Principal Executive Recruiter

About the Position

Principal Executive Recruiter

We are seeking an experienced Principal Executive Recruiter to join our Board & Executive Talent Team at Wise. You will partner with our senior leaders to hire exceptional engineering, product, data, and design leaders who will shape the future of Wise.

Responsibilities

• 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 minimize 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 recognized 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 organization.

Requirements

• Experienced executive / senior leadership recruiter with a proven track record of driving organizational change at pace, creating structure out of ambiguity, role modeling TA best practice, and leading complex end-to-end leadership searches.
• 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.
• 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

• Curious and show high agency, continuously looking for ways to improve how we hire, assess, and develop leadership talent.
• Use data, market insight, and evidence with agility to shape decisions and quickly adapt to changing priorities.
• Thrive with high autonomy in ambiguous environments, taking full accountability for outcomes.
• Collaborate seamlessly across the People team and build trusted partnerships with senior leaders to deliver measurable business impact.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: GBP 82,000 - GBP 111,000 per year.
• Flexible working with a hybrid model (three days a week in the office).
• Opportunity to work with a global, diverse, and inclusive team.

About the Company

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world’s money. For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.

Job Location

London, United Kingdom