When the search is a team, not a seat.
Sometimes the mandate is not one role. It is a leadership team for a new platform, the first commercial organization at a scaling company, or the management bench a fund needs in place before the thesis can run. Multi-role engagements bring the same partner led retained search to several positions at once, with a fixed fee per role and nothing paid for work that has not been done.
Where It Applies
The engagement is built for organizations filling several leadership positions in a defined window, across the levels that actually run a business.
C-suite
Executive
Presidents, general managers, and senior vice presidents.
Director
The functional leaders who carry the plan into the organization.
Management
Senior managers in the roles a growth plan depends on.
Chief executive, financial, operating, commercial, and people leadership.
When Organizations Come to Us for This
The engagement is built for a specific moment: several leadership positions that need to be filled in a defined window, where running them as separate searches would cost more, take longer, and build a team by accident rather than by design.
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A new platform
A fund has closed on a platform acquisition and needs a chief executive, a chief financial officer, and an operating leader in place before the plan can start.
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A first commercial team
A venture backed company is scaling past the founder led stage and needs a chief commercial officer, a head of sales, and a marketing leader who can work together from day one.
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A restructured leadership team
A new chief executive is rebuilding the team around a new strategy and has several seats to fill at once.
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A market entry
An organization is opening a new division, geography, or business line and needs its leadership built from the ground up.
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Post-merger integration
Two organizations are becoming one and the combined leadership structure has to be staffed deliberately.
Why Not Just Run Separate Searches
You can, and for a single role that is exactly what we recommend. But a team hired as separate searches is a team hired in isolation, each candidate assessed against a job description rather than against the people they will sit beside.
Every candidate in a multi-role engagement is assessed against the profile of the role and the profile of the people around it, so the leadership team fits together by design.
Build the team, not just the seat
Start with a conversation, not a contract
Why It Works
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Predictable cost
Compounding intelligence
One point of accountability
A fixed number per role, known before the first call, with no percentage floating upward on the offer.
The market work for one role informs the next, and the team is built as a team rather than as a series of unrelated hires.
A single partner answerable for the whole build, from the first search to the last acceptance.
The Same Standard
A multi-role engagement is retained search, not a staffing arrangement. The same senior partner leads every role, the same research engine maps every market, the same live client visibility shows every search in real time, and the same assessment layer is available on every hire. What changes is the economics, not the work.