• Manage full cycle recruiting responsibilities to identify, engage, and secure the best and brightest talent in Infrastructure. • Deliver a high-quality experience for our hiring managers and candidates by facilitating best-in-class sourcing, interview and selection, and onboarding processes. • Execute customized recruitment strategies that will support our growth. Natural collaborator with cross-functional teams by being a subject matter expert on methodologies for sourcing highly specialized roles. • Maintain an exceptional record of recruiting accomplishments, be proactive, and thrive in complex matrixed environments. • Conduct Kick-Off sessions with Hiring Managers efficiently by asking the appropriate questions and gathering detailed information, analyze resumes accurately, and comprehending complex search requirements. • Create and provide a detailed job posting/description to prospective candidates, including a detailed description of the benefits package, as appropriate. • Deliver high-quality service to hiring leaders by using various recruitment strategies to fill open requisitions. • Document and maintain comprehensive notes in our Application Tracking System of skilled candidates to fill a diverse range of requisitions across multiple technical disciplines. • Collaborate with other Talent Acquisition team members to help them perform their jobs effectively and build strong relationships with team members. • Build excellent relationships with Hiring Leaders by creating customized strategies, resolving concerns, communicating effectively, and provide excellent customer service. • Conduct candidate interviews, schedule and coordinate interviews, compose and create offer letters. • Negotiate offers with candidates and provide feedback to both HR and Hiring Leaders. • Work with talent acquisition team to improve processes, so consistent, quality standard practices and services are provided to all candidates, managers, and HRBPs. • Present qualified diversity candidates on open roles and ensure awareness of diversity hiring opportunities through networking and recruiting through diverse organizations and groups. • Assist with employee retention by implementing practices to lessen turnover of new hires.

Role Description Deliver transformational leadership in a high-impact, high-visibility role. This is not your standard recruiting position. As an Executive Recruiter at Avalara, you’ll lead searches that shape the future of our leadership team. You’ll operate at the intersection of business strategy and executive talent, partnering directly with senior leaders to identify, attract, and hire exceptional executives who can drive growth, transformation, and innovation. You’ll thrive here if you love connecting business strategy to talent strategy, move fast with precision and judgment, and can navigate complexity with confidence. This is a role for someone who leads with insight, elevates every candidate and stakeholder interaction, and knows how to deliver excellence in a high-stakes environment. You will report to the Director, Executive Recruiting. This is a contract remote position in the United States. - Lead full-cycle executive searches across all key functions including Sales, Marketing, Product, Finance, Engineering, and Customer Operations. - Partner directly with C-level and senior executives to define role requirements, success criteria, and hiring strategy. - Deliver a white-glove candidate experience from first conversation through close. - Conduct in-depth interviews to assess leadership capability, scope readiness, and alignment with Avalara’s business and culture. - Drive inclusive, data-informed search strategies that bring diversity, excellence, and insight to every leadership slate. - Create polished, insight-driven candidate summaries and present recommendations to executive stakeholders. - Communicate progress with clarity and confidence—providing ongoing market insights, recommendations, and search updates. - Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline outreach, scheduling, and documentation while maintaining a personalized touch. - Build strong partnerships with internal recruiting, HR, and business leaders to ensure a unified and consistent leadership hiring process. - Protect confidentiality and represent Avalara’s brand with discretion and professionalism in the executive market. Qualifications - 15+ years of experience in recruiting, with 4+ years focused on Director+ or executive-level hiring in a global company or retained/executive search firm. - Deep understanding of leadership assessment, business context, and organizational structure. - Proven ability to influence, guide, and advise senior leaders through critical hiring decisions. - Strong interviewing, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills. - Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS platforms, and AI-enhanced recruiting tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Perplexity, automation assistants). - Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to synthesize insights and produce executive-ready updates. - Professional maturity, sound judgment, and a calm, polished approach under pressure. - A genuine passion for elevating candidate and stakeholder experience while improving systems and processes. Benefits - In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses. - Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance. - Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. - We have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship. Company Description We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech. We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns a year. Our growth is real - we're a billion dollar business - and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world. We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

• Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing needs and timelines • Source, screen, and schedule qualified candidates to meet hiring goals • Create targeted outreach campaigns and social media content • Represent the organization at job fairs and networking events • Manage candidate pipelines and job postings in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) • Support hiring decisions with interviews, assessments, and reference checks • Ensure smooth, timely communication with candidates and hiring teams • Maintain up-to-date recruitment materials that reflect our mission and culture

Lightricks is an AI-first company creating next-generation content creation technology for businesses, enterprises, and studios with a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation. At our core is LTX-2, an open-source generative video model, built to deliver expressive, high-fidelity video at unmatched speed. It powers both our own products and a growing ecosystem of partners through API integration. The company is also known globally for pioneering consumer creativity through products like Facetune, one of the world’s most recognized creative brands, which helped introduce AI-powered visual expression to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We combine deep research, user-first design, and end-to-end execution from concept to final render, to bring the future of expression to all. We're looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - R&D who's genuinely curious about AI and technology, knows how to earn the trust of technical leaders, navigates ambiguity with confidence, and pushes hiring processes forward. What you will be doing - Own the full recruiting lifecycle for global R&D roles across Engineering, Research, Data, and Product teams in Israel, the UK, and the US. - Partner closely with R&D leadership and hiring managers to define hiring strategy, calibrate talent profiles, and advise on market realities. - Lead proactive sourcing strategies to identify and engage exceptional passive talent, with a strong emphasis on the AI/ML, deep learning, and generative AI ecosystem. - Drive structured, fast-moving hiring processes with clear stakeholder communication, sharp prioritization, and zero drop-off in candidate care. - Leverage AI-powered tools to build smarter, more efficient recruiting workflows. - Identify friction points in the hiring process and lead the implementation of solutions - treating recruitment operations with the same rigor you'd expect from an engineering team. - Partner with the HR team to drive initiatives that strengthen manager capabilities, elevate the candidate journey, and contribute to an exceptional employee experience across the organization. Your skills and experience - 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, ideally in a high-growth AI, deep tech company. - Prior experience recruiting AI/ML researchers is a strong advantage. - Strong sourcing capabilities and a proactive, pipeline-first mindset. - A true business partner mindset - you know how to build trust with senior technical leaders, challenge assumptions when needed, and move hiring decisions forward with confidence. - Deep fluency in the R&D talent landscape: you can hold a credible conversation about ML research, platform engineering, or data infrastructure, and you know what separates a strong signal from noise in a technical profile. - Hands-on experience using generative AI tools to enhance recruiting workflows. - High organizational intelligence - able to balance multiple searches, shifting priorities, and demanding stakeholders without losing quality or speed. - Fluent English. Why Join Us:We’re here to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI and video - not for the buzz, but for the craft, the challenge, and the chance to make something genuinely new. We believe in an environment where people are encouraged to think, create and explore. Real impact happens when people are empowered to experiment, evolve, and elevate together. At Lightricks, every breakthrough starts with great people and a collaborative mindset. If you're looking for a place that combines deep tech, creative energy, and zero buzzword culture, you might be in the right place. We got you covered!We empower employees with cutting-edge tools and learning opportunities to grow and succeed through workshops, access and training on platforms, subscriptions, and clear guidelines for responsible AI use. We offer Car-to-go subscriptions and run daily door-to-door shuttles from several locations in central Israel, plus free parking and train-station pickups. We’re proud to have 2 chef-led restaurants on site by the legendary Machneyuda Group (yes, that Machneyuda!), plus a bakery nestled in the heart of our office, filled daily with the scent of fresh pastries.