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Blackstone is seeking a high-impact Vice President to join its Corporate Recruiting team, responsible for delivering critical talent across corporate functions including Legal, Compliance, HR, and Corporate Affairs.

In this role, the individual will operate as a strategic partner to senior leadership, owning the end-to-end recruitment strategy and execution for a broad and complex portfolio of hires. The role plays a key part in shaping talent decisions, advising on market dynamics, and ensuring the firm continues to attract and secure top-tier talent in highly competitive markets.

This is a highly visible position requiring strong judgment, executive presence, and the experience to balance speed, quality, and stakeholder alignment in a highly dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the full lifecycle recruiting process for a portfolio of roles across corporate functions, spanning mid-level through senior hires

• Develop and continuously refine a forward-looking recruiting strategy aligned to business priorities and hiring demand

• Deliver high-quality hiring outcomes within competitive timelines, ensuring alignment with business needs and market realities

• Partner directly with senior stakeholders to shape hiring priorities, calibrate talent, and influence decision-making

• Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on talent availability, compensation benchmarks, and competitive positioning

• Balance competing priorities across stakeholders while maintaining high service levels and effective communication

• Serve as a market expert, delivering actionable insights on talent trends, competitor activity, and candidate dynamics

• Leverage market data to inform hiring strategies, proactively identify risks, and recommend alternative approaches

• Maintain strong external connectivity through networks, industry relationships, and search firm partnerships

• Lead a high-touch, detail-oriented recruiting process, ensuring a seamless and differentiated candidate experience

• Drive candidate engagement and conversion strategies, particularly for competitive and niche talent pools

• Proactively manage pipelines, ensuring consistent progress and transparency throughout the hiring lifecycle

• Utilize recruiting metrics and funnel data to assess performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize outcomes

• Drive enhancements to recruiting processes, tools, and workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness

• Partner with HR, Compensation, and other stakeholders to structure competitive and compelling offer packages

Qualifications

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intellectually curious, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors. The ideal candidate will have:

• 8+ years of experience in full lifecycle recruiting within corporate functions (e.g., Legal, Compliance, HR) or at a search firm supporting financial services clients

• Proven experience to operate as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders, with strong influencing and relationship management skills

• Demonstrated track record of successfully closing high-caliber candidates in competitive markets

• Strong commercial judgment and experience to balance speed, quality, and risk in hiring decisions

• Experience managing complex or high-volume requisition loads while maintaining attention to detail

• Experience in leveraging data and market insights to inform recruiting strategy and improve outcomes

• Exceptional organizational skills, follow-through, and experience to navigate ambiguity in a highly dynamic environment

• Experience to maintain a high level of confidentiality, professionalism, and discretion

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.  All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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