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For Founders & CEOs

The hire that unlocks your next level of growth.

You are building something that matters. The people you put around you determine whether it works. Force finds the leaders you can't run the company without — fast, with full conviction.

What founders typically search for
CTO / VP Engineering Most common
VP / Head of Sales Series A–B
CMO / VP Marketing Post-seed
CFO Series A–C
COO / Chief of Staff Scaling ops
The problem

You know the cost of getting this wrong.

A bad hire at the leadership level doesn't just cost money. It costs momentum, team morale, and sometimes the company itself. These are the situations founders come to Force with.

01

The right person changes everything

You've seen it — one exceptional leader unlocks a whole level of the company. Product velocity jumps. The team raises its game. Revenue follows. That's what's at stake with every senior hire.

02

The window to move is short

Scale-ups that win attract the best talent while momentum is visible and the story is compelling. Every week a critical seat sits empty, you're losing ground — to your roadmap, your competitors, and your team's confidence.

03

A mis-hire at this level costs 12 months

Not just in severance. In the team that reorganised around the wrong person, the initiatives that stalled, and the ground you gave back to competitors while you recovered. The cost of getting this wrong is asymmetric.

How Force solves it

Search built for your speed and your standard.

Force combines AI-driven market intelligence with senior human judgment. The result is a process that moves faster, goes deeper, and delivers candidates who are genuinely right — not just available.

Full market coverage from day one

Force maps the entire candidate landscape in your domain within 72 hours. You see the market as it is, not just who happens to be on LinkedIn that week. No stone unturned.

Domain expertise in your corner

Force brings in senior operators from your space — people who have actually done the job being hired for. They calibrate what 'great' looks like for your specific context, not a generic benchmark.

AI-powered signal, not noise

Every candidate goes through structured scoring — technical depth, leadership signals, cultural alignment — before they reach you. You interview fewer people and hire better ones.

A guarantee you can build plans around

If a Force placement doesn't work out in the first year, we run the search again. No debate, no conditions. You carry enough risk already — the search shouldn't add to it.

What you get

Speed, depth, and conviction — not volume.

Force is not a CV-forwarding service. You get a research-led process with a senior team behind it, from first brief to signed offer.

72h

Market map delivered

Within three days of briefing you see the full candidate landscape — who exists, where they are, and what it will take to move them.

4–6w

First shortlist to offer

Force compresses the typical executive search timeline significantly without cutting corners on quality or depth.

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A number worth saying out loud. We'll add this once we have something we stand behind fully.

From a client

'Force operates at a different level in every way. It gets the job done.'

Tim Rutten, CMO at Backbase

12-Month Replacement Guarantee on every search

Tell us who you need.

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