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Head of Institutional Recruitment

Location New York City Function People & Institutional Formation Engagement Full-Time Layer Institutional Capacity Formation

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Institutional Context 01 of 08

Aspera Edge's institutional operating layer requires continuous capacity formation — institutional recruitment across senior operating principals, executive search coordination across functional leadership, capacity planning across the firm's operating functions, and workforce coordination supporting institutional formation. The People & Institutional Formation function exists to operate this capacity formation surface.

The Head of Institutional Recruitment is the operating principal of this function. The role establishes institutional recruitment architecture, directs executive search coordination across senior operating principals, and governs capacity formation across the firm's operating layer.

Role Mandate 02 of 08

Lead institutional recruitment across the firm. Establish recruitment architecture, direct executive search coordination, and govern capacity formation across senior operating principals and functional leadership.

The Head of Institutional Recruitment operates as the capacity formation principal — owning institutional recruitment architecture, executive search coordination with senior operating principals, and capacity planning across the firm's operating layer. This is not a human resources function. It is institutional capacity formation.

Day-to-day, the role coordinates with the Chief Operating Officer on capacity formation strategy, with functional principals across the firm on capacity requirements within their operating layers, with the Executive Search Coordinator on executive search operations, and with the broader executive leadership on senior operating principal recruitment.

The function operates against the institutional reality that capacity formation at this scale is not transactional recruitment — it is institutional capacity architecture. Senior operating principals at this layer require qualified institutional engagement during recruitment cycles, and recruitment quality is governed by institutional fit calibration rather than recruitment velocity.

Core Responsibilities 03 of 08

Lead institutional recruitment architecture across the firm, including recruitment standards, executive search coordination protocols, and capacity formation governance
Direct executive search coordination across senior operating principals and functional leadership, including senior recruitment cycle direction, executive search principal engagement, and qualified candidate assessment
Establish capacity planning across the firm's operating functions, coordinating with functional principals on capacity requirements and capacity formation timing
Operate institutional candidate assessment at the recruitment principal layer, including institutional fit assessment, operating-layer calibration, and senior candidate qualified engagement
Coordinate workforce planning across operating anchors — New York, London, Singapore — including cross-anchor capacity coordination and operating anchor capacity formation
Handle recruitment escalation events — capacity formation pressure, senior recruitment cycle escalation, executive search principal review — through documented escalation protocols
Coordinate executive search principal engagement with qualified external executive search counterparties at institutional executive search firms
Represent the recruitment function in executive coordination with the Chief Operating Officer and broader executive leadership
Translate institutional positioning into recruitment architecture protocols that govern how Aspera Edge engages senior operating principals during recruitment cycles

Operational Environment 04 of 08

Senior operating principal recruitment spanning treasury, risk, infrastructure, engagement, operations, legal, and strategy functional layers
Executive search counterparties at qualified institutional executive search firms operating across Americas, EMEA, and APAC
Capacity formation operations across NY, London, Singapore institutional operating anchors
Internal coordination with Chief Operating Officer, functional principals across the firm, Executive Search Coordinator
Institutional candidate engagement at senior operating principal layer
Capacity planning architecture spanning the firm's operating functions

Reporting & Coordination 05 of 08

Reports to

Chief Operating Officer

Coordinates with

Director — Strategic Operations
Functional Principals across the firm
Executive Search Coordinator
External Executive Search Partners

Qualification Threshold 06 of 08

10+ years institutional recruitment leadership at top-tier institutional financial firm, executive search firm, institutional bank, or comparable institutional recruitment environment
Demonstrated leadership of senior operating principal recruitment at institutional scale, including executive search coordination and capacity formation architecture
Executive search principal engagement experience — direct working relationships with qualified institutional executive search counterparties and senior institutional candidates
Cross-functional recruitment experience across institutional operating functions — treasury, risk, infrastructure, engagement, operations, legal, and strategy
Cross-jurisdictional recruitment experience spanning at least two of the following operating anchors: Americas, EMEA, APAC
Executive engagement experience — direct working relationships with C-suite leadership including functional principal coordination on capacity matters
Recruitment discipline appropriate for institutional capacity formation environments — institutional fit calibration, qualified engagement discipline, recruitment architectural rigor

Selection Signals 07 of 08

Strong candidates typically demonstrate:

Capacity formation instinct — operators who approach institutional recruitment as capacity architecture rather than transactional recruitment, and who govern recruitment cycles accordingly
Executive search principal engagement depth — direct working experience at the executive search principal layer rather than recruitment coordination depth
Institutional candidate qualified engagement craft — capability to engage senior operating principals during recruitment cycles through institutional protocols rather than commercial recruitment practices
Cross-functional recruitment instinct — recognition that institutional recruitment spans functional operating layers and requires institutional fit calibration across functions
Architectural discipline under recruitment pressure — capacity to maintain qualified engagement discipline when capacity formation timing pressures push toward recruitment velocity rather than institutional fit calibration
Procedural calm at recruitment principal layer — executive search coordination handled through institutional protocols rather than transactional recruitment energy

Engagement Structure 08 of 08

Senior recruitment leadership compensation calibrated to top-tier institutional recruitment market standards
Direct executive coordination with Chief Operating Officer and broader executive leadership
New York-anchored leadership role with cross-jurisdictional capacity formation exposure across NY, London, Singapore institutional anchors
Institutional recruitment architecture formation — building Aspera Edge capacity formation operating standards during foundational stage
Senior operating principal recruitment responsibility across the firm's full functional scope