Stop guessing if the role — or the move — is right.
Hive brings 20+ years of hiring intelligence to the decisions that shape companies and careers — helping businesses define the right Design, Product, or Brand leadership role, and leaders make the right next move.
For Companies
The wrong Design, Product, or Brand hire costs more than the search fee.
You rarely find out the role was wrong on day one. You find out six months later — after the team, the roadmap, and the business have already paid for it. Hive starts before the search: defining the mandate, aligning stakeholders, and confirming what success actually requires.
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For Leaders
You know you're ready. The question is whether the market does too.
Whether your resume, your narrative, and your positioning make that obvious to the people making the decision is a different question. After 20+ years on the other side of the hiring table, Kate knows what quietly takes exceptional leaders out of contention — and how to fix it.
Explore The Insider Suite →"We needed to fill a global design leadership role fast — Hive delivered. Within two weeks, we had a vetted shortlist, hired our ideal Experience Design Lead, and built a pipeline that will fuel our next phase of growth."
"Kate helped me turn a scattered resume into a powerful narrative. Two weeks later, I had three interviews lined up — and one of them became my dream role."
"She understood what we were building before we finished the sentence. Kate helped us find the right leader in half the time — and made the process feel grounded, rigorous, and calm."
20+
Years inside the hiring room
Talent Architecture™ is the methodology behind every Hive engagement — built on two decades at McKinsey, JPMorgan Chase, Publicis Sapient, and Navan.
Executive search starts too late.
Most firms begin with candidates. Hive begins with the role.
Design the role
Define mandate, decision rights, and success criteria before candidates are ever considered.
Align the stakeholders
Surface misalignment before it becomes a mis-hire. Every engagement begins with organizational clarity.
Then find the leader
Only once the role is built do we run the search — with precision, not volume.
Why Hive
20+ years inside the hiring room.
Before founding Hive, Kate spent two decades inside the hiring room — at McKinsey, JPMorgan Chase, Publicis Sapient, and Navan.
"I was tired of not having a clear view of what 'great' actually meant — and in what context. Leaders are consequential, not just to the business and what's at stake, but to the people they serve. That's a real responsibility, not something to rush into. As a talent leader inside these organizations, the frustration kept coming back to the same thing: a lack of clarity, alignment, and understanding of where the business actually was — and more importantly, where it was going. The only way to unlock the right outcome is to bring in the right leader, for the right moment. That's what Hive exists to get right before the search ever starts."
The right hire doesn't happen by accident. Neither does the right move.
Better decisions start with clarity about what the next chapter actually requires.