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    Executive & Leadership Recruiting

    Hire the leaders your business needs next.

    Talent Authority Partners helps companies across industries hire managers, directors, vice presidents and C-suite executives. We combine focused recruiting, thoughtful candidate evaluation and hands-on support through the hiring decision. For ongoing hiring needs, we also provide embedded recruiting support.

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    From a critical management hire to your next executive leader.

    Hiring Levels

    We recruit across the leadership org chart.

    Management

    Managers and senior managers who run teams, functions and day-to-day operations.

    Directors & Department Heads

    Leaders who own a function, its results and the people who deliver them.

    Vice Presidents & Senior Leadership

    Senior leaders accountable for strategy, scale and cross-functional outcomes.

    C-Suite

    Chief executives and officers who shape the direction of the business.

    How We Help

    Two ways to work with TAP.

    Leadership & Executive Search

    A focused search for management, director, vice president, and C-suite hires, run with direct outreach and structured candidate evaluation.

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    Embedded Recruiting

    Senior recruiting support that works as part of your team for companies with several hiring priorities or limited internal capacity.

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    Why TAP

    What we actually deliver on every search.

    Role calibration

    We clarify responsibilities, business outcomes, and reporting relationships before outreach begins.

    Direct candidate conversations

    We talk with qualified people directly, including those not actively looking.

    Clear assessment

    Every candidate we present comes with a written view of strengths, gaps, and motivations.

    Support through offer acceptance

    Interview coordination and offer support so a signed offer becomes a start date.

    Our founder's placements include

    The White House · NASA · Google · Boeing · Lockheed Martin · Big 4 firms · Fortune 100 companies · Startups

    Search Process

    A search that runs in a disciplined sequence.

    01

    Define the role

    Responsibilities, business outcomes, reporting relationships, operating environment, and candidate requirements.

    02

    Find and engage candidates

    Direct sourcing and conversations with qualified people, including passive candidates.

    03

    Evaluate and present

    Structured evaluation against the role, with a candidate brief for each person we bring forward.

    04

    Support interviews and close

    Interview coordination, offer support, and follow-up through the hiring decision.

    How We're Paid

    A clear, agreement-based fee structure.

    Every search uses one of four packages, each with its own engagement fee and placement terms. TAP proposes the right package once we understand the role; the signed agreement governs the details.

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    The Founder

    Founder-led, on every search.

    Jonathan founded Talent Authority Partners to bring a direct, hands-on approach to leadership hiring. Every engagement gets his involvement, not a handoff to a junior team.

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    Relevant across industries

    TAP has supported hiring for companies in technology and AI, manufacturing, construction, logistics, and professional services, among others. These are examples of relevant experience, not restrictions on who we work with.

    • Cross-industry leadership hiring, not a single-vertical focus
    • AI fluency used for research and organization; recruiters own the conversations
    • Startups and established organizations alike

    Tell us who you need to hire next.

    A straight conversation about the role and whether TAP is the right fit to run it.