Boutique leadership search and talent advisory for high growth founders in technology. We identify and place founding executives who materially shape and accelerate company trajectory.
Most startups lose their best candidates to slow processes, unclear roles, and recruiters who don’t understand founder-stage dynamics. We specialize in the nuance of startup hiring—where every executive placement is a bet-the-company decision.
Executive retention rate at 2+ years.
Senior hires placed across sectors
Years in talent leadership
Flexible engagement models designed for the speed and rigor high-growth companies demand.
Full-cycle retained search for C-suite and VP-level leaders. We find the executives who will define your next chapter.
Strategic guidance on org design, compensation benchmarking, and hiring roadmaps for scaling teams.
On-demand recruiting expertise. Interview training, pipeline reviews, and hiring process audits—when you need them.
Targeted recruiting sprints for critical hires. Flexible engagement for founders who need speed and precision.
A snapshot of recent executive placements across high-growth sectors.
THE FOUNDER
Meghan Akers (Langill) is the Founder of Meghan Clare Executive Search, where she partners directly with founders and executive teams to build the leadership and talent infrastructure required for scale.
Over the past 16+ years, Meghan has helped venture backed technology companies navigate critical growth stages from early traction through global expansion. As Senior Director of Recruiting at Imply, she served as the company’s first global Talent leader and scaled the organization from roughly 110 to more than 260 employees, delivering over 340 hires across the United States and international markets.
Meghan builds recruiting functions the same way founders build companies: with clarity, discipline, and measurable outcomes. She has constructed talent teams from scratch, implemented executive level hiring dashboards, eliminated one million dollars in annual agency spend, increased diverse representation by 25 percent, and created structured interview systems that raise talent density without slowing growth.
Perspectives on hiring, leadership, and building great teams.
Recruiting, at its core, is a human-centric process. It’s the art of connecting talent with opportunity, of aligning skills and
The pros and cons of a high-leverage, cross-functional solution to early hiring challenges. Hiring is one of the biggest challenges
Why excellence in hiring looks different from Seed to Series D—and how to level up at every step. Hiring is
I split my time between Bozeman, Montana and San Francisco, California, giving me proximity to both emerging founders and established venture-backed ecosystems.
San Francisco keeps me deeply connected to capital, operators, and the pace of growth-stage technology companies. Bozeman provides the focus and discipline required to build high-quality, scalable recruiting infrastructure.
The result is strategic partnership without geographic limitation.
Focus & discipline for scalable infrastructure
Connected to capital, operators & growth-stage tech
Every great company is built by great people. Let’s find the talent that will define your next chapter.
