Executive Search & Talent Advisory

Built for teams scaling
through IPO and acquisition.

Boston Talent Partners finds and places exceptional executives for founders and leadership teams who are serious about talent.

For founders & leadership teams
For executives exploring what is next
Who We Serve

Founders & Leadership Teams

The senior hire that defines your next chapter. We find them and help you evaluate them honestly.

VC & PE Portfolio Companies

Executives who have scaled before. We know who they are, where they are, and how to get them to the table.

Operators Scaling Teams

You need people who have actually done it. So do we. We don't place candidates, we make introductions that last.

Services
Executive Search

Critical hires.
Confidential searches.

BTP partners with founders and leadership teams on the searches that define what comes next. From intake through offer, every search is run with discipline, discretion, and a network built over fifteen years inside Boston's most consequential companies.

Intake & Discovery

A data and analytics driven assessment of your team, the market, and the role before a single outreach is made.

Search & Selection

Targeted outreach, rigorous screening, and candidate summaries built on verifiable insight, not keyword matching.

Offer & Close

Active partnership through negotiation, offer, and onboarding. The search does not end at an accepted offer.

Market Map Delivery

Every search closes with a comprehensive market map providing lasting intelligence on the talent landscape.

Advisory

Talent strategy
built to scale.

For companies that need more than a search. BTP works alongside leadership teams to build the hiring infrastructure, process, and philosophy that scales with the business.

Hiring Process & Infrastructure

Audit and redesign of your hiring process, interview frameworks, and evaluation criteria from the ground up.

Org Design & Team Build

Org structure, leveling, compensation philosophy, and founding recruiter placements for teams building from scratch.

AI-Aware Talent Practices

Modern talent strategies that incorporate AI-driven sourcing, assessment, and workflow tools built for how teams hire today.

Start a Search

Ready to make the hire that defines your next chapter?

Tell us about the role. We will be in touch within one business day.

Jarrett Mackin

Jarrett Mackin

Founder, Boston Talent Partners

Boston Talent Partners was founded on a simple conviction: the best executive search comes from those who have experience in-house. Fifteen years designing and leading talent and people strategy at some of Boston's most consequential technology companies is what we bring to every search.

Lecturer · Department of Management & Organizations
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Executive Advisor · Institute for Leadership & Work
Boston University
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10K+
Boston Professionals
3
IPO-Scale Orgs Built
15+
Years Experience
Operator
Led
Experience
CarGurus

Early employee (~70) who built the talent function from the ground up. Foundational hiring across leadership, go-to-market, and product as the company scaled from startup to public market. Many of those early hires remain in senior roles 10+ years later.

Klaviyo

HR & Talent acquisition leader through Klaviyo's critical growth stages from ~200 to 1,700+ employees. Designed the hiring infrastructure and built the team that made that scale possible.

Transcarent

Led talent through hypergrowth for one of health tech's most ambitious companies. Executive and leadership hiring across all functions for a team built to move fast and built to last.

Approach

No two clients are alike. Every engagement starts with a thorough understanding of your stage, culture, and growth trajectory.

The research comes first. BTP fully evaluates your current team composition, sourcing requirements, and market conditions before a single conversation begins. The result is a targeted search that respects your time and delivers quality over volume.

The relationship does not end at the offer. Every search closes with a comprehensive market map delivered to the client, providing lasting intelligence on the talent landscape long after the placement is made.

Mission & Values
Mission

To be the partner founders turn to when the hire truly matters.

Grounded in genuine operating experience, focused on placing the executives who define what comes next.

Values

Integrity. Trust. Accountability.

We go deeper than the brief. We bring experience others don't have. And we stand behind every placement, every process, every outcome.

Ready to talk about your next critical hire?

BTP Talent Network

The best roles
never get posted.

The most consequential career moves happen before a role is ever posted. Share what you are looking for confidentially and we will reach out when the right opportunity exists.

How It Works
01

The right opportunity finds you.

Share what you are looking for confidentially. We will do the work.

02

We search here first.

Before any role goes to market, we go to our network. If you belong in the conversation, we will find you.

03

Handled with discretion.

Handled with discretion, start to finish. When we reach out, it is because something real and relevant is on the table.

Share what you are looking for.

When something fits, you will hear from us directly. Your information stays private.

Your information is private. We never share it without your permission.

✦

You are on our radar.

When something fits, before it is posted anywhere, you will hear from us directly.

Hiring in Boston? We should talk.