A team of headhunters for your business. Whatever the role, at any level, locally or nationwide, we find the person who fits.
About us
Lighthouse Search Partners is a boutique headhunting firm working locally and nationwide. When your business has a seat to fill, at any level and in any function, we go and find the person who belongs in it.
Being boutique is a choice. We take on fewer searches so that each one gets real attention, and so the recruiter you speak with on day one is still the one handling your search when the offer goes out.
That attention goes to both sides of a search. We learn what a candidate wants from a move as carefully as what a client needs from a hire, because a placement only works when it works for both. What we are after is a match that holds long after the start date.
We learn your culture and goals, then go and find the person.
For employersOur recruiters connect you with employers who are hiring and give you an honest view of your options.
For job seekersWe are not tied to one industry or one level. If the role matters to your business, we will take the search on, from your first hires to your leadership team.
C-suite, vice presidents, directors, general managers
Account executives, account managers, sales leadership
Controllers, accountants, analysts, finance leadership
Operations managers, supply chain, project management
Marketing managers, brand, digital, content
HR generalists, talent acquisition, people operations, HR leadership
Engineers, IT, product, data, technical leadership
Executive assistants, office managers, customer service, coordinators
We run both contingency and retained searches. Which one suits you depends on the role and how you like to work, and we will help you decide on the first call.
You pay a fee only when you hire a candidate we introduced.
A good fit when you want to move quickly, when you are hiring for more than one seat, or when you would like to see how we work before committing to more.
You engage us for the role, and we commit dedicated time until it is filled.
A good fit for roles that are senior, confidential, hard to fill, or too important to leave to chance. Your search gets first priority from the day we begin.
You are not handed from a salesperson to an account manager to a junior sourcer. The recruiter who learns your needs is the one doing the work, so nothing gets lost in a handoff and you never have to explain the role twice.
We do not run your requirements through a database and forward whatever comes back. Every search starts from your culture, your goals and the way your team is managed, and the short list is built to fit all three.
The strongest candidates are rarely the ones applying to job postings. We keep in touch with the people we meet and know what matters to them, so when the right role opens we can take it to someone who was not looking for one.
Some searches depend on knowing a local market well. Others need the best person wherever they happen to live. We run both, and we will tell you which approach your role calls for.
Here is what happens between your first call and a signed offer.
Before anything else, we talk. We ask about your culture, where the organization is headed, how you manage people and what your ideal hire looks like. A job description tells us what the role is. This conversation tells us who will succeed in it.
We look past the resume at what each person has built, led or fixed, and in what kind of environment. Titles mean different things at different companies. The work behind them is what we compare.
You meet a short list of candidates we have gotten to know. Each introduction comes with our reasoning: why this person, for this role, at this point in their career.
We stay with both sides through interviews, offer and acceptance. We make sure each side knows early what the other expects, and we answer questions quickly, so the move ends up right for everyone involved.
Lighthouse is a team of recruiters who have spent their careers in this business. We have run searches in strong hiring markets and slow ones, for companies that are growing fast and companies that have been around for generations.
So when you bring us a role, we are not starting from zero. We know what it is paying right now, where the people you want are working today, and what it would take for them to consider a move.
What a role pays this year, how long it takes to fill, and what other employers are offering the same people. You hear it from us before the search starts, not after an offer is turned down.
Our recruiters have kept up relationships for years, with candidates and with the managers who hired them. That is usually where a new search begins.
Across functions and at every level, the chances are good that we have run a search like yours. We know where those searches tend to stall and how to keep yours moving.
Meet the founder
“I started Lighthouse to build the search firm I would want to hire: recruiters who know their market, know the people in it and tell you the truth.”
William PachecoFounder, Lighthouse Search Partners
Read William’s bio