Leadership & Executive Search
A Rare Hire changes what a company can do next!
Rare Hire finds leaders who build and work on AI, Analytics & Tech teams that actually work. Not a database of resumes. A search built around the one person your mandate needs.
Specialised & Niche Skills
Senior hires shouldn’t be a numbers game.
We map the market and go direct to passive talent, bringing you a shortlist worth deliberating over — not sorting through.
Founding Team Search
Built for speed. Built for founders.
Early-stage companies need candidates who can operate with almost nothing in place. We’ve placed founding leadership for teams building from zero.
Confidential & Sensitive Mandates
Discretion isn’t a feature. It’s the standard.
Replacing a sitting leader or hiring for a role that isn’t public yet — these searches run quietly, with a small circle and a longer memory for discretion.
Rare Hire Advisory runs senior, founder-level and leadership searches in data, analytics and AI. We believe the right hire comes from real relationships, not job boards.
The best people aren't posting resumes. They're heads down, building, and only move for the right conversation. That's who we go find.
The Rare Hire Advisory experience
What we are
Rare Hire Advisory is built on a simple premise: senior hiring shouldn’t be a numbers game. We’re not a high-volume staffing shop. we’re a search partner for founders and boards who need the next hire to be right, not just filled.
We combine direct-to-candidate sourcing, discretion, and genuine sector fluency to run searches that feel more like a partnership than a transaction.
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The team
Rare Hire Advisory is led by a team of search specialists. Every mandate gets hands on attention and senior involvement, right from the first outreach to the final offer.
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I started Rare Hire Advisory because I kept seeing the same problem: companies doing genuinely interesting, ambitious work, and search firms treating their leadership hires like any other req.
The best candidates for these roles aren’t scrolling job boards. They’re heads-down, running something, and they only move for the right conversation. Finding them takes real sourcing, real relationships, and the patience to wait for the right fit instead of the fast one.
Rashmi Raveendran
Founder, Rare Hire Advisory
What we do
We run senior, high-stakes mandates the kind where the wrong hire costs more than a bad quarter. Every search is built around precision over volume: fewer candidates, higher conviction.
Senior leadership - Director++, C-suite leader roles for companies at an inflection point. We map the market, go direct to passive talent, and bring you a shortlist worth deliberating over, not sorting through.
When the mandate is too important for a generalist approach. Zero-to-one team builds Build the first critical layer of a new function with the right roles, sequencing, and leadership from day one.
Replacement, restructuring a team, or hiring for a role that isn’t public yet these searches run quietly, with a small circle and a longer memory for discretion than most firms are built for.
For the roles where the talent pool is thin and the usual channels come up empty. We bring you people with depth and judgement to run it.
How we work
A short, disciplined process. No shortcuts.
Four steps, every time. No mass mailers, no recycled shortlists.
Understand the mandate
A real conversation on the role, the team it sits in and why the last hire didn’t stick, if there was one.
Map the market
We go direct to people doing the work well right now, not people already sending out resumes.
Curate the shortlist
A small, honest list. Every name comes with our read on fit, not a keyword match.
Close and stand by it
We stay through the offer and the first ninety days, with a replacement guarantee behind it.
Have a role that keeps slipping through the usual channels?
Tell us about the mandate. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit for what we do, and what a search would look like.
- rashmi@rarehireadvisory.com
- linkedin.com/in/rashmi-srs
- Address
- Bhartiya City Tech Park (BCIT), Bangalore
Have a leadership/niche mandate to fill? Tell us about it.
Not actively looking, but open to the right conversation? We’d still like to hear from you.