Executive Search for Lower-Middle-Market Companies

Meet your finalist candidates in 25 business days. Backed by our money-back guarantee.

Your next leadership hire is too important to leave to a resume flood. We deliver a small slate of rigorously tested finalists within 25 business days of kickoff. If the first presentation misses the criteria we agreed on, we refund your initial search fee.

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94.8%
Lifetime fill rate
94.5%
Placement retention
25
Business days to your slate

Hiring a leader usually fails one of two ways.

Either the search runs dry, or it drowns you. Both cost you months of momentum and leave the seat empty while your competitors move.

Too few qualified applicants

You post the role. Weeks pass. The candidates who show up are a level below what the seat demands. The best people for this job are not applying anywhere. They are employed, succeeding, and invisible to a job posting. Someone has to go find them.

Too many unqualified ones

Or the opposite. Three hundred resumes, and your team burns evenings screening people who interview well and perform poorly. A resume tells you where someone has been. It tells you nothing about whether they can move your business forward.

The Platinum Guarantee

We back our first search with proof, not promises.

Most search firms ask you to trust them. We would rather earn it. That is why your first search with us carries a money-back guarantee on the initial fee, and every placement carries a full one-year replacement guarantee.

You take the risk out of trying us. We take the risk out of hiring.

Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee you will be satisfied with the first presentation of candidates who meet the mutually agreed upon search criteria for your first search engagement.

If after reviewing that initial presentation you determine the candidates do not meet the target criteria and elect not to proceed, we refund your initial search fee. No risk, just proof that we are the right partner for your future searches.

1-Year Replacement Guarantee

Any candidate we place is guaranteed for 12 months from their start date. If they leave voluntarily or are terminated for performance within that period, we conduct a new search at no additional charge.

How It Works

Kickoff to finalist slate in 25 business days.

Think Formula 1 pit crew. Incredibly fast, incredibly precise. Speed never comes at the expense of candidate quality.

01

Kickoff

We learn your business, the role, the KPIs for success, and calibrate compensation and assessments.

02

Search

We map the market and directly engage top performers who are not actively looking.

03

Evaluate

Multi-stage interviews plus Hogan and Chally testing. Within 25 business days you receive scored, tested finalists side by side.

04

Select

We run interview logistics, join your decision-maker meetings, and coach the offer strategy.

05

Close

We help close the right candidate and set them up to succeed, backed by the one-year guarantee.

The Platinum Difference.

Your partners first, recruiters second

We have led executive leadership teams ourselves, so we understand the pressures of your business. We take this mentality into every search, which means we don't just recruit. We find candidates who are uniquely capable of moving your business forward.

Fewer resumes, better results

You receive a small, highly qualified slate, not a flood. We actively identify and reach out to your ideal candidates instead of posting a job and waiting for whoever applies.

Science-backed testing

Every finalist completes multiple in-depth interviews plus Hogan or Chally assessments. Scoring criteria are built for each role and the KPIs required to excel in it. You see honest, balanced insight on every candidate.

94.8%
Fill rate on completed searches
94.5%
Placement retention rate
25
Business days to finalists

"We partnered with Platinum Search Partners to hire a new president for our company. We needed to move fast, but our requirements for the role were highly specific and non-negotiable. PSP delivered candidates who not only met those criteria but exceeded them. Their process and speed made it possible to quickly hire a leader who is driving meaningful impact across our business."

Stephen Matoesian
Operating Partner, Pillar Health Group

"I've partnered with PSP for years and have been incredibly satisfied with all the services they've provided. Platinum Search Partners recently helped us build our entire sales and delivery team. They took the time to understand our business and moved fast. PSP's system for identifying and vetting candidates consistently delivered talent we never would have found on our own. Their process was highly effective."

Kerry Padrick
President, CSS

"As CEO, I've worked with five different recruiting firms over the past five years. All of them were terrible: low quality candidates, unfocused, slow, or didn't do any vetting. It wasn't productive and we lost out on incredible growth opportunities. PSP is the complete opposite. They only introduce you to high quality candidates you can hire swiftly. They devote the focus, time, and effort that is required to succeed at recruiting."

Jordan Carter
Founder, Trevale
David Stupay, Founder of Platinum Search Partners
Your Search Lead

Every search is led by a five-time CEO.

David Stupay founded Platinum Search Partners after leading five companies across manufacturing, consulting, and nonprofit sectors. He has made the hiring decisions you are facing right now, and he has felt the cost of getting them wrong.

We do not delegate searches to entry level recruiters. David guides every engagement, supported by a team of search professionals and an advisor network of former Fortune 250 executives, YPO members, experienced healthcare leaders, and successful entrepreneurs with multiple exits.

Let's find your next great leader.

A 30-minute intro call with David Stupay. Bring the role you are looking to fill.

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Platinum Search Partners. Executive search backed by a money-back guarantee on your first search and a one-year replacement guarantee on every placement.