Sr. Director- Executive Recruiter

Sr. Director- Executive Recruiter Altice USA United States, York, Long Island City Apr 06, 2026 Are you looking to Optimize your life? Start your exciting path to a rewarding career today! We are Optimum, a leader in the fast-paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn't just a luxury anymore - it's a necessity that empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you'll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high-speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected. We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community. If you are resourceful, collaborative, team-oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you! We areOptimum! Job Summary The head of Executive Recruiting will design and manage a best-in-class search function supporting roles at the Senior Director-level and above. This key recruitment function will be responsible for delivering the highest quality internal and external candidate pipelines across the enterprise in alignment with the organization's future growth, talent and development strategy. This key leadership role will manage a small team dedicated to high-touch exceptional candidate and employee experience, ensuring end-to-end compliant processes balance exceptional candidate and hiring leader experience. Responsibilities Create a best-in-class executive recruiting function by establishing consistent, white-glove processes for stakeholders, partners, internal and external candidates
Create and drive proactive pipeline strategies focused on transferable, agile skillsets and expertise that may be leveraged across the enterprise
Enable the highest quality of hire by leveraging the Optimum leadership principles while standardizing an approach to search initiation, calibration, debriefs, and onboarding transition, etc.
Collaborate closely with the HR Business Partner team across all lines of business to ensure a deep understanding of talent needs to include skills and experience gaps, succession plan opportunities, and growth strategies
Proactively build and maintain strong client relationships, staying abreast of current and future workforce needs and organizational strategies
Continuously monitor and innovate end-to-end processes, ensuring compliance with laws, rules, and regulations while simultaneously delivering outstanding candidate and hiring leader experiences
Develop a third-party retained search strategy, managing vendor relationships whenever recruitment augmentation is necessary
Directly manage full lifecycle searches as needed
Build relationships with key firms, industry partners, and interest groups in alignment with the broader HR Talent Acquisition strategy
Partner closely with the compensation team to create subject matter expertise across the exec search team on executive-level compensation, with a thorough understanding of Altice's compensation philosophy
Monitor Key Performance Indicators, leveraging data to inform strategies, provide analysis on topics such as market supply and demand, process effectiveness and efficiency, industry trends, and pipeline diversity
Provide thought-leadership in best practices and talent market conditions, keeping Optimum ahead of the competitive landscape Qualifications Bachelor's Degree or related experience in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or similar field required
15+ years background in talent acquisition with expertise in executive search
Experience navigating complex, high level recruitment searches/activities
Deep passion and focus on candidate experience required Expectations Excellent visionary leadership with proven ability to lead high performing executive search teams
Skilled at optimizing Applicant Tracking and Candidate Relationship Management systems, leveraging strategic data insights, innovating end-to-end processes, leveraging talent assessments, and developing diverse sourcing strategies
Strong business acumen as well as advanced communication, relationship building, and negotiation skills
Proactive and highly collaborative with stakeholders and partners at all levels
Highly analytical, data-driven strategic thinker leveraging data and insights to analyze impact of results
Strong thought leadership with subject matter expertise to drive passion, experiential focus, accountability and discipline amongst the broader Talent Acquisition team
Resilient, empathetic, adaptable, values feedback, navigates and manages change, and challenges status quo
Talent-minded, focused on overall business success and long-term talent needs
Comfortable with public speaking and executive presentations
Ability to regularly be present in Long Island City, NY (Hybrid 3X a week) with travel up to 10% of the year to visit teams across the footprint At Optimum, we're fueled by our four core pillars: Taking Ownership, Upholding Transparency, Creating Community, and Demonstrating Expertise. Our commitment to empowering employees to take responsibility and embrace proactive problem-solving underpins Taking Ownership. Upholding Transparency is at the core of our culture, with open and honest communication fostering trust among our dedicated team and loyal customers. Creating Community is more than a goal; it's our daily commitment to fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and positivity. Demonstrating expertise is a promise we uphold through continuous learning and engagement with our customers to consistently deliver top-quality products and services. These pillars not only shape our culture but define Optimum as a place of excellence, trustworthiness, and thriving community, and we invite you to be a part of our journey. If you have the drive to succeed and are ready to embark on a thrilling career, seize this opportunity today, and join our winning team, so together, we'll shape the future of connectivity. All job descriptions and required skills, qualifications and responsibilities for a particular position are subject to modification by the Company from time to time, in the Company's discretion based on business necessity. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company provides reasonable accommodations upon request in accordance with applicable requirements. Optimum collects personal information about its applicants for employment that may include personal identifiers, professional or employment related information, photos, education information and/or protected classifications under federal and state law. This information is collected for employment purposes, including identification, work authorization, FCRA-compliant background screening, human resource administration and compliance with federal, state, and local law. Applicants for employment with the Company will never be asked to provide money (even if reimbursable) as part of the job application or hiring process. Please review our Fraud FAQ for further details. Pay is competitive and based on a number of job-related factors, including skills and experience. The starting pay rate/range at time of hire for this position in the posted location is$161,186.00-$230,265.00/ year. The rate/range provided herein is the anticipated pay at the time of hire, and does not reflect future job opportunity.