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About the Role

Sanctuary is seeking an exceptional individual to own executive hiring end-to-end. This role involves building the executive search function from scratch, identifying top talent in Texas real estate and adjacent industries, and convincing passive candidates to join the company. You will work directly with the CEO and People Operations Director, measured on the caliber and speed of hires.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive and senior leadership searches.
• Build targeted market maps across real estate development, construction, homebuilding, finance, capital markets, sales, and operations.
• Source and directly approach high performers, including passive candidates.
• Run outbound sourcing through calls, referrals, events, industry relationships, LinkedIn, and email.
• Represent Sanctuary to senior candidates, selling the mission, opportunity, and leadership team.
• Develop a deep understanding of each role and the business problem it solves.
• Assess candidates rigorously, pushing beyond resumes and rehearsed answers.
• Partner with the CEO and leadership team through interviews, decisions, offers, and negotiation.
• Manage every candidate from first contact through acceptance and onboarding.
• Build a long-term network of executives, operators, investors, developers, brokers, and industry leaders across Austin and Texas.

Requirements

• Existing relationships across Austin and Texas real estate, construction, finance, or executive networks are a major advantage.
• Significant experience in agency recruitment, executive search, or a similar role where you personally owned the hunt.
• A track record of sourcing and closing senior leaders yourself.
• Experience filling roles such as COO, Head of Operations, Sales Director, CFO, or senior finance, construction, and development leaders.
• Strong cold outreach ability and comfort calling people who did not ask to hear from you.
• Exceptional communication, persuasion, and negotiation skills.
• Sharp judgment on leadership ability, ownership, intelligence, commercial instincts, and culture fit.
• The ability to understand a business, not just a job description.
• Comfort working directly with a demanding, fast-moving CEO and operating without constant direction.
• You would rather call someone than wait for an email reply.
• You enjoy winning over candidates who start the conversation by saying they are not interested.
• You walk into an industry event already knowing who you want to meet.
• You are comfortable being measured on the quality and speed of your hires.
• You take ownership of outcomes instead of blaming external factors.
• You are persistent without being careless or transactional.
• You move fast while holding an exceptionally high bar.
• You want real ownership over building a leadership team, not recruitment administration.

Skills

• Executive search
• Talent acquisition
• Candidate sourcing
• Candidate closing
• Market mapping
• Cold outreach
• Persuasion
• Negotiation
• Relationship building
• Business acumen
• Leadership assessment

Location

• Austin, Texas

Work Type

• Full-time
• On-site

Experience Level

• Senior leadership
• Executive level

Salary/Compensations

• $100K–$120K base + performance bonus. Total comp up to $200K–$300K annually, depending on your experience, network, track record, and demonstrated ability to close exceptional executive talent.

About the Company

• Sanctuary is building nature-first residential communities in the Texas Hill Country.
• We are a small, ambitious global team entering the biggest growth stage in the company's history.
• The next twelve months will be defined by the leaders we bring in: a COO, a Sales Director, and senior executives across finance, operations, development, construction, and capital markets.