Search-Light Partners

Search-Light Partners is a specialized executive search firm with over 25 years of experience that focuses on the technology sector in North America. As pioneers of executive search, they hire new leaders that fuel growth to empower technology startups and unleash their full potential.

Search-Light Partners has been providing Senior Executive Leaders in the C-suite, including CROs, CEOs, CMOs, and CTOs, as well as other Key Executives, for early-stage and later-stage startups across all technology sectors. They work with venture capital and private equity backed firms and their emerging technology companies, providing them with high impact leaders to drive significant revenue growth.

The firm offers customized and competitive retainer and contingency search model options with shorter recruit times for increased economic impact that limits client exposure. They provide performance guarantees to help mitigate risk with weekly stats and reviews to ensure there are no surprises throughout the search process.

What sets Search-Light Partners apart from competitors is their comprehensive approach that includes personality profiling to understand what motivates and drives talent, quantitative ranking systems to score high performing candidate skills and behaviors, and cultural mapping to define performance-driven corporate cultures and match them to specific candidate attributes. Their deep network of contacts, strategic partners and board advisors allows them to provide value-added services that traditional search firms cannot compete with.

With impressive performance metrics including over $2 billion in sales revenues generated, over 775 executive searches completed, and an average 3:1 interview to hire ratio, Search-Light Partners has established itself as a trusted partner in executive recruitment. Their success comes from the ability to understand what drives and motivates high performers, with only 4 replacement searches needed in 25 years of operation.