Senior Sales Recruiter

Overview

This role is offered by a partner company and seeks a Senior Sales Recruiter based in Canada to act as a strategic talent partner for fast-growing sales organizations. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end recruiting initiatives for specialized sales roles, creating strong candidate pipelines and aligning top professionals with significant career opportunities.

Combining recruitment expertise with a sales-driven approach, this position requires excellent sourcing, persuasion, and closing skills. Collaboration with business leaders in shaping hiring strategies and improving recruitment effectiveness is essential. The recruiter will work remotely within a team utilizing data, market intelligence, and innovative outreach to overcome complex hiring obstacles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain robust talent pipelines for priority sales positions across sectors such as enterprise, public sector, financial services, technology, and emerging markets.
• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle, including sourcing, candidate engagement, interviews, negotiations, and closing offers successfully.
• Adopt a sales mindset to proactively identify passive candidates, build rapport, address objections, and maintain recruitment momentum.
• Collaborate closely with hiring managers and executives to establish hiring plans and refine candidate criteria.
• Create targeted sourcing campaigns using market insights, personalized outreach, and systematic follow-ups.
• Examine recruiting metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimize conversion rates and hiring speed.
• Provide market intelligence on talent availability, compensation trends, and competitive factors to guide business decisions.
• Simultaneously manage several recruitment searches with strong prioritization and communication.
• Contribute to enhancing recruiting workflows, documenting processes, and improving reporting accuracy and best practices within the talent acquisition function.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years recruiting experience, with extensive success hiring sales professionals in high-growth and technical or mission-focused settings.
• Proven ability recruiting enterprise sales talent within sectors such as public sector, defense, financial services, cybersecurity, fintech, blockchain, compliance, or SaaS.
• Strong outbound sourcing skills demonstrated through effective engagement, nurturing, and closing of passive candidates.
• Experience working with senior market leaders to develop hiring strategies and meet aggressive recruitment goals.
• Skill in using data-driven insights to manage recruiting pipelines and improve hiring outcomes.
• Adept at handling a dynamic environment with multiple competing priorities and searches.
• Excellent communication and influencing ability to build trust among candidates, hiring managers, and stakeholders.
• Sound judgement in evaluating candidate quality, motivation, risks, and negotiating closing strategies.
• Resilient, proactive, results-driven attitude with a strong sense of ownership.
• Familiarity with AI and modern recruitment technologies to increase efficiency, quality, and decision-making effectiveness.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary range approximately between $153,000 to $172,000 USD, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
• Potential access to equity participation programs.
• Fully remote work setup within an internationally distributed team.
• Flexible collaboration model optimized for asynchronous communication across various time zones.
• Professional development opportunities in a rapidly scaling organization.
• Engaging work supporting critical industries with global impact.
• Cultural emphasis on ownership, innovation, continuous learning, and high performance.
• Access to modern tools and resources to facilitate productivity and career growth.

Additional Information

Applications are processed using an AI-powered matching system to objectively and efficiently evaluate candidates based on core job criteria. The final hiring decisions and subsequent steps such as interviews and assessments are organized directly by the partner company.

Applicants should note the processing of personal data under relevant data protection regulations including GDPR. AI tools may assist in screening application materials but do not replace human judgment. For further information regarding data use, inquiries are welcomed.