How Plenty Works

You're building the future. Start hiring like it.

We’ve reinvented executive search for the companies building what’s next, designed to respect your time and deliver top-tier talent twice as fast.

The Plenty way

Boutique by design

We’ll never be a 500-person firm. We’ll never have junior recruiters you’ve never met running your search. When you work with Plenty, you work with partners who have skin in the game.

Built for speed

Our entire operation is designed for velocity. Dedicated researchers, parallel processing, and operators who can assess fit in one conversation. We move at startup speed because we are a startup.

Radically transparent

No black box. You’ll have access to our pipeline, our process, and our thinking throughout the search. Weekly updates, real-time Slack collaboration, and honest feedback always.

The Plenty difference in practice

Plenty

Traditional firms

Stage of Focus
Seed to Series A → Series C
Seed to IPO
Searches Per Recruiter
4 – 5
10 – 15
Team Experience
Startup Operators
Agency Operators
Typical Associate
Principal Level
8-10+ YoE
1 – 5 YoE (often new grads)

Plenty

Stage of Focus
Seed to Series A → Series C
Searches Per Recruiter
4 – 5
Team Experience
Startup Operators
Typical Associate
Principal Level
8-10+ YoE

Traditional firms

Stage of Focus
Seed to IPO
Searches Per Recruiter
10 – 15
Team Experience
Agency Operators
Typical Associate
Principal Level
1 – 5 YoE (often new grads)

A few placements by the numbers

0 days

SVP Product at Visana Health

"From kick-off to signed offer in 9 weeks"

0 days

Head of Product at SonderMind

"Competed against Google for this candidate—and won"

0 days

VP Engineering at Facet

"80% diverse candidate slate, phenomenal hire"

0 days

COO at Nursa

"Emergency placement after previous firm failed"

Common questions from founders

What types of roles do you support?
Plenty specializes in Director positions and above for startups from Series A-C. Plenty has dedicated team members for Product + Engineering, Go-to-Market (sales, marketing, customer success), and G&A functions (finance, operations, people, talent). This allows us to grow with a startup and support multiple hires (over 50% of our searches are from repeat clients).
We intentionally take on half the number of searches per team member (vs. traditional firms). This allows us to focus in a way that the traditional firms can’t, allowing us to find the right fit, faster.
Of course! We love working with first-time founders. Our team has direct experience working in startups led by first-time founders, so we understand your needs and challenges.
No problem! Plenty is passionate about adding value to the startup ecosystem. We’re happy to think through org designs, role leveling, market trends, comp, and more. If we can be helpful, we’d love to start building a relationship.
Our network is filled with candidates who love to build. All have early stage experience, and most have worked for large, reputable companies in the past. These folks know what great looks like, and have shifted into early-stage startups because they love the impact and the journey.
This is the most vulnerable stage for startups, and the easiest stage to get hiring wrong. Far too often, startups over-hire and bring in strategy people who can’t be hands-on, or under-hire and bring in people who can’t scale with the company. We thread that needle in every search and thrive on the impact it has on our clients’ ability to scale.

Ready to experience the Plenty difference?

Every great company is built on exceptional talent.
Let’s discuss how we can help you find yours.
Or reach out directly: hello@plentysearch.com, ops@plentysearch.com, 430 Park Avenue, New York, NY
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