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Specialist Search — India & Overseas

We place the leaders who a business.

DS Corporate Services LLP is a specialist search firm built for the senior end of the market — ₹50 LPA and above in India, USD 50K and above overseas. Every profile is assessed by a panel of industry leaders before it ever reaches your desk.

₹50 LPA & above USD 50K & above Leadership & niche mandates
0 LPA+ India mandate band
$0K+ Overseas mandate band
0-stage Assessed selection
Leadership & CXO Technology & Engineering BFSI & Financial Services Manufacturing & Supply Chain Commercial & Revenue Healthcare & Life Sciences Infrastructure & Energy Consulting & Strategy
Who we are

A specialist firm for the specialist end of the market. We do not run a volume desk.

DS Corporate Services LLP operates exclusively in the senior and niche segment — the mandates where a wrong hire is measured in quarters, not weeks. Our focus band is ₹50 LPA and above in India and USD 50K and above for overseas roles, across functions where depth of domain matters far more than breadth of database.

What separates us is the assessment. Before a profile reaches you, it has been evaluated by a panel of leaders who have carried the same responsibility, in the same market, at the same altitude. They know what the role genuinely demands, where a CV overstates, and which strengths actually matter in the first ninety days.

India
& Overseas
Single desk, both geographies
Panel-led Assessed by practising leaders
Confidential Off-market search as standard
Two sides of the mandate

Whether you are hiring, or ready for what's next

Select the side that applies to you.

Give us the mandate. We'll return a calibrated shortlist.

We start by understanding the business reason behind the role — not just the job description. Then we map the market, approach discreetly, and put every serious candidate through our expert panel before a single profile reaches you.

You interview a shortlist that has already been examined for technical depth, decision-making quality and cultural alignment. Fewer interviews, better conversations, faster closures.

  • 01Requirement calibrationScope, band, must-haves and the profile of someone who has genuinely done this before.
  • 02Confidential market mappingWe identify and approach talent that is not looking — and never advertise your mandate without consent.
  • 03Expert-panel assessmentIndependent technical and leadership evaluation by practitioners from your domain.
  • 04Written shortlist dossierAssessment findings, strengths, watch-areas, compensation expectation and our recommendation.
  • 05Interview & offer supportScheduling, structured feedback capture, offer construction and closure support.
  • 06Post-joining follow-throughWe stay engaged past day one, because a placement is not a closure.

Senior roles are rarely advertised. They are introduced.

At this level, the best opportunities move through trusted conversations, not job boards. Share your profile and we will hold it confidentially — and reach out when a mandate genuinely matches your calibre and your intent.

We would rather give you an honest read on where your profile sits than forward it to twenty companies. Nothing is shared with any client without your explicit approval.

  • 01Complete confidentialityYour profile does not move anywhere without your sign-off. Ever.
  • 02An honest market readWhere your experience genuinely positions you, and what would move it up a band.
  • 03Access to unadvertised mandatesMost of our searches are never posted publicly.
  • 04Assessment you can useStructured feedback from our panel, whatever the outcome of the process.
  • 05Long-term mappingIf nothing fits today, we keep you in view for the right mandate later.
  • 06No cost to candidatesOur fees are paid by client organisations, never by you.
What we do

Practice areas

Six ways we engage — all of them search-led, none of them volume.

01

Leadership & Executive Search

CXO, function-head and P&L mandates where succession, stakeholder maturity and culture carry as much weight as raw capability.

02

Specialist & Niche Hiring

Hard-to-fill technical and domain roles where the talent pool is small, passive and known — and requires a search, not a posting.

03

Overseas Mandates

USD 50K+ roles across the Gulf, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America, with documentation, mobility and relocation guidance.

04

Expert-Panel Assessment

Independent evaluation of technical depth and leadership behaviour by senior practitioners, delivered to you as a written summary.

05

Confidential Search

Replacement, greenfield and sensitive mandates run entirely off-market, with controlled disclosure at every stage.

06

Market & Compensation Intelligence

Talent mapping, compensation benchmarking and structural input — often before you formally open the role.

How we work

A four-stage assessed selection

Every mandate follows the same discipline. By the time a name reaches your interview panel, it has already survived three filters.

