Hiring: Senior Consultant, Executive Talent – Endeavor Company: Vista Equity Partners Location: Austin, TX Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 10:54:49 About the job Experience: •10 years of experience across executive search, private equity or growth equity talent, or senior in-house executive recruiting. Required Skills: •Build a deep executive bench for Endeavor companies and personally deliver 12–15 successful searches each year. •The successful candidate will combine the relationship orientation of an executive recruiter with the judgment of a trusted advisor to investors, boards and management teams. This role also carries “dual citizenship” with the Vista Talent practice (which works with all companies in the Vista portfolio). •Build and Nurture the Endeavor Executive Bench. •Lead Executive Searches. •Leverage the Broader Vista Network. •Stay connected to Vista’s broader executive talent ecosystem and deploy proven Vista executives into Endeavor companies where there is strong fit. •Serve as the intake point for executive referrals from Endeavor board working teams and the Vista network. Bench them personally or hand off when capacity is full, so no referral goes stale. •Develop Market Intelligence. Qualifications: •An experienced executive recruiter or talent professional with strong judgment around senior software executives, who builds relationships well before a formal search begins. •Approximately 7–10 years of experience across executive search, private equity or growth equity talent, or senior in-house executive recruiting. •A track record recruiting C-suite and senior functional leaders, ideally within enterprise software or technology. •Strong executive assessment skills, credibility with investors and boards, and a relationship-driven approach that sustains long-term connectivity with executives. •A high say:do ratio and the capacity to personally carry a high volume of concurrent searches to close without losing momentum on bench building. •Analytical and data-driven, using data to refine pipeline development and executive talent strategy. •Hungry, humble, polished and smart. Needs to be credible in front of CEOs and boards, and measured on searches closed and bench depth built. Intellectually curious, discreet, low-ego and highly collaborative. •Comfort operating within a shared talent practice, including established protocols, with consistent system-of-record discipline. Compensation: •Approximately 7–10 years of experience across executive search, private equity or growth equity talent, or senior in-house executive recruiting Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!