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Talent Vine

Searches & engagements

Serious about the search.
Personal about the partnership.

Each engagement is scoped around what you need to hire and what it will take to get there.

As of July 1, 2026, we no longer offer contingent recruiting or embedded sourcing. Explore our current engagements below.
01

Retained search

For the hire that changes what’s possible.

An exclusive search for a critical or hard-to-find hire. We work with you to define the role, map the market and bring the right people into the conversation. Sourced candidates, referrals and inbound interest all move through one coordinated process.

  • Niche technical roles and senior hires across business functions
  • One agreed search fee, paid in scheduled instalments rather than on placement
  • A defined search period, with scope and terms agreed at the outset
Discuss a retained search
02

Hiring partnership

“Find us as many great engineers as you can.”

This is where we do some of our best work: multiple openings, a shared understanding of what good looks like, and the opportunity to learn your team and business in depth.

We work closely with your hiring team throughout the search, refining the profile with detailed feedback from real candidate conversations.

  • A minimum of three openings
  • An engagement fee plus a percentage of first-year cash compensation per hire
  • A defined hiring scope and an agreed commitment of time or roles
Tell us about your team
03

Office Hours

One hour. Your hiring questions.

Get a Talent Vine recruiter’s perspective on a hiring challenge. Bring questions about a role, your pipeline, a candidate profile, or the market you’re navigating.

  • $500 for a one-hour session
  • Hiring advice informed by what we’re seeing in the market
  • A standalone conversation, with no search engagement required
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Our search practice

Deep expertise.
A wider reach.

FDE recruiting is our deepest specialization. We also support the technical leaders and operating teams building ambitious companies.

01

Forward deployed engineering

Our deepest roots. From early FDE hires to growing established teams, shaped by years inside Palantir and alongside the founders who left to build.

02

Technical & product leadership

CTOs, engineering leaders, product leaders, and senior engineers. Searches where understanding the work matters as much as understanding the title.

03

Government & cleared hiring

Technical talent for the government and defense sectors, with extensive experience navigating cleared hiring.

04

Business leadership

Senior searches across strategy, finance, people and talent—from Chief of Staff to Head of People, and the roles that shape a growing company.

For go-to-market hiring, we recommend Stitch Talent. GTM searches aren’t part of our practice.

A good search starts with a real conversation

Let’s find your people.

We take on a select number of clients. Tell us what you’re building, who you need, and how you like to work.

Tell us about your hiring