Executive Recruiter

Executive Recruiter – Elevated Exec Affiliate
Affiliate / Referral Partnership · Remote · Open to executive search professionals nationwide
WHO WE ARE
Elevated Exec is an executive career intelligence firm founded by a career headhunter with 20+ years in retained executive search.
Executive search firms are retained by companies. Elevated Exec is retained by the executive.
We work confidentially with high-performing senior leaders to:
Define the right role
Map the market
Identify the people who influence the hire
Create real conversations
By the time an executive finishes our process, they aren't browsing. They're clear, prepared, and specific about the seat they want.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are building a small network of experienced executive search professionals who want access to prepared executive talent — without changing anything about how they work today.
When one of our executives fits a search you're running, a client you serve, or a market you cover, we facilitate a personal, confidential introduction between that executive and the appropriate decision-maker on your side.
You bring the client relationship. We bring the prepared executive.
WHAT YOU GET
Personal introductions to qualified, market-ready executives — C-suite and senior-level talent who are prepared, informed, and genuinely interested in the right conversation
Access to executive talent you may not otherwise encounter — including leaders exploring confidentially who would never appear in a database or answer a cold approach
A flat referral fee when an executive you refer to us signs and pays. Structure is straightforward and we'll walk you through it on the call
A confidential, low-volume relationship — this is not a mass referral program
Direct access to the founder, not an account manager
WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT
Most affiliate programs ask you to sell something. This one asks you to receive something.
You are not taking on a new product line, a new pitch, or a new pipeline to build. You are being introduced to prepared executives who map to the clients and searches you already have in front of you.
Retained search is the discipline this is built on — not a replacement for it. Elevated Exec exists on the other side of the table, working for the executive, which is exactly why the introductions are useful to you.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
Experienced executive search and executive recruiting professionals, including:
Executive Search Consultant
Executive Search Associate / Senior Associate
Executive Recruiter
Executive Talent Partner / Executive Talent Associate
Search Consultant
Principal or Partner at an executive search firm
We're specifically interested in professionals from retained executive search firms — Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Russell Reynolds Associates, Egon Zehnder, and the boutique and specialist firms doing the same caliber of work.
What matters most:
Real, trusted relationships with executives and/or hiring companies
Experience at the C-suite and senior-leadership level
A defined market — industry, function, or geography — you know deeply
Discretion. Every introduction is confidential.
WHAT YOU DO
Tell us the markets, functions, and companies you cover
Review prepared executives we believe fit your clients or searches
When there's a fit, make the introduction
Where it's appropriate, introduce us to executives who would benefit from what we do
That's it
NO CATCH
Let's be direct about what this is not.
You are not being asked to:
Become a career coach
Sell career services or coaching to anyone
Cold call executives
Recruit executives away from your existing clients
Become an employee of Elevated Exec
Leave your firm or change your career in any way
There is no quota, no territory restriction, and no exclusivity.
You keep doing exactly what you do. We give you access to prepared executives and a reason to make an introduction you'd be glad to make anyway.
HOW TO EXPLORE THIS
Hit Easy Apply.
You'll answer 10 quick questions so we understand:
Your executive search background
The industries and functions you recruit
The types and sizes of companies you work with
The level of executive you typically place
Your geographic or market focus
One question asks about your firm's policy on outside referral income. There is no wrong answer — if you're restricted, the introductions still work and we'll structure around it.
Then let's hop on a 20-minute call.
The purpose is simple: understand your market, walk you through how the affiliate relationship works, and determine the fastest way to get you into the program.
No presentation. No pressure. Twenty minutes.

Work arrangement
No