
• Partner with executives to establish role-specific success profiles, assessment plans, and selection decisions.
• Manage executive-search and agency partners with clear expectations for quality and results.
• Build reusable executive-search resources and coach the broader TA team.

Skills

Executive recruiting

Market mapping

Stakeholder management

Confidential searches

Candidate sourcing

Talent strategy

Job description

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

At Sonos, we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers—and we know that starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

This role is a hybrid position.

This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration.

Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office and should expect to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.

The Role The talent we bring into Sonos will help shape the next chapter of our company. We are looking for a deeply experienced recruiter and talent strategist to help us identify, engage, and hire exceptional leaders and highly specialized talent across our most important business priorities.

As our Sr. Recruiter, Executive Search & Talent Intelligence, you will lead a select portfolio of high-impact, confidential, and difficult-to-fill searches across areas such as hardware, software, product, design, AI, global operations, and corporate leadership. This is not a traditional high-volume recruiting role. You will focus on the searches where talent quality, market knowledge, candidate relationships, and thoughtful execution matter most. Most of your time will be spent leading executive and critical searches from initial market exploration through close. You will also build proactive talent maps and relationships before roles open and help strengthen the tools, insights, and search practices used across our global Talent Acquisition team. You’ll report to the Director of Talent Acquisition and work closely with senior leaders, People Partners, Talent Programs, TA Operations, and our portfolio recruiters. This is an opportunity to help build an internal executive-search and talent-intelligence capability while remaining close to candidates and the craft of recruiting.

What You’ll Do

Lead the full lifecycle of assigned Director, Vice President, confidential, and business-critical searches, from search launch and market mapping through assessment, offer, and close. Develop tailored search plans that translate business needs into target profiles, priority companies, sourcing channels, candidate-engagement strategies, and clear measures of search progress. Identify and engage high-caliber passive talent through original research, trusted networks, thoughtful outreach, and long-term relationship building. Create compelling, high-touch candidate experiences that reflect the Sonos brand and meet the discretion and care required for senior and confidential searches. Build proactive leadership and niche-talent maps aligned with Sonos’s future capability needs, including competitor, skills, location, and talent-supply research. Turn market signals and candidate intelligence into clear insights that help TA leadership and hiring leaders evaluate talent availability, role design, location, compensation, and search risk. Partner with executives and hiring teams to establish role‑specific success profiles, structured assessment plans, candidate‑calibration practices, and high-quality selection decisions. Manage approved executive‑search and agency partners during assigned searches, maintaining clear expectations for quality, pace, candidate experience, confidentiality, and results. Build reusable executive‑search resources, including intake frameworks, market‑map formats, candidate briefs, search updates, assessment materials, and completed‑search retrospectives. Strengthen the broader TA team through search‑specific coaching, knowledge sharing, advanced sourcing practices, and partnership on particularly complex or difficult searches.

Basic Qualifications

• 8 or more years of progressive recruiting or executive-search experience, including substantial ownership of senior, Director, Vice President, or executive-level searches during that tenure.
• 4 or more years of experience directly leading complex or confidential searches from initial research and candidate identification through assessment, offer, and close.
• 2 or more years of experience developing market maps, target‑company strategies, talent‑pool research, with clear written insights from complex or incomplete information.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and engaging passive leadership or highly specialized talent through original market research, direct sourcing, referrals, and professional networks.
• Experience recruiting across multiple business or talent areas, such as consumer technology, hardware, software, product, design, AI, operations, commercial functions, or corporate leadership.
• Experience advising senior hiring leaders on talent availability, search strategy, candidate quality, market conditions, and recruiting risk.
• Experience designing and applying structured candidate‑assessment and calibration practices for senior or highly specialized roles.
• Experience managing sensitive candidate information and confidential searches with sound judgment, discretion, and attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear candidate briefs, market insights, search updates, and recommendations for senior audiences.

Qualified applicants must be able to work from the Boston office a minimum of three days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience recruiting within a consumer technology, hardware, software, product, design, or similarly complex global organization.
• A combination of in‑house executive recruiting and retained executive‑search experience.
• Experience building an executive‑search, talent‑intelligence, or proactive pipeline capability within an evolving Talent Acquisition function.
• Experience hiring leaders and scarce talent across multiple geographies, including the US, EMEA, or APAC.
• Strong knowledge of the talent markets supporting connected products, consumer electronics, audio, embedded systems, AI, software platforms, product development, or global operations.
• Experience using recruiting technology, AI‑enabled research tools, CRM platforms, and data to improve search quality and recruiter effectiveness.
• Experience coaching recruiters or sharing advanced sourcing, assessment, candidate‑engagement, or executive‑search practices without direct people‑management responsibility.
• A builder mindset: you enjoy creating a capability, testing new approaches, and leaving behind tools and practices that make the entire team stronger.

Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we still strongly encourage you to apply if interested.

Visa Sponsorship

Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for us in the United States, both now and in the future.

Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is: $124,000 and $155,600

The specific pay offered will depend on the candidate’s geographic location, as well as qualifications and experience. We apply geographic pay differentials based on the cost of labor in the market. Employees in high‑cost locations may be compensated at the upper end of the range, while those in medium or low cost markets may be compensated at the lower end of the range. Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

Please note that compensation details listed in US job postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits program with choice and flexibility in mind to help support the health, wealth, and overall well‑being of our employees.

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company matching and immediate vesting
• An Open Time Off policy (OTO) so you have maximum opportunity to disconnect and recharge, with no tenure‑based vacation accruals required
• 80 hours of sick time upon hire, refreshed annually
• Up to 12 paid holidays per calendar year
• Sonos offers a generous paid leave program for new parents or to care for a family member with a serious health condition, as well as short‑and‑long term disability for your own medical condition
• Company‑paid Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary benefits, including Voluntary Life, AD&D, Accident, and Pet Insurance
• Mental health benefits to support your holistic well‑being
• A generous employee discount program & Sonos Radio HD - on us!

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

Notice to U.S. Job Applicants: Sonos is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.

If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Company Culture

Sonos is a sound experience company. We connect millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it. Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, we have continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers our customers, and brings the home to life. Our team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.

Privacy

Sonos takes your privacy seriously and is committed to protecting your personal data. To learn more, please review the Sonos Recruiting Privacy Notice. This Notice explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information in connection with our recruitment process.