Senior Executive Recruiter (Full Desk)

Senior Executive Recruiter (Full Desk)

Location Austin, TX 78744 Date Posted July 24, 2026 Job ID 15119 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Executive Search is hiring a Senior Executive Recruiter to build a new revenue stream from the ground up. This opportunity is a full-desk role with a base draw, uncapped commission, and year-one OTE of $222,000 - $312,500.

This is for a recruiter who already knows how to open doors. You'll own everything from business development through placement: sourcing your own clients, running intake, building executive pipelines, and closing Senior Director-through-C-Suite searches in private equity, venture-backed and founder-led companies, and the energy & utilities, technology/AI, aerospace & defense, manufacturing, consumer products & retail, and life sciences sectors.

You'll report directly to the Executive Director, with real influence over how this practice takes shape. Full-time, immediate hire, fully remote, but you must live and work in one of our core states in the Central or Eastern time zones: CT, DC, FL, IL, MD, MN, NY, OH, TN, TX, VA, or WI.

Key Responsibilities

• Source and close new client partnerships through daily outbound prospecting, networking, and referrals.
• Build trusted relationships with CEOs, founders, investors, board members, and senior HR leaders and turn first searches into repeat business.
• Run the full search lifecycle: intake, sourcing, interviews, candidate presentation, offer negotiation, placement.
• Build executive talent pipelines ahead of demand, using market research to know who's movable before a client asks.
• Hit individual revenue targets while helping shape how this practice grows.
• Manage information consistently using our database (Bullhorn).

What You Bring

• A track record of both executive recruiting and business development- you've carried a quota, you understand the importance of metrics, and know how to invest your energy to achieve success.
• Experience placing Director-level through C-Suite roles, in one or more of our target sectors (private equity, energy & utilities, technology/AI, aerospace & defense, manufacturing, consumer products and retail, and/or life sciences & biotechnology).
• Proven ability to originate client relationships from cold, not just service accounts handed to you.
• Real command of executive talent markets and how senior hiring decisions actually get made.
• The temperament to build from zero: independent, entrepreneurial, competitive, and consultative with clients.
• Four-year degree or equivalent professional experience.

Why Join Scion Executive Search?

• Base draw with uncapped commission; OTE for year 1 is $222,000 - $312,500.
• You're building a division, not inheriting one, inside an established national search firm.
• Direct line to executive leadership and genuine influence on strategy.
• Fully remote.
• Fully paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance, plus 401(k).
• Generous PTO, wellness days, volunteer days, and your birthday off.
• Opportunities for professional growth and leadership.

To Apply:

Please submit your resume and any additional materials you'd like to include, formatted in Microsoft Word, via: https://scionretainedsearch.com/job/15119

About Our Firm

Scion Executive Search is a nationally recognized executive recruiting firm. Through our retained search and talent solutions practices, we partner with organizations navigating critical leadership decisions and growth.

Scion is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value.

We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of Scion and every organization with whom we partner.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.