Executive Search Consultant

Executive Search Recruiter — Cybersecurity

Code Red Partners

About Code Red Partners

Code Red Partners is a specialist executive search firm focused on cybersecurity and technology leadership.

Since launching in 2018, we’ve built a reputation for partnering with some of the world’s most ambitious, high-growth technology companies, including Databricks, Perplexity, Coinbase, and other AI-forward and category-defining businesses.

We work intimately with Tier 1 venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, acting as a trusted search partner for critical executive and leadership hires. Our work spans CISO, CSO, VP Security, Head of Security, and other senior technical and business leadership positions.

We operate a fully retained executive search model, giving our recruiters the opportunity to work on high-value, high-impact mandates and build genuine advisory relationships with founders, executives, boards, and investors.

We’re an ambitious, high-performing team and are looking for exceptional executive search talent to help us continue scaling our practice.

The Role

We’re hiring an Executive Search Recruiter to join our growing cybersecurity executive search practice.

You’ll own and execute retained leadership searches for some of the most exciting companies in technology, AI, and cybersecurity. This is not a high-volume recruiting role. You’ll work closely with founders, CEOs, Chief People Officers, CTO''s, security executives, and venture investors to identify and attract exceptional leadership talent.

You’ll be expected to operate as a true search partner: deeply understanding the market, mapping executive talent, building long-term relationships, advising clients, and managing searches from initial strategy through successful close.

There is significant opportunity to help shape and scale one of Code Red’s highest-growth practices.

How You’ll Help Us Be Successful

• Own the full lifecycle of retained executive searches, from market mapping and research through candidate engagement, assessment, offer, and close.
• Build deep, long-term relationships with CISOs, security executives, technical leaders, founders, and investors.
• Partner closely with clients to define search strategy, candidate profiles, market positioning, and compensation.
• Develop a strong understanding of the cybersecurity, AI, and broader technology leadership landscape.
• Deliver a best-in-class candidate and client experience throughout every search.
• Become a trusted advisor to clients rather than simply a recruiting vendor.
• Build relationships with Tier 1 VCs and their portfolio companies, supporting leadership hiring across some of the fastest-growing businesses in technology.
• Contribute to the continued growth, reputation, and strategic direction of Code Red’s executive search practice.

Does This Sound Like You?

• 5 years of agency recruiting or executive search experience, ideally within technology.
• Demonstrated experience delivering senior leadership or executive-level searches.
• Exceptional headhunting, market-mapping, networking, and candidate-engagement skills.
• Comfortable developing trusted relationships with senior executives, founders, investors, and talent leaders.
• Commercially minded with the ability to understand both the client’s business and the broader talent market.
• High agency, ambitious, and comfortable taking ownership of complex searches.
• Passionate about delivering an exceptional experience rather than operating in a transactional recruiting environment.
• Cybersecurity experience is advantageous, but executive search excellence and the ability to learn the market are more important.

Compensation & Benefits

Highly competitive base salary uncapped commission

• Best-in-class compensation and commission structure
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k)
• Dedicated Training and Development program
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Home-office stipend
• Access to our Offices
• Annual company all-hands across locations including NYC, Miami, London, San Francisco, and Denver
• Annual incentive trips — this year’s destination is the Bahamas
• Opportunity to build your career within a specialist executive search firm operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and high-growth technology

If you’re an experienced executive recruiter who wants to work on genuinely high-impact searches, build relationships with some of the best founders and investors in technology, and help scale a specialist executive search practice, we’d love to hear from you.