Executive Recruiter

Perficient is rebuilding its senior leadership bench for an AI-First growth chapter, and the people we hire at VP and above will decide how well it goes. The Executive Recruiter owns those searches end to end: sourcing, assessing, closing, and making sure the hire succeeds. This is not a coordinator role or a requisition manager. It is a search professional who is trusted by senior leaders to find the right person, often someone who is not looking, and bring them in.

We are looking for someone who can prove it. Come with examples of searches you completed in the last three years, and with evidence that your network across IT services is real, current, and produces candidates other recruiters cannot reach. Come fluent in AI tools and clear on how you use them to protect your time, so that your hours go to relationships and judgment, not to research and administration.

If your reputation rests on completed searches and relationships people will vouch for, this role was written for you.

Why This Role, Why Now

Senior hires carry outsized weight in a business that is changing this fast. The leaders who join in the next 12 to 24 months will shape Perficient's offerings, client relationships, and delivery model as AI changes what clients buy. Several things make the work harder and more valuable at once:

- The best leaders in IT services are rarely on the market, so reaching them depends on trusted relationships, not job postings
- Searches span functions, levels, and geographies, with VP-and-above talent needed across the U.S., India, and Latin America
- Competition for leaders who combine domain depth with AI fluency is intense, and compensation expectations move quickly
- AI tools now do much of the research and administration that used to consume a recruiter's week, so the people who use them well can run more searches at higher quality

Perficient wants an Executive Recruiter who treats those tools as leverage and spends the saved time where it counts: in conversations with the people worth hiring.

What We're Looking For

Non-Negotiable

10+ years of executive search or senior recruiting experience, with a record of VP-and-above and C-level searches

- A portfolio of completed searches in the last three years, with outcomes you can document and references who will confirm them
- A strong, active network across IT services, including consulting, systems integration, and technology companies, that you can demonstrate rather than describe
- Hands-on fluency with AI tools in recruiting workflows. You have deployed them, measured the results, and can explain where they help and where they do not
- Strong time and priority management across concurrent searches, with a system you can show
- Executive presence and the judgment to advise senior leaders candidly, including on compensation and market realities
- Experience negotiating senior offers and managing candidates through competing offers

Strongly Preferred

- Experience in a PE-backed or high-growth consulting or technology environment, and with the offer structures senior candidates expect there
- Search experience in India and Latin America as well as the U.S.
- A background in retained search, or in-house executive recruiting at a consulting or technology services firm
- A record of building talent communities and pipelines ahead of need
- Experience coaching recruiters on senior-level practices

This Role Is Not For You If

- Your experience is mainly requisition coordination or administration. This role requires originating and closing senior searches
- You cannot share completed searches from the last three years, or most of your results are older than that
- Your network lives mostly in databases and LinkedIn rather than in relationships you can call this week
- You treat AI as optional, or as a replacement for judgment. This role requires active use of the tools and accountability for what they produce
- You wait for the brief instead of shaping it. Hiring leaders here expect a search partner who pushes back and brings market intelligence
- You struggle to prioritize across several live searches. Time discipline is part of the job

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.

WHO WE ARE

Perficient is a leading global digital consultancy. We imagine, create, engineer, and run digital transformation solutions that help our clients exceed customers’ expectations, outpace competition, and grow their business. With unparalleled strategy, creative, and technology capabilities, our colleagues bring big thinking and innovative ideas, along with a practical approach to help our clients – the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands succeed.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you’ll become part of something truly special.

We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We’re committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we’re not done yet.

Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Disability Accommodations:

Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate.

Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview .

Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.

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