Most recruiting roles start with candidates.

This one starts with a diagnosis.

At Ari Agency Executive Search, we partner with founders and leadership teams to make one decision that changes everything: hiring the right leader. We're not a volume shop.

We don't work contingency.

And we don't believe speed without strategy creates great outcomes.

Through our A-WAY™ framework, we help founders and executives understand what an A-Player actually looks like before we ever go to market. We uncover leadership gaps, team dynamics, growth-stage realities, and the hidden factors that often determine whether a hire succeeds or fails.

This is why our work feels as much like consulting as it does recruiting.

The Opportunity We are looking for a consultative, commercially-minded professional to lead executive search assignments across startups, scaleups, and high-growth organizations throughout North America.

You may come from executive search.

You may come from an advertising, marketing, media agency, consulting firm, digital agency, technology company, product organization, or client services environment.

What matters most is your ability to build trusted relationships, ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions, and guide clients through important business decisions. In this role, you will:

• Lead retained assignments for founders, owners, senior executives, high-growth startups, scaleups and global brands from kickoff through signed offer • Facilitate discovery and stakeholder alignment sessions with founders, leadership teams, and key decision-makers • Help clients define leadership mandates, organizational priorities, success measures, team dynamics, and the capabilities required for growth • Conduct talent mapping, market research, competitive intelligence, and executive outreach across North America • Interview and assess senior leaders across Marketing, Product, Operations, Technology, AI, Innovation, Revenue, and Growth functions • Develop candidate assessments, search strategies, market insights, and executive search recommendations that help clients make informed hiring decisions • Build trusted relationships with founders, executives, and candidates while managing the search process from discovery through offer acceptance • Present insights, challenge assumptions, and guide executive-level decision-making with confidence, credibility, and a consultative approach • Contribute to business development, thought leadership, client growth initiatives, and the continued evolution of our A-WAY™ framework

Who You Are You may have experience in: • Executive search or retained recruitment • Agency account management or client services • Strategy consulting • Product, digital, or technology consulting • Executive client management • Business transformation or growth consulting

You are someone who: • Builds trust quickly with founders and executives • Has exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Thinks strategically and asks insightful questions • Can synthesize complex information into clear recommendations • Is naturally curious about businesses, people, and leadership • Is comfortable influencing senior stakeholders • Has strong commercial awareness and business judgment • Brings a point of view rather than simply taking orders • Thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving complex problems

What Makes This Different This is not a traditional recruiting role. And it's not an execution role. Our clients don't hire us simply to find candidates. They hire us to help them understand what kind of leader they actually need. The ability to challenge thinking, uncover blind spots, and guide better decisions is every bit as important as the search itself.

Why Join Ari Agency Finding talent isn't the hard part.

Getting the strategy right is.

You'll join a team that believes hiring is the most important business decisions a company makes and that great search starts with understanding the business, not the résumé. If you're looking for a role that combines consulting, strategy, relationship management, executive assessment, and search, we'd love to talk.

Location Remote, with preference for candidates located in the Greater Toronto Area, Vancouver or Montreal area.