Working with Bluebird.
Some clients come to us with one critical hire to make. Others with an entire team to build. We approach both the same way: as work that deserves senior partners, our full attention, and the network it takes to get it right.
When clients call us.
A few patterns repeat in the work we take on:
A confidential search that calls for discretion at every step.
A new function being built for the first time: a first head of sales, a first head of marketing, a first revenue team for a product-led business hitting its commercial inflection point.
A hybrid profile that doesn't sit cleanly in any one box, and a job description that can't quite capture what the right person actually looks like.
A growth-stage company hitting an inflection point and scaling fast.
A senior leader stepping into a critical role, with a search that needs to be done right the first time.
What these have in common is that they don't fit a standard process. They need senior judgment, current market context, and the kinds of relationships that turn an open role into the right hire. Some of these engagements become multi-year partnerships, and we've recruited leadership through every stage of a company's growth.
How an engagement works.
Our clients get our full attention. That means direct access, real availability, and a partner who's in the work with you, not running it from a distance. We listen carefully on the front end, stay close throughout, and bring the judgment that comes from doing the search ourselves rather than briefing it to someone else.
We work both contingency and retained. We'll tell you which model makes sense for your search before we start, and we'll tell you if we think the role is better suited to another firm.
Our client engagements are exclusive. We work alongside the hiring team, not against three other firms running parallel processes. We've found it makes the search better for everyone involved, including the candidates and the signal you put into the market.
We move quickly when speed matters. We slow down when it doesn't. And we share what we're seeing in real time: who's in motion, who's not, who's hiring against you, and what the market context is telling us as the search unfolds.
Let's start.
If you're hiring in digital media and want a search partner who'll do the work alongside you, we'd like to hear about it. The first conversation costs nothing and gives us a chance to tell you honestly whether we're the right fit for the search.