Signal & Strand

Signal & Strand is a founder-led recruiting firm headquartered in Long Beach, California, with team members across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The firm recruits in all 50 U.S. states and more than 90 countries, supporting local, national, and international searches. Its approach emphasizes judgment, potential, AI fluency, and team fit—not résumé volume—and every candidate is assessed for how effectively they use AI.

Signal & Strand offers contingent search for critical hires, priced at 10% of base salary when the hire is made within 30 days, with a 90-day guarantee and 100 days of FromJump® onboarding. Its Recruiting-as-a-Service offering provides a dedicated hiring partner for a flat monthly rate. The firm also recruits pro bono for nonprofits.

Its eight practice areas span revenue and growth, operations and administration, AI and emerging technology, executive leadership, product and engineering, apparel and consumer products, healthcare, and public sector and education. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience, Signal & Strand aims to help organizations build teams that perform and stay.