Sales Recruiter

Meztal is seeking a proactive and relationship-driven Senior Sales Recruiter / Headhunter to lead full-cycle recruitment for sales professionals and sales leaders. This senior role combines recruiting expertise with headhunting, advanced sourcing, market intelligence, and relationship building.

The ideal candidate is outgoing, persuasive, resourceful, and confident engaging passive talent. You will own searches from intake through successful placement while building long-term relationships and strategic talent pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruitment for sales and sales leadership roles, including intake, sourcing, interviews, candidate management, offers, and placement.
• Partner with hiring stakeholders to understand business needs, role requirements, and ideal candidate profiles.
• Develop targeted recruiting and headhunting strategies.
• Conduct market research and talent mapping across industries, competitors, sales organizations, and talent pools.
• Identify and engage passive candidates through outreach, networking, referrals, events, and creative sourcing channels.
• Interview candidates to assess experience, sales background, career progression, communication, motivation, and fit.
• Present qualified candidates and insights to support hiring decisions.
• Manage candidate relationships and communication throughout the recruitment process.
• Support offer conversations, candidate closing, and successful placements.
• Maintain accurate candidate, pipeline, and recruiting activity in the ATS.
• Build long-term networks and pipelines of high-performing sales professionals and leaders.
• Leverage AI tools for research, sourcing, talent mapping, candidate identification, personalized outreach, and productivity.
• Attend relevant U.S. conferences and industry events for networking and talent development.

Requirements

• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience and successful placements.
• Strong experience recruiting/headhunting sales professionals and leaders.
• Proven ability to identify, engage, and convert passive candidates.
• Experience partnering with U.S.-based hiring managers or stakeholders.
• Strong sourcing, market research, talent mapping, interviewing, and candidate-closing skills.
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Advanced ability to use AI tools for recruiting, research, sourcing, and outreach.
• Advanced written and verbal English.
• Valid U.S. visa and availability to travel to the U.S.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proactive, persistent, curious, resourceful, and comfortable working with autonomy and ownership.
• Preferred: Executive search or specialized recruiting experience, senior sales/leadership recruiting, professional networking, AI-enabled recruiting, and building strategic talent pipelines.