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Media Recruiting Group

Media Recruiting Group is a specialist executive search and recruitment firm founded and staffed by seasoned digital and media professionals who focus exclusively on the fast-evolving digital media, adtech, martech, integrated media, and SaaS ecosystem. Known as a leading executive search partner for digital media sales and related functions, the firm places talent at all levels across the United States and major metropolitan markets including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Toronto, and London. MRGs deep domain expertise spans revenue-generating and go-to-market roles such as sales and sales management, business development and publisher development, pre-sales, marketing and sales development, account management, client services, and ad operations, as well as adjacent specialties like research and analytics, editorial, product, events, SEO/SEM, email and audience development. The firms client roster includes digital media and publishing platforms, adtech and ad serving providers, DMPs and data aggregators, programmatic leaders (DSPs and SSPs), video, social, mobile, shopper marketing, rich media and native advertising companies, integrated and out-of-home digital media organizations, behavioral targeting innovators, SaaS and enterprise software vendors, e-commerce businesses, direct response and lead generation operators, traditional advertising and media buying agencies, and emerging blockchain companies. MRG is recognized for diligence and cultural alignment, going beyond resumes to understand each clients unique environment while guiding candidates through pivotal career decisions, including navigating counteroffers and evolving role expectations in a data-driven, programmatic world. Drawing on extensive networks and long-standing industry relationships, the team delivers efficient, high-quality search execution that consistently connects top performers with growth-stage disruptors and category leaders alike. Through insightful market perspective, national reach, and a laser focus on digital-first disciplines, Media Recruiting Group helps organizations build high-impact teams that drive revenue and long-term business results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQIrvington, United States

Walden Aptitude Testing

Walden Aptitude Testing (also known as Walden Personnel Testing & Consulting Inc.) is a specialist provider of pre-employment psychometric and aptitude assessments that help employers and recruitment teams make better hiring decisions, particularly across information technology and business-support roles. For more than 40 years, Walden has pioneered job-focused tests that simulate real workplace problem-solving, emphasizing logical reasoning, attention to detail, analytical ability, and the capacity to interpret business specifications and translate them into symbolic logicinsights that are difficult to obtain from resumes, references, or interviews alone. Its extensive catalogue covers IT and related roles, including IT Analyst, Programming, Programmer Analyst, Object-Oriented Programmer, Mainframe Programmer (via its AABP for applications programming), Business Analyst, Project Leader/Manager, IT Analytical Skills, Computer Career Assessment, and PC Software User; it also offers Sales & Service assessments spanning Sales, Telemarketing, Customer Service, Call Center, Clerical, and tools such as the SASQ. Tests are delivered online or in booklet form, are easy to administer, and require purchasing one evaluation per candidate; Walden handles scoring and generates comprehensive, percentage-based reports that are emailed to clients. Timings vary by product (e.g., WPAT ~60 minutes, Project Leader ~1 hour, AABP self-instructive with an average of ~3 hours), and many instruments presume no prior programming knowledge, focusing instead on innate aptitude and transferable problem-solving. Beyond off-the-shelf content, Walden provides customization and consultationstarting with a job/task analysis to identify the innate talents tied to success, then developing items and validating them using rigorous scientific methodsso organizations can tailor assessments to unique roles while maintaining predictive rigor. HR managers, internal TA teams, and recruitment firms rely on Walden to reduce mis-hire risk, fairly compare entry-level and experienced candidates, and strengthen selection for roles spanning software development, business analysis, project management, sales, customer service, and clerical functions. Services are available in English and French, with convenient online testing, responsive scoring support, and optional reseller partnerships.

RPOSOW/ProjectsTotal Talent MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human ResourcesTechnical Writing

