Scaling teams
More roles. More interviewers. More decisions. One standard.
As a company grows, hiring spreads across managers who each define roles, run interviews and judge candidates in their own way. Decisions start to rest on impressions, and strong candidates wait while the team aligns. We give every search the same foundation: clear outcomes, shared scorecards and one coordinated process.
What every search shares
Whichever manager is hiring, and for whichever role.
Outcomes before outreach
Each role starts with what the hire must accomplish, agreed by the hiring manager and everyone who will interview.
Scorecards for every interviewer
Each interviewer tests their own part of the evidence against the outcomes you approved, so the decision rests on one standard.
One process across searches
Every role runs through the same stages, cadence and Hiring Workspace, so you see every search in one place.
Every search in one view
Your Hiring Workspace shows every open search on one page: where each one stands, what is waiting and what needs a decision.
For hiring managers
Your role, your candidates and the next decision you owe, with a scorecard ready before each interview.
For the leadership team
Every search side by side, moving through the same stages and judged by the same standard.
In their words
From an engineering leader whose team hires together, and a candidate who met that team.
Our old debriefs were five smart people using the same words to mean different things. This time, we could point to what we had actually seen instead of arguing about whether someone felt senior enough.
By the second conversation, I usually have three different versions of the job. Here, everyone described the same job. That sounds small until you've been through the opposite.
Fees
Most roles run as Specialist Search. Leaders, such as a VP or head of function, run as Leadership Search.
Usual fit
Specialist Search
$10,000
Retainer: $2,500
Balance at signature: $7,500
For individual contributors and people managers within a defined functional market.
Leadership Search
$20,000
Retainer: $5,000
Balance at signature: $15,000
For executives, heads of function, and searches that need broader market mapping, multi-stakeholder alignment, leadership assessment or heightened confidentiality.
Commission two or more roles together and each carries a preferred rate: $9,000 for Specialist or $18,000 for Leadership. Six or more roles carry $8,500 and $17,000. The roles can span functions and seniority levels.
Choose Exclusive Search and we're your only external firm for 20 business days, starting when you approve the Signal Spec and outreach is ready. Your fee becomes $9,000 for Specialist or $18,000 for Leadership, and replacement coverage extends to 180 days. View the fee schedule
Questions
How do multi-role rates work?
They apply when two or more roles are commissioned together and launched as one engagement. The roles can span functions and seniority levels. Roles added later are priced under a new engagement or an amendment.
Can you work with our existing tools?
Where your systems offer an API or webhook, we connect the workflow. Where they do not, we agree on an operating model that keeps one version of the work and full visibility for your team.
How much of my time does a search take?
Your time goes to the first working session, your interviews and the final call. We handle everything between them: outreach, assessment, scheduling and candidate communication. Your shortlist arrives in your inbox, and your Hiring Workspace holds the detail.
Tell us about the role. Within one business day, we confirm whether we are the right firm to lead the search.
Bring the job description you have, or the role in your head. We define the role with you.