Hire the people who take your business further.
Pursuit finds exceptional talent, including those not actively looking. Founder-led searches, transparent pricing, and a flexible approach keep you informed from first conversation to final offer.
Chosen by growing companies for their most important hires
From global brands to healthcare systems and private-equity-backed, high-growth companies, organizations rely on Pursuit to hire at every level, with searches led across North America, Europe and Asia.
Hiring, without the usual compromises
What often happens - Weeks of set-up before a single candidate conversation.
What you get with Pursuit - Candidate conversations start immediately, drawing on our experience and established network, with our founder leading every search.
What often happens - Shortlists of whoever responds, built from recycled résumés and outdated databases
What you get with Pursuit - The best person for the role, not just whoever happens to be available. We research the market thoroughly, engage proven people (including those not actively looking) with a genuine, well-informed opportunity, and assess them for long-term fit.
What often happens - Little sight of who has been approached, and research that stays with the firm.
What you get with Pursuit - Full visibility throughout, and everything at the end: market insights, competitive intelligence, metrics and all candidate data, owned by you.
What often happens - A fixed fee as a percentage of salary, whatever the work involved.
What you get with Pursuit - You pay for the work, not a percentage: no placement fee, typically at less than half the cost of traditional search. Projects are tailored to you, and your talent team can own the process.
What clients say
Hear from the leaders who trust Pursuit to find exceptional talent.
“Pursuit has been a trusted partner over the years and brings a very different experience from an agency. They're always willing to ask questions and learn more to hone your search”
“Pursuit has been a trusted partner during times of rapid scaling and hiring. Pursuit helped source and recruit talent from entry level clinical remote staff to VP level corporate hires across the organization.”
A more transparent, flexible way to search
Traditional search ties the fee to the placement and shows you little until the shortlist. We bill for the work itself, by the hour, and show you everything along the way.
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One delivery model, shaped to every need
Whether you need one critical leader, specialists to scale a team, a whole recruiting function, or a clear picture of your market, the same transparent approach carries across every engagement.
Executive Search as a Service
A full-lifecycle search, managed entirely by Pursuit, from brief to offer. We map the market and engage the leaders who fit, so the finalists you meet are qualified, informed and genuinely interested.
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Sourcing
We deliver interested, qualified candidates at any level directly to your hiring managers and stakeholders, while your team runs the process.
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing
We can manage recruiting for an entire organization, or work alongside your talent team, with experienced leadership across the hiring lifecycle. Your team keeps the relationships and the credit.
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Competitive Intelligence
Market maps and competitive intelligence on the organizations you choose: how teams are structured, where the expertise sits, and what the market looks like for your role. Available on its own or built into every search.
Challenge, Situation and Solution
What our approach delivered, in numbers. Where clients prefer confidentiality, we describe them by type.
Senior Account Executive - Healthcare
Hire experienced Senior Account Executives, with total compensation of about $200K per role, without paying contingency fees on each hire.
The client's internal team wanted qualified candidates sent straight to its hiring managers so it could keep control of the process.
Pursuit sourced and sent 5 interested and qualified candidates, and the client hired 2 of them. The total project cost was about $6,400, saving roughly $94,000 compared with contingent search fees.
SVP, Academic Health System Strategy - Healthcare
Find a Senior Vice President of Academic Health System Strategy, a specialist executive role with a $600K base salary.
The client needed a strategic leader who knew academic medicine, without paying the high fees of a traditional retained search.
Through its Executive Search as a Service model, Pursuit delivered 6 interested and qualified candidates for a project cost of $4,000. That saved the client about $192,000 compared with a retained search.
Competitive Intelligence - Sports Apparel
Help one of the world's largest sports apparel companies expand its European market share by strengthening its sales organization.
The client needed a clearer understanding of competitors' go-to-market strategies to determine how to structure its sales organization and engage customers effectively.
Pursuit developed detailed competitive intelligence reports covering leading competitors' go-to-market strategies, helping the client make informed decisions about its sales structure and customer engagement.
Building an Analytics Team - Healthcare Technology
Build a high-performing analytics team combining deep healthcare expertise with strong technical capabilities.
An early-stage startup engaged Pursuit as its full-lifecycle recruitment partner, beginning with the construction of its analytics team.
Pursuit remained a recruitment partner for years, supporting the company through its early growth, private equity acquisition, and eventual successful IPO, while scaling recruitment across multiple business functions.
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Flexible Hiring Partnership - Technology
Support the hiring needs of a private-equity-backed technology product firm while building a foundation for long-term talent growth.
Pursuit partnered directly with the CEO and individual business leaders to fill early-stage roles while developing the company's long-term talent infrastructure.
Pursuit's week-by-week engagement model provided flexibility and transparency, helping the company navigate the hiring demands that came with rapid growth.
Chief Growth Officer - Healthcare
Find a Chief Growth Officer for a healthcare organization, a senior hire with total compensation above $600,000.
Pursuit worked directly with the client's Chief People Officer to define cultural fit and check each candidate's track record in similar growth roles.
Pursuit ran the full search and placed the Chief Growth Officer for a total project cost of about $10,000, saving the client more than $150,000 compared with a traditional recruitment model.
People we've placed, value we've delivered
From CEOs to the specialists behind growing teams, here's a selection of the roles we fill and the results behind them.
A different perspective on recruiting.
Pursuit was founded in 2014 by Lee Skaggs, whose experience spans recruiting, talent research, sales, and consulting. Having seen the limitations of traditional contingent and retained search models, Lee envisioned a more flexible, transparent, and accountable approach to recruiting.
Today, Lee brings that philosophy to every client relationship, combining deep industry experience with a practical understanding of business and talent challenges. Pursuit remains founder-led, with Lee directly involved in client relationships, search strategy, and execution.
An estimate before you commit, costs updated weekly, and no placement fee.
The full pipeline and search activity, as it happens, not just the shortlist.
Market insights, competitive intelligence and candidate data, reusable for future hires.
Before you get in touch
From CEOs to the specialists behind growing teams, we fill roles and the results behind them.
Every level: C-suite, VP and Director searches, senior specialists, and entire teams. We work across healthcare, technology, financial services, consumer brands, professional sports and manufacturing, with much of our work for healthcare organizations and private-equity-backed, high-growth companies.
Yes. We're trusted with C-suite searches, but we're also brought in to fill specialist roles and scale whole teams. The same approach works at any level.
We don't rely on job postings. We research the market for your role, reach out personally to people whose experience fits, and talk through the opportunity properly, so anyone you meet is genuinely interested.
We build a clear picture of the talent market for a role: how comparable organizations structure their teams, and the experience and skills that exist in the market. Clients use it to plan hiring, benchmark roles, understand competitors or support their own search. It's how Pursuit began.
We look beyond the résumé to skills, leadership and potential, and we focus on long-term alignment with your business rather than a quick placement.
Lee leads our engagements personally, supported by seasoned search professionals.
Yes.
You get an estimate before you commit and costs updated weekly, so there are no surprises. Searches typically cost less than half of a traditional percentage fee.
Let's talk about your next hire.
Every conversation is confidential.