Five pillars. One integrated firm.
Search, Talent Advisory, Legal Coordination, Performance Coaching, and Lifestyle & Concierge - built around the career arc of the portfolio managers, engineers and executives who generate alpha.
- Pillar 01
Search — Finance & Tech
Retained search across finance and technology. Front office, leadership, quant, risk, engineering, operations, and the business & private support a demanding firm runs on. Confidential, under standard institutional agreements. Every candidate priced at the level of the whole package: base, guarantees, deferred, economics, capital. Approaches made person by person, with consent. Never a broadcast.
- Pillar 02
Talent Advisory
Career and contract counsel for portfolio managers, engineers and executives. The whole architecture of the deal — base, guarantees, deferred, pass-through, PnL split, capital ramp, equity, non-competes, garden leave, IP, mobility — priced against seats we see transacted. Plus career strategy: the next seat, and the two after it. And private benchmarking: know your number before anyone else names it.
- Pillar 03
Legal Coordination
Contracts across jurisdictions. Visas across borders. Structures across tax regimes. We coordinate specialist employment, immigration and structuring counsel in each, with one point of contact, so nothing sits in your inbox. Qnode is not a law firm. We make sure the right one is at the table.
- Pillar 04
Performance Coaching
Coaching across the whole arc of a career: the first hundred days in a new book, the step up from running a strategy to running a team, and the years when the performance is still there but the energy is not. ICF-credentialed, neuropsychology-informed, shaped by a team that includes a trained psychologist. Coaching, not therapy.
- Pillar 05
Lifestyle & Concierge
Relocation handled end to end: housing, schooling, family transition. Private staffing for the household: personal assistants, family-office support, the people your family relies on, found with the same care as a front-office hire. And when the seat consumes the calendar, the travel and the holidays, arranged. Delivered through a curated partner network in every city we work in.