About us
A search firm built by recruiters.
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.
Recruiters who know the market
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.
We know what the market is doing
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.
We know the people doing the job
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.
We have filled this seat before
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
William Pacheco founded Lighthouse Search Partners in 2019 and has led the firm since. He oversees its contingency and retained search practice and directs a team of experienced recruiters who follow the hiring market closely and maintain relationships across it.
More than a decade in recruiting has given William a clear standard for what an employer should know about a candidate before the first interview. On the searches he leads, no candidate reaches a client until an in-depth interview has established qualifications, motivation, cultural fit and compensation expectations.
Developing other recruiters has been part of his work from the start. He trained new team members at a boutique recruitment consultancy, then mentored new recruiters as a senior recruitment manager at Randstad, one of the largest staffing firms in the world. In that role he ran full-cycle recruitment and client development for direct-hire, contract and temp-to-perm placements, and negotiated the client agreements behind them.
William continues to lead searches of his own alongside the firm's recruiters, working in English, Spanish and Portuguese. He partners with hiring managers and C-level executives across multiple industries, from defining the hiring strategy to an accepted offer.
What you can expect from us
The business before the brief
A job description is a starting point. Before a search begins, we ask where the business is headed, how the team is managed and what a great hire would change.
People, not profiles
We recruit through relationships we have built, so we can tell a client what a resume cannot: who a candidate is and how they work.
Straight answers
Clients hear the truth about the market. Candidates hear the truth about the role. Nobody is left guessing.
Matches that last
The goal is a lasting bond between a person and the company they join. We stay involved until both are sure of their decision.
Hiring, or thinking about your next move?
Either way, the first step is a conversation with one of our recruiters.