XCB Recruitment
Director/Partner - Recruitment
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🚨 Director / Partner – Exec Search
📍 London | Front-Office Financial Services Search
💰 Exceptional package, commission and equity opportunity
My client is looking to appoint an accomplished Director or Partner to help lead the next stage of its growth.
This is not simply another senior billing role. This is an already established firm with a strong reputation within front-office financial services search, particularly across Investment Banking and M&A. The business is now looking for an experienced Private Equity recruitment specialist who can complement its existing expertise and build a market-leading PE practice.
The opportunity
You will have the autonomy, support and platform to develop the Private Equity offering around your own experience, relationships, and vision. Working closely with the founders, you will play a genuine role in shaping the wider direction of the business while continuing to originate and deliver senior-level mandates. You will be responsible for:
- Building and leading Private Equity recruitment propositions within front office mandates
- Developing relationships with private equity funds and investment businesses
- Winning and delivering retained and senior-level search mandates
- Leveraging and expanding your existing network across the PE market
- Recruiting and developing a specialist team as the practice grows
- Contributing to the strategy, culture, and future direction of the firm
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Who they are looking for
This opportunity is designed for an established front-office financial services recruiter with a strong understanding of the Private Equity landscape. You may already be operating at AD/ Director or Partner level, or you may be a proven senior recruiter who feels ready to step into a role offering greater influence, ownership, and long-term reward.
You will ideally bring:
- A successful track record within Private Equity or a closely related investment market
- Strong relationships across funds, investment professionals, or portfolio businesses
- Proven business-development and client-origination capability
- Experience delivering senior or retained search assignments
- The ambition to build a practice rather than simply inherit a desk
- A commercial, entrepreneurial, and relationship-led approach
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This is a rare opportunity to join a specialist business at a stage where your contribution will be highly visible and genuinely influential.
You will benefit from:
- A respected platform within front-office financial services search
- Direct access to the founders and involvement in strategic decisions
- Significant autonomy to build the Private Equity practice your way
- An exceptional financial package and earning potential
- A meaningful equity opportunity
- A genuine route to becoming a central part of the firm’s long-term growth story
If you have built a successful career in Private Equity recruitment but want greater ownership, influence, and reward, this is a conversation worth having.
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