Executive Search Consultant / Headhunter

Job Type

Contract / Consultant

Remote (Europe-focused)

Overview

I am engaging an experienced Executive Search Consultant / Headhunter to represent a senior product-focused profile for placement into a next-stage role within product, innovation, or strategy-led organizations.

This is a candidate-represented search mandate, not a traditional recruiting assignment. The consultant will act as an independent advisor and representative, managing outreach, positioning, and early-stage discussions with hiring decision-makers.

Mandate Scope

• Identify and engage senior-level opportunities aligned with product leadership, innovation, or strategy roles

• Conduct discreet, targeted outreach to founders, executives, and senior hiring leaders

• Position a profile combining founder experience, product ownership, and industrial design depth

• Advise on role framing, market positioning, and compensation expectations

• Manage introductions and early-stage dialogue with prospective organizations

Target environments include:

• Hardware-driven or physical product companies

• Mobility and transportation

• Consumer goods and premium product brands

• Design-led, innovation-centric, or founder-led organizations

Candidate Snapshot (to be represented)

• Product-focused professional with founder experience

• Background in industrial design, product development, and innovation consulting

• End-to-end ownership across research, strategy, development, suppliers, and market launch

• Experience working across design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing

• Based in Sweden; open to European or international roles

• Seeking senior individual-contributor roles in product, innovation, or strategy

Full résumé, portfolio, and background material will be shared confidentially with shortlisted consultants.

Ideal Consultant Profile

• Experience in executive search or senior headhunting

• Track record placing senior individual contributors or leaders in product, innovation, design, or strategy roles

• Direct access to founders, VPs, and senior decision-makers

• High discretion, strong judgment, and a consultative communication style

• Comfortable working with success-based or hybrid fee structures

Engagement Structure

• Independent consultant engagement

• Fee structure discussed individually (success-based preferred)

• Confidentiality required

How to Apply

Please apply with:

• A brief overview of your executive search background

• The types of roles and profiles you typically place

• Your preferred engagement and fee model

Open to all We focus on your competence, not your other conditions. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to your needs.