About The Role
The Strategic Partner – Executive Talent Acquisition role is responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring senior-level technology talent (Assistant Vice President and above) to support organizational strategy and leadership effectiveness. This role partners closely with executive leadership, HR, and business stakeholders to understand talent needs, develop targeted sourcing strategies, and deliver high-quality, diverse candidate slates. The Executive Recruiter manages the end-to-end search process, including market mapping, candidate engagement, assessment, and offer negotiation, while ensuring a best-in-class candidate and stakeholder experience.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role you will:
- Lead end-to-end recruiting for senior technology roles, including but not limited to engineering, data, digital, cybersecurity, and enterprise architecture leadership
- Partner with senior leaders and HR to align hiring with business priorities, leadership gaps, and succession plans
- Build and maintain executive talent pipelines through proactive sourcing and market engagement
- Provide market insights, including talent trends, competitor intelligence, and compensation benchmarking
- Assess candidates for leadership capability, cultural fit, and long-term potential
- Manage the full hiring process, including stakeholder alignment, interviews, offer negotiation, and onboarding support
- Oversee external search partners, ensuring quality and performance standards
- Strengthen recruiting effectiveness by improving tools, processes, and best practices, while coaching team members
What makes you an ideal candidate?
- You must know how to have fun, take a break and be able to motivate when it gets complicated
- Experience understanding KPI, metrics and how they impact experience.
- You tend to rely on over communication by creating complete transparency in the hiring process to establish trust and brand recognition for the recruiting team.
- Partner with senior leaders to establish effective executive hiring model and success metrics that creates an exemplary hiring experience for all stakeholders.
- Deliver white glove candidate experience with ability to attract/ source qualified candidate slates to deliver on our diversity goals.
- Ability to connect talent with business strategy and share this with future candidates through storytelling to proactively identify talent internally and externally.
- You are expert at networking and building a pipeline of senior leaders for competitive roles for future talent needs for the business.
- Partner with cross-functional recruiting teams on mid-senior level searches.
- Experience creating executive recruiting strategy and executive hiring reports to manage the process and identify successful candidates.
- Experience partnering, coaching, and influencing senior executives and candidates throughout the interview process including leading feedback calibrations, comp discussions and final offer negotiations.
Candidates should demonstrate:
- Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
- Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
- Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
- Familiarity with AI assisted research, summarization, and content generation
- Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection
Qualifications
Work Experience & Education
- Greater than 10 years experience in talent acquisition and/or human resources Req
- 3-5 years leading through mentorship in related field Req
- 3-5 years leading projects and initiatives Req
- High School Diploma or equivalent Required
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience Required
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility.
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 3-days a week in office.
Skills Required
- Greater than 10 years experience in talent acquisition and/or human resources
- 3-5 years leading through mentorship in related field
- 3-5 years leading projects and initiatives
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Experience recruiting senior-level technology talent (Assistant Vice President and above)
- Ability to use AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot) to support daily work
- Skills in evaluating AI outputs for accuracy, compliance, and bias
- Experience integrating AI into workflows to improve efficiency or insights
- Familiarity with AI-assisted research, summarization, and content generation
- Understanding of responsible AI use, including ethics and data protection
- Experience understanding KPIs and metrics and their impact on recruiting experience
GM Financial Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GM Financial and has not been reviewed or approved by GM Financial.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Annual and performance bonuses are described as meaningful additions to total compensation. In several functions, incentives reliably boost take-home pay when available.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid time off, corporate and floating holidays, and paid volunteer time are emphasized. Time-away programs contribute significantly to perceived total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family-friendly policies are highlighted, with recent expansions mentioned in some areas. Support for bonding time is seen as a notable strength of the package.
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What We Do
GM Financial is the captive finance company and the wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The company is a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, Latin America and China. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail loan and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses. GM Financial employs more than 9,000 hard-working team members, and we're always looking for new people with diverse talents. GM Financial is a workplace where dedicated people have the opportunity to work together and celebrate our successes. Our culture is based on respect, integrity, innovation and personal development. GM Financial is committed to strengthening the communities where we live and work. Each year, we select several philanthropic organizations to support through our Signature Events program. The company and its team members actively support these organizations through many company-wide initiatives; in addition we support numerous other nonprofit organizations through sponsorships and monetary donations.
