Executive search for technical leadership.
Retained, confidential search for VP, C-suite, and principal-level technical leaders.
Executive search is a retained, confidential process for hiring senior leaders. Mindpool India maps the full leadership market for a mandate, approaches passive candidates directly, and runs structured assessment and referencing before presenting a shortlist. Typical mandates: VP Engineering, Head of Silicon, Chief Technology Officer, VP Energy Development, and Director of AI Infrastructure.
A retained, mapped process
Leadership hiring fails on assessment, not sourcing. We build a written market map of every credible leader for the mandate, calibrate it with you before approaching anyone, then run a structured assessment against the scorecard the board actually cares about.
- Written market map and calibration before outreach
- Confidential approach, suitable for backfills and undisclosed mandates
- Structured assessment against an agreed scorecard
- Deep, on-and-off-list referencing
- Compensation benchmarking and board-level offer support
Mandates we run
CTO, VP Engineering, VP Silicon, Head of AI Infrastructure, Director of Machine Learning, VP Manufacturing, Head of Grid, VP Energy Development, and equivalent principal-level individual contributors where the market is small enough to require mapping rather than advertising.
Frequently asked
What is the difference between executive search and recruitment?
Executive search is retained, confidential, and built on a full market map for a small candidate universe. General recruitment is usually contingent and works from an existing pipeline. Mindpool India offers both, and the choice depends on seniority and confidentiality.
Is executive search confidential?
Yes. Mindpool India runs mandates without naming the client until a candidate is qualified and under NDA where required, standard practice for backfills and pre-announcement roles.
Which levels do you search for?
Director, VP, and C-suite leadership, plus principal and distinguished individual contributors in AI Infrastructure, semiconductor, and energy engineering.
How a Mindpool India search runs
Every engagement starts with a briefing call in which we pull apart the role rather than the job title: the problems the hire owns in their first two quarters, the systems and tooling they inherit, who they work alongside, and which parts of the specification are genuinely non-negotiable. That brief becomes the scorecard we screen against for this search, so shortlists are argued for on evidence instead of keyword overlap.
Sourcing is deliberately two-track. We approach specialists already known to our sector recruiters, and we run targeted, specialised outreach into the specific teams, programmes, and technologies where the relevant experience actually sits, including people who are not searching. Candidates are then interviewed by a recruiter who understands the domain, reference-checked on the claims that matter, and presented with a written rationale, compensation expectations, notice period, and location constraints already confirmed.
Permanent hiring only, what that means
Mindpool India is a permanent recruitment and executive search firm. Every placement is a full-time, direct-hire employee on your payroll, on your benefits, and inside your engineering culture. We do not provide contract, temporary, temp-to-hire, or contingent staffing, and we do not act as an employer of record. That single focus is why our process optimises for retention rather than time-to-fill alone.
- • Contingent permanent search, retained executive search, embedded RPO, or research-led talent mapping
- • Sector-specialist recruiters in AI infrastructure and ML platform, energy, and semiconductors
- • Roughly 21 days from brief to a signed offer on a typical search
- • 90-day retention guarantee on every permanent placement
- • India-wide coverage
Hiring managers can book a call or email a hiring brief and receive a calibrated shortlist with market context on availability and compensation before committing to a full search.