HQWestmount, Canada

Shine Talent

Shine Talent is a boutique executive recruiting firm that partners with private equity, venture-backed, and public companies to hire transformative leaders across marketing, revenue, and growth-oriented functions. Founded in 2017 by former C-suite operator Kristine Shine, the firm is built on a high-touch, bespoke approach that prioritizes brand stewardship, candidate quality, and long-term fit. Shine Talents team of former industry leaders and specialized recruiters bring deep domain expertise and an unmatched network to searches for roles including CEO, CFO, COO, CPO, CRO, CMO, and VPSVP leaders in Product, Sales, Marketing, Performance Marketing, Brand & Communications, and Customer Success. Operating across industries with particular strength in technology-driven sectors, the firm has deep networks in Retail & ECommerce, Consumer Digital, Fashion & Beauty, Media & Entertainment, B2B Enterprise, FinTech, PropTech, Renewable Energy, Travel & Hospitality, AI, and Web3. Their proven methodology blends rigorous discovery to understand business context and culture, precise position materials that align stakeholders, original research and database-driven sourcing to surface both active and passive talent, and evidence-based interviewing that illuminates strengths, gaps, and potential. Shine Talent manages negotiation and closing to ensure offers align with company values, market equity, and candidate needs, conducts confidential and comprehensive reference checks, and remains engaged post-placement to support smooth onboarding and lasting impact. Beyond search, Shine Talent invests in the next generation of leaders through professional development programs: Career Masters Executive (1:1 coaching for experienced professionals) and Get a Job (course and coaching for graduating students), covering career visioning, resume and LinkedIn optimization, networking, interview preparation, and salary negotiation. Clients return for multiple searches within the same year, reflecting the firms commitment to service, speed to hire, and delivering high-impact results that drive business growth.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic Relations

HQSan Francisco, United States

Narae Partners

Narae Partners is a boutique recruitment firm that helps high-growth companies build high-impact teams, partnering most often with top venture-backed startups and also supporting larger enterprises up to the Fortune 500. Founded by seasoned operators and husband-and-wife co-founders Anne Kim and Steve Yoo, the firm brings a practitioners lens to hiring, having led teams in functions such as Product, Business Operations, and Chief of Staff across seed through post-IPO stages, including successful exits. Their consultants recruit across the board from mid-level individual contributors to leadership roles, and are trusted by clients as thought partners who go well beyond resume delivery. Narae Partners holistic approach spans compensation strategy, hiring process design, role scoping, and opportunity positioning to ensure every search is tightly aligned to business goals and candidate motivation. The team emphasizes quality over quantity, a philosophy reflected in repeat client relationships and successful placements that include roles such as Head of Strategic Finance, Head of Demand Generation, Solutions Architect, Enterprise Account Executives, and Senior Accountant. While they work across diverse segments of technology, they have deep familiarity with venture-backed ecosystems and have supported B2B fintech organizations among other innovative tech companies. Their model blends permanent recruitment and executive search with an end-to-end talent advisory mindset, giving founders and hiring leaders a single partner who understands scaling challenges from the inside and can translate that into precise, efficient hiring outcomes. Clients value Narae Partners for rigorous calibration, transparent communication, and the ability to surface candidates who not only meet the spec but also raise the bar for the organization. In short, Narae Partners operates as an extension of the leadership team to help companies hire the people who will shape their next stage of growth.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtTotal Talent MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceBankingInsuranceInvestment Management

HQSan Francisco, United States

Amberjack Partners LLC

Amberjack Partners LLC is a boutique executive search firm dedicated exclusively to the real estate industry, known for precision, speed, and a deeply personal approach to senior hiring. Founded by experienced search leaders, the firm brings more than 50 years of combined expertise and has completed 70 high-impact executive searches in just three years, serving public and private platforms across nearly every major U.S. market. Amberjacks model is intentionally high-touch: it limits active engagements to ten at a time, so every mandate receives undivided senior attention and moves from initiation to completion in an average of 72 days. Clients span REITs and mortgage REITs, investment managers, private equity and opportunity funds, family offices, developers, operators, homebuilders, general contractors, accounting and advisory firms, insurance companies, debt funds, service providers, and investment banks. The teams scope covers C-suite leadership (CEO, CFO, COO, CIO for Investment and Technology) and mission-critical functions across equity and debt: acquisitions, asset and portfolio management, development and construction, property and facilities management, leasing, capital raising, securities investment, underwriting, originations, risk/credit, syndications, closing, and accounting and finance. Their asset-class coverage includes industrial/logistics, office/commercial, multifamily (market-rate, affordable, and build-to-rent), retail, hospitality, self-storage, seniors housing, single-family, life sciences, and alternative real assets. Amberjack combines rigorous research with technology-enhanced outreach to expand market access while keeping relationships at the center of every search, operating with transparent pricing and modest retainers that reinforce accountability. With senior professionals averaging two decades of executive search experience and prior tenure within leading global firms and owner-operators, the firm offers the responsiveness of a specialist boutique with the reach of a bulge-bracket platform. Headquartered across the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and the New York metro, Amberjack Partners is a trusted, reputation-driven partner that moves leaders forward and puts client success into motion.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)

