Principal, Tech Executive Recruiter
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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 1 day ago
Market pay check
Matched to HR and management professionals
Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.
What you'd do
- Collaborate with senior internal customers to understand their hiring needs.
- Devise and carry out a targeted global search strategy.
- Build global executive talent pipelines through direct sourcing.
What they want
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting.
- Experience working in a tier-1 internet company or high-growth challenger brand.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Nice to have
- Prior experience recruiting through a staffing or search firm.
Seoulstart's read
- Visa tier (likely)
- E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
- Korean language
- Korean not required
- English friendliness
- High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals
- Context
- Coupang HQ-based principal recruiter with global remit; expect interactions with Korean-speaking executives despite no stated Korean requirement.
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Original posting from Coupang
Principal, Tech Executive Recruiter
Summary: Join Coupang as a Principal, Tech Executive Recruiter, and play a critical role in identifying and hiring the next generation of technology leaders. This role requires partnering with senior executives across various geographies to build world-class talent pipelines and drive best recruitment practices.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with senior internal customers to understand their hiring needs.
- Devise and carry out a targeted global search strategy.
- Build global executive talent pipelines through direct sourcing.
- Drive recruitment intelligence using our internal CRM platform.
- Attract top-tier technical talent to South Korea, Singapore, India and US with tenacity and determination.
- Present an exceptional company pitch to potential candidates.
- Assess candidates for qualification match, cultural fit, and compatibility.
- Influence at the offer stage, articulating Coupang’s career vision and compensation philosophy.
- Partner with the Global Mobility Team to facilitate candidate relocation.
- Enhance the overall recruitment process and implement best practices organization-wide.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting.
- Experience working in a tier-1 internet company or high-growth challenger brand.
- Agency experience is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Analytical thinker adept in a global, fast-paced, data-driven, and entrepreneurial culture.
- Proven sound business judgment with the ability to communicate and influence effectively, including at the executive level.
- Capability to think strategically while managing tactical execution in an agile environment.