Leadership hires that stick.
Director, VP, and C-suite search for technical organisations.
Leadership hiring in deep tech fails when assessment stops at track record. Mindpool India runs retained leadership searches against a written scorecard agreed with the board or founding team, maps the credible universe, and references both on and off the candidate's list before a shortlist is presented.
Assessment, not admiration
Impressive logos rarely predict performance in a different stage of company. We assess for the specific operating context, team size, capital constraints, technical maturity, and reference against it.
- Board-agreed scorecard before outreach
- Stage- and context-specific assessment
- On-list and off-list referencing
- Compensation, equity, and close strategy support
Frequently asked
Is leadership hiring retained?
Typically yes. Retained mandates allow the full market map and confidential approach that leadership searches require.
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.