Leadership hiring · India
We run leadership searches between ₹40L and ₹2.5Cr. We also work with senior leaders on their own moves, more than 350 of them so far, which is why we know what the person you are about to hire is actually weighing up.
A few of the companies we have placed leaders into.
Many of them backed by Lightspeed, Elevation and Pantera Group.
Three things decide whether a senior hire works
We find which of the six is the constraint on your role before anyone is approached. On a search that has not started, that is the cheapest work available. On one that has been open six months, it is usually where the six months went.
We agree what good looks like in writing, then send you real profiles that match it and ask whether that is the shape of person you mean. Before we approach a single person. Finding a misalignment there costs a day. Finding it at the fourth interview costs six weeks.
Twelve candidates cleared the paper screen on one search. Four failed the assessment, and two of those four had the largest P&L and the most senior title in the group.
A Series A rural commerce business, 140 people, a year into a pivot from B2B to consumer.
Their first senior engineering leadership hire, open six months. Three people had reached interview and failed, one of them a sitting VP. The screen was using job title as a proxy for readiness, and at that stage the proxy breaks.
So we stopped looking for people who held the title and started looking for people carrying the load one level below it, at materially larger scale. The person who took the job had never been a VP.
Nineteen months on, they are a Senior Vice President, and we have run more than ten further mandates for that client.
We have built companies, run P&Ls inside large ones, and made senior hiring decisions from the other side of the table before we started making them for other people. That is the view this firm is built on.
Co-founder
Chartered accountant and company secretary. The Aditya Birla Group’s leadership program, then Times Internet and ShopClues. Second firm, founded. IIM Lucknow.
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Track record
Across 31 companies. Seventy-two per cent of those searches were for a company that had worked with us before.
We also run ExecEdge, a sixteen-week program for senior leaders making their own next move. More than 350 have been through it, at a median compensation of ₹80L when they joined.
We spend as much time with senior leaders deciding whether to move as we do with companies trying to hire them. The same market, read from both ends.
You are hiring a leader
A search breaks in six places. Adding recruiters reaches one. We find the one that is actually the constraint, agree what good looks like in writing, and test it on real profiles before we start.
Executive Search →You are making your next move
Applying harder does not get you into those conversations. We tell you honestly how your career reads from the outside, then put you in front of the people who decide, with a reason to talk.
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