IRBIS Partners
A Haussmann facade under a golden-hour sky

Executive search

Executive search, beyond the transactional.

We read a role against the company that holds it — and we stay with the leader we place.

Conviction

A role is never read alone.

Pl. I · CONVICTION
A paper-cut murmuration — hundreds of birds forming one organism.

a job description

an organisation

The standard search reads a job description alone; IRBIS reads the organisation the role lives in.

Method

Upstream

We qualify the context, not the brief.

A Sales mandate is read against the company's Finance, Marketing, Product and Legal — long before the search begins.

The standard headhunter reads a job description. We read the configuration the role lives in, so the person we look for is the one the whole organisation actually needs.

Sales

Pl. II · METHOD
A paper-cut sun — a dense sienna core radiating outward: the mandate, read against everything around it.

The same role, read against the six functions it must answer to.

Pl. III · DOWNSTREAM
A layered paper path crosses a doorway cut into an ivory wall and continues beyond it, toward the light.

mandate → signature

onboarding · first decisions

outcome · the role succeeds

The transactional search stops at the signature. The IRBIS relationship crosses it and continues — onboarding, first decisions, the role succeeding — all the way to the outcome.

The transactional search stops at the signature; the IRBIS relationship carries on to the outcome.

Method

Downstream

Associated with the outcome, not the placement.

The transactional search ends at the signature. Ours continues: we support the leader we place through the first months that decide whether the role succeeds.

Counsel, and the tools to back it. A mandate is delivered when it works — not when it is signed.

  • A relationship that continues past the signature.
  • Counsel, through the first decisive months.
  • And the tools to back it.
  1. 01

    read.

    the context, not the resume

  2. 02

    translate.

    the need, not the brief

  3. 03

    build.

    the answer, not the pitch

  4. 04

    deliver.

    the outcome, not the promise

The Studio

We do not just advise — we build. The Studio is the proof: real tools, shipped.

Tailor Shift — screenshot of the live product

Tailor Shift

A talent operating system, built to a House's measure — and delivered.

tailorshift.co
Azim — screenshot of the live product

Azim

A navigation system for reinventing yourself.

askazim.com

Track record

Read across sectors, not within one.

18years
5sectors
C-suiteacross industries

Sectors served

Luxury & Retail

CHANELDiorVan Cleef & ArpelsRIMOWATAG HeuerThe Socialite FamilyGaleries LafayettePrintemps

Healthtech & Biotech

Cure 51Theraclion

Scale-ups & Unicorns

MiraklPhotoRoomSingulartYesWeHack

Deeptech

ExotrailAware

Service & Leisure

RécréaAccentureOmnes EducationGroupe Figaro

Selected engagements

Three mandates, three contexts.

Cure 51

From survivors' data to therapeutic breakthroughs.

Executive search in oncology-data biotech.

Context: rapid scaling · Culture: research-driven · Timing: growth inflection

RIMOWA

From heritage to luxury retail excellence.

Leadership appointment for a retail transformation.

Context: LVMH integration · Culture: heritage meets French luxury · Timing: strategic repositioning

PhotoRoom

From AI startup to global visual platform.

Scale-up leadership search in AI imaging.

Context: Series B growth · Culture: technical excellence at scale · Timing: international expansion

Contact

We take the mandate ourselves.One team, the whole chain.From the first conversation to the outcome.