Skip to content

Elite recruiters deserve
great clients.

Sidebar brings you searches that are ready to hire: serious clients, completed intake, direct hiring-manager access, and a <24-hour feedback SLA.
You recruit. We make the search worth your time.

Join Sidebar Talent

Not every search makes it onto Sidebar.

Before a role reaches you, we make sure it is actually ready to recruit.

  • Competitive compensation
  • Realistic requirements
  • Completed intake
  • Serious hiring manager
  • Clear interview process
  • <24-hour feedback SLA agreed
  • Team ready to sell the opportunity
  • Willing to adjust when the market says the brief is wrong

Searches we’re asked to run

VP of marketingSeries C · ChicagoBelow-market compensation

Not ready

Head of growthSeed · MiamiUnrealistic requirements

Not ready

Senior engineerSeries A · DenverHiring manager slow to respond

Not ready

Founding EngineerSeries A AI company · San Francisco

Ready for Grace
  • Competitive compensation
  • Completed intake
  • Serious founder
  • Clear interview process
  • <24-hour feedback SLA

Your time is valuable. We want every Sidebar search to have a real path to a hire.

Your own relationship.

Each search has a small number of carefully matched elite recruiters, not an open crowd. You have your own direct line to the hiring manager for your candidates, with a <24-hour feedback SLA.

Grace T. and the founderFounding Engineer search

Direct line

  1. Grace submits Alex

    Senior engineer at Ramp · previously Stripe

  2. FounderStrong fit. Let’s interview him.

  3. Feedback received in <24 hours

No fighting through a crowd to get an answer.

Better searches. Better economics.

The recruiter whose candidate is hired earns the majority of the placement fee. But if your candidate becomes a strong finalist in a successful Sidebar search, there can still be a path to getting paid.

Great recruiting should have more than one way to pay off.

Alex, submitted by Grace

If Alex is hiredAlex hiredGrace earns the majority of the placement fee.
If Alex becomes a strong finalistAlex reaches the final roundIf the Sidebar search successfully closes, there can still be a path for Grace to get paid.

How it works

Choose the searches you want.
Then go recruit.

  1. 01

    Get verified.

    We look at your track record and the searches you have actually filled.

  2. 02

    Choose your searches.

    See the company, role, hiring manager, process, economics, and full brief before you commit.

  3. 03

    Go recruit.

    Work directly with the hiring manager, find exceptional candidates, and close the hire.

Great clients.
Ready searches.
Fast feedback.

Join Sidebar Talent