HQSan Francisco, United States

Goat Recruiting

Goat Recruiting is a founder-led boutique recruitment partner that helps startup founders build exceptional teams, with a sharp focus on Engineering, Technical, and Go-To-Market (GTM) hiring for early-stage companies. Based in San Francisco, the practice is led by a recruiter who has experienced both agency and in-house environments, bringing a perspective shaped by roles at Lyft and Opendoor before launching Goat Recruiting. That background informs a service model designed to feel like an extension of the clients teamthink of me as your personal internal recruitercombining the speed and flexibility startups need with the rigor and candidate experience expected from top-tier talent organizations. Goat Recruiting supports seed through early series companies with high-impact hires including founding engineers, GTM professionals, and C-suite leaders, and it builds pipelines across software development, data, infrastructure, security, product, and sales/marketing/customer success disciplines. Engagement models include permanent recruitment for critical individual contributors, executive search for leadership roles, and embedded/RPO-style solutions when founders need hands-on partnership to stand up or scale hiring processes. The approach is intentionally collaborative: calibrating early on must-haves and trade-offs, architecting compelling narratives to attract passive candidates, and driving structured assessments that enable fast, confident decisions in competitive markets. Candidates benefit from transparent communication and thoughtful preparation, while founders gain a pragmatic, outcome-driven recruiter who can source, screen, sell, and close. Whether the need is a founding engineer to ship v1, a GTM leader to land the first ten customers, or a seasoned executive to professionalize a function, Goat Recruiting aligns search strategy to business milestones, ensuring every hire moves the company forward. With deep startup empathy, high-touch execution, and a network built across product and commercial talent, Goat Recruiting delivers the quality and agility early-stage teams require.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQSan Francisco, United States

ELKA Search Partners

ELKA Search Partners is an exclusive, boutique search firm dedicated to the life sciences sector, partnering with innovative biotech and pharmaceutical companies and the venture capital firms that support them to deliver hiring outcomes that accelerate growth. Founded on the belief that hiring should be personal, purposeful, and powerful, the firm works as an extension of client teams to execute executive leadership appointments and critical build-outs across R&D and commercial functions, applying a precision search methodology rooted in strategy, market intelligence, and trust. Current searches reflect the caliber and breadth of roles they handle, from Senior/Executive Director, Biometrics guiding statistical strategy and regulatory submissions to Vice President, Head of Oncology Sales building commercial capability, with permanent opportunities spanning leading U.S. hubs such as the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego. As a founder-led boutique, clients receive senior attention on every mandate, bespoke research and calibrated outreach, and a nimble engagement model tailored to company stagefrom early venture-backed biotechs to clinical-stage and public enterprises. ELKAs process begins with discovery to align on mission-critical outcomes and culture, followed by targeted sourcing across scientific and commercial ecosystems, structured competency-based interviewing, and rigorous reference validation, culminating in curated shortlists that balance technical excellence and leadership fit. The firm leverages modern recruitment technology integrated with an applicant tracking and candidate engagement stack to streamline communication, while safeguarding data and honoring GDPR and related privacy obligations. ELKA champions diversity and inclusion by building balanced slates and maintains strict confidentiality for stealth programs. Post-placement, the team supports onboarding to ensure early traction and lasting impact. Combining domain fluency across biometrics, clinical development, regulatory, and commercial disciplines with hands-on project management, ELKA delivers strategic talent solutions that reduce time-to-hire, elevate candidate experience, and help life sciences organizations translate innovation into patient outcomes.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsMental Health CareVeterinaryHealthcare & Life Sciences

