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Summary

The Principal Talent Acquisition Partner, Executive Search is a senior individual-contributor strategic talent advisor responsible for shaping and executing executive hiring strategies that directly influence OneStream’s leadership capability, organizational evolution, and long-term business performance.

This role operates at the intersection of executive search, business strategy, leadership assessment, market intelligence, and stakeholder influence. While disciplined search execution is a baseline expectation, the greater value of the role is in helping senior leaders make high-quality, evidence-based talent decisions for the most critical leadership roles across the company.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Search Leadership

Partner with executive leaders, People Operations, and Talent Acquisition leadership to translate business priorities into executive search strategies, success profiles, assessment criteria, and decision frameworks.
Apply executive search judgment to determine when to build, buy, accelerate, pause, or recalibrate a search based on business need, market conditions, stakeholder alignment, and leadership requirements.
Actively lead and remain deeply engaged in externally supported executive searches, ensuring OneStream retains clear ownership for search strategy, firm performance, role status, risk management, and decision quality.
Serve as a credible advisor to senior leaders by bringing clarity, structure, and informed recommendations to complex and sensitive hiring decisions.

Market Intelligence and Leadership Talent Strategy

Develop a deep understanding of executive talent markets, competitor landscapes, leadership trends, and candidate motivations to shape differentiated search strategies and opportunity positioning.
Build and sustain executive relationships and strategic talent pipelines that extend beyond immediate openings and strengthen OneStream’s access to future leadership talent.
Leverage OneStream’s strategic relationship with its private equity partners to understand investor priorities, access relevant market perspective, and position leadership opportunities in the context of long-term value creation.

Assessment, Decision Quality, and Stakeholder Influence

Lead executive assessment with a focus on business impact, leadership capability, cultural contribution, growth potential, and alignment to the needs of the role and the broader organization.
Synthesize candidate evidence, stakeholder feedback, market context, and business requirements into recommendations that support informed, balanced, and defensible hiring decisions.
Facilitate alignment across senior stakeholders, constructively challenge assumptions when needed, and help leaders navigate ambiguity, tradeoffs, and risk in executive selection.
Interact regularly with Board members, private equity partners, and senior executive stakeholders to align on leadership requirements and support high-stakes executive hiring decisions.

Candidate Experience, Confidentiality, and Executive Presence

Represent OneStream with executive candidates in a way that is compelling, accurate, discreet, and aligned to the company’s strategy, culture, leadership expectations, and value creation opportunity.