Senior Vice President, IT & Engineering Staffing
Job Description
Senior Vice President of Staffing, IT & Engineering Staffing
10+ years of staffing industry leadership experience required.
Remote/hybrid with approximately 40% travel.
Are you a staffing executive who enjoys building teams, driving profitable growth, and developing future leaders?
Our client, is the IT and engineering staffing division of a privately held global technology company with more than 900 employees worldwide. The staffing business operates with the resources of a large enterprise while maintaining an entrepreneurial culture focused on execution and accountability.
We're hiring a Senior Vice President of Staffing to lead the next chapter of growth for a $50M+ staffing organization. This executive will partner closely with senior leadership to accelerate market expansion, improve profitability, develop leaders, and shape the future direction of the business.
What you will do:
- Lead all sales, recruiting, delivery, and operational performance across a multi-market staffing organization.
- Drive profitable revenue growth while expanding existing client relationships and developing new markets.
- Build, mentor, and develop regional leadership teams through coaching, accountability, and performance management.
- Improve productivity using operational metrics, dashboards, and KPI-driven decision making.
- Develop strategic growth plans for under-leveraged markets including Dallas, Chicago, and Kansas City.
- Partner with executive leadership on acquisitions, expansion opportunities, and long-term business strategy.
- Foster collaboration across sales, recruiting, operations, finance, HR, marketing, and technology teams.
What we're looking for:
- 10+ years of progressive staffing industry leadership experience.
- Proven success leading both sales and recruiting/delivery organizations.
- Experience managing multi-location staffing operations with full P&L responsibility.
- Demonstrated history of growing revenue while improving profitability.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop leaders.
- Highly analytical and comfortable leading through KPIs, dashboards, and operational metrics.
- Experience building new markets and driving organic growth.
- Background in IT staffing, technology consulting, engineering staffing, or professional staffing strongly preferred.
Required Skills:
- Executive Leadership
- Sales Leadership
- Recruiting & Delivery Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Operational Excellence
- Financial & P&L Management
- Multi-Branch Leadership
- Talent Development
Required Education / Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of staffing industry leadership experience.
- Experience leading large staffing organizations across multiple geographic markets.
What you get:
- Total compensation opportunity of $300,000–$400,000+ including base salary, short-term incentive, and long-term incentive.
- Opportunity to lead one of the Midwest's most respected privately held staffing organizations.
- Executive visibility and direct partnership with the COO and CEO.
- Significant opportunity to shape future strategy, market expansion, and organizational growth.
- Shared enterprise resources including HR, Legal, IT, Marketing, Finance, and Compliance.
- The opportunity to become the next executive leader of a well-established, profitable staffing business with tremendous runway for continued growth.
Job Number 8045
Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
