The best person for the role, not the best who applied.
Loom Haven is an executive search and specialized staffing firm built for the hard-to-fill, mission-critical roles other firms can't close: permanent, contract, or contract-to-hire. We don't wait for applicants. We identify and engage the top 5% of talent already excelling elsewhere, so you hire the best in the market.
A search firm built for the roles others can't fill.
The hard-to-fill engine
Niche technical talent, specialized operators, and mission-critical individual contributors: the searches other firms decline. Difficulty is the assignment, not the exception.
Passive talent experts
We don't post and pray. We map the entire market and engage the top performers who aren't applying, the people your competitors can't reach. You hire the best in the market, not the best who happened to apply.
Operator-first
We're former operators who have managed P&Ls and led teams. We assess candidates for the work itself, not just a polished résumé, and serve as an extension of your leadership team.
Guaranteed outcomes
Every placement is backed by a 90-day performance guarantee. We manage the offer, the transition, and the first 90 days, and if the hire doesn't stick we run the replacement search at no additional fee. The risk stays on us.
Discretion is a capability, not a courtesy
Some searches can't be public: a build the market shouldn't see coming, a replacement the team hasn't been told about, a move a competitor would love to know. We run confidential mandates as a discipline.
NDA-backed engagements
Mutual confidentiality from the first conversation.
Protected client identity
Candidates learn who you are when you decide they should.
Blind outreach done right
Compelling enough to move a passive executive, revealing nothing.
Candidate discretion, both directions
The people we approach trust us with their careers; that's why they answer.
What we're trusted with stays trusted, during the search and after it.
Specialized practices. Every major industry.
A disciplined search process
Calibration
We learn the role, the team, the culture, and the non-negotiables, then define what exceptional actually looks like before the search begins.
Market mapping
We map the full market and engage the top performers who aren't looking. The best talent is rarely on a job board, so we go to them.
Curated shortlist
You receive a shortlist of at least three pre-vetted candidates, each assessed for capability and cultural fit. A shortlist, never a stack.
Close & guarantee
We manage offers, transitions, and onboarding, backed by a 90-day performance guarantee that keeps the risk on us, not you.
Our service models
Two search tiers for permanent hires, plus flexible contract talent to scale delivery.
Confidential Executive Search
For CEOs and boards making the hires that can't be public yet. Net-new C-suite and VP builds, succession moves, and sensitive replacements, run under NDA with your identity protected until you choose to reveal it. We map the entire market, engage passive executives directly, and deliver a calibrated slate with full assessment and referencing. Engagements are retained or container-structured: a portion committed at kickoff for exclusivity and priority focus, the balance on placement, backed by our 90-day guarantee.
Professional Search
For HR leaders and hiring managers filling mission-critical functional roles. Success-based and fast: no retainer, no fee until you hire, first qualified candidates within days, whole-market passive sourcing on every search. Ideal for specialized individual contributors and team builds across our ten practice areas.
Contract Staffing & Augmentation
Build technical benches, scale delivery teams, or staff project-specific engagements. Contract, augmentation, and project-based talent for consulting, professional services, and growth-stage companies.
Contract-to-Hire
Bring talent on under contract with a clear path to permanent conversion. De-risk critical hires by evaluating fit on the job before the long-term commitment. Ideal for fast-moving teams and newly created functions.