Google’s Executive Recruiting Team (ERT) helps identify, engage, and hire the next generation of leadership (L8+) talent across the company. In this onsite role in Los Angeles, CA, you will lead talent market research for executive searches across key technical business functions, turning research strategy into actionable insights for leadership hiring needs.
As an Executive Recruiting Researcher, you will develop and own research search strategies, manage projects that support consistent candidate and hiring manager experiences, and collaborate with leadership recruiters to advise executives using domain and market trends. You will also build relationships with passive candidates to support future hiring.
What you’ll do
- Develop and own search strategies and deliver research against those strategies for executive searches across technical functions such as engineering, product management, and research science.
- Provide project management to drive searches forward and help ensure consistent experiences for hiring managers or clients, applicants, and colleagues.
- Partner with leadership recruiters and collaborate closely to share domain and market insights and trends, advising executives on talent for their most urgent business needs.
- Build relationships for future hiring with passive candidates and talent.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and innovation in the efficiency and effectiveness of hiring systems, services, and processes.
What you bring
- 3 years of experience in research or recruiting within technical executive search research at an executive search firm or in-house recruiting team.
- 1 year of experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, industry publications, or related sources for market mapping and talent identification.
- Experience in executive recruiting, including outreach, engagement, evaluation, and presentation.
- Experience maximizing team performance as well as individual performance, with a collaborative team approach.
- Experience in research science, data science, PhD, or fellows hiring.
- Capability, credibility, and consultative skills to influence senior colleagues and stakeholders without formal authority.
- An open learning mindset and a demonstrated ability to quickly grasp complex subject matter and understand new markets, roles, and business initiatives.
Tools
Compensation and location
Salary: USD 111,000 - 159,000 per year.
Pay details: US: $111000 - $159000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Location: Los Angeles, CA (onsite). This role may also be located in the Playa Vista, CA campus. Preferred working locations include Chicago, IL; Ann Arbor, MI; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Boulder, CO; Mountain View, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; and Washington D.C.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- 13 paid days per year holidays
Fair chance and criminal history consideration
- Los Angeles County: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- Google also considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Application window
The application window will be open until at least August 17, 2026. The opportunity will remain online based on business needs, which may be before or after that date.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let Google know by completing the Accommodations for Applicants form.
