11 Product Manager and Head of Product Recruiters and Search Firms

AC Lion publishes a testimonial from Aubrey Bowser, Global Director of Product Management and Design at Dailymotion, who says the firm consistently presented high-quality candidates. Its page also lists a head of product management placement at an unnamed cybersecurity firm and a chief product officer placement at an unnamed AI/ML data company. Its product division also covers marketing, design, operations, and project management.

The NYC-based firm offers full-time, contract, and temporary hiring, including remote and international product searches. Its FAQ describes technical questions, case studies, and leadership scenarios in candidate assessment.

Alpha Apex Group reports more than 2,000 successful placements worldwide across its business. Its product service combines tailored search with assessment of technical skills, strategic thinking, and leadership against the employer's product objectives.

The service includes support as the hire integrates with the team.

95% of all Ari Agency placements stay beyond their first year, the firm reports, across all its recruiting. Its product recruitment page covers junior PM through head of product, alongside product design, marketing, research, and user experience.

Its separate product executive search service (opens in a new tab) serves startups, scale-ups, and growing organizations. That service assesses leaders responsible for building, scaling, or transforming a product function.

CulverCareers recruits from associate product manager through chief product officer. Its product practice describes considering marketing executives and UX or UI designers with transferable skills, within a broader sales and marketing recruiting business (opens in a new tab).

For a brief open to those backgrounds, specify which responsibilities candidates must already have owned: customer discovery, prioritization, or portfolio decisions. That keeps the assessment tied to the product work they will do.

The Product Recruiter is Martyn Bassett Associates' largest practice, with 300+ product searches reported on its site. It emphasizes retained recruitment for early to mid-stage technology startups. The firm is based in Toronto and reports finding candidates worldwide for its clients.

The practice highlights compensation knowledge and presenting opportunities to candidates. Define whether the leader will establish the function or inherit an existing portfolio and several teams; that scope should shape the search and pay discussion.

Producto publishes a testimonial from Audrey Warren, SVP of Product, who hired two senior PMs through the firm and reports accepted offers at 30 and 45 days. Another, from Peter Fisher, describes James Jordan's work on his recruitment for the chief product officer role at Morae. The firm reports completed US searches across B2B SaaS and hardware, from senior growth PM to CPO.

Its client services (opens in a new tab) separate PM and senior-PM engaged search from leadership search at director level and above. Hiring advisory covers role definition, title calibration, compensation benchmarking, and interview design before recruitment begins.

Its team page (opens in a new tab) names founder James Jordan, who started Producto in May 2022 after 16 years in technology recruitment, and recruiter and researcher Hollie Jordan.

Redfish reports placing a chief product officer for a venture-backed startup needing Industrial AI experience within three weeks. It also describes placing a senior product manager to lead a new adtech product line; both clients are unnamed. The practice recruits PMs through CPOs across SaaS, fintech, HealthTech, adtech, cleantech, and e-commerce.

Screening covers roadmapping, prioritization, minimum viable product planning, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership. Retained, engaged, and contingent search are available, alongside contracting and contract-to-hire support. Its engaged-search FAQ describes a single point of contact and at least 20 dedicated hours each week.

Spencer Stuart's chief product officer practice combines executive hiring with organization design, team effectiveness, and leadership development advice. It serves multinationals, medium-sized firms, startups, and private equity-backed companies across enterprise technology, consumer businesses, services, fintech, and healthcare.

The practice recruits CPOs, VP and SVP product leaders, and other executives with product backgrounds. Where the appointment includes organizational change, distinguish the search deliverables from any additional advisory work in the proposal.

Storm3's product practice recruits for US HealthTech companies, from senior PMs to heads of product, VPs, and CPOs.

Its employer hub (opens in a new tab) offers Partnership for senior, executive, confidential, and multi-hire assignments, and Contingent for individual placements.

Across its retained executive search service (opens in a new tab), Torch Group says it limits each recruiter to three to four searches at a time and fills 92% of those assignments. Its product practice lists CPO, product management, innovation, and product development roles, with a senior team member or partner involved from the initial call through the hire's start and beyond.

The work spans pricing, packaging, supply chains, launches, and profit and loss. Its company history (opens in a new tab) records experience in consumer and industrial markets as well as software and information technology.

Insight Global reports placing over 50,000 consultants per year across skill sets and industries. Its product manager service offers contract, contract-to-permanent, and direct placement for in-person, hybrid, or remote work.

Its broader staffing service (opens in a new tab) handles payroll and benefits for contract assignments. Confirm the full assignment cost and the employment arrangement for the country where your PM will work.