One Search Partner. Multiple Ways to Hire.
Executive search, retained search, embedded recruiting, and selective contingency recruiting for AI, technology, and life sciences hiring — all backed by our 90-day replacement guarantee.
Flexible Engagement Models
Choose the Right Search Model for Your Hiring Goals
From critical executive searches to high-growth technical hiring, Recruits Lab structures each engagement around the complexity, urgency, and scale of the mandate.
Retained Search
A dedicated search model for executive, leadership, and highly specialized roles where precision, market mapping, and targeted headhunting are essential.
- Executive and leadership search
- Specialized AI, technology, and life sciences hiring
- Dedicated market mapping
- Direct outreach to passive candidates
- Candidate screening and calibration
- Search strategy and hiring-market intelligence
- Offer and closing support
Embedded Recruiting
Dedicated recruiting capacity for companies making multiple hires, building specialized teams, or scaling a function over a defined period.
- Dedicated recruiting capacity
- Multi-role hiring support
- Talent pipeline management
- Hiring-manager collaboration
- Market and compensation intelligence
- Full-cycle recruiting support
- Flexible scope based on hiring volume
Contingency Search
Success-based recruiting for select permanent searches. Ideal for well-defined hiring needs where a dedicated retained search is not required.
- Pay a placement fee only when you hire
- No upfront search fee
- Specialized sourcing and headhunting
- Candidate screening
- Offer negotiation support
- 90-day replacement guarantee
- Available for select permanent searches
Contingency search is available selectively based on role, market, hiring timeline, and search complexity.
Learn more about our embedded recruiting model or how our search process works.
Which Model Is Right for You?
The Search Structure Should Match the Hiring Challenge
Retained Search
Best for executive, leadership, confidential, highly specialized, or business-critical hires.
Embedded Recruiting
Best for companies making multiple hires or building an entire team or function.
Contingency Search
Best for select permanent roles with a clear profile, established compensation range, and defined hiring process.
Not sure which model fits? We'll recommend the structure that best aligns with your hiring goals, urgency, and market.
Talk With Recruits LabWhy Recruits Lab
Built for Hard-to-Fill Hiring
Specialized Search
Deep recruiting expertise across AI, technology, life sciences, and other highly specialized markets.
Passive Talent Access
Targeted headhunting designed to reach high-caliber candidates who are not actively applying to jobs.
Executive + Technical Expertise
Search strategies built for leadership, engineering, AI, scientific, and other difficult-to-fill mandates.
Market Intelligence
Real-time insight into candidate availability, compensation, competitive hiring activity, and talent-market dynamics.
Flexible Engagement
Retained, embedded, and contingency models based on the hiring challenge rather than a one-size-fits-all package.
High-Touch Execution
Hands-on search management from initial market mapping through candidate closing.
Let's Build the Right Search Strategy
Tell us what you're hiring for, and we'll recommend the search structure that best fits the role, market, urgency, and hiring goals.
Trusted by venture-backed startups, growth-stage companies, and enterprise organizations hiring AI, life sciences, SaaS, and technology talent nationwide. Every placement is backed by our 90-day replacement guarantee.