Our Board & Executive Talent Team enables us to deliver on our mission by ensuring we have the best leaders for our current & future needs.
We’re looking for an experienced Executive Recruiter to join us. You’ll partner with our senior leaders to hire exceptional engineering, product, data and design leaders who will shape the future of Wise.
What you’ll do.
Own and drive executive search strategies for critical leadership roles globally.
Advise senior stakeholders on candidate requirements, market dynamics and search strategy.
Develop inclusive search strategies to identify and engage exceptional leadership talent.
Assess executive talent, identifying leaders who will thrive in Wise’s environment and have a meaningful impact on our business.
Partner with senior stakeholders to shape hiring and succession strategies.
Build long-term relationships with executive talent, maintaining external leadership pipelines.
Guide candidates through our hiring process, delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
Negotiate and close executive offers.
Partner with talent development leads and people partners to develop strategies to minimise succession risks, build external succession pipelines and maintain long term relationships with passive candidates.
Partner with leaders and People Partners on org design, leveling, and location strategy based on macro external market intelligence.
Diagnose systemic interview/assessment issues and influence leaders to adopt structural changes. Lead comprehensive Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) delivering predictive forecasting and competitor threat analyses.
Design and audit global recruitment processes, working cross-regionally to untangle complex roadblocks.
Pioneer AI-first solutions, leveraging AI to map competitor org charts and automate talent trend analysis.
As a recognised expert in your field, you will develop a trusted advisor relationship with hiring managers and key stakeholders across our people and recruitment teams.
You will use market & competitor intelligence, to ensure that we identify, target, and engage with key talent.
You’ll continuously advocate our inclusive hiring practices and help drive our diversity sourcing initiatives.
Acting as a mentor to others, you will seek growth and share what you learn.
We are a fast growing team and company. You will be expected to lead and contribute to broader talent initiatives across the organisation.
The experience, background and competencies needed to succeed in this role.
Function skills:
You are an experienced executive / senior leadership recruiter with a proven track record of driving organisational change at pace, creating structure out of ambiguity, role modeling TA best practice, and leading complex end-to-end leadership searches.
You have significant experience recruiting senior leaders across engineering, product, data and/or design within a product-led technology company, with particular expertise in engineering leadership recruitment.
Proven ability to operate as a trusted adviser to senior leaders..
You consistently deliver an exceptional experience for candidates.
Experience in org design, leveling, and location strategy.
Experience designing and auditing global recruitment processes.
Demonstrated expertise in pioneering AI-driven talent solutions and advanced mapping techniques.
Ways of working:
You’re curious and show high agency, continuously looking for ways to improve how we hire, assess, and develop leadership talent.
You use data, market insight, and evidence with agility to shape decisions and quickly adapt to changing priorities.
You thrive with high autonomy in ambiguous environments, taking full accountability for outcomes.
You collaborate seamlessly across the People team and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders to deliver measurable business impact.
We support flexible working. During your onboarding you’ll spend more time in our London office, to build relationships across the business. Once established, you’ll typically spend around three days a week in the office.
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
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