CMO Search
Confidential retained search for Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Creative Officers, VPs of Marketing, and senior leaders who can guide brand, growth, revenue, and digital transformation strategy.
Build a stronger marketing leadership team with Ikon Search’s boutique executive search support. From CMOs and VPs of Marketing to growth, lifecycle, performance, and ecommerce leaders, our recruiters combine deep market knowledge, rigorous vetting, and fast shortlist delivery to help scaling companies, PE-backed firms, SaaS, Fin-Tech, and digital-first brands hire with confidence.
Specialized marketing recruitment solutions for executive, senior leadership, permanent, and strategic talent-market hiring needs.
Confidential retained search for Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Creative Officers, VPs of Marketing, and senior leaders who can guide brand, growth, revenue, and digital transformation strategy.
Recruitment for Marketing Directors, Senior Marketing Directors, growth leaders, and PE-backed SaaS marketing executives across start-ups, Fin-Tech, Mar-Tech, ecommerce, and Ed-Tech companies.
Full digital marketing recruitment across SEO, SEM, paid media, email, lifecycle, social, content, ecommerce, programmatic, marketing operations, and digital program management roles.
Exclusive executive search for senior and C-suite marketing roles requiring deep market mapping, confidential outreach, structured candidate evaluation, and long-term advisory partnership.
Direct-hire marketing placement through contingent or retained models, with culture assessment, candidate vetting, technical evaluation, reference checks, and qualified shortlists typically within 2-3 days.
Talent-market mapping, competitor analysis, compensation benchmarking, and candidate availability insights to help hiring teams make informed decisions before launching a critical marketing search.
We begin by understanding your business model, growth stage, marketing structure, culture, and long-term goals. This helps clarify whether the role requires brand leadership, performance growth, lifecycle expertise, ecommerce scale, or C-suite strategic transformation.
Ikon Search supports ambitious companies with specialist recruiting across high-stakes leadership and niche hiring needs.
A boutique search partner built for speed, precision, and specialized marketing talent insight.
Qualified candidate shortlists are typically presented within 2-3 days for many searches.
Founders bring 25+ years of executive search experience across specialized talent markets.
Every search starts with culture, goals, role requirements, and long-term hiring priorities.
Insights include compensation benchmarks, talent geography, retention patterns, and market trends.
Specialist recruiters supporting focused, high-quality talent searches.
Head of Contract Services
Kristin Lutz serves as Head of Contract Services at Ikon Search, the boutique staffing firm she helped establish in 2021. With deep expertise in contract and contingent workforce solutions, Kristin brings a client-first approach to every engagement, investing time upfront to thoroughly understand each organization's culture, values, and long-term hiring goals. Her extensive background in executive search and staffing enables her to connect businesses across financial services, technology, insurance, and marketing with exceptional professionals efficiently and accurately. Kristin is committed to delivering clean, quality-driven candidate pipelines and building lasting partnerships that support sustainable growth for clients ranging from growing startups to established corporations and PE-backed portfolio companies.
Head of Insurance
Connor Brown is the Head of Insurance at Ikon Search, leading the firm's specialized Insurance, Risk & Compliance recruiting division. With a focused expertise in the insurance sector, Connor works closely with carriers, brokerages, MGAs, reinsurers, and TPAs to identify and place top-tier talent across a wide range of roles. He leverages deep industry knowledge, broad professional networks, and Ikon Search's cutting-edge recruitment technology to present highly qualified candidates typically within two to three days. Connor takes pride in building genuine relationships with both clients and candidates, ensuring every placement aligns with the organization's operational needs, culture, and long-term strategic objectives.
Managing Partner
Adam Levy is a key team member at Ikon Search, the boutique staffing firm founded in 2021 with a mission to deliver tailored talent solutions across select industries. Adam contributes to the firm's commitment to pairing rigorous candidate vetting with a deep understanding of client needs, helping businesses across financial services, technology, insurance, and marketing find exceptional professionals. He embraces Ikon Search's core values of tailored focus, market speed, and data quality, working diligently to build and maintain strong relationships with both clients and candidates. Adam's collaborative approach supports the firm's ability to handle diverse hiring engagements, from full-time permanent placements to contract and temp-to-hire arrangements.
Ikon Search recruits across the senior marketing org chart, including Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Creative Officers, VPs of Marketing, Marketing Directors, Senior Marketing Directors, Directors of Growth, lifecycle leaders, ecommerce directors, performance marketing heads, and digital program leaders. Searches can support start-ups, SaaS, Fin-Tech, Mar-Tech, ecommerce, Ed-Tech, digital agencies, and PE-backed portfolio companies.
Talk to Ikon Search about your marketing leadership priorities.
Founder-led executive search expertise and market judgment.
Interview, assessment, and reference-led candidate evaluation.
Qualified shortlists typically delivered within 2-3 days.
Share your role requirements, hiring timeline, and business goals. Ikon Search will help define the right search approach and identify qualified marketing leaders.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 347 332 9668. You can also send us a quick email at KristinL@ikonsearch.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 347 332 9668. You can also send us a quick email at KristinL@ikonsearch.com.