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Head of Sales Recruiting, AMER

Notion - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-02

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Salary: USD 225,000 - 275,000 / annual

Notion is seeking an experienced sales recruiting leader to drive recruiting efforts across the Americas (AMER). This is a leadership role responsible for building high-caliber sales teams across Solutions Consultants, Outcomes Architects, Business Development Representatives, and field leadership roles. Key Responsibilities: - Own AMER hiring strategy: Shape and execute the AMER Sales hiring strategy through headcount forecasting, pipeline analysis, and recruiting capacity planning, with clear accountability for delivering against ambitious growth targets. - Protect talent density: Partner with AMER Sales leaders to define exceptional talent profiles, calibrate hiring teams on evidence-based assessment, and ensure every hire raises the bar. - Influence business strategy: Serve as the hiring subject matter expert and trusted advisor to the GM of AMER Sales and broader Sales leadership team, using talent, market, and recruiting insights to shape business decisions, workforce plans, and hiring priorities. - Team leadership: Build and lead a high-performing team of sales recruiters, hiring exceptional talent and providing clear direction, coaching, and development. - Drive operational rigor: Establish a consistent weekly operating rhythm to review headcount, pipeline health, recruiter capacity, risks, and progress against hiring targets, taking action when plans are off track. - Talent pipeline development: Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs across all sales disciplines. - Shape decisions through data: Leverage headcount, pipeline, market, and recruiting performance data to generate insights, influence business decisions, and shape workforce and hiring strategy. - Employer branding: Collaborate with marketing and talent brand teams to strengthen employer value proposition in the sales community. About Notion: Notion is a collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. The company is building one place where knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side. Work Environment: This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. Notion works from offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays (Anchor Days) for in-person collaboration. Requirements: - 7+ years of recruiting leadership experience with a focus on sales and GTM roles - Proven track record of building and scaling sales organizations in high-growth environments - Strong leadership skills with a track record of building, growing, and developing high-performing recruiting teams - Strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term planning with tactical execution - Hands-on forecasting and analytical capability with experience using headcount, pipeline, and capacity data to manage hiring-plan delivery in close partnership with RevOps and Finance - Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior sales leadership - Knowledge of market dynamics and sales compensation trends - Curiosity about AI tools and willingness to adopt them to work smarter and deliver better results (deep AI expertise not required)

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