The Private Equity Hiring Playbook
Turn Every Executive Hire Into a Value Creation Event
Discover the proven frameworks private equity leaders use to align hiring with investment theses, accelerate time-to-value, and avoid costly missteps. This playbook delivers everything you need to future-proof your portfolio with transformational talent.
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Your Next Mis-Hire Could Kill Your Exit Plan
High-stakes hiring in private equity is no longer just about filling a role. One wrong executive can derail value creation, extend timelines, and cost your firm up to 213% of a C-level salary.
Why We Wrote this Guide
Private equity firms turn to us because the stakes are high, and the problems are familiar: misaligned hires, stalled value creation, and missed targets. We wrote this guide to help PE executives and talent leaders transform hiring from a vulnerability into a competitive advantage by aligning talent strategy with investment goals and building leadership teams that accelerate growth.
Who This Guide is For
This guide is built for the decision-makers responsible for driving portfolio company performance: Operating Partners, Talent Partners, CEOs, CHROs, and executive search leaders in private equity. If you’re tasked with building high-impact leadership teams, closing critical talent gaps, and ensuring every hire moves the needle on value creation, this playbook is for you.
What You'll learn
Spot the Talent Gaps That Threaten Value Creation
Define the Role with Precision
Use Scorecards to Reduce Bias and Increase Clarity
Run a Disciplined Search and Interview Process
Onboard Executives to Accelerate Impact
Why Talentfoot
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Leveraging our deep industry knowledge, extensive network, and a structured and meticulous search methodology, Talentfoot’s Private Equity Practice delivers the transformational leaders who drive successful exits. We secure proven commercial, technology, operations, and finance executives who’ve generated 3-5x returns in PE-backed companies.
Hire Right with Talentfoot's Search Partners
When you need game-changing talent, experience matters. Our search partners average 15+ years recruiting senior roles, bringing deep expertise to every recruiting partnership. That's why 2500+ companies trust us to get the job done.
Jaime
Executive Senior Partner
20+ years exp.
Role specialities: CFO, CAO, FP&A, VP Corporate Development, Controller
Rich
Executive Senior Partner
15+ years exp.
Industry specialities: eCommerce, Marketing Services, AdTech, MarTech
Tim
VP of Client Engagement
20+ years exp.
Industry specialities: AI, Data Analytics, SaaS, IT Services
Leslie
Executive Senior Partner
25+ years exp.
Role specialities: CEO, COO, CMO, CRO, CIO
Mindy
Accounting Search Partner
10+ years exp.
Role specialities: Senior Accountant, Accounting Director, Technical Accounting Manager.
Amanda
Executive Senior Partner
15+ years exp.
Industry specialities: Professional Services, Marketing, Advertising, eCommerce
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Scientifically-backed evaluations to ensure candidates have the DNA and personality traits to fit into your culture.
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Tap into our exclusive network of top-performing accounting professionals who aren’t actively searching for jobs.
Performance-Based Fee
Designed to fit your company’s size, stage, and specific recruitment requirements.
Competitive Insights
Unlock competitor compensation models, hiring trends, growth goals, corporate culture, and more.
Multi-Step Vetting
Rigorous vetting process to secure only the most qualified candidates.
Comprehensive Onboarding Support
Structured guidance to integrate talent and increase speed-to-performance.
Search Consultation and Strategy
We take a deep dive into the role to understand what’s required to achieve success in, then we build a comprehensive position profile and targeted search strategy around that.
Customized Recruitment Plan
Talentfoot develops a tailored strategy based on your company size, growth goals, industry, and ideal candidate profile.
Plan Execution
Through targeted headhunting, we curate elite candidate pools, vetted by science-based assessments and behavioral interviews, ensuring we deliver only top-tier talent for you.
Placement
We make hiring the talent you want easier with complimentary compensation planning, offer negotiation, and onboarding support.
Post-Hire Engagement And Support
Industry leading guarantee period, onboarding consultation and support, and accounting and finance team growth and performance strategy development.
Your next game-changing hire is closer and faster than you think – guaranteed.
Whether you’re a growth-focused start-up, scale-up, mid-market, or investor backed company, you’ll benefit from Talentfoot’s unmatched accounting executive recruiting success. With a 98% fill rate, we radically outperform traditional recruiters and staffing firms – and do it all in under 5 weeks.
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