Executive Recruiter, Alpha (Remote) - $200,000/year USD
Alpha School
Remote
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Alpha is hiring.
Exceptional leaders rarely announce that they're ready for their next opportunity. They're busy building businesses, transforming organizations, and achieving things others thought impossible. Finding them takes more than a LinkedIn search, and convincing them to make a career-defining move takes exceptional research, judgment, credibility, and influence.
That's where you come in.
At Alpha, you'll have the freedom to uncover extraordinary leaders, intellectuals, and technical talent who could help revolutionize K–12 education. You'll shape sophisticated search strategies, cultivate influential networks, and work directly with senior leadership to make some of our most consequential hiring decisions.
You'll operate with substantial autonomy in an AI-driven workplace, supported by a collaborative global community that values independent thinking, innovation, and exceptional results. Technology will accelerate your research and remove unnecessary friction, freeing you to focus on what matters most: human connection, sound judgment, and securing extraordinary talent.
This isn't about filling vacancies or collecting placement fees. It's about building relationships that change careers, bringing exceptional people into a mission you believe in, and seeing the lasting difference they make.
If you've mastered the art of executive search and want to do some of the most meaningful work of your career, we'd love to hear from you.
What You Will Be Doing
- Develop targeted executive search strategies, mapping relevant organizations, researching exceptional leaders and specialists, and ranking prospects against role requirements using evidence of measurable achievement.
- Build influential professional networks and engage passive executive talent through trusted referrals, personalized outreach, and meaningful career conversations that cultivate lasting relationships and genuine interest in Alpha.
- Assess executive candidates through structured evaluations, verified achievements, and reference insights, partnering with senior leadership to calibrate talent, challenge assumptions, and inform critical hiring decisions.
- Deliver a white-glove candidate experience, managing complex executive relationships, addressing concerns, navigating competing opportunities, and negotiating successful appointments.
- Use AI-powered tools daily to accelerate talent discovery, market research, candidate intelligence, and personalized engagement, independently validating outputs and maintaining confidentiality and sound judgment.
- Managing high-volume applicant pipelines or relying on ready-made candidate databases. Your focus will be identifying and engaging exceptional, hard-to-reach talent who may never actively apply.
- Running mass outreach campaigns, sending generic InMails, or chasing activity quotas. We value thoughtful engagement, meaningful relationships, and exceptional hiring outcomes over volume.
- Spending most of your time on scheduling, database maintenance, reporting, or administrative coordination. You'll partner with Pipeline Managers and Talent Operations so you can concentrate on the work where your expertise adds the greatest value.
- Juggling unrelated client mandates or treating an accepted offer as the finish line. You'll be invested in Alpha's long-term success and the lasting contributions of the people you recruit.
- Simply taking instructions from hiring managers or accepting conventional assumptions about talent. We expect you to bring informed perspectives, challenge thinking when warranted, and influence decisions that lead to stronger hires.
Identify, engage, assess, and secure exceptional executive and specialist talent whose capabilities and demonstrated achievements translate into measurable contributions to Alpha's educational mission and organizational performance.
Basic Requirements
- Hands-on executive search experience, whether within an established search firm, in-house recruiting function, or senior HR leadership role with direct executive hiring responsibility.
- A proven track record of executive hiring, including personal involvement in at least one successful C-suite or equivalent appointment.
- Strong executive search expertise, with the ability to uncover exceptional talent, develop influential networks, and engage accomplished leaders who aren't actively looking for new opportunities.
- The credibility and confidence to advise C-suite executives, influence senior stakeholders, and challenge conventional thinking about talent.
- Exceptional judgment in assessing leadership talent, recognizing measurable achievements and potential beyond impressive titles or credentials.
- Outstanding relationship-building, communication, and negotiation skills, with a passion for delivering a personalized, white-glove executive candidate experience.
- Hands-on experience using AI to enhance talent research, sourcing, or candidate engagement, combined with the curiosity to explore new technologies and smarter ways of working.
- The independence and adaptability to thrive in a fully remote, globally distributed team, working 40 hours per week with required collaboration hours.
An established AI-enabled recruiting workflow that demonstrably improves executive talent research, discovery, or personalized outreach.
About Alpha
Join the team building school around student growth
Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.
Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.
Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5865-NG-Lagos-ExecutiveRecru