Principal Recruiter

The Principal Recruiter is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning hiring outcomes and talent strategy across a designated business unit. This role partners directly with Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs, providing consultative guidance on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and talent market dynamics.

Operating with an executive search mindset, the Principal Recruiter delivers high quality, curated candidate slates and influences hiring decisions through data driven insights and structured assessments. The role requires strong technical and operational understanding of the business, enabling effective talent evaluation and ongoing upskilling of the recruiting team.

This role offers a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with accountability for business unit hiring outcomes, pipeline health, and overall recruiting performance. The Principal Recruiter is empowered to shape strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive meaningful improvements in how hiring is executed across the business.

This is a high impact role for a recruiter who wants to operate as a true business partner and drive outcomes at scale.

• Each Principal Recruiter will be aligned to abusiness unit

• Act as the primary recruiting partner to Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs

• Own business unit hiring strategy, workforce planning alignment, and execution

• Provide market insights, hiring trends, and strategic recommendations to leadership

• Lead staffing reporting in weekly and monthly business reviews

• Operate with an executive search mindset for leadership and critical roles, prioritizing quality over volume

• Build and present curated candidate slates with structured assessments and clear hiring recommendations

• Partner with Regional Directors and Sr HRBPsto define success profiles and calibrate hiring decisions

• Provide consultative guidance on talent availability, compensation positioning, and competitive landscape

• Elevate candidate presentation standards by delivering insight driven profiles rather than resume forwarding

• Develop deep understanding of business unit operations, including building infrastructure, equipment types, and maintenance workflows

• Build working knowledge of systems such as robotics, conveyor systems, controls, and automation equipment relevant to each business unit

• Translate technical and operational concepts into clear recruiting strategies and candidate profiles

• Act as a subject matter expert for assigned business unit, elevating the team’s understanding of roles, environments, andskill requirements

• Design and deliver training sessions,enablement materials, and ongoing coaching to upskill recruiters on technical knowledge and role requirements

• Lead regular presentations to recruiting teams and business stakeholders on market insights, technical trends, andhiring strategy

• Manage a reduced requisition load focused onhigh priority, complex, and high throughput sites

• Support critical, hard to fill, and leadership level roles

• Drive consistency and quality across hiring processes, including interview and selection standards

• Own business unit reporting including staffing levels, pipeline health, time to fill, and offer conversion

• Translate data into actionable insights todrive performance and decision making

• Identify risks early and implement corrective actions

• Coach and mentor recruiters to improve stakeholder management, technical fluency, and recruiting effectiveness

• Raise the bar on candidate quality, process discipline, and overall team performance

• Partner with recruiting managers to drive accountability and continuous improvement

• Operational Excellence

• Standardize recruiting processes and ensure alignment with recruiting and business expectations

• Partner with internal teams including
  
  Candidate Care, People team, and Operations to remove bottlenecks

• Support hiring events, launches, and surge hiring needs as required

• Minimum 7+ years of full cycle recruiting experience

• Experience supporting high volume and/or technical hiring environments

• Strong stakeholder…