Strategic talent partners

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Everyone else sends résumés. We send the person who fills the gap.

I need to hire → One hire or many. People who fit — and stick. Let’s talk first → An introductory Zoom call.

Founded on 25+ years inside the world’s most demanding companies.

Revenue, operations, AI and emerging tech, executive leadership, product and engineering, apparel and consumer products, healthcare, and public sector & education — recruited across tech, aerospace, manufacturing, entertainment, luxury, government, education, and non-profit. The kind of places where one wrong hire is felt by everyone.

25+Years
90+Countries
1000sHired
$0Retainers, ever
Clients we’ve hired for
SoCalGas
Redlands
Pine Animal
Belkin
Abstraction
Movement
MA
Client
DWC
FIT
Lulus
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Our approach

People, not paperwork.

A résumé tells you where someone has been. It doesn’t tell you how they think, how they decide, or how they’ll show up when the work gets hard. That’s what we look for.

01

Finding the signal

We look past credentials to read judgment, potential, AI fluency, and fit — the things a résumé can’t say.

02

Building the strand

Connections that hold — between the right person, your team, and work that matters.

03

Elevating your team

Not a seat filled — a team that moves faster because the right person is in it.

Not every company builds AI. But every team must use it well.

So we screen every candidate, in every practice, for how well they put AI to work.

One standard, at any distance.

Whether a role is local to you, national, or international, the same team supports it, with employees across the US, EU and APAC. And any search can run fully confidential.

What we do

How we plug in.

Contingent Search

One critical seat, filled right. Founder-led search, 10% of base within 30 days — with a 90-day guarantee and 100 days of FromJump® onboarding.

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Recruiting-as-a-Service (RPO)

Your hiring engine, on a flat rate. A dedicated hiring partner embedded with your team, on a flat monthly rate — and it never resigns.

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Pro-bono for non-profits

You can’t do well unless you also do good. A large portion of our profits goes to community causes, and we recruit pro-bono for the non-profits that can’t afford to get a hire wrong.

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Eight practice areas. 190+ roles.

Revenue & GrowthSales, marketing, ecommerce, RevOps, customer success Operations & AdministrationFinance, people & HR, supply chain, legal, admin AI & Emerging TechAI/ML, GenAI, MLOps, data, cloud, security Executive & LeadershipC-suite, VP and SVP, confidential search Product & EngineeringSoftware, hardware, platform, product, design Apparel, Home & Consumer ProductsDesign, merchandising, planning, sourcing, PD HealthcareClinical leadership, nursing, allied health, revenue cycle, compliance Public Sector & EducationCities, counties, districts, agencies, K-12, higher ed
What working with us feels like
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How we’re built

Founder-led. Priced honestly. Giving back.

Signal & Strand was built by someone who spent 25+ years in the seats where hiring decisions couldn’t be undone — and who watched what the industry did with those stakes. So we run it differently: no retainers, no rushed hires, a team paid well above market, and a large share of profits going back to the community. We’re headquartered in Long Beach, California, with team members in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific — recruiting in all 50 states and 90+ countries.

Experienced. Accountable. Human.

“Value isn’t measured by titles or margins, but by how work strengthens people and places.”
Our story → Our pro-bono work
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