Job Description

The Executive Recruiter will serve as a strategic talent partner responsible for full-cycle recruitment of leadership, corporate, and hard-to-fill roles across Lifespark. This role goes beyond requisition management—owning talent strategy, workforce insights, and proactive pipeline development aligned to business growth. You will partner closely with executive leaders, hiring managers, and HR to build scalable, high-impact recruiting strategies that strengthen our leadership bench and critical workforce segments.

Position: Executive Recruiter

Salary: $80,000 - $95,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Lifespark Corporate Office. St. Louis Park, 55416. Hybrid: 2-3 days in office.

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (some weekends may be required)

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable}
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

Strategic Talent Acquisition

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for executive, corporate, and high-impact roles

• Partner with senior leadership to understand workforce needs and build proactive hiring strategies
• Develop talent pipelines for critical and recurring roles, with a focus on long-term workforce planning

Stakeholder Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders—providing market insights, talent intelligence, and hiring recommendations

• Drive alignment on role scope, candidate profiles, and interview processes
• Influence decision-making through data and consultative guidance

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand

• Deliver a high-touch, full cycle candidate experience aligned to Lifespark’s values

• Represent Lifespark at networking events, career fairs, and industry engagements

• Strengthen employer branding in the Twin Cities market and beyond

Sourcing & Market Intelligence

• Utilize creative sourcing strategies (direct sourcing, networking, referrals, events)

• Maintain strong pipelines across healthcare, senior living, and corporate functions
• Provide ongoing insights into talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and competitive landscape

Process Excellence

• Ensure efficient, compliant, and scalable recruitment processes

• Track and report on key recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, quality of hire, pipeline health)

• Continuously improving recruiting workflows and candidate engagement strategies

Qualifications:

Experience and Education

Required:

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including executive and/or leadership hiring
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and influence hiring decisions
• Experience recruiting in healthcare, senior living, or high-volume recruiting service environments
• Strong sourcing capabilities and ability to build passive talent pipelines
• Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills
• Up to 30% travel for recruiting events, community engagement, and hiring initiatives
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Preferred:

• Experience in a hybrid or decentralized workforce environment
• Familiarity with recruitment marketing and employer branding strategies
• Data-driven mindset with experience using ATS and recruiting analytics tools
• Hybrid model with travel
• Fast-paced, collaborative environment with a focus on impact and continuous improvement
• Influence hiring strategy at a critical stage of growth
• Work alongside leaders who value innovation, accountability, and people-first thinking
• Opportunity to shape and scale recruiting practices across the organization

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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