Leadership Hiring for Growth-Stage Brands
Shape Search is an operator-minded recruiting firm focused on companies navigating scale
What We DoRecruit the best leaders and strongest teams in the industry
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Meet the Founder
Owen Deng is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Shape Search. Before entering recruitment, he held senior roles in growth-stage companies, where he built teams, led cross-functional initiatives, and made hiring decisions that directly affected execution speed and business outcomes. That operator experience shapes his approach to search. Owen understands how founders evaluate risk, how growth-stage priorities shift under pressure, and how a single leadership hire can either unlock momentum or stall progress.
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Why Work With Us
Operator Perspective
Our team brings an operator’s perspective to every search, with experience as former leaders inside consumer brands and growth-stage companies. Having sat on the company side, we understand that great hiring is not just about filling a role. It’s about finding leaders who can drive execution, navigate ambiguity, and help a business scale.
Niche Focus
We intentionally focus on a specific set of functions and sectors, which allows us to go deeper than generalist firms. Our niche approach gives clients sharper market insight, more relevant candidates, and a search process grounded in real understanding rather than broad outreach.
Deep Network
Our focused work has allowed us to build a deep network of talent across our core markets. That network gives clients access to credible, high potential candidates, including those who are not actively looking and unlikely to respond to broad outreach.
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