Senior Recruiter

Who you are

• Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Boston office and should expect to be in the office a minimum of three days per week
• 8 or more years of progressive recruiting or executive-search experience, including substantial ownership of senior, Director, Vice President, or executive‑level searches during that tenure
• 4 or more years of experience directly leading complex or confidential searches from initial research and candidate identification through assessment, offer, and close
• 2 or more years of experience developing market maps, target-company strategies, talent‑pool research, with clear written insights from complex or incomplete information
• Demonstrated experience identifying and engaging passive leadership or highly specialized talent through original market research, direct sourcing, referrals, and professional networks
• Experience recruiting across multiple business or talent areas, such as consumer technology, hardware, software, product, design, AI, operations, commercial functions, or corporate leadership
• Experience advising senior hiring leaders on talent availability, search strategy, candidate quality, market conditions, and recruiting risk
• Experience designing and applying structured candidate‑assessment and calibration practices for senior or highly specialized roles
• Experience managing sensitive candidate information and confidential searches with sound judgment, discretion, and attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear candidate briefs, market insights, search updates, and recommendations for senior audiences
• Qualified applicants must be able to work from the Boston office a minimum of three days per week
• Experience recruiting within a consumer technology, hardware, software, product, design, or similarly complex global organization
• A combination of in‑house executive recruiting and retained executive-search experience
• Experience building an executive-search, talent‑intelligence, or proactive pipeline capability within an evolving Talent Acquisition function
• Experience hiring leaders and scarce talent across multiple geographies, including the US, EMEA, or APAC
• Strong knowledge of the talent markets supporting connected products, consumer electronics, audio, embedded systems, AI, software platforms, product development, or global operations
• Experience using recruiting technology, AI‑enabled research tools, CRM platforms, and data to improve search quality and recruiter effectiveness
• Experience coaching recruiters or sharing advanced sourcing, assessment, candidate‑engagement, or executive-search practices without direct people‑management responsibility
• A builder mindset: you enjoy creating a capability, testing new approaches, and leaving behind tools and practices that make the entire team stronger
• We ask that applicants be authorized to work for us in the United States, both now and in the future
• Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we still strongly encourage you to apply if interested

• The talent we bring into Sonos will help shape the next chapter of our company. We are looking for a deeply experienced recruiter and talent strategist to help us identify, engage, and hire exceptional leaders and highly specialized talent across our most important business priorities
• As our Sr. Recruiter, Executive Search & Talent Intelligence, you will lead a select portfolio of high-impact, confidential, and difficult‑to‑fill searches across areas such as hardware, software, product, design, AI, global operations, and corporate leadership. This is not a traditional high-volume…