Executive Search · Beauty & Cosmetics
Beauty & Cosmetics Executive Search
The Quantum Club places the commercial, growth, and operations talent behind fast-scaling beauty and cosmetics brands. Exclusive, unlisted mandates on a No Cure, No Pay model, reaching proven operators the open market never lists.
Scaling a beauty brand takes rare operators
Beauty moves fast, and scaling one means hiring people who've done it before: growth, e-commerce, supply, and brand leaders who can keep pace without breaking the brand. Those operators are usually inside a competitor and not looking. Reaching them is what search is for.
The creative engine is a hiring problem too
For a direct-to-consumer beauty brand, the content and social-commerce engine can need as much hiring as the leadership. Meroda Cosmetics needed creative strategists, social media managers, an Art Director and a TikTok Shop Manager alongside its finance and growth leaders, all hired at the pace the brand was growing. For seats like these, a brief written around the output expected tends to serve better than one built on a title borrowed from elsewhere.
What the network covers
The pedigree that serves a content-led beauty brand is not always a beauty pedigree. Executives the Club has placed have come from Google, on the product and growth side, and from Netflix, on content and product, as well as from maisons such as Chanel and Dior. Behind them sits a network of 1,000+ members worldwide, admitted on track record and fit, so a slate is drawn from people already known to the Club rather than from a cold search.
Finance and growth leadership
Both of the Club's builds closest to beauty included a CFO and a Head of Growth. At Meroda the pair was placed to steer the numbers and the scale, within a build of more than fifteen roles. For the founders' group behind Dore & Rose, whose silk sleep essentials are made for better sleep, hair and skin, it placed the same pair, a Head of Growth and a CFO, to lead the group through its most crucial phase. The two seats depend on each other, which is worth reflecting in the brief for each.
What to settle before you brief
Beauty briefs go further when they separate the seat from the stage. A Head of Growth for a brand built on one hero product is a different hire from one for a multi-category range, and a CFO for a direct-to-consumer business works differently from one steering a move into retail. Naming the stage, the channels that matter most and the pace of hiring around the seat lets the strategist judge candidates against the business as it will be, not as it was.
Hiring in volume without lowering the bar
Fifteen-plus roles for one brand is a different kind of mandate from a single executive search. The Club built Meroda's team end to end, from CFO to TikTok Shop Manager, as a high-volume, high-trust build in which each hire was matched to a fast, founder-led culture. Running a build like this through one partner keeps the bar consistent, rather than briefing the same culture to several agencies and reconciling what comes back.
Starting with one seat
A team build does not have to be committed to in one go. Each hire is a separate placement with its own success fee, owed only when that hire signs, so a brand can start with a single senior seat, or with Club Promo's complimentary slate of five candidates for one mandate, and widen the brief as the first hires prove out.
Proof in beauty and cosmetics
Meroda Cosmetics, the Dutch brand behind the color-changing Changing Foundation, was named the fastest international grower in the 2025 CrossBorder Top 30. The Club placed 15+ roles across its finance, growth and creative teams, building out the team behind a fast-scaling beauty business. Talent placed, not posted.
Seats the Club has filled
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CFO
Brings financial control to a brand growing faster than its systems.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics Dore & Rose How to Hire a CFO
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Head of Growth
Owns acquisition and retention as the brand scales across markets.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics Dore & Rose
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Creative Strategist
Turns a hero product into a steady stream of content that sells.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics
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Social Media Manager
Runs the channels where a beauty brand's community actually lives.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics
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Art Director
Keeps the brand's look consistent across every campaign and channel.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics
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TikTok Shop Manager
Runs social commerce as a sales channel, not a side project.
Placed for Meroda Cosmetics
Selected work
How the search runs
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Brief
A strategist scopes the mandate within 24 hours: a single senior seat, a whole function, or a team build, and the pace the brand is moving at.
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Reach
ClubAI matches across the network and the strategist curates, approaching operators directly and off-market. Every approach is confirmed with the principal first.
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Shortlist
A short list for each seat of pre-qualified candidates, assessed for fit and pace, with a Talent Concierge supporting every candidate through the process.
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Place
You choose, the Club runs the close and supports onboarding, and each placement carries its own success fee, owed only when that hire signs.
Terms of engagement
- The model
- No Cure, No Pay. Nothing is owed for the search itself: no retainer and no upfront payment.
- When a fee is owed
- Only when a candidate you chose signs. Every further hire of a candidate the Club introduced, even for a different role, is its own placement with its own fee.
- The fee
- 25% of the agreed gross annual salary, holiday pay included and variable bonuses and one-off payments excluded, unless your agreement fixes another rate. Partner rates are agreed per engagement. Amounts are exclusive of VAT.
- The guarantee
- Its terms are laid down in your agreement. It is honored as a free replacement search or as a credit against your next placement, never as a cash refund, and is claimed in writing within fourteen days of the employment ending.
- Payment
- Invoices are payable within 14 days of the invoice date, unless your agreement says otherwise.
- Ways in
- Club Promo, a complimentary slate of five candidates for one mandate; Club Partner, the flagship engagement with a dedicated strategist; Elite Partner, by invitation, at a reduced fee.
- First reply
- Within 24 hours of a brief, in confidence.
The full terms are set out in your agreement and the deposited General Terms & Conditions (in Dutch).
Frequently asked
Do you recruit for beauty and cosmetics companies?
Yes. The Club builds commercial, growth, and operations teams for scaling beauty and cosmetics brands, including 15+ placements for Meroda Cosmetics.
Can you fill multiple roles as we scale?
Yes. From a single senior hire to a full team build-out as the brand grows.
What does beauty executive search cost?
No Cure, No Pay: nothing for the search and no retainer. A fee is owed only when a hire you chose signs: 25% of the agreed gross annual salary unless your agreement fixes another rate, with partner rates agreed per engagement. The guarantee is as laid down in your agreement, honored as a free replacement search or a credit against your next placement, never as a cash refund.
Do you hire creative and social-commerce roles, not only executives?
Yes. For Meroda the Club placed creative strategists, social media managers, an Art Director and a TikTok Shop Manager alongside its CFO and Head of Growth.
Do you recruit for direct-to-consumer beauty brands?
Yes. Meroda Cosmetics is a Dutch direct-to-consumer beauty brand, and the Club built its team end to end, from finance and growth leadership to the full creative bench.
Can we start with one hire before committing to a team build?
Yes. Each hire is a separate placement with its own success fee, owed only when that hire signs, so a brand can start with a single seat, or with Club Promo's complimentary slate of five candidates for one mandate, and widen the brief from there.
How long does a beauty executive search take?
A senior search typically takes two to four months from brief to signed offer. A pre-vetted network removes much of the early research, so the pace usually depends most on how quickly decisions are made.
Sources
Cited by the case studies under Selected work
- Meroda wins CrossBorder Top 30 (opens in a new tab) · Meroda Cosmetics
- Mirror Mirror · Meroda's Changing Foundation (opens in a new tab) · Meroda Cosmetics
- Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Dore & Rose
- Forbes · Verlaat & Nijhof (opens in a new tab) · Dore & Rose
Hire through the Club.
A partner strategist replies within 24 hours, in confidence.