Hybrid Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Executive & Leadership

at Relay

• Job title: Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Executive & Leadership
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Senior Talent Acquisition Partner managing executive and senior leadership hiring for Relay, a fintech company. Driving recruitment processes and partnerships with senior leaders in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own requisitions end-to-end, with a core focus on executive and senior leadership roles (Director+), and additional complex and critical searches (typically hard-to-fill positions, or roles with elevated business risk).
• Sourcing and Network Building: Proactively source and engage executive and senior talent through outbound outreach, referrals, networks, and targeted market mapping. Build and maintain long-term relationships with leadership-level talent, even outside of immediate hiring needs
• Hiring Manager & Senior Leader Partnership: Partner closely with our leadership on sensitive, high-stakes, or confidential searches and act as a trusted advisor by shaping role definitions, success profiles, and hiring strategies; calibrate expectations, provide clear market perspective, and influence decision-making with confidence.
• Funnel Ownership: Track and improve interview velocity, pass-through rates, and time-to-fill for each role you own, with a focus on executive and senior hires.
• Candidate Experience: Deliver a high-touch, white-glove candidate experience for executive searches, while ensuring all candidates receive timely, professional, and human-centered engagement
• Collaboration with Talent Attractors: Partner closely with Talent Attractors when sourcing support is provided, ensuring pipelines are targeted, diverse, and converting effectively
• AI-Enabled Recruiting: Leverage existing and emerging AI tools for sourcing, screening, scheduling, and reporting to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability
• Data, Reporting & Insights: Own weekly reporting for your roles, translating funnel data and qualitative insights into clear actions and recommendations. Surface risks, trade-offs, and decision points early, particularly for executive searches.
• Experimentation: Test and refine interview structures, assessment approaches, and candidate experience improvements to continuously raise the bar on leadership assessment quality, ensuring high-signal, well-calibrated hiring decisions.

Requirements

• You bring 6+ years of recruiting experience in high-growth environments, with end-to-end ownership of executive and senior-level searches (in-house and/or agency experience is a plus)
• You are equally effective recruiting executives and operating hands-on across other critical roles when needed
• You are thoughtful about prioritization and comfortable making trade-offs to protect executive hiring outcomes.
• You are confident sourcing, pitching, and closing senior talent. You do not wait for candidates to come to you
• You are data-informed and outcome-oriented, using metrics and judgment to guide decisions
• You communicate with clarity and authority, earning trust with senior stakeholders
• You thrive in fast-paced, high-accountability environments where priorities shift and impact matters
• You care deeply about candidate experience, quality of hire, and long-term success.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity: Relay employees are Relay owners, complete with equity and a competitive salary.
• Comprehensive health benefits: enjoy full health benefits from day one. We offer flexible Health or Wellness Spending Accounts and medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible vacation and time off: every team member starts with 15 vacation days and 5 flex days to use as needed, plus an extra week of office closure during the end-of-year holidays so you can take time off to recharge and come back better for our customers.
• Parental leave with top-up: we offer 12 weeks off with a 100% salary top-up for all full-time employees, regardless of location, and accessible for all parents: birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive.
• Hybrid work environment: we value meaningful collaboration and connection at our Toronto office three days a week, with lunch, snacks, and beverages on us.
• Dog-friendly space: can dogs really make you happy and healthy? We don’t know for sure, but since we don’t want to chance it, our office is 100% floof-friendly.
• Personal and professional growth: through ongoing feedback, mentorship, and coaching, work with peers and leaders who are invested in your growth and success.
• Top-tier equipment: as a Mac-first company, our Toronto offices have everything you need to produce your best work comfortably, from multiple screens to ergonomic seating.
• Social connection: we believe in celebrating our wins with two annual company-wide get-togethers, quarterly team events, happy hours, and special events and networking opportunities.