Executive Recruiter

IMAGE│IMPACT is a business infrastructure and development firm serving premium salon, spa, wellness, and fitness businesses. The firm builds the talent, revenue, positioning, and property systems these businesses require and runs them directly. Clients engage the firm at defining moments: expansion, repositioning, acquisition, pre-opening, leadership transition, and accelerated growth. The Talent & Team Architecture practice builds and runs the people function behind these businesses. It designs the organizations, places the leaders, and installs the compensation and performance systems that determine whether a premium business performs at the level its ambition demands. The Executive Recruiter sits at the center of this practice's placement work. The Role The Executive Recruiter leads executive placement across premium salon, spa, wellness, fitness, and hospitality organizations. The role identifies leaders capable of driving organizational performance and holds accountability for the structural outcome of each placement, not the filling of a seat. A placement is treated as an act of organizational design. The Executive Recruiter reads the business, defines the leadership the business actually requires, maps the market for that leadership, assesses candidates against the demands of the role and the environment they will operate inside, and carries the search through offer and integration. The measure of the work is whether the placed leader strengthens the organization and holds, and the Executive Recruiter owns that measure from first briefing to confirmed integration. What the Role Owns Executive search: Leads full‑cycle executive search engagements from intake through placement, managing each search to the firm's standard and timeline. Market mapping: Builds a complete picture of the leadership market for each engagement, identifying where qualified leaders sit, how they move, and what draws them. Leadership assessment: Evaluates candidates against the structural demands of the role, the performance the business requires, and the environment the leader will operate inside, producing assessments ownership can act on. Interview strategy: Designs and runs structured interview processes that surface judgment, capability, and fit, and equips client decision‑makers to evaluate consistently. Reference validation: Conducts rigorous reference and background validation that confirms the record behind each finalist and protects the integrity of the placement. Offer construction: Builds and negotiates offers that secure the leader and hold commercially, working with the firm's compensation architecture to align pay to role and market. Executive integration: Carries the placement through the leader's entry into the organization, confirming the placement takes hold and the structural outcome is delivered. Responsibilities Lead multiple concurrent executive search engagements across the firm's client base, owning each search end to end. Translate a client's business situation into a precise definition of the leadership required, in partnership with the practice and the client's ownership. Source and engage senior and passive candidates through direct outreach, network activation, and market research. Assess candidates against role demands, commercial requirements, and organizational fit, and present findings that inform executive decisions. Manage the candidate relationship through the full process, representing the firm and its clients at the standard the work requires. Construct and negotiate offers, coordinating with compensation architecture to align pay to role and market. Guide placed leaders through integration and confirm the structural outcome of each placement. Maintain and grow a proprietary network of leaders across premium salon, spa, wellness, fitness, and hospitality. Contribute market intelligence back to the practice, strengthening the firm's view of the leadership landscape it operates in. What the Role Requires Executive search history: A demonstrated record of leading and closing executive‑level searches, ideally within premium service, hospitality, wellness, or comparable environments. Strong professional network: An established network of senior leaders and the ability to build and activate relationships at the executive level. Exceptional assessment ability: The judgment to evaluate leadership against the real demands of a role and an organization, beyond credentials and presentation. Consultative communication: The ability to advise ownership and executives directly, communicate with precision, and represent the firm at altitude. #J-18808-Ljbffr IMAGE | IMPACT