Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Lead Recruiter to join our global Talent Acquisition team, based out of our Southlake office. In this role, you will lead end-to-end recruitment for critical positions within our Commercial & Marketing Business Units, partnering closely with hiring managers and business leaders across global teams.
You will bring strong expertise in sales and marketing hiring, talent market intelligence, stakeholder management and proactive sourcing. As a trusted talent advisor, you will help shape hiring strategies, build diverse talent pipelines and deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience across our international network.
What You'll Do
- End-to-End Recruitment: Lead full-lifecycle hiring for commercial and marketing roles (Sales & Account Management, Service Delivery, Sales Ops, BI & Strategy, Product Marketing, Creative Design).
- Strategic Partnering: Conduct intake sessions and partner with global leaders to align hiring strategies with business needs.
- Proactive Sourcing & Pipelines: Leverage LinkedIn Recruiter, networks, and innovative tools to build diverse talent pipelines for current and future roles.
- Talent Advisory: Guide hiring managers with market intelligence, competitive insights, and compensation trends.
- Global Collaboration: Work across time zones with TA colleagues and international stakeholders while driving employer branding and initiatives.
- Process & Mentorship: Track recruitment metrics to improve hiring efficiency, and mentor fellow team members.
What You'll Bring
- Experience: 7+ years in Talent Acquisition focusing on commercial roles (marketing hiring experience is a plus).
- Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of commercial and marketing functions (Sales Leadership, Strategy, Analytics, Brand, Demand Gen, Product Marketing).
- Search Expertise: Proven track record managing senior-level searches and converting passive candidates in fast-paced, matrixed organizations.
- Stakeholder & Data Skills: Strong influence, stakeholder management, and a data-driven approach to recruitment.
- AI & Recruitment Tech: Proven experience leveraging AI tools in recruitment alongside hands-on proficiency with ATS platforms (Workday preferred), LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing technologies.
- Execution: Consultative approach with the ability to balance multiple high-priority searches without compromising quality.
What Will Make You Successful
- Strategic, long-term mindset that goes beyond filling open headcount.
- Confidence partnering with and influencing senior commercial and marketing executives.
- Agility and cultural adaptability when working in a global, matrixed team.
- Commitment to building inclusive, high-performing teams and delivering a top-tier candidate experience.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping commercial and marketing talent acquisition from our Southlake office while collaborating as part of a dynamic, global TA team. You will have the platform to influence hiring strategy, solve complex talent challenges, build impactful talent pipelines, and make a direct contribution to the growth and success of the business worldwide.
Benefits that support you
We know support looks different for everyone. That is why Sabre offers benefits beyond medical and financial coverage, with programs designed to support your well-being, growth and life outside work:
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses
- Flexible work options
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage
- Generous PTO and holidays
- Strong retirement planning support
- Family-friendly benefits
- Professional development opportunities
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at [email protected].
Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW
Skills Required
- 7+ years of Talent Acquisition experience focused on commercial roles
- Experience recruiting for marketing functions
- Deep understanding of sales leadership, strategy, analytics, brand, demand generation, and product marketing functions
- Proven experience managing senior-level searches and converting passive candidates
- Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed organizations
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Data-driven approach to recruitment
- Experience leveraging AI tools in recruitment
- Hands-on proficiency with ATS platforms, preferably Workday
- Hands-on proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and modern sourcing technologies
- Ability to balance multiple high-priority searches while maintaining quality
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sabre Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Sabre Corporation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is expansive, with five weeks of PTO from day one, eight paid holidays, floating holidays, and a companywide year‑end break. Paid volunteer time further broadens available leave.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave provides 12 weeks fully paid for birth or adoption, complemented by generous bereavement leave up to 15 paid days. Disability coverage and dependent eligibility to age 26 reinforce family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a strong company match underpins long‑term savings. This foundation strengthens overall financial security alongside core benefits.
Sabre Corporation Insights
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry. Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions. Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives. Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry. We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few. Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology. We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
