Job Description

Job Description

Preferred Partner Recruiter

J Recruiting Services

Remote - home base should be within 60 minutes of Grand Rapids, MI

We're Growing!

J Recruiting is growing, and we're looking for a consultative, relationship-driven recruiter who loves solving tough people challenges, assessing great talent, and helping businesses drive growth through placing the right people for the job.

If you’d like to learn more about us, see our website here:

This isn't your typical recruiting role.

As a Preferred Partner Recruiter, you'll spend your days partnering with business leaders across the country, interviewing talented individuals, advising clients on hiring strategies, and driving searches forward. You'll work directly with executive leadership teams to understand their businesses, identify what great talent looks like, and help them make confident hiring decisions.

You will not spend your days reviewing job posts. We actually rarely use those.

And you won't be doing it alone.

Our recruiting model is built around collaboration and efficiency. You'll have dedicated sourcing and scheduling partners supporting your searches, allowing you to focus on what you do best: building relationships, evaluating talent, advising clients, and delivering results.

What You'll Do

Be a trusted talent advisor and deliver an exceptional client experience.

• Partner directly with executive leadership teams, hiring managers, and business owners across the country to understand their talent needs, business challenges, and hiring priorities.
• Lead consultative intake conversations to help clients define what success looks like in their next hire.
• Serve as the primary point of contact throughout each search, building strong relationships where clients view you as an extension of their leadership team, not just another recruiter.
• Lead regular client touchpoints to share candidate recommendations, search progress, market insights, and next steps, using data and recruiting metrics to guide conversations and decisions.
• Anticipate challenges, offer solutions, and confidently advise clients when adjustments to their hiring strategy are needed.
• Deliver a level of service that exceeds expectations, builds trust, and creates long-term client partnerships and repeat business.

Spend your days connecting with and assessing great talent.

• Conduct well-researched, in-depth interviews with professionals across sales, operations, commercial leadership, HR, marketing, merchandising, and other business functions.
• Look beyond the resume to understand a candidate's capabilities, motivations, leadership style, and potential fit.
• Provide a five-star experience to candidates in a world where they're often "ghosted" because the system isn't set up for it.
• Present qualified candidates to clients with clear insights and thoughtful recommendations.
• Guide candidates through the hiring process, including interview preparation, feedback, compensation conversations, and offer negotiations.

Lead the strategy. Our team helps execute it.

• Translate client needs into a clear recruiting strategy for our internal sourcing and scheduling teams.
• Lead internal search meetings to align on priorities, candidate profiles, market feedback, and next steps.
• Monitor search activity, candidate pipelines, and performance metrics to identify what's working and where adjustments are needed.
• Keep searches moving forward through proactive communication, accountability, and collaboration.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who is naturally curious, confident in conversations with executive leaders, and genuinely enjoys understanding people and businesses. You should be excited about a day that is full of interviews and client touchpoints.

You'll likely be a great fit if you:

• Have experience interviewing and assessing professional-level talent, with the ability to evaluate both technical capabilities and business fit.
• Are comfortable leading conversations, presenting ideas, and making recommendations to executive leadership teams.
• Bring a consultative mindset. You ask great questions, listen closely, and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions or recommend a different approach.
• Understand how to evaluate talent across business functions such as sales, operations, commercial leadership, HR, marketing, or merchandising.
• Like to go above and beyond and take pride in delivering an exceptional client and candidate experience.
• Are organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple searches and competing priorities.
• Appreciate data and understand how to use metrics, market insights, and candidate feedback to guide strategy.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment where accountability, communication, and results matter.

You don't need to be a recruiter today (although that could work too). We're a team built by operators and believe some of the best consultative recruiters come from different backgrounds.

What Makes This Opportunity Different

At J Recruiting, we believe clients and candidates should expect more from external recruiters.

We've built a recruiting model designed to deliver exactly that.

Rather than asking one recruiter to do everything, we've invested in specialized sourcing and scheduling teams that support our recruiters and create a better experience for everyone involved.

That means more time for the work that makes the biggest difference: meaningful conversations, thoughtful talent assessments, strategic client partnerships, and successful placements.

You'll have the opportunity to work with companies across the nation, build relationships with senior leaders, and play a direct role in helping businesses grow through great talent.

If you love interviewing people, understanding businesses, solving hiring challenges, and delivering results, we'd love to meet you.

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