Executive Recruiter
Miro
About the Role
Miro is seeking an exceptional and highly experienced Executive Recruiter to join our dynamic Talent Acquisition team. This is a critical, Director-level individual contributor role responsible for identifying, attracting, and securing top-tier executive talent across all functions globally. You will partner directly with our C-suite and senior leadership, acting as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner in shaping Miro's executive leadership team.
What you’ll do
- Executive Search & Strategy: Own and execute full lifecycle executive searches for critical leadership roles (VP, SVP, C-level) across all Miro functions (Product, Engineering, Go-to-Market, G&A, etc.)
- Strategic Partnership & Advisory: Serve as a true talent advisor to Miro's executive leadership team, providing regular hiring related data, deep market insights, competitive intelligence, and strategic recommendations on organizational design and talent strategy, particularly within the dynamic SaaS landscape
- SaaS Market Mapping & Intelligence: Proactively conduct comprehensive market mapping of the global SaaS ecosystem to identify top executive talent, emerging leaders, and relevant organizational structures within key competitors and adjacent industries. You'll analyze market trends, compensation benchmarks, and talent movement to inform and drive our executive hiring strategies
- Deep Sourcing & Engagement: Develop and execute innovative and highly effective sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive executive candidates, leveraging a broad range of channels, professional networks, and proprietary market intelligence. This should include building internal succession pipelines in collaboration with BPs and Miro’s Talent Intelligence Partner
- Candidate Experience: Deliver a world-class candidate experience that embodies Miro's values, ensuring every executive candidate feels valued, informed, and inspired by the opportunity to contribute to a leading SaaS platform
- Offer Negotiation & Closing: Expertly navigate complex offer negotiations, demonstrating a deep understanding of executive compensation structures specific to high-growth SaaS environments, and successfully closing top talent
- Brand Ambassador: Act as a passionate ambassador for Miro, effectively articulating our vision, culture, product-led growth story, and value proposition within the competitive SaaS executive talent market
- Process Excellence: Drive continuous improvement in executive recruitment processes, leveraging data and best practices, including insights from market mapping, to optimize efficiency and effectiveness
- DE&I Focus: Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of executive search, building diverse slates of candidates and fostering an inclusive hiring process, with a focus on underrepresented groups within the SaaS leadership community
- Identify, work and evaluate effectiveness of niche search partners in our up and coming expansion areas and locations,if required
What you’ll need
- 10+ years of progressive experience in recruiting, with min 5 at the senior/principal level with a significant portion dedicated to in-house executive search within a fast-paced,ideally high-growth SaaS or product-led technology company
- Demonstrated expertise in SaaS market dynamics, including a deep understanding of product-led growth, recurring revenue models (ARR/MRR), customer acquisition cost (CAC), lifetime value (LTV), and churn, and how these impact executive leadership needs
- Proven track record of successfully closing C-level and VP/SVP level roles across a variety of functions (e.g., Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR), ideally within the SaaS industry
- Exceptional ability to conduct in-depth market mapping and competitive intelligence, translating findings into actionable executive talent strategies
- Strong network within the global SaaS executive community, with the ability to identify and engage passive candidates who may not be actively seeking new roles.(not a must but preferred)
- Exceptional ability to build deep, trusting relationships with C-suite executives and senior leaders, acting as a credible advisor
- Sophisticated understanding of executive compensation structures, including equity, long-term incentives, and performance-based compensation prevalent in the SaaS sector
- Mastery of executive sourcing techniques and tools, with a creative and persistent approach to identifying passive talent
- Demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders on talent strategy and market dynamics
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
- Strong business acumen and high learning velocity (in order to understand Miro's product, market, and business model)
- High degree of integrity, discretion, and confidentiality
- Passion for building exceptional teams and contributing to a thriving company culture in a high-growth SaaS environment
What's in it for you
- Competitive equity package
- Health insurance for you and your family
- Corporate pension plan
- Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
- Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
- Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
- Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
About Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 90M users worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 12 hubs around the world.
We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!
Check out more about life at Miro:
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lifeatmiro
- Blog: https://miro.com/careers/life-at-miro/all/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mirohq/
At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.
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