Professional Search Leader

Search Leader

The Search Leader is a high-impact, dual-desk producer responsible for driving professional search adoption within assigned markets while personally delivering on both recruiting execution and revenue generation. This role operates a 60% recruiting / 40% sales desk, balancing candidate leadership with proactive business development. The Search Leader owns revenue performance, leads complex and confidential searches, and serves as a market-facing expert who models pricing discipline and consultative selling.

Our Organization:

Here at Placers Professional, we believe that everyone has the ability to make a big impact! When you join our team, we’ll give you the tools and support system to grow and thrive professionally. Placers is guided by a strong set of values that we live every day. Not only do we help you realize your true potential, we also exceed our clients expectations and change the lives of our job-seekers.

Come leave your mark...and have fun doing it!

Key Accountabilities:

The Search Leader is responsible for driving search adoption, owning revenue performance, and delivering high-impact professional search solutions within assigned markets. This includes overall responsibility in the following areas:

Search Execution and Candidate Liaison:

• Lead concurrent complex, high-impact, and confidential searches.
• Own the full lifecycle of search execution:
  • Market mapping and talent identification.
  • Candidate outreach, engagement, and qualification.
  • Interview preparation, offer negotiation, and closing.
• Deliver a high-touch, consultative candidate experience from first contact through placement and beyond.
• Build and maintain deep talent pipelines aligned to core market segments.
• Provide career coaching and advisory support to candidates.
• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery aligned to client expectations and SLAs.

Business Development & Client Engagement:

• Proactively develop and expand client relationships through consultative engagement.
• Identify, qualify, and close new search opportunities.
• Conduct intake meetings that elevate role clarity, expectations, and search strategy.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by understanding client business goals, talent challenges, and market dynamics.
• Establish a consistent rhythm of client communication, feedback loops, and service reviews.
• Identify opportunities to expand accounts.

Customer Experience

• Deliver an “ above and beyond” experience for both clients and candidates.
• Willingness to go the “extra mile” at the end and do that little something extra to provide the “wow factor”.
• Actively contribute to and model Placers’ Outside-In® culture.
• Create and share success stories that reinforce brand differentiation.
• Continuously innovate ways to enhance service delivery and client value.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Proven success in full-desk recruiting, executive search, or staffing sales.
• Demonstrated ability to generate business and close search engagements.
• Strong capability in managing multiple concurrent searches.
• Experience using ATS, CRM, and recruiting technologies.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and consultative selling skills.
• Strong negotiation and closing ability.
• Ability to travel to various locations (e.g., customer sites, other company offices) as needed.
• Ability to produce results within an autonomous environment, within company guidelines and have the flexibility to identify and respond to changes in priorities.
• Ability to provide excellent customer service to all clients (customers, employees, and vendors).
• Ability to analyze and evaluate people, data, and other criteria to determine courses of action.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
• High level of ownership, accountability, and urgency.
• Ability to analyze talent markets and translate insights into action.
• Comfortable working autonomously while contributing to a team environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity Promise:

Placers will recruit, hire, train, and promote individuals, as well as administer any and all personnel actions, without regard to an individual’s race, religion, creed or color, national origin, ancestry, mental and/or physical disability, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or other characteristics protected by law. Placers will make reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals and will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is prohibited.

Diversity and Inclusion Promise:

Placers values everyone. We like the way you are. We are committed to creating an environment where anyone, from any background, can do their best work and make Placers better.

At Placers, we will continue to make our workplaces trusting places to have complex and sometimes difficult conversations about diversity and inclusion.

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Health Advocacy Program.
• 401k with employer match.
• Vacation, Flex PTO, and Paid Holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedules.
• Company Paid Life Insurance, Long and Short Term Disability Insurance .