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About the Role

Guardian is seeking a motivated Executive Recruiting Sourcer/Researcher to identify, engage, and develop top executive talent. This role drives sourcing strategy and execution for high-impact leadership searches, acting as a trusted advisor and central point for market intelligence, candidate development, and search execution.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Executive Recruiters and Business Leaders to deliver high-quality executive search engagements.
• Drive the end-to-end sourcing lifecycle, from market mapping through candidate development.
• Ensure rigorous execution, attention to detail, and a high standard of candidate experience.
• Develop and execute research strategies to identify target companies and talent pools.
• Build comprehensive talent maps aligned to business priorities and leadership competencies.
• Maintain deep knowledge of industry trends, competitor landscapes, and executive talent movements.
• Execute proactive outreach strategies to attract passive executive talent.
• Qualify candidates through thoughtful screening, assessing capability, motivation, and fit.
• Build long-term relationships with executive talent pipelines.
• Partner with recruiters to calibrate candidate profiles and refine search strategies.
• Collaborate with executive recruiters to align on search strategy and candidate profiles.
• Communicate insights, progress, and market feedback to inform decision-making.
• Contribute to search updates and executive-level candidate presentations.
• Maintain accurate and high-quality data within recruiting systems and talent databases.
• Generate insights from search activity to inform future hiring and talent strategies.
• Support the creation of candidate profiles, market summaries, and search progress reports.

Requirements

• Strong executive sourcing and research expertise with a structured, strategic approach.
• Ability to engage and influence senior-level candidates with credibility and professionalism.
• Excellent communication skills, including written narratives and stakeholder presentations.
• High level of ownership, accountability, and execution discipline.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent searches in a fast-paced environment.
• 2–5+ years of experience in executive search, recruiting, or talent sourcing from a retained search firm or financial services is a plus.
• Experience supporting or leading searches for senior-level or leadership roles preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a highly consultative and research-driven environment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable interacting with and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Skills

• Executive sourcing
• Research
• Candidate engagement
• Talent mapping
• Market intelligence
• Communication
• Stakeholder management
• Data management
• Reporting

Location

• Hudson Yards, NYC
• Stamford, CT

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 3 days in office
• 2 days WFH

Experience Level

• 2-5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $82,770.00 - $135,975.00

Benefits

• Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
• Skill-building opportunities
• Leadership development opportunities
• Philanthropic opportunities
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

About the Company

• Guardian operates with the values "We Do the Right Thing," and "We Courageously Shape Our Future Together."
• At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
• Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
• Guardian's Purpose is to inspire well-being.
• Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
• Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
• Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas.
• Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.
• Guardian does not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in its hiring process.
• All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.

Equal Opportunity

• Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
• Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
• Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.