Principal Recruiter - Cybersecurity

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Human Resources

The Human Resources team helps attract and recruit diverse talent, and works to provide employees with competitive benefits, leadership resources and the support to be successful at United.

Job overview and responsibilities

A Principal Recruiter is an expert in recruiting and sourcing highly qualified candidates. A Principal Recruiter acts as a consultant to the business, leading the recruitment processes from end-to-end. A Principal recruiter is a recruitment expert that can manage complex clients and offers with little supervision. Using data, Principal Recruiters develop and execute recruitment strategies that are specific to each role, delivering a pipeline of high-quality diverse candidates. Principal recruiters will be aligned to our most challenging and complex clients given their level of expertise.

• Attract and source talent for United’s most critical and complex areas such as Digital Technology, Executive Roles or complex/niche roles
• Conduct thorough interviews and assessments of talent to find alignment between their skills and our key business problems
• Partners with hiring leaders and HR partners to create sourcing strategies aimed at developing the strongest, diverse candidate pipeline for open roles across the assigned group
• Partner with external organizations to develop and maintain talent pipeline
• Consistently works with a process improvement orientation; provides value to TA members by recommending and implementing process opportunities
• Provides change management around process enhancements
• Stays abreast on new recruitment trends and technologies and brings back learnings to the team
• Educates recruiters and hiring managers on candidate attraction and sourcing opportunities
• Uses data to inform recruitment decisions and provides guidance to stakeholders around candidate management
• Exert executive presence when supporting leadership with recruitment decisions, such as when advocating for a candidate

• Bachelor's degree
• 5 years of corporate recruitment experience
• Proven experience driving process improvements to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Demonstrated ability to act as a consultant, make data driven talent recommendations and develop and execute recruitment strategies
• Ability to engage meaningfully with candidates, ensuring a high touch candidate experience
• Master level sourcing capabilities: ability to engage in meaningful candidate outreach
• Demonstrated good judgment and confidentiality
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with a strong emphasis on customer service orientation
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced, highly team-oriented environment
• Excellent time management, follow-through, and organizational skills
• Strong communication and ability to build relationships with all levels of personnel
• Strategic and forward-thinking
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with a high degree of accuracy and ability to delegate work as needed
• Intermediate to advanced computer skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, and databases
• Strong knowledge of social media and demonstrated usage of tools such as LinkedIn
• Ability to handle highly confidential information
• Ability to build strong relationships and work in a team environment
• Ability to quickly assess candidate’s skills/qualifications and attributes and make placements/recommendations as appropriate
• Ability to coach and counsel internal and external candidates on career development
• Demonstrated leadership ability to coach and counsel other recruiters on best practices and recruiting processes
• Strong project management skills; ability to manage and lead special projects, in addition to typical recruiting workload
• Ability recruiting hard-to-fill positions utilizing various sourcing methods
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% of the time
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

• Master's degree
• Experience in a matrixed corporate environment

Remote option may be available

Salary Range: $91,800.00 - $134,640.00

The Job Posting End Date is 3/20/2024