17 years of senior placement·300+ leadership hires·Engaged · Retained · Contingent · RPO
Engaged Headhunters/Team
The team behind the platform

Two partners. A senior network. One platform.

Engaged Headhunters is run by two partners, a network of senior headhunters across 13 industry pillars, and an operations team that carries the back-office. The platform is the product. The recruiter on your search is a senior partner with a decade in the niche, not the founder by default.

Partners

The two who run the firm.

Partner

James Pemberton

Founder & Principal Architect

Senior recruiting since 2009. Placed leadership across home health, hospice, hospital systems, behavioral health, technology, finance, manufacturing, construction, aviation, and adjacent industries.

Built ProHireHQ (the applicant-tracking, AI sourcing, and back-office platform Engaged Headhunters runs on) in production rather than as a SaaS demo. Every feature shipped against an active search.

Lives in Virginia Beach. Runs a small number of senior searches personally; the rest of the firm's work runs through the senior-partner network on the platform.

Partner

Jewels Grace

Coaching & Operator Development

Twenty years inside the rooms where senior hiring decisions get made. Coaches the network on the language and systems that produce outcomes: the precision-over-predictive frame that separates senior search from staffing volume.

Co-leads the firm's training programs, including the caregiver hiring training series and ongoing operator development for senior partners on the network.

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The network

Senior headhunters,
niched and accountable.

The network is the unit of value. Every recruiter on it has ten or more years inside one industry pillar, owns their client relationships, and runs searches end-to-end on ProHireHQ.

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Senior partners

10+ years inside a single niche. Run client engagements end-to-end. Named operations partner for support; named technology and back-office workflow on ProHireHQ.

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Operations partners

Carry contracts, payroll, compliance, and back-office for every search on the network. Senior recruiters spend the day on closes; operations partners spend the day on the rest.

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ProHireHQ platform

The applicant-tracking, AI sourcing, voice-AI screening, credential verification, and contract automation layer. Every search on the network runs on it.

So now what?

Three paths from here.

  1. You want to engage the firm on a senior search.

    Book a 30-minute scoping call. A senior partner runs every intro and routes you to the headhunter on your niche. Book the call →

  2. You're a senior recruiter considering the network.

    Mutually confidential 30-minute conversation about niche fit, splits, the platform, and the operating model. Apply to the network →

  3. You want to read the brand thesis first.

    The manifesto is the long-form version of why the headhunter is the unit of value, not the firm. Read the manifesto →