Relay

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Executive & Leadership

Relay

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Toronto • Canada

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own requisitions end-to-end, with a core focus on executive and senior leadership roles (Director+), and additional complex and critical searches (typically hard-to-fill positions, or roles with elevated business risk).
  • Sourcing and Network Building: Proactively source and engage executive and senior talent through outbound outreach, referrals, networks, and targeted market mapping. Build and maintain long-term relationships with leadership-level talent, even outside of immediate hiring needs
  • Hiring Manager & Senior Leader Partnership: Partner closely with our leadership on sensitive, high-stakes, or confidential searches and act as a trusted advisor by shaping role definitions, success profiles, and hiring strategies; calibrate expectations, provide clear market perspective, and influence decision-making with confidence.
  • Funnel Ownership: Track and improve interview velocity, pass-through rates, and time-to-fill for each role you own, with a focus on executive and senior hires.
  • Candidate Experience: Deliver a high-touch, white-glove candidate experience for executive searches, while ensuring all candidates receive timely, professional, and human-centered engagement
  • Collaboration with Talent Attractors: Partner closely with Talent Attractors when sourcing support is provided, ensuring pipelines are targeted, diverse, and converting effectively
  • AI-Enabled Recruiting: Leverage existing and emerging AI tools for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and reporting to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability
  • Data, Reporting & Insights: Own weekly reporting for your roles, translating funnel data and qualitative insights into clear actions and recommendations. Surface risks, trade-offs, and decision points early, particularly for executive searches.
  • Experimentation: Test and refine interview structures, assessment approaches, and candidate experience improvements to continuously raise the bar on leadership assessment quality, ensuring high-signal, well-calibrated hiring decisions.

Requirements

  • You bring 6+ years of recruiting experience in high-growth environments, with end-to-end ownership of executive and senior-level searches (in-house and/or agency experience is a plus)
  • You are equally effective recruiting executives and operating hands-on across other critical roles when needed
  • You are thoughtful about prioritization and comfortable making trade-offs to protect executive hiring outcomes.
  • You are confident sourcing, pitching, and closing senior talent. You do not wait for candidates to come to you
  • You are data-informed and outcome-oriented, using metrics and judgment to guide decisions
  • You communicate with clarity and authority, earning trust with senior stakeholders
  • You thrive in fast-paced, high-accountability environments where priorities shift and impact matters
  • You care deeply about candidate experience, quality of hire, and long-term success.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary.
  • Comprehensive health benefits: enjoy full health benefits from day one. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible vacation and time off: every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays so you can take time off to recharge and come back better for our customers.
  • Parental leave with top-up: we offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive.
  • Hybrid work environment: we value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days a week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
  • Dog-friendly space: can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
  • Personal and professional growth: through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success.
  • Top-tier equipment: as a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
  • Social connection: we believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
full-cycle recruitingexecutive recruitingsenior leadership recruitingsourcingdata analysisreportingcandidate assessmentAI-enabled recruitinginterview structure experimentationmarket mapping
Soft Skills
communicationprioritizationtrust-buildinginfluenceadaptabilitycandidate experience focuscollaborationdecision-makingrelationship managementoutcome orientation