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Principal Executive Recruiter - Tech

Intuit

SAN DIEGO, CAJob$183–247K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago

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Compensation
$183–247K/yr
Location
SAN DIEGO, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Principal Executive Recruiter for Tech leads executive searches for Director, VP, and SVP roles across Intuit’s Tech Ecosystem. The recruiter advises senior leaders, assesses executive talent, and uses market intelligence, AI, and modern sourcing tools to accelerate hiring while maintaining quality. The role also includes offer negotiations, candidate engagement, strategic projects, and mentoring peers across talent acquisition.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Executive SearchExecutive Talent AssessmentTech Talent Market KnowledgeAI Recruiting ToolsRecruiting TechnologyExecutive InfluenceCommunicationData-Backed Narratives

Qualifications

Executive Search Track RecordDirector-Level HiringSaaS or High-Growth Technology

Full job description

Overview

About the Team

As members of the People & Places organization, we are stewards of Intuit's greatest strategic asset: our people. Intuit's Executive Recruiting team is made up of the best in the industry; and we hold ourselves to that standard every day. We move fast, think strategically, and stay focused on identifying, assessing, and hiring the leaders who power Intuit's growth and help our employees do the best work of their lives.

The Role

As a Principal Executive Recruiter for Tech at Intuit, you are a business accelerator. You bring a rare combination: deep fluency in the executive tech talent market, the ability to assess leaders with precision, and the influencing skills to move both candidates and senior business partners toward great decisions. You run searches with pace and purpose, leveraging AI and modern tools to compress timelines without sacrificing quality. You will manage executive hires (Director, VP, and SVP) across our Tech Ecosystem You will be a trusted advisor to senior leaders, a sharp assessor of talent, and a recruiter who knows how to close.

Responsibilities

What You'll Do

Drive search velocity and outcomes

  • Lead full-lifecycle executive searches using data and talent intelligence to drive fast, informed decisions with a bias toward speed, quality, and diverse slates.

  • Partner with leaders to turn ambiguous or evolving talent needs into precise role definitions, utilizing talent intelligence and funnel analytics, to deliver the right executive hires efficiently and keep stakeholders aligned.Turn ambiguous or evolving leadership needs into clear role definitions, utilizing talent intelligence and funnel analytics, to deliver the right executive hires efficiently and keep stakeholders aligned Suggestion:

  • Leverage AI tools and modern sourcing technology to accelerate pipeline development, reduce time-to-slate, and drive outsized results

  • You will be skilled at seeing around corners and predicting obstacles that will hinder your searches, and will have effective mitigation strategies

  • Build and execute proactive talent strategies, market intelligence and candidate engagement approaches tailored to this evolving talent pool of tech experience

Operate as a strategic talent advisor

  • Serve as a trusted thought partner to Intuit’s CTO and their senior leaders, translating business strategy and organizational design into targeted leadership requirements while leveraging external market and competitive intelligence to drive bold talent recommendations

  • Bring informed market intelligence; on competitor moves, talent availability, and compensation trends, shaping how searches are developed and closed

  • Coach hiring managers on assessment, structured interviewing, closing candidates, and the long-term engagement of passive talent

  • Operate expertly in high-stakes environments with senior executives, often aligning different perspectives to drive clear hiring decisions

Assess and close with precision

  • Apply rigorous, evidence-based assessment approaches to evaluate executive candidates across leadership competencies, functional expertise, and culture fit

  • Lead offer negotiations with confidence, structuring deals that are competitive, equitable, and aligned to Intuit's total rewards philosophy

  • Create candidate experiences that reflect the caliber of company and role we're representing

Elevate the team

  • Contribute to operational excellence through ownership of strategic projects which advance the team and talent acquisition organization’s capability

  • Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion at every stage of the search process

  • Serve as a mentor and thought partner to peers across the broader talent acquisition organization

Qualifications

What You Bring

  • A proven track record in executive search at either agency, in-house, or both

  • A track record of hiring exceptional, diverse leaders at the Director-level and above within SaaS or high-growth technology environments

  • Deep knowledge of the external tech talent landscape; who the key players are and motivators to move

  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and business leaders through credibility, market insight, and clear thinking

  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools and emerging recruiting technologies to accelerate search timelines, improve sourcing outcomes, and stay ahead of market shifts; and curiosity to keep exploring what’s next

  • Proven experience assessing executive talent with sound judgment; know what ‘great’ looks like at each level and consistently bring in people who raise the bar

  • Strong executive presence and communication skills, able to craft compelling, data-backed narratives for senior audiences and drive alignment across functions

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits (https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/) ). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:

Mountain View $201,000 - $271,500

San Diego, CA $182,500- $247,000

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Intuit will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with requirements of local law.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,820 open Talent Acquisition jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$183–247K/yr
  • California median$135–185K/yr384 salary ranges
  • US median$100–150K/yr1,523 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $215K, is 34% above the California median midpoint ($160K) — in the top quarter of Talent Acquisition salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 561 open Talent Acquisition jobs in California and 2,820 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Talent Acquisition postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,257 postings).
Education
387 of the 2,820 open Talent Acquisition jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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