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One hiring partner for your whole portfolio.

From the CEO to the first team hires, we run the searches your portfolio companies need, the same way at every company. You recommend us once, and we take it from there.

  • Leadership searches and team hiring
  • $3,900 per role, or less with shared credits
  • Every company's hiring in one view

Trusted by 754+ employers since 1997.

Every company needs hires. You can't run them all. Most firms have one or two people to help. What the data shows: #1 request portfolio companies make of their investors is help with hiring (Visible, 2022). 92% of PE professionals say waiting too long on talent issues led portfolio companies to underperform (Bain & Company, 2021). Today, you have two ways to handle it. We built a third.
Bain & Company, 2021
Visible, 2022
Bain & Company, 2021
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Who's going to run hiring across your portfolio?

  • Hire in-house

    Each company's team, or yours, takes the searches on.

    Define
    Hiring manager + in‑house
    Attract
    In-house
    Select
    Hiring manager + in‑house
    Hire
    In-house, to day one
    OwnershipDone on time
    Hiring manager
    Your experience
    The searches you run move. The rest wait, and the companies keep asking.
    Leadership roles
    Your network and your time
    Cost on a $100,000 role
    Your time, across every company
  • Each company hires its own agency

    Every company finds its own recruiters, on its own terms.

    Define
    Hiring manager
    Attract
    Agency
    Select
    Hiring manager + agency
    Hire
    Agency, to day one
    OwnershipDone on time
    Hiring manager
    Your experience
    Different terms, different quality, and you hear about problems late
    Leadership roles
    Often a separate retained firm
    Cost on a $100,000 role
    $20,000
  • OneSource

    One partner for every company you back, from the leadership team to the people under them.

    Define
    Company + us
    Attract
    Us
    Select
    They decide, we arrange
    Hire
    Us, after day one
    OwnershipDone on time
    Us(timed promises)
    Your experience
    The same process and price at every company, every search in one view in HiringOS, and a $175 credit if we miss a RecruiterOS promise
    Leadership roles
    A partner-led search, starting with Discovery
    Cost on a $100,000 role
    $3,900or from $3,150 with shared credits

Leadership roles run as an executive search: Discovery first, for $3,900, then 25% of base salary, paid in stages. See executive search

Agency fee: 20% of salary, the most common direct hire fee. Staffing Industry Analysts, 2021

How we work with your portfolio

We work with each portfolio company as its hiring partner, for its leaders and the teams under them. You recommend us once, and you see every search in HiringOS.

Every company's hiring in one view

See hiring across your whole portfolio in HiringOS: which roles are open at each company, what's happened, what's next, and where a search needs attention. Each company sees its own roles. You see all of them, without chasing anyone for an update.

Your whole portfolio in one view

VC portfolio, or PE portfolio

  • After a round

    Your companies need their first leaders and the teams under them, fast. We run both, at a flat price that respects their runway.

  • After a deal

    Leadership changes and the teams that carry the plan. A partner leads the leadership searches, and RecruiterOS builds the teams.

One partner your companies can trust, so you don't have to run every search yourself.

Sound familiar?

If you're saying any of these, we can help.

  • “Every company I back asks me for help hiring.”
  • “We just closed a deal, and the company needs a new CFO.”
  • “A company raised a round and has to build its team fast.”
  • “I can't run searches for every company myself.”
  • “I don't know how hiring is going across the portfolio.”

How each company starts

  1. Today

    Free intake

    Start with a free intake

    FreeThe Hiring Kit, 1 business day after the intake

  2. Day 0

    The company approves and pays

    $3,900, only if the kit is right

    Live within 1 business day

  3. Day 1

    The job goes live

    You and the company track it in real time

    Every applicant reviewed within 3 business days

  4. Day 14 to 21

    We recommend, they decide

    Keep going, or switch

    Too few applicants?

    Switch to SearchOS

    From day 14, or when our day-21 audit recommends it. The $3,900 counts toward it, and candidates typically arrive in 1 to 3 weeks.

    See SearchOS

    The hire

  5. Then

    The hire

    And a 30-day check-in

Hiring a leader? Executive search

Leaders and teams we've hired

In 29 years, more than 90% of the candidates we've submitted have gone on to an interview.

  • CFO, Private-equity-backed offshore oil and gas producer
  • VP of Drilling and Completion Fluids, Private-equity-backed oilfield chemicals maker
  • President & CEO, Oil and gas producer
  • COO, Oilfield services
  • Controller, Lumber and building materials company
  • Director of Finance, Construction contractor
  • Manager of FP&A, Natural gas utility
  • Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Composites manufacturer

Frequently asked questions

Ask us anything

Can we see how hiring is going across our portfolio?

Yes. HiringOS gives you one view of every role we're running across your portfolio companies, and each company sees its own.

Do you work with each portfolio company directly?

Yes. Each company works with us directly on the roles it hands us. We run the intake with its hiring managers, send them screened candidates and arrange their interviews.

Do you handle leadership searches?

Yes. A partner leads each executive search, in confidence. It starts with Discovery: the market and the role in 2 weeks, for $3,900. Then 25% of base salary, paid as the search moves forward.

See executive search

Can our companies share hiring credits?

Yes. Credits can be shared across your portfolio companies. They start at $3,650 a role for 5 roles and come down to $3,150 a role for 25. A credit works across RecruiterOS, SearchOS and Executive Discovery, and credits are valid for 12 months.

See pricing

How is this different from a preferred agency list?

A list gives each company a name to call, and every company still gets different terms, a different process and different updates. With us, every company gets the same process, price and promises, and you see every search in one place.

What if a company can't find the hire?

We won't promise a hire. We promise honest advice. By week 3 the company will know whether the right people are applying. If they aren't, we'll say plainly whether a search can find them before it moves to SearchOS, and the $3,900 counts toward it. Nothing paid is lost.

See SearchOS

Recommend one partner to your portfolio.

Start with one company, or one role. Free until the company approves the Hiring Kit.

Hiring done right.