Senior Headhunter / Independent Recruiter Remote | Commission Only | U.S. Recruiting
Compensation
Commission Only | Unlimited Earnings Potential
- Standard Recruiter Split:
- 20%–30% commission per placement closed
- Senior Independent Recruiter / Partner Split:
- 40%–60% commission available for highly experienced recruiters operating with minimal company infrastructure
- Higher commission structures are based on:
- Existing client relationships
- Proven billing history
- Independent business generation
- Full-cycle ownership
- Self-managed recruiting operations
Commission is paid on collected revenue only.
About the Opportunity
We are a U.S.-based direct hire recruiting organization supporting hiring across healthcare, technology, accounting, finance, corporate operations, construction, and skilled trades sectors.
We are seeking experienced headhunters, agency recruiters, and business-development-driven recruiters who can independently generate clients, recruit candidates, and manage placements from start to finish.
This is a confidential opportunity. Full company details will be shared during the interview process.
- This role is designed for recruiters who:
- Prefer high commission over fixed salary
- Want flexibility and autonomy
- Are comfortable generating their own pipeline
- Can confidently contact hiring managers and decision-makers
- Understand recruiting as both sales and talent acquisition
- Want uncapped earning potential based on production
This is not a sourcing-only role and not a recruiter support role. This position requires outbound activity, pipeline generation, and direct communication with hiring managers.
Key Responsibilities
- Client Acquisition & Outreach
- Generate new client relationships
- Call, email, and message hiring managers and business owners
- Conduct outbound outreach and prospecting
- Build recruiting pipelines through LinkedIn, Facebook, referrals, cold outreach, networking, and sourcing platforms
- Schedule discovery calls and recruiting conversations
- Help secure direct hire recruiting opportunities
- Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Source, screen, and submit qualified candidates
- Coordinate interviews, offers, and placements
- Maintain CRM and recruiting activity tracking
- Manage placements from intake to close
- Maintain strong communication with candidates and clients
- Pipeline Development
- Build long-term candidate and client relationships
- Maintain active recruiting and business development pipelines
- Support consistent outreach and recruiting activity
- Develop recruiting opportunities across multiple industries and markets
Lead Generation Expectations
Recruiters are expected to generate their own leads and recruiting activity consistently.
Company-provided leads may be available periodically, but recruiters must still demonstrate the ability to independently create conversations, opportunities, and client relationships.
Example expectation:
If you are provided a hiring manager lead on Monday, you should be comfortable calling, following up, building rapport, and working the opportunity toward a client conversation or potential close.
If you are uncomfortable contacting hiring managers directly, this is not the right role for you.
Recruiter Evaluation Period
All candidates must complete a 2-week evaluation period before formal onboarding.
This evaluation is based on measurable performance and activity.
- During this period, recruiters will:
- Conduct outbound outreach
- Contact hiring managers directly
- Build candidate and client pipelines
- Generate recruiting conversations
- Work inside company CRM and recruiting systems
- Demonstrate initiative and consistency
- Evaluation Benchmarks
- Daily outreach activity
- CRM tracking consistency
- Candidate sourcing activity
- Pipeline generation
- Hiring manager conversations
- Meetings booked or opportunities created
Recruiter Branding & Social Recruiting Review
- Applicants may be asked to provide:
- LinkedIn profile
- Facebook recruiting page/profile/group
- Examples of sourcing or recruiting activity
- Recruiting engagement metrics
- Past recruiting posts or outreach examples
We are seeking recruiters who understand modern sourcing, social recruiting, relationship building, and direct hire business development.
- Requirements
- Agency recruiting, staffing, or headhunting experience preferred
- Full-cycle recruiting experience preferred
- Comfortable with outbound outreach and hiring manager communication
- Ability to generate recruiting pipelines independently
- Strong communication and follow-up skills
- Comfortable in a commission-only environment
- Self-managed and performance-driven
- Ability to work with U.S.-based clients
- Eastern Time availability preferred
- Preferred Background
- Healthcare recruiting
- Technology recruiting
- Executive recruiting
- Accounting and finance recruiting
- Construction or skilled trades recruiting
- Corporate operations recruiting
- Experience closing recruiting clients or negotiating fees
- Existing candidate or client network
- Important Notes
- This is a commission-only opportunity
- This is not a fixed salary position
- Commission is paid after collected client revenue
- Recruiters are expected to create recruiting activity consistently
- Recruiters must be comfortable speaking with hiring managers directly
- Tools, systems, CRM access, and operational support may be provided depending on role level
- Higher commission splits are reserved for proven independent recruiters with established production ability
Application Questions
1. Do you have agency recruiting, staffing, or headhunting experience?
2. Have you generated your own recruiting clients before?
3. Are you comfortable in a commission-only structure?
4. Are you comfortable contacting hiring managers directly?
5. Are you available for a 2-week evaluation period?
6. Do you currently use LinkedIn, Facebook, or other sourcing platforms for recruiting?
7. Briefly describe a placement or recruiting deal you handled from start to finish.
8. Please submit a short 1–2 minute voice note explaining how you would secure your first client or recruiting opportunity.
Schedule
Flexible | Day Shift Preferred
Work Location
Remote
Pay: $40,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
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