The posting
Job Position
Recruitment / Talent Acquisition
Work Arrangement
Fully Remote — LATAM or PH
Job Type
Full-time
Work Schedule
40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Core hours: 9 AM – 5 PM EST
Locations
Latin America, Philippines
About Pearl Talent:
Pearl works with the top 1% of candidates from around the world and connects them with the best startups in the US and EU. Our clients have raised over $5B in aggregate and are backed by companies like OpenAI, a16z, and Founders Fund. They’re looking for the sharpest, hungriest candidates who they can consistently promote and work with over many years. Candidates we’ve hired have been flown out to the US and EU to work with their clients, and even promoted to roles that match folks onshore in the US.
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Why Work with Us?
At Pearl, we’re not just another recruiting firm—we connect you with exceptional opportunities to work alongside visionary US and EU founders. Our focus is on placing you in roles where you can grow, make an impact, and build a long-term career. We believe in creating environments where your potential is recognized, your voice matters, and your success is tied to meaningful work—not short-term perks. Joining Pearl means stepping into opportunities that challenge you, support you, and set you up for lasting success.
Role Overview
We are hiring a Talent Headhunting Partner to focus exclusively on headhunting passive talent — candidates who are currently employed and not actively seeking new opportunities.
Your mandate is to:
- Identify, engage, and convert passive candidates through tailored outbound strategies
- Pre-qualify candidates to ensure strong role, compensation, and motivation alignment
- Deliver a steady flow of high-quality, TA-ready candidates for active client roles
- Adapt headhunting strategies based on pipeline health and feedback
This role is intentionally designed as:
- Passive Headhunting (Non–Job-Seeking Talent) – 80%
- Pipeline Readiness & Maintenance – 20%
This structure protects focus on high-impact headhunting while ensuring clean handoffs.
Your Impact
In this role, you will:
- Act as a specialist in engaging and converting currently employed talent
- Own outbound headhunting outcomes for specialized and priority roles
- Maintain high response and conversion rates through personalized outreach
- Deliver consistent, high-signal candidate pipelines
- Adjust targeting and messaging based on real-time feedback and results
Areas of Responsibility
1. Passive Headhunting (Non–Job-Seeking Talent) – 80%
- Identify and engage candidates who are currently employed and not actively job searching
- Build targeted outreach strategies tailored to role requirements and seniority
- Craft personalized messaging to convert passive candidates
- Conduct initial pre-qualification to confirm:
- Role alignment
- Compensation expectations
- Motivation and availability
- Use voice notes or async communication where appropriate to improve conversion
- Partner with Talent Acquisition Partners to refine targeting and calibration
2. Pipeline Readiness & Maintenance – 20%
- Ensure all headhunted candidates are accurately logged and staged in the ATS
- Maintain clean, up-to-date pipelines for TA handoff
- Monitor candidate progress and follow up to prevent drop-offs
- Collaborate with the Talent Sourcing Coordinator to ensure pipeline hygiene
This role does not:
- Source candidates who are actively job searching
- Manage job board postings
- Own dashboards, reporting logic, or analytics
- Conduct interviews or make hiring decisions
Requirements
Must-Haves (Required)
- Proven experience headhunting passive, currently employed candidates
- Strong outbound and persuasion skills with a consultative approach
- Ability to personalize outreach at scale without sacrificing quality
- Strong pre-qualification and alignment skills
- KPI-driven mindset focused on response rate, acceptance rate, and pipeline quality
- Clear, professional communicator capable of representing premium startup brands
- Nice-to-Haves
- Experience recruiting for US-based startups or scale-ups
- Agency background with a strong outbound headhunting focus
- Experience working on specialized, senior, or hard-to-fill roles
- Tools Proficiency
- Must-Haves
- Advanced LinkedIn Recruiter (search logic, projects, InMail optimization)
- ATS systems (Workable strongly preferred)
- Google Workspace & Notion
- Slack
- Nice-to-Haves
- Contact-finding tools (Apollo, Lusha, etc.)
- Async or voice-based candidate engagement tools
Benefits
What You’ll Gain:
- Ownership over high-impact, high-difficulty sourcing outcomes
- Clear scope, KPIs, and expectations
- Strong operational, automation, and data support
- Exposure to top-tier founders, companies, and complex hiring challenges
- Remote-first, performance-driven culture
- Annual team retreat
- Unlimited PTO
Ready to Join Us? If you’re hungry to lead, build, and scale—and you’ve done it before—then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. Apply now and help us build the world’s best recruitment team!
