The Leaders Who Build
What the C-Suite Promises.
Alder Talent is the senior leadership practice of Alder Search. We place the specialist product operators beneath the C-suite and the senior individual contributors beside it — Head of Product, VP Product, and senior IC practitioners — who determine whether the value creation plan actually gets executed.
The Roles Your Returns Depend On.
Most VC and PE investors focus their talent attention on the C-suite. That's right. But the C-suite doesn't execute alone.
The Head of Product owns the roadmap that drives product-led growth. Senior individual contributors turn strategy into work that ships. Get these roles wrong and you are asking your product leaders to build with the wrong materials.
The talent market for these roles is deep in volume but thin in quality at the level VC and PE demand. The operators and senior practitioners who perform in a high-pressure, investor-backed environment are a specific subset. Finding them takes the same network and the same judgement as C-suite search. That's what Alder Talent is built to do.
Senior Leadership & Senior IC Search Built for VC & PE.
Every search is retained and exclusive. The same rigour, the same network, and the same product-specific assessment for VC and PE that Alder Search applies to leadership mandates — applied to the roles that sit beneath and beside them.
Head of Product Search
The Head of Product who can translate a VC or PE value creation thesis into a product roadmap — and ship against it — is not the same person as a Head of Product from a corporate background. We know the difference. We find the right one.
VP Product Search
VP Product leaders translate the value creation plan into product direction, customer outcomes, and disciplined execution. We place leaders who can build, scale, and improve the product organisation at VC- and PE-backed companies.
Senior IC & Staff Product Search
Staff and Principal Product Managers are not roles you fill from a job board. The candidates are specific, the market is shallow, and the wrong hire is expensive. We place the practitioners who turn strategy into product work that ships.
Product Management Search
Lead and Principal Product Managers turn product strategy into customer outcomes, roadmap progress, and disciplined delivery. We find the product leaders who think in commercial outcomes and execution.
Where Alder Search fills the boardroom, Alder Talent fills the roles that report to it. The Head of Product who builds the roadmap. The product practitioners who make it happen. Same standard. Same network. Same firm.
Niche. High-Calibre. Hard to Find.
These aren't roles you fill from a job board. They're roles you fill from a network.
The Same Process. The Same Standard.
Alder Talent mandates run through the same four-phase methodology as every Alder Search engagement. Mandate alignment. Market mapping. Rigorous assessment. Placement and onboarding. The network is the same. The product-specific assessment for VC and PE is the same. The retained, exclusive model is the same. What changes is the level. What doesn't change is the quality.
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Whether you have an active mandate at senior leadership level, are building out a portfolio company's product function, or want to understand how Alder Talent fits your investment thesis — we welcome the conversation.