Retained Executive Search
End-to-end leadership search for companies that need a deeper read than a résumé and a reference check.
Custom retained engagement
For hiring teams and founders | Avoid the Hiring Bluff™
You thought AI would make hiring easier. It made it harder.
More applicants. Better packaging. Smoother interviews. And no reliable way to tell who is actually going to deliver once they start.
Talk to me about the roleThe Hiring Bluff™
The hard part is not finding candidates. It is knowing which signals to trust.
- Your pipeline is full, but very little of it is actually useful.
- People look qualified on paper, then an hour-long interview uncovers major gaps.
- The role has been open too long and the team is losing confidence in the search.
- You cannot afford to confuse a polished presenter with the operator the business needs.
How I help
Strategic hiring support for roles you cannot afford to get wrong.
I help hiring teams clarify what great actually looks like, separate evidence from performance, and make stronger decisions with incomplete information.
I have recruited inside Google and Meta, built teams across TKO’s UFC, WWE, and PBR brands, and advised hundreds of hiring managers across more than 10 industries.
I also play poker professionally, so reading what someone is not saying is not something I learned in a training.
Start the hiring conversationWays to work together
Search when you need execution. Advisory when you need a better hiring system.
Strategic Recruiting Sprint
Focused execution for a hard-to-fill role, a new team, or a search producing plenty of activity but not the right hire.
Fixed project scopeFractional Recruiting Leadership
Senior recruiting leadership, scorecards, practical processes, and candidate communication without adding a full-time internal recruiter.
Monthly engagementHiring Calibration & Market Intelligence
Role clarity, talent mapping, compensation context, and an honest read on whether the profile you want exists at the budget you have.
Fixed advisory scopeSee every hiring support optionFocused advisory, embedded leadership, talent mapping, and high-stakes hiring support
Additional ways to work together
Founder Hiring War Room
A focused working session for a critical role, a stalled search, or a final slate that is creating more debate than clarity.
Custom scopeRevenue-Critical Hiring Audit
An honest review of the role, profile, process, pipeline, and interview signals before another month disappears.
Custom scopeFractional Head of Hiring
Senior hiring leadership for companies that need strategy, structure, and execution without a full-time recruiting executive.
Custom scopeExecutive Talent Mapping
Market intelligence on where the right leaders sit, what will attract them, and whether the brief matches the available talent.
Custom scopeAI can write a résumé. It cannot read a room.
That is where we come in.
1,000+Professionals hired or placed
5,000+Candidates interviewed
100+Senior leaders and executives recruited
HundredsOf hiring managers advised
What a client says when I’m not in the room
“The majority of our top performers have come from Rachel and the Unicorn Wranglers team.”
Co-Founder & COO
Digital Marketing Agency
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