Exceptional Leadership
Bespoke Partners is the largest executive recruiting and
leadership advisory service firm exclusively focused on software and SaaS companies.
Our unique functional role focus and deep software sector expertise accelerate searches while producing more successful placements.
Private Equity Talent Report
2024 Talent Market Update #1
Tailored Talent
How to Navigate a Tight CEO Market: Insights from Bespoke Partners’ Leaders
Join Eric Walczykowski, CEO of Bespoke Partners and host of “Tailored Talent,” for an in-depth discussion with Katherine Baker, co-lead of Bespoke Partners’ CEO practice, and Jenny Gray, Senior Vice President in the CEO practice. This episode explores current CEO market trends, the challenges of a limited talent pool, and the strategic approaches private equity firms are using to navigate this landscape.
Bespoke Partners’ unique, data-driven Search 2.0™ process accelerates leadership recruiting, producing the software and SaaS sector’s fastest executive searches with the best outcomes.
This is the Science of Search.
Unmatched track record
in software & SaaS executive recruiting
4,000+
successful executed searches by Bespoke recruiter experts
250+
companies transformed
with new leaders
<100
day typical search time,
half the industry average
15+
software & SaaS verticals
95%
executive placement
success rate
100%
repeat customers among
our top clients
Avoiding Bad C-Suite Hires in Private Equity Portfolio Companies
Watch the recap of our most recent panel discussion hosted by Bespoke Partners’ CEO Eric Walczykowski, and joined by Go-To-Market Practice Leader, Tess Fischer, where they walked through the latest best practices for mitigating the risk of making a C-suite mis-hire and explored current industry trends in their Q&A.
Dedicated Practice Areas
Transformative CEO & Board Recruiting Program
Transformative Marketing Leaders
Transformative Talent & Human Resources Leaders
Growth Driving Go-to-Market Leaders
Human Capital Acceleration Program
First Time Right
Search
We excel at executive search at every company stage, including start-up, growth, public and buyout. We deliver C-level, Board, GM, OP and other senior executives across the full range of software and SaaS sector companies, including Fintech, Edtech, Cybersecurity, Martech, CRM, ERP, Healthcare and many more.
Search 2.0: The Science of Search
Our unique data-driven analysis of a candidate’s capabilities and fit with the organization and executive team, dramatically accelerating search. It includes Deep Validation, the industry’s most thorough backchannel reference checking.
Winning Results
Examples of transformative leaders who create value
M&A Expert
Bespoke-placed CFO orchestrates 12 M&A initiatives, ups revenue by 50% for ERP software company
Growth Driver
Bespoke-placed CEO leads legal software firm to record growth, market leader status and leveraged buyout for >$1.5B valuation
Hold Period Accelerator
Bespoke-placed CFO helps drive 30% customer base expansion for cybersecurity software company
Select Clients: Private Equity
Select Clients: Growth & Venture
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Bespoke Partners transforms companies. Joining us can transform your career. Learn more about joining our fast growing, fun-loving team.
Blog
How Old School Generalist Recruiters Create Talent Market Blind Spots, Cut Recruiting Effectiveness
You wouldn’t go to your general practitioner doctor for brain surgery. So why do some companies hire non-specialized recruiters to perform searches for mission-critical leadership roles? In fact, relying on an old-school generalist recruiter has a profound impact on the duration of a search and the quality of the outcomes.
‘Software is Eating the World’ And Most Search Firms Are What’s For Dinner
If you are working with a generic, jack-of-all-trades recruiting firm that focuses on any industry, you are setting yourself up for slower searches with worse outcomes. Simply put, these firms don’t have the expertise to understand the sector or the clock speed to deliver at the industry’s pace.
Building the Right Team, Fast: The Team Build Strategy for Accelerated Value Creation
In the world of executive search, a “team build” is a strategic approach to assembling a cohesive group of executives for a single company, often under time constraints. We see it as an essential strategy in our work with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.