Principal Executive Recruiter

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

We are seeking a Principal, Executive Recruiter to join our global Talent Acquisition team, where innovation knows no borders. This team attracts top-tier executive talent to drive Sabre’s vision, strengthen leadership capability and shape the future of travel technology. Working alongside senior executives, the team delivers high-touch search strategies that align leadership capability with enterprise goals. With an inclusive culture and flexible work environment, we work together with boldness, curiosity and commitment so we can all win together.

You will execute the end-to-end executive search for C-Suite and senior leadership positions across Sabre serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders. This hybrid role operates at least three days per week on-site and requires high discretion, sharp market insight and the confidence to influence executive hiring decisions.

What you'll do

• Lead the full lifecycle recruitment for executive and senior leadership positions across the organization, managing sensitive and confidential searches with high discretion

• Directly partner with our Recruiting Specialist on coordination and sourcing strategy to uncover active and passive executive talent

• Partner closely with Sabre senior leadership to define executive specifications, succession needs, market trends, compensation benchmarks and candidate expectations

• Drive negotiation and offer development in partnership with Compensation, People Business Partners and Benefits teams, securing high-caliber leaders while meeting enterprise standards

• Leverage recruitment data, market insights and executive pipeline reporting to refine search strategies and deliver a seamless onboarding experience

What you'll bring

• Experience in executive recruitment, with a track record of placing senior leaders in technology organizations. (search firm experience preferred)
• Proven ability to build relationships, influence hiring decisions and engage senior leaders and executive candidates

• Strong negotiation capability across complex executive compensation structures

• Experience with Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter and data-driven recruitment strategies
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration or a related field preferred

Benefits that support you

We know support looks different for everyone. That is why Sabre offers benefits beyond medical and financial coverage, with programs designed to support your well-being, growth and life outside work:

• Competitive pay and performance-based bonuses

• Flexible work options

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage

• Generous PTO and holidays

• Strong retirement planning support

• Family-friendly benefits

• Professional development opportunities

Reasonable Accommodation

Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com.

Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW

Reasonable Accommodation

Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at recruiting@careers.sabre.com.

Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW

Technical Assistance

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