Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
As our Executive Recruiter, you’ll lead executive and leadership hiring across Beast Industries, partnering directly with founders, executives, and senior business leaders to hire exceptional talent across technology, media, consumer products, and corporate functions.
You’ll own executive searches from intake through close—developing search strategies, building market maps, engaging passive talent, assessing leadership capability, and guiding stakeholders through complex hiring decisions. Along the way, you’ll provide market intelligence, compensation insights, and executive search expertise to help leaders make informed hiring decisions.
This role offers the opportunity to recruit across multiple businesses and functions, helping build the leadership teams that will drive Beast Industries’ continued growth.
What You’ll Do- Lead full-cycle executive and leadership searches from intake through accepted offer.
- Partner with senior leaders to define role requirements, success profiles, search strategies, and candidate scorecards.
- Build executive market maps, identify target companies, and engage exceptional passive talent.
- Assess candidates for leadership capability, functional expertise, organizational fit, and long-term potential.
- Advise executives on talent market trends, compensation positioning, and competitive hiring strategies.
- Drive alignment across hiring teams through structured candidate calibration and search updates.
- Develop executive talent pipelines across priority business functions.
- Create a high-quality candidate experience throughout every executive search.
- Improve executive recruiting processes, assessment frameworks, and search best practices.
- Manage retained search firms and external recruiting partners when engaged.
- Demonstrated success leading end-to-end executive searches for Director, VP, SVP, and C-level leaders within high-growth, founder-led, technology, digital media, consumer products, or similarly fast-scaling organizations.
- Experience partnering directly with founders, C-suite executives, and senior business leaders to define leadership hiring strategies and influence hiring decisions.
- Proven ability to identify, engage, assess, and close passive executive talent across technical, commercial, creative, and corporate functions.
- Strong executive search expertise, including market mapping, executive sourcing, structured assessment, leadership interviewing, and executive offer negotiation.
- Experience advising senior stakeholders on executive talent markets, compensation strategy, and competitive hiring dynamics.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple confidential executive searches while maintaining exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences.
- Experience building executive talent pipelines and improving executive recruiting processes, frameworks, or assessment methodologies.
- Experience managing retained executive search firms or external search partners.
- Experience recruiting across technology, digital media, consumer products, creator economy, or corporate functions.
- Experience building executive recruiting capabilities within a rapidly scaling organization.
- Strong understanding of executive compensation structures and organizational design.
- Track record of building trusted relationships with executive talent and senior business leaders.
The target total compensation ranges from $200,000 – $270,000 including a fixed annual salary of $150,000 – $200,000, an employee equity plan grant, bonus, plus comprehensive benefits.
We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
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