CareerPlan

Principal, Academic Executive Search

Dallas, TX, USFull-time$112k–$140k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Senior search leader driving business development and leading complex executive search engagements for senior academic healthcare leadership roles.

Role type

Principal, Academic Executive Search

Builds

Retained search engagements and new business opportunities for academic medical centers

Domain

Healthcare staffing and academic medicine

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

executive search, business development, consultative selling, relationship management, candidate assessment, market intelligence, project management

Preferred skills

academic medicine experience, physician leadership recruitment, established network in academic medicine

Technologies

office equipment, keyboards, AI-enabled tools

Responsibilities

Identify and close executive-level retained search engagements, achieve sales and revenue targets, lead full-cycle searches for Dean/Chair/C-suite roles, develop customized search strategies, conduct candidate evaluations and interviews, deliver market intelligence and compensation insights, mentor team members

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship