Engagement Models
Flexible Engagement Models Built Around Your Needs
We offer three distinct engagement structures designed to match the urgency, complexity, and scope of your leadership challenge.
Retained Search
Our flagship engagement model for senior and C-suite roles. A retained search gives you our full attention, deepest network access, and a structured process from brief to placement.
- Dedicated search team
- Comprehensive market mapping
- Behavioral & cognitive assessments
- 90-day placement guarantee
- Onboarding support
Best for
Board Members, C-Suite, Fintech-Related CEOs, and EVP leadership roles
Strategic Team Build
Designed for organizations building or rebuilding entire leadership teams. We map your strategy to your talent needs and execute a coordinated multi-role search.
- Full team talent mapping
- Coordinated multi-role search
- Culture & strategy alignment
- Phased delivery planning
- Ongoing advisory support
Best for
Portfolio companies, new market entries, and evolution initiatives
Mainlynk Partnership
Doherty Search Partners is the founding talent partner of the Mainlynk Network — a governed network through which financial institutions access capital, technology, and capability partners. When the talent question is inseparable from the operating question, we deliver search, team build-outs, leadership assessment, and compensation guidance with visibility into the roadmap those hires are meant to support.
- Multi-phase search across a capability build, not a single requisition
- Team design and role architecture before the search begins
- Leadership assessment and succession planning
- Compensation benchmarking for new or unfamiliar roles
- Fractional and interim leadership where a permanent hire is premature
Best for
Banks and lenders building or rebuilding a leadership layer around a new capability, vertical, or operating model
Doherty Search Partners and Mainlynk share common ownership. Member institutions are free to engage any talent provider they choose.
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