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 seeking a Principal, Executive Recruiter to join our global Talent Acquisition team, where innovation knows no borders. This team attracts top-tier executive talent to drive Sabre’s vision, strengthen leadership capability and shape the future of travel technology. Working alongside senior executives, the team delivers high-touch search strategies that align leadership capability with enterprise goals. With an inclusive culture and flexible work environment, we work together with boldness, curiosity and commitment so we can all win together.
You will execute the end-to-end executive search for C-Suite and senior leadership positions across Sabre serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders. This hybrid role operates at least three days per week on-site and requires high discretion, sharp market insight and the confidence to influence executive hiring decisions.
What you'll do
- Lead the full lifecycle recruitment for executive and senior leadership positions across the organization, managing sensitive and confidential searches with high discretion
- Directly partner with our Recruiting Specialist on coordination and sourcing strategy to uncover active and passive executive talent
- Partner closely with Sabre senior leadership to define executive specifications, succession needs, market trends, compensation benchmarks and candidate expectations
- Drive negotiation and offer development in partnership with Compensation, People Business Partners and Benefits teams, securing high-caliber leaders while meeting enterprise standards
- Leverage recruitment data, market insights and executive pipeline reporting to refine search strategies and deliver a seamless onboarding experience
What you'll bring
- Experience in executive recruitment, with a track record of placing senior leaders in technology organizations. (search firm experience preferred)
- Proven ability to build relationships, influence hiring decisions and engage senior leaders and executive candidates
- Strong negotiation capability across complex executive compensation structures
- Experience with Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter and data-driven recruitment strategies
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration or a related field preferred
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
- Experience in executive recruitment with a track record of placing senior leaders in technology organizations
- Ability to build relationships, influence hiring decisions, and engage senior leaders and executive candidates
- Strong negotiation capability across complex executive compensation structures
- Experience with Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, and data-driven recruitment strategies
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
Sabre Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.”
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