Executive Search · Senior Leadership Advisory
The decisions behindthe people who lead.
HireVeda works where leadership decisions get made — helping ambitious companies find exceptional leaders, and helping exceptional leaders navigate what comes next.
CXO, VP & Director-level hiring
Material impact roles only — the hires that shape the company.
From both sides of the table
Deeply involved with companies and with leaders, every single week.
From seed to Series D
Trusted by India's fastest-growing startups.
Why it is hard
Great leadership decisionsare rarelyobvious.
Senior leadership roles are not filled through volume. They are filled through clarity, judgment, timing and trust.
HireVeda operates at the layer of the market where leadership decisions are made quietly, deliberately and early. That work requires five things at once — and all of them before the first conversation happens.
- Context
- What the mandate actually demands, beneath the job description.
- Judgment
- Knowing which compromise is acceptable and which one is not.
- Market understanding
- Who is genuinely comparable, and who is only nominally so.
- Relationships
- Access earned over years, not assembled from a database.
- Discretion
- Most senior searches close before they are ever written down.
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The premise
One firm.Two perspectives.
This unique dual perspective informs everything we do. Nothing in the process is one-sided — including how the search is run, who is approached, and what gets reported back.
Companies
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Find the leader who changes the trajectory.
- CXO, VP and Director-level mandates only
- High-context, low-noise search
- Roles that materially shape the company
Leaders
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Find the opportunity worth moving for.
- Positioning and targeting strategy
- Early conversations, not applications
- Discreet, structured and senior-grade
Dual perspective
We bridge the gap by being deeply involved on both sides of the table every single week.
Whether you are hiring a leadership team or deciding what comes next for your own career, the first conversation is the same: what is actually at stake, and what would make this decision worth getting right.
Evidence
Numbers we will stand behind.
Figures as published by HireVeda across senior leadership mandates.
Offer acceptance rate
98%
CXO & senior leadership roles
A mandate runs end to end without losing momentum. The sequence below is the shape of every senior search we run.
- 01Brief
- 02Search
- 03Conversations
- 04Evaluation
- 05Offer
- 06Join
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Median closure time
2× faster across critical roles
250+
Startups served
70% repeat mandates
Top 1%
Pre-vetted candidates
Curated for perfect fit
For companies
When the rolechanges the trajectory.
We partner with fast-growing startups and growth-stage companies to hire senior leaders across functions — exclusively on roles that materially shape the company.
Explore Executive Search01Understand
We start inside the mandate rather than the job description — the business problem the hire has to solve, the scope they will inherit, and the pressure the board is holding.
We start inside the mandate rather than the job description — the business problem the hire has to solve, the scope they will inherit, and the pressure the board is holding.
We build the market around the role: who is genuinely comparable, where those people sit today, and which of them would not realistically be looking.
A short, high-context approach. No broadcast, no volume — direct conversations with a small number of people worth having.
Structured assessment against the mandate, with the reasoning made explicit so your leadership team can debate the trade-offs rather than just the CVs.
Offer strategy, risk management and the awkward conversations — handled with the discretion senior mandates require.
We stay through the first months. A leadership hire that fails quietly in the first ninety days is not a hire.
For leaders
Your next moveshould mean something.
ExecEdge is our career transition program for senior leaders navigating their next move — designed for professionals who want clarity, visibility and control. Not transactional job search support.
Most senior roles are never written down. They close through people asking around. ExecEdge is built to put you in those conversations — earlier, with better material, and on your own terms.
- 16 weeks
- Active structure — a Foundation Phase and three sprints
- 60
- Target companies mapped across three sprints
- Closed
- Cohorts, with a limited number of seats each
- You
- Remain the sender of record for every message
For director, vp, business head and cxo-level professionals.
Explore ExecEdgeThe trajectory
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Position
A structured self-reflection exercise and a research-backed calibration of your profile against the market — before a single conversation happens.
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Visibility
Outreach collateral built to be read by decision-makers: resume, LinkedIn profile, campaign templates, a company research framework and a network activation plan.
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Conversations
Research mapping of target companies and decision-makers, up to sixty companies across three sprints — with every message approved by you and sent from your own address.
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Opportunity
Interview strategy briefs for scheduled conversations, and inclusion in HireVeda's monthly candidature showcase.
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Next chapter
Up to three dedicated check-ins with a Program Guide, plus day-to-day support from a Program Manager and research team.
ExecEdge is a premium, non-placement, non-recruitment service. The intended outcome is meaningful conversations with relevant decision-makers — not a promise of an offer.
Mandates we’re trusted with
What we’retrusted with.
Senior mandates rarely arrive as a clean brief. These are the situations that come up most often — and the judgement each one actually requires.
Founder-led companies past product-market fit. The hires are functional leaders as much as specialists, and the bar is whether they can operate without you in the room.
Who you will be working with
People who’ve saton both sides of the decision.
Founders, operators and talent leaders from internet companies, consulting and new-age consumer businesses — most of whom have hired for senior roles and been hired into them.
Where we operate
A narrow book, on purpose.
From seed to Series D, we've helped India's boldest startups scale their teams with precision.
- Company stage
- SeedSeries A–DGrowth-stageScale-up
- Organisation
- StartupsGrowth-stage companiesMid-sized firms
- Mandate
- CXOVPDirector
- Engagement
- Executive Search for companiesExecEdge for senior leaders
Signals, perspectives and decisions
HireVedaIntelligence.
Where to begin
Good companies are builtby exceptional people.
Whether you’re building a leadership team or considering what’s next, let’s start with a conversation.
For companies
Building or rebuilding a senior team. Start with the mandate, not the job description.
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Considering what's next. Start with a market view you can trust, then decide.
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