Practices / 02 Executive

Senior hires, handled quietly.

VP and C-level searches, run confidentially from first call to signed offer.

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01Confidentiality

A small circle and a written plan.

When a leadership seat is open, the search often has to stay confidential: from competitors, from the team, and sometimes from the person still in the role. We keep the circle small and the plan written.

Before you meet anyone, we map the market: who could do the job, where they sit today, and what it would take to move them. References are taken before an offer goes out, not after.

02Roles we recruit

Leadership seats we search for.

C-level

  • CEO
  • President
  • COO
  • CTO
  • CIO
  • Chief Product Officer
  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • CMO

VP level

  • VP Engineering
  • VP Product
  • VP Sales
  • VP Marketing
  • VP Customer Success
  • VP Revenue Operations

[CONFIRM ROLE LIST]

03How it runs

How a confidential search runs.

  1. 1

    A written brief

    Agreed with you, including who knows about the search and who doesn’t.

  2. 2

    A market map

    The realistic field, named and reasoned, before outreach starts.

  3. 3

    Discreet approaches

    We describe the role without naming you until a candidate is serious and has agreed to confidentiality. [CONFIRM NDA PRACTICE]

  4. 4

    Written cases and references

    One page per finalist, and references taken before an offer.

Fees: contingency, so there’s no fee until you make a hire. 20% of the hire’s first-year salary, with a 45-day replacement guarantee. How fees work

Other practices

Practice 01Technology →Practice 03Sales →

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