Wise
Principal Executive Recruiter (18mth FTC)

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Company Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.
Job Description
More about our mission and what we offer.
Our Board & Executive Talent Team enables us to deliver on our mission by ensuring we have the best leaders for our current & future needs.
We’re looking for an experienced Executive Recruiter to join us. You’ll partner with our senior leaders to hire exceptional engineering, product, data and design leaders who will shape the future of Wise.
What You’ll Do
- Own and drive executive search strategies for critical leadership roles globally.
- Advise senior stakeholders on candidate requirements, market dynamics and search strategy.
- Develop inclusive search strategies to identify and engage exceptional leadership talent.
- Assess executive talent, identifying leaders who will thrive in Wise’s environment and have a meaningful impact on our business.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to shape hiring and succession strategies.
- Build long-term relationships with executive talent, maintaining external leadership pipelines.
- Guide candidates through our hiring process, delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
- Negotiate and close executive offers.
- Partner with talent development leads and people partners to develop strategies to minimise succession risks, build external succession pipelines and maintain long term relationships with passive candidates.
- As a recognised expert in your field, you will develop a trusted advisor relationship with hiring managers and key stakeholders across our people and recruitment teams.
- You will use market & competitor intelligence, to ensure that we identify, target, and engage with key talent.
- You’ll continuously advocate our inclusive hiring practices and help drive our diversity sourcing initiatives.
- Acting as a mentor to others, you will seek growth and share what you learn.
- We are a fast growing team and company. You will be expected to lead and contribute to broader talent initiatives across the organisation.
Reasons to use Rodeo
I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.
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Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
Why you're a good match
StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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The experience, background and competencies needed to succeed in this role
- You are an experienced executive / senior leadership recruiter with a proven track record of leading complex end-to-end leadership searches, including search strategy, market mapping, direct sourcing, executive assessment, stakeholder management and offer negotiation.
- You have significant experience recruiting senior leaders across engineering, product, data and/or design within a product-led technology company, with particular expertise in engineering leadership recruitment.
- You have recruited senior engineering leaders (Director, VP or C-level) across multiple geographies and understand how product-led technology organisations are structured.
- You have in-house executive recruitment experience within a product-led technology company. Experience combining search firm and in-house executive recruitment is highly desirable, with a proven ability to operate as a trusted adviser inside a business.
- You consistently deliver an exceptional experience for candidates.


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A Bit More About You
- You’re curious and continuously look for ways to improve how we hire, assess and develop leadership talent.
- You use data, market insight and evidence to shape decisions and influence others.
- You enjoy working collaboratively across the People team and building trusted partnerships with senior leaders.
- You thrive in ambiguity, take ownership and are comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
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