HQSan Francisco, United States

SVTalent

SVTalent is a boutique recruitment and design consultancy that partners with early-stage startups and public companies to deliver a holistic approach to talent acquisition and brand-led growth. Operating from San Francisco and Miami, the firm blends executive search and permanent recruitment with fractional leadership and creative design to solve critical go-to-market and branding needs while assembling high-performing teams. Using the Thrive recruiting platform, SVTalent provides clients with 24/7 visibility into search progress and a white-glove, A-team delivery model focused on precision and speedaveraging 65 days to close for early-stage companies and 100 days for public organizations. With deep domain experience across SaaS, fintech and payments, blockchain, healthcare, and consumer technology, SVTalent has supported leaders at companies such as Affirm, Roblox, DoorDash, Datadog, PayPal, Cisco, Apple, Ticketmaster, and more. The team is known for sourcing GTM and revenue leaders, building out marketing and product marketing functions, and aligning hiring plans to product roadmaps and commercial targets; when gaps exist, they provide interim and fractional leadership to accelerate outcomes. Their project work spans research-driven positioning, messaging, and branding; website and content programs; sales enablement and training; ABM and integrated campaigns; and data integration between marketing and sales systems to enable accurate analytics and decision making. Representative results include supporting Bill (Bill.com) with market research, new platform launch, and mid-market expansion ahead of IPO; helping Ticketmaster regain and retain market share through a first-ever B2B marketing function and SaaS platform launch; and scaling Lingo Live and Evisort by building teams, strengthening analyst relations, and instituting measurable GTM programs. Anchored in partnership, transparency, and measurable results, SVTalent combines talent search with design and GTM execution to help clients hire the right leaders and teams, launch and scale products, and capture market opportunity with speed and clarity.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticals

HQSan Francisco, United States

Delta Recruitment BV

This boutique talent partner specializes in building world class leadership teams for founders and investors, combining executive search rigor with a structured approach to multi hire planning so companies can scale with confidence. The firm designs and executes talent roadmaps that align business goals with the right sequence of hires, from scoping roles and defining success profiles to building robust interview processes and assessment frameworks that surface complementary skills and strong team dynamics. When a critical, confidential, or hard to find role is at stake, it runs a hands on, end to end executive search led directly by experienced partners, ensuring deep understanding of business context, full internal alignment, and clarity on what great looks like before approaching the market. As a fund talent partner, it supports investors at pivotal moments by assessing portfolio leadership readiness for Series A and B, conducting due diligence on teams and org design during investment processes, and acting as an advisor or embedded extension of the fund when extra capacity or specialist expertise is needed. Everything is delivered high touch and high conviction by senior operators who have sat on leadership teams across Europe and the United States and who have firsthand experience from global scale businesses, enabling a practical, operator led point of view on hiring bar, sequencing, and culture fit. The firm also invests its own capital into the startup ecosystem and maintains close relationships with those founders, aligning incentives for long term outcomes rather than short term transactions. Typical engagements span technology and fintech driven companies and cover cross functional leadership roles in product, engineering, data, go to market, and operations, with a consistent focus on speed without sacrificing quality, transparent communication, and measurable hiring outcomes that position clients to hit their next stage goals.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceBankingInsuranceInvestment Management

HQAmsterdam, Netherlands

V3 Talent Partners

V3 Talent Partners is a founder-led recruiting firm built by former inhouse talent leaders who scaled highgrowth startups from inception to IPO at companies such as Snap Inc., Dave, Shape Security, and Upstart. Purposebuilt for venturebacked founders, V3 combines executive advisory with handson delivery to hire Software Engineering, Product, GotoMarket, and executive talent across AI, SaaS, Consumer, FinTech, and HealthTech. The team partners deeply with leadership, codesigning job descriptions, supplying market intelligence, and driving bespoke search strategies that prioritize fit and longterm impact over volume. Their service model spans three core offerings: Executive Search (Director to CSuite) run by senior recruiters alongside a V3 partner; Dedicated Search, an embedded, hightouch program developed to fix the traditional contingency model by allocating specialized recruiters, research, forecasting, and advanced AI tooling for companies with 3+ hires; and Contingent Search for 12 priority roles. V3s operators have collectively hired thousands of engineers and business leaders, built founding teams from scratch, and maintain active partnerships with venture firms and portfolio companies where they are frequently tapped as investors and advisors. Known for speed, quality, and rigorous filtering, the firm is repeatedly engaged for complex software and ML mandates, principallevel IC searches, and critical executive placements, often in timesensitive or hypergrowth contexts. Whether whitelabeling as an embedded recruiting team or running retained executive searches, V3 emphasizes cultural acuity, earlyhire leverage, and the belief that builders outperform generalists. Backed by a seasoned research function and modern data platforms, they forecast hiring needs, shape compensation and leveling strategies, and help founders close top candidates. V3s ethos is simple: talent shapes product, no two startups are the same, and the right hire at the right time can change a companys trajectory.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticals

HQSan Francisco, United States

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