Executive Search · Tech Hiring · HR Advisory

The people your next chapter is missing.

Halcyon places leaders and builds teams for scale-ups and Fortune 500s across 30 countries — with a 14-day shortlist promise and a 96% first-year retention rate.

3,200+ placements · rated 4.9/5 by hiring teams
Offer signedCTO · Fintech · Berlin
Shortlist deliveredVP Sales · SaaS · Singapore — day 11
Chief Technology OfficersVP EngineeringHeads of PeopleCFOs & Finance LeadersProduct DirectorsGrowth & Marketing ExecutivesBoard & Advisory
What We Do

Hiring, handled end to end

Six ways we plug into your talent engine — from a single confidential search to running your entire people function.

Retained

Executive Search

C-suite and board placements, run confidentially by former operators who've sat in the seat.

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Speed

Tech & Product Hiring

Engineers, designers and PMs from a vetted network of 40,000 — shortlist in 14 days, guaranteed.

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Embedded

Embedded Talent Teams

Our recruiters inside your Slack, your ATS and your standups — scaling hiring without scaling headcount.

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Global

Global EOR & Payroll

Hire compliantly in 120 countries without an entity — contracts, payroll and benefits handled.

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Brand

Employer Branding

Careers pages, culture films and candidate journeys that make offer-acceptance a formality.

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Advisory

HR & Comp Advisory

Levelling frameworks, compensation benchmarks and retention diagnostics built on live market data.

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Why Halcyon

Recruiters who've done the job they're hiring for

Every Halcyon partner spent a decade as an operator first — CTOs hiring CTOs, CFOs hiring CFOs. We don't keyword-match. We pressure-test for the exact context your company is in.

  • 14-day shortlist promise, written into every contract
  • 12-month replacement guarantee on all retained searches
  • Structured, bias-audited interview kits for every role
  • Transparent flat fees — never a percentage surprise
Meet Your Search Partner
How It Works

Brief to onboarded in four moves

Day 0
01

Deep Brief

A 90-minute working session on the role, the team and the outcomes the hire must own in year one.

Day 14
02

Shortlist

Five to seven pressure-tested candidates with scorecards, comp expectations and references started.

Weeks 3–5
03

Interviews

We run scheduling, structured debriefs and live market feedback so momentum never stalls.

Offer + 90
04

Close & Land

Offer strategy, close support and a 90-day onboarding check-in cadence until they're thriving.

Our People

Operators turned headhunters

Maya Lindgren

Managing PartnerEx-CPO · Stockholm & London

James Okoro

Partner, TechEx-CTO · New York

Aisha Rahman

Partner, GCCEx-CHRO · Dubai

Tom Nakamura

Partner, APACEx-COO · Singapore
Client Love

Teams built. Promises kept.

★★★★★

“Shortlist on day 11, CTO signed by week five, still with us three years later. Halcyon's promise isn't marketing — it's a habit.”

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Lena Hoffmann, CEOFintech Scale-up · Berlin
★★★★★

“Their embedded team ran 40 hires in two quarters and left our own hiring machine better than they found it.”

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Sam Whitaker, COOMarketplace · Sydney
★★★★★

“As a candidate, I've never been treated with that much respect. As a client a year later, I understood why: it's the same care on both sides.”

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Priya Nair, VP ProductSaaS · Singapore
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One brief.
Fourteen days. Done.

Tell us about the role by Friday and you'll be interviewing pressure-tested candidates before the month is out.

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