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Executive Search & Leadership Hiring

Leadership hiring is a business decision. We treat it as one.

24 Hour Search leads Director-through-C-suite searches across commercial real estate and growth-oriented industries, aligned with how a business actually operates.

New York City
Career placements led
1,000+
Director–C-suite
Search seniority
Principal-led
Every engagement

Search, done differently.

Most searches start with a job description. Ours start with the operational and financial outcome the role has to deliver, and work backward from there.

360 perspective

With experience both in-house and in executive search environments, we assess leaders based on how they will perform within your structure, not just how they interview.

Principal-led execution

Every engagement is personally led from intake to offer. You work directly with industry experts, ensuring consistency, accountability, and discretion.

Strategic alignment

We evaluate candidates against your operating model, compensation framework, and long-term objectives. The question is not whether someone is impressive. It is whether they will perform inside your structure.

Market intelligence

Compensation benchmarking, competitive landscape insight, and talent mapping inform every search. When a search stalls, the data usually shows why before anyone else does.

The 24 Hour Search method
The Method

The 24 Hour Search Way.

A deliberate method, applied to every engagement. Each step is built to reduce the risk of a high-stakes hire.

01

Intake

We map the role to your operating model, compensation reality, and long-term plan before a single name is sourced.

02

Search

Targeted talent mapping and market intelligence surface leaders who fit the structure, not only the job description.

03

Assessment

Candidates are evaluated against the business, with a clear view of how they will perform inside your organization.

04

Offer

We guide alignment through to a signed offer, with the discretion a leadership hire requires.

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Kristin Taylor, Founder of 24 Hour Search
Kristin Taylor, Founder
The Founding

Built on a record,
not a pitch.

24 Hour Search was founded by Kristin Taylor, a search and talent leader with experience across in-house and executive search environments and more than a thousand career placements led. The firm is built on that record, and on a method designed to repeat it.

Crain's New York Notable HR Leader (2022)GlobeSt Women of Influence (2025)TopRecruiter (2021, 2022, 2024)CoreNet Global
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Career Advisory

Navigating a leadership transition of your own? We advise individuals through pivots, searches, and recalibration.

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Start a Search

Start with the outcome,
not the title.

Tell us what the role needs to do for the business. We will reply personally to begin the conversation.

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