Partnerships

The executive search layer
your platform doesn’t have.

Recruitment platforms, HR-tech vendors and overseas firms send us the mandates they cannot serve. We run them partner-led and confidential, under your relationship or ours. You keep the client.

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Who this is for

You have the demand. We have the desk.

Every one of these partners reaches a point where the role is too senior, too confidential or too far from home to run themselves. That is the point we exist for.

Recruitment platforms & job marketplaces

Your product serves volume hiring well. CEO, CXO and board mandates need a retained process, off-market research and discretion your funnel was never built for.

ATS & HR-tech vendors

Your customers ask you who should run their leadership search. Right now that question goes unanswered, or to a competitor with a services arm.

Overseas firms entering India

You need a first country head, a founding team and an honest read on compensation before you commit capital. You need someone in the room, not on a call.

Consultants & advisory firms

You are already advising on the org design. The search that follows is revenue you currently pass on.

Three ways to work together

Pick the model that fits your business

Each one is a written agreement with defined commercials before any client conversation begins. No handshake deals, no ambiguity about who owns the relationship.

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Referral partnership

For platforms, vendors and consultants with clients who need retained search.

You introduce the client. We run the mandate end to end, under our name or quietly alongside yours. You take an agreed share of the placement fee, and you stay in the loop without carrying delivery risk.

  • Revenue share agreed in writing before the first introduction
  • You choose whether we are visible to your client or invisible
  • No exclusivity demanded on your other relationships
  • Quarterly reporting on every referred mandate
02

India market entry

For overseas platforms and firms establishing an India presence.

We become your hiring function on the ground: the country head search that anchors everything, the founding team behind them, and the compensation and talent-market intelligence that tells you whether your plan is realistic before you sign a lease.

  • Country head and founding leadership search
  • Compensation benchmarking against real Indian market data
  • Talent mapping of the competitors you will hire from
  • Offices in Gurgaon and Dubai, so the first meeting is in person
03

Platform & tech integration

For recruitment platforms that want search capability inside their product.

Athena is powered by TheHireHub.ai, so we are used to working inside a platform rather than beside one. We plug in as the executive-search layer your roadmap does not cover, with the commercial and data terms written down first.

  • Executive search offered natively to your users
  • Clear data-handling terms, DPDP and GDPR aware
  • Co-branded or fully white-labelled
  • Pilot on a defined set of roles before anything scales
How the TheHireHub.ai partnership works →
What you are plugging into

A partner-led desk, not a delivery pool

Partners run the search

The person who takes your call runs the mandate. No handoff to a junior team once the agreement is signed.

Confidential by default

Most of what we do is off-market. Your client’s name, and yours, stays inside the engagement.

Global reach, Indian depth

Exclusive India member of Penrhyn International, with delivery across twenty markets and offices in Gurgaon and Dubai.

Scenario specialists

India entry, transformation, board build-out, PE-backed scale-ups. We are hired for the situation, not just the title.

How it starts

Four conversations, then live

  1. 1

    Fit call

    Thirty minutes. What your clients need, what you currently turn away, whether we are the right desk for it.

  2. 2

    Commercials in writing

    Model, revenue share, branding, data handling and term. Agreed before a single client is introduced.

  3. 3

    Pilot mandate

    One real search. You see the research, the shortlist quality and how we behave with your client.

  4. 4

    Scale or stop

    If the pilot works, we widen it. If it does not, we part cleanly. No lock-in either way.

Start the conversation

Tell us what you are working with

A partner replies within one business day. Everything you send stays confidential, whether or not we end up working together.

Or write to info@aesc.co.in. We will only use these details to reply to your enquiry.

Questions partners ask

Before you get in touch

Do you take our client relationship?

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No. The referral agreement states in writing that the client relationship remains yours. We can run the mandate visibly as your partner or stay entirely behind the scenes, whichever you prefer, and we do not approach referred clients independently during or after the term.

What does the revenue share look like?

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It depends on the model, how much of the process you carry, and the volume you expect. We agree it in writing before the first introduction rather than quoting a number on a webpage that would not survive contact with your actual business. Ask on the fit call and you will get a straight answer.

We are a platform, not a search firm. Does that matter?

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It is the point. Platforms are built for volume and speed; retained search is built for confidentiality and off-market reach. They are different disciplines, and partnering is usually faster and cheaper than building a search desk you would then have to manage.

How quickly can an India market-entry engagement start?

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Market intelligence and compensation benchmarking can begin within days, because that work draws on research we maintain continuously. A country head search is a full retained process and should be planned as such. We will tell you honestly on the first call whether your timeline is realistic.

What happens to the data we share?

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Candidate and client data is handled under written terms agreed at the outset, with India’s DPDP Act and GDPR both accounted for where they apply. For platform integrations we set out exactly what is shared, in which direction, and how long it is retained, before anything is connected.

Do you work with our competitors?

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We will tell you plainly if there is a conflict. We do not offer blanket category exclusivity, because that is rarely honest to promise, but off-limits arrangements can be written into the agreement for named accounts.

Send us the mandate you would otherwise turn down.

One call is usually enough to know whether this works.

Start a partnership conversation