We empower highly innovative companies with exceptional leadership talent.

With a unique approach to Executive Search we enable our clients to consistently hire the very best leaders who will help them scale and transform their businesses.

A unique approach.

Everything we do is designed to ensure that our clients consistently hire the very best people to scale and transform their businesses.

The Key Search team has been cultivating a finely-tuned network of thousands of professionals who have the potential to be the next key leader in your company. Thanks to our extensive global reach across a broad variety of business sectors, we have a unique ability to provide talent few other firms can deliver.

Our mission is clear: To empower highly innovative companies with exceptional leadership talent. We are committed to providing a unique approach to Executive Search that enables our clients to consistently hire the very best leaders who will help them scale and transform their businesses. Our methodology, backed by rigorous research and assessment tools, ensures the highest level of predictability in hiring exceptional leaders.

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+200 Leadership Placements in a variety of industries:

We are close to you all the way.

Our team is located across Europe with experts in major European cities and the USA.

USA

Spain

France

Weronika Oesterreicher

David Bizer

Rita Tahchi

Switzerland

Isabella Castaldi

Franziska Palumbo-Seidel

Netherlands

Germany

Poland

Greece

Romania

We are Key Search.

We are on a mission to give you the best Executive Search experience hiring consistently the very best leaders to scale and transform your business.

Trust is the essence of our business.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do:

Trust

Building impactful and lasting relationships based on Trust is the essence of our business.

Raising the bar

It’s not only about setting the bar high, it’s about constantly raising it.

Unique

Being different by creating a unique experience in Executive Search.

Serendipity

Valuing every connection and following through on serendipitous opportunities.

Thoughtful

Making people feel seen and heard through thoughtful actions.

We believe in backing everything up with data.

With our insights platform, our own technology to share with clients for a 100% transparent work. Our success is measured by the long-term commitment and impact of the executives we place. We are motivated to secure lasting and successful hires.

What our clients say about us

We've been working with Weronika multiple times and it has always been a professional, focused and inspiring experience. Thank you for adding all your experience and input to our collaboration.

Mara is hands down one of the best headhunters in Europe! She brought in the best candidates within weeks. I'm looking forward to working on more projects together!

Franziska was a fantastic partner for us. I love her direct approach, her candor and willingness to share her perspective in addition to how she organizes herself. She asks great questions and really understood our business, our challenges and the type of leader for which we were looking. I would partner with her again in a heartbeat.

I can highly recommend Delano. He was an incredibly supportive and valuable partner throughout the whole recruiting process. Delano always provided immediate and transparent feedback in every step of the process, he was always available and deeply involved and even giving independent advice. What I valued most though, was his highly empathic style.

It's been great experience working with Mara! She understood the requirements of the roles we were looking for very quickly and added her valuable perspective. She provided a regular flow of strong, suitable candidates with diverse experience. As a result, the interviews themselves helped us finetune the ideal candidate profiles.

It was a pleasure to work with Franziska on VP Marketing search. Franziska was very focused on Preply needs thinking broadly about the right C-level setup. She was very honest and extremely result-oriented. During the search, I met with some of the best marketing leaders in Europe.

Franziska is one of the best networked digital exec search specialists out there. I have been lucky enough to see her work from both sides of the pitch, candidate and client, and she is a thorough headhunter that truly takes her time to partner with the business and learn everything she can about it.

Franziska is a top class search executive, fast, reliable and pleasant to work with. Clear in managing expectations and effective in achieving the agreed goal to find the right senior talent. Also a pleasure to work with personally.

Mara is a supportive and invaluable partner when it comes to Executive Search. She is a skilled headhunter that was always available, fast, and very reliable. At the same time, she is a very kind and super pleasant person to work with; I highly recommend her!

Delano was an invaluable support for a Marketing Leadership search in the German market.Delano took the time to thoroughly understand the requirements of the role (which were many and most of them non- negotiable) and was able to provide strong profiles guaranteeing the progress of the search which had gotten to a stall before Delano took over.

I had the pleasure to work with Mara to recruit a high-profile leadership position which we successfully filled in record time. I was particularly impressed by the speed she sourced high-quality candidates, responsiveness and communication in all directions. Nothing was ever dropped and all parties were in the loop.