BSG Team Ventures has commenced an executive search for a Head of Talent Acquisition for our client, which provides Investment Guidance, Value Creation, M&A Advisory, and Technology Strategy to growth companies. The Head of Talent Acquisition will have 4 key responsibilities: achieve talent acquisition goal, build the talent acquisition strategy and tactics, hire and leverage a team, and build a “talent quality matrix”.
Opportunity Overview
HEAD OF TALENT ACQUISITION
THE COMPANY
Our client provides strategy consulting and investment banking to companies and investors in the Software Economy. Our client’s passion is value creation and realization for businesses whose core competitive asset is proprietary software. Founded in 2009, headquartered in Boston, and already turning down three projects for everyone it accepts, our client has experienced exponential growth in its first five years of existence. In fact, it is already beating out strategy heavyweights for projects in the tech sector due to deeper industry specialization. What makes our client even more unique among consulting firms is the fact that our client houses Strategy Consulting and Investment Banking arms under the same roof, and even has a small PE fund. Currently, our client has two primary locations centered in Boston, MA and London, England.
COMPANY'S CULTURE
Our client has built a collegial, tight-knit culture, where employees genuinely enjoy spending time with each other inside and outside of the office. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the layout of the our client’s Boston office, where the back of the house includes exposed brick walls and wide open space (mirroring a Silicon Valley startup) allowing an open flow of information and the best brains to work together seamlessly. Our client hosts a team meal every other Friday at a restaurant across the street and places an emphasis on the social impact of food (health, where it’s sourced, etc.) as well as the community aspect of sharing a meal together our client also hosts an off-site excursion for the whole firm every summer.
Our client also values open communication (the quality of an idea over the position of the one with the idea). Our client’s Managing Partner has been known to tell employees that his goal for them is to have more job opportunities in the current year than the year before.
In addition to our client’s mentoring system, there is also easy access to senior leaders for less formal interaction.
COMPANY HISTORY
Our client launched in 2012 as the brainchild of our client’s Managing Partner who brought with him decades of experience advising software and tech clients in the investment banking world, and found that the skill set he was optimized to serve and consult for the new software economy. Our client also brought on a technology executive and entrepreneur to build consulting operations as Head of Strategy Consulting.
For a young boutique firm, our client has compiled an all-star roster of advisory members. Some members of the Advisory Board include:
SERVICE OFFERINGS
STRATEGY CONSULTING: Our client’s largest focus in their strategy consulting practice is diligence work for PE firms.
Our client works exclusively with businesses whose primary strategic assets are software and data. Our client has sector specialization in the following concentrations:
INVESTMENT BANKING: Our client delivers comprehensive Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Placement services to private and public companies in the Software Economy. Our client’s team brings the experience of over 300 successful M&A Transactions, Private Placements, IPOs, and Restructuring transactions.
Industry expertise
Our client’s ability to understand technology and its disruptive potential is one of its core capabilities. With a multi-decade track record of impactful positioning of businesses to investors and acquirers based on technology and product differentiators within an industry, this dedication to the technology industry gives our client a unique advantage in software-specific valuation analysis and support.
Tailored Processes
Our client’s investment banking practice designs bespoke processes to fit each client’s unique situation. Key considerations include shareholder dynamics, specific market dynamics and competitive sensitivities, business, customer and product specific timing, limiting management distraction from business execution and maintaining financial performance. No two deals are alike, so the our client invests considerable time up front understanding clients’ businesses and designing processes to deliver optimal results.
Network & Relationships
Our client’s relationships with investors and buyers are both broad and deep. Our client understands better than others the key players, competitive dynamics, and what is driving demand for investments and acquisitions within a sector. Similarly, our client cross border capabilities in North America and Europe offers a global perspective and the ability to work efficiently with clients and their prospective partners in both geographies to deliver the optimal outcome.
THE POSITION
The Head of Talent Acquisition, reporting to the Managing Partner, will have 4 key responsibilities:
Success in this role will lean on 4 pillars of skills and experience:
IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE
A summary of key competencies required to be successful in this role include the following:
FUNCTIONAL PRIOR SUCCESS IN
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
INDUSTRY STRATEGY CONSULTING/INVESTMENT BANKING
STAGE OF COMPANY EXPERIENCE
GENERAL:
Finally, this individual should have as many as possible of the traits required to succeed in this leadership position:
Team
Our client’s team currently numbers approximately 60+ and is slated for 100%+ growth in 2017-18.
Financial Backing
Our client is proudly self-funded.
Compensation
Compensation is competitive with the position’s requirements. In a performance-based environment, this will include base salary and bonus structure based on corporate qualitative and quantitative strategic KPIs.
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