[Hiring] Senior Staff Executive Recruiter @Mapbox

Role Description

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Partnership: Act as a talent consultant to the C-suite and senior leadership, aligning executive and specialty hiring with long-term business objectives and organizational design.
• Full-Cycle Execution: Lead end-to-end executive searches across all global functions—from initial research and sourcing to complex offer negotiations and closing. You will partner with our Executive Sourcer and will own your own pipelines.
• Pipeline Innovation: Build and execute data-driven sourcing strategies that prioritize a global network of high-caliber talent.
• Executive Compensation: Partner with Finance and Total Rewards to design and negotiate sophisticated compensation packages, including equity structures and performance incentives.
• Intelligence & Analytics: Provide market mapping, competitive intelligence, and real-time pipeline health reports to inform leadership decision-making.
• Operational Excellence: Standardize and optimize the executive hiring journey, ensuring the best candidate and hiring manager experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a proven track record of placing VP, C-suite talent, and other specialized top talent within high-growth tech environments.
• Proven success operating within a distributed global model, including a deep understanding of international hiring nuances.
• Expert at navigating high-stakes negotiations involving complex compensation, equity structures, and "buy-out" scenarios.
• A commitment to using market intelligence and funnel analytics to optimize search health and influence leadership decisions.
• Passion for leveraging AI and emerging technologies to continuously evolve executive recruiting practices, from talent discovery to stakeholder reporting.
• A communication style and cadence that builds immediate trust with elite talent and maintains long-term candidate pipelines.
• A thrive-in-ambiguity mindset, with the creative problem-solving skills needed to overcome the unique challenges of the executive talent market.

What We Value

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Compensation

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $167,000 - $220,000 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.