Full-Time
Director, Legal Executive Recruiting
Updated on 9/10/2026
livingHR
51-200 employees
Managed HR services and talent solutions
Compensation Overview
$94k - $127k/yr
Tampa, FL, USA + 1 more
More locations: Florida, USA
Remote
Remote within approved states: Florida, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, or Texas.
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- Seven or more years of executive search experience in an agency or external search firm environment.
- Demonstrated success recruiting lateral law firm partners and practice groups, General Counsel and senior in-house legal leadership, CHROs, CPOs, senior HR executives, and C-level leaders across enterprise environments.
- Proven experience managing external client accounts and growing a book of business.
- Strong understanding of law firm economics and partner portability, lateral hiring dynamics, corporate legal department structures, and HR leadership capabilities and enterprise people strategy.
- A track record of meeting or exceeding placement and revenue goals.
- Ability to operate independently in a remote, performance-driven environment.
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- A high level of discretion and integrity when handling confidential searches.
- Willingness to travel occasionally as business needs require.
- Lead full-cycle retained and engaged executive searches for lateral law firm partners and practice groups, General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel roles, CHROs, CPOs, other senior HR executives, and C-level and enterprise leadership roles.
- Conduct market mapping, competitive intelligence, and talent landscape analysis.
- Develop search strategies aligned with client business objectives.
- Provide consultative guidance on compensation, law firm economics, partner portability, and executive assessment.
- Manage highly confidential and sensitive searches with discretion and professionalism.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to law firm leaders, corporate executives, and boards.
- Manage and grow external client accounts through long-term consultative relationships.
- Partner with clients on succession planning, leadership design, and strategic talent acquisition.
- Provide executive-level communication, search updates, and market insights.
- Build, grow, and maintain a personal book of business.
- Identify and pursue new client opportunities within legal and HR executive markets.
- Leverage professional networks and industry relationships to generate revenue.
- Partner with livingHR leadership on go-to-market strategies and practice expansion.
- Meet and exceed individual revenue and placement goals.
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with legal and HR leaders.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience.
- Serve as a career advisor to executives navigating confidential transitions.
- Maintain accurate customer relationship management documentation, search tracking, and revenue reporting.
- An entrepreneurial mindset with strong business acumen.
- An established network within AmLaw firms, corporate legal departments, and HR leadership communities.
- Experience placing transformational leaders during growth, mergers and acquisitions, or strategic inflection points.
- Passion for modernizing executive search through a human-centered, future-of-work lens.
livingHR is a human resources services firm that helps organizations with their HR and people operations. It provides lift, scale, and support to HR/People Functions globally through Managed Services, Projects & Retained work, Interim or Fractional Support, and Recruiting & Search. Its practice areas include: 1) People ops and core HR, 2) Culture, Talent Brand and Experience, 3) Total Rewards and Compensation, 4) Org Design and Workforce Planning, 5) Performance, Learning and Development, 6) Strategy. The company offers services to create cultures, optimize talent, modernize people operations, humanize experiences, and transform DEIB, aiming to improve both business outcomes and human experiences at work.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Tampa, Florida
Founded
2008
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- NSCA partnered with livingHR in 2024, expanding member-facing distribution and credibility.
- livingHR added Anthony Onesto and Farrell Redwine in 2026, strengthening AI and people strategy.
- Cara Hunter became COO in 2025, signaling operating discipline for broader growth.
What critics are saying
- AI tools commoditize culture, EVP, and recruiting advisory work by 2027.
- Client HR budgets shrink first in consulting, hitting livingHR's discretionary project pipeline.
- If thought leadership outpaces delivery, brands like NSCA see livingHR as content, not capability.
What makes livingHR unique
- livingHR bundles HR consulting, executive search, and HR tech under one work-agency brand.
- The firm markets human-centered, inclusive workplace design, not generic recruiting or compliance services.
- livingHR is 100% women-owned and publishes unusually specific AI-and-people thought leadership.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Company News
NSCA is also announcing a new Member Advisory Council partnership with livingHR, an agency that works with companies to make work more human for everyone by building inclusive cultures, optimizing talent and humanizing experiences.