Vela Talent is a high-touch, low-volume retained search firm guiding companies to remarkable People and Go-to-Market leaders at the Director to C-suite level.
Our experienced partners collaborate closely with founders, CEOs, and executives to discover visionary leaders who elevate company strategies and drive organizational success.
Each search benefits from our partners' decades of experience and proven ability to identify and secure top-tier talent. We're known for bringing remarkable, highly engaged candidates to the table, fostering lasting relationships while ensuring you hire the right talent at the right time.
We combine our deeply curated network, established over many years, with targeted research to engage top talent across corporate functions. From emerging to executive-level, we source candidates who've tackled challenges like yours, ensuring precise alignment with your business needs.
With extensive experience scaling top technology companies, we understand a successful search is more than candidate introductions. Our search approach ensures accurate brand representation in the market, excellent candidate experience, and the importance of values assessment and alignment.
Our tailored, data-driven method emphasizes clarity in scope, outcomes, competencies, values alignment, interviews, and candidate closing. Every engagement is supported by technology, providing clients access to a dedicated portal for real-time updates and collaboration.
Vela Talent was founded to offer clients an exceptional executive search experience.
With experience across global and boutique search firms combined with leadership roles at iconic tech companies, our founders bring a unique perspective to the talent acquisition landscape. We’ve lived as operators and understand the importance of values fit, candidate experience, and structured search processes. At the same time, we have the market insights, urgency, and agility expected from a top boutique firm. Each search is infused with energy and insight, making the journey to finding the right talent as rewarding as the outcome.
Our combination of retained search expertise and operational experience sets us apart, allowing us to provide bespoke experiences with unparalleled insight. We pride ourselves on educating, bringing clarity, and creating values alignment throughout the search process.
Lisa has been helping technology companies find outstanding leaders for nearly two decades. As a search consultant, she has led searches for Series A through public technology companies across all corporate functions. In her operating years, she built the first in-house Leadership Recruiting team at Airbnb and helped scale Salesforce from 6,000 to 16,000 employees.
With over two decades in talent acquisition and executive search, Janet brings operational expertise and entrepreneurial success to Vela Talent. She began as a recruiting leader for high-growth startups, partnering with corporate executives to build leadership teams. In 2014, Janet founded HRSE, a successful boutique search firm focused on placing People leaders in privately held tech companies.
Suzy brings deep operating experience, industry knowledge, and a strategic approach to Vela Talent. She has nearly two decades of experience scaling talent at top technology companies such as Google, Salesforce, Stripe, and Hashi Corp. Specializing in the Go-to-Market space, she has spent the last decade recruiting top-tier leadership and guiding organizations through critical growth phases.
I've had the pleasure of collaborating with Janet on multiple people leadership searches over the years. Her partnership in helping me identify a talented VP of Total Rewards & People Ops did not fall short of expectations in a highly competitive and challenging market.
Her consultative approach, efficiency, and hands-on experience across all functional areas of people sets her apart. Her integrity and hustle has made her a valuable partner, and I anticipate continuing our work together for years to come.
I have spent over seven figures on retained searches throughout my career, working with large, global firms and boutique firms, as well as managed in-house searches, and have found many experiences lacking in value and adding more work than helping. Janet and her team’s world-class consultative approach, transparency, sense of urgency, and incredible talent network changed how I perceive executive search.
