Leadership hiring is a business decision. We treat it as one.
Retained methodology. No retainer.
24 Hour Search leads Director-through-C-suite searches across commercial real estate and growth-oriented industries, aligned with how a business actually operates.
A category that did not exist.
Executive search has historically forced a choice. Retained firms deliver rigor and charge for it upfront. Contingent recruiters work on success terms and deliver volume. We built a third option: the rigor of retained search, on the terms of contingent. Paid on placement, not on promise.
Retained search
- $30-60k+ upfront engagement fee
- 90+ days exclusivity locked
- Three-installment fee structure
- High commitment before first slate
- The standard for C-suite at large firms
Contingent recruiting
- No fee until placement
- No exclusivity
- Resume volume over assessment
- Limited market mapping
- The standard for transactional hiring
24 Hour Search
- No fee until placement
- Optional exclusivity, never required
- Retained methodology: intake, market mapping, written assessment, slate of 4-6, weekly updates
- Principal-led every engagement
- The standard for senior hires where the work has to be rigorous and the risk has to sit with us
The outcome of retained. The terms of contingent.
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 intelligence, and talent mapping inform every search. When a search stalls, the data usually shows why before anyone else does.
Aligned incentives
We are paid when you hire the right person, not when you sign an engagement letter. Our incentive is the same as yours: the close.
Find your sector.
Every search is grounded in the specific market it serves. Choose the area closest to your business to see how we work within it.
Commercial Real Estate
Asset management, development, brokerage, and operations leadership for owners, operators, and institutional firms.
Explore this sectorProfessional Services
Director-through-C-suite searches for firms whose competitive advantage is the strength of their people.
Explore this sectorGrowth-Oriented Owners & Operators
Leadership hiring for companies scaling deliberately, where the next hire shapes the next phase of the business.
Explore this sectorThe 24 Hour Search Way.
A deliberate method, applied to every engagement. Each step is built to reduce the risk of a high-stakes hire.
Intake
We map the role to your operating model, compensation reality, and long-term plan before a single name is sourced.
Search
Targeted talent mapping and market intelligence surface leaders who fit the structure, not only the job description.
Assessment
Candidates are evaluated against the business, with a clear view of how they will perform inside your organization.
Offer
We guide alignment through to a signed offer, with the discretion a leadership hire requires.
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.
Navigating a leadership transition of your own? We advise individuals through pivots, searches, and recalibration.
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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