01
Stage one

Initial Screening

We calibrate the requirement with you first — scope, compensation band, non-negotiables and what success looks like in the first two quarters. Only then do we screen. Every candidate is qualified on domain relevance, intent, compensation fit and genuine availability before anything moves forward.

Output: qualified longlist
02
Stage two

Expert Panel Interview & Technical Assessment

The candidate is then assessed by our expert panel — senior practitioners drawn from the same function and market as the mandate. They probe technical depth, quality of decision-making, leadership behaviour and domain judgement against your specific requirement, not a generic scorecard. This is the stage most firms skip, and the reason our shortlists convert.

Output: panel evaluation on record
03
Stage three

Assessment Summary to the Client

You receive a concise written dossier for each shortlisted candidate: panel findings, demonstrated strengths, areas to probe further, compensation expectation, notice position and our clear recommendation. No unfiltered CV dumps — a considered, defensible shortlist you can act on immediately.

Output: written shortlist dossier
04
Stage four

Client Interview & Final Assessment

You interview and assess against your own benchmarks — with the groundwork already done. We coordinate scheduling across geographies, capture structured feedback after each round, manage expectations on both sides, and support offer construction through to acceptance, notice navigation and joining.

Output: closed mandate
The differentiator

Assessed by people who have actually done the job

Our assessment panel is composed of senior operators — function heads, technology leaders and domain specialists with long careers in the very markets they evaluate for. Their read on a candidate carries the weight of having sat in that chair.

Technology & Engineering

Architecture judgement, depth versus buzzwords, delivery ownership at scale and the ability to lead technical teams through ambiguity.

BFSI & Financial Services

Regulatory maturity, risk instinct, P&L command and the credibility to hold a room of institutional stakeholders.

Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Plant and network command, cost discipline, safety culture and the operational rigour that only shows up on the shop floor.

Commercial & Revenue

Quota credibility, channel and key-account depth, pricing sophistication and the ability to build a revenue engine rather than ride one.

Mandate bands & coverage

Where we operate

We are deliberately narrow. It is what allows us to be genuinely deep.

India
50 LPA & above

Senior, leadership and specialist mandates across metros and industrial corridors.

MumbaiDelhi NCRBengaluruAhmedabad PuneHyderabadChennaiKolkata
Overseas
USD 50K & above

Cross-border mandates with documentation, mobility and relocation guidance.

GCC & Middle EastSingapore & SEAUnited Kingdom EuropeNorth AmericaAfrica
A note on fit. Mandates below these bands sit outside our focus. If a requirement isn't right for us we will say so early and, wherever we can, point you toward a better-suited partner. We would rather decline a mandate than under-serve one.
Why DS Corporate Services LLP

What makes the search work

I

Specialist, never generalist

One band, one altitude, done properly. We turn down more than we take on.

II

Assessment before shortlist

An expert panel evaluates every candidate before you spend a minute interviewing.

III

Written & defensible

Recommendations you can take to a board — findings on record, not gut feel.

IV

Confidentiality as default

Off-market approach, controlled disclosure, no profile moved without consent.

V

India and overseas, one desk

Cross-border mandates handled end to end, without handing you to a third party.

VI

Honest scoping

If the brief and the band do not match the market, you will hear it from us first.

Questions

Before you get in touch

We work on mandates from ₹50 LPA and above in India, and USD 50K and above for overseas roles. This is a deliberate focus — it is the band where assessed, panel-led search creates real value over volume recruitment.
No. Never, at any stage. Our fees are paid entirely by client organisations. Any party asking you for money to be represented for a role is not acting on our behalf.
Two things. First, we calibrate the requirement with you before searching, rather than keyword-matching a job description. Second, and more importantly, every candidate is interviewed and assessed by our expert panel of senior practitioners before you see them — so you receive an evaluated shortlist with written findings, not a stack of CVs.
Client mandates can be run entirely off-market with controlled disclosure, so your organisation is not named until a candidate is genuinely qualified and you have approved the approach. For candidates, no profile is shared with any client without explicit consent for that specific role.
Yes. We run overseas mandates at USD 50K and above across the GCC, Southeast Asia, the UK, Europe, North America and Africa, and we guide candidates through documentation, mobility and relocation considerations alongside the client process.
Commercial terms, including replacement arrangements, are agreed in writing at the start of every mandate so there is no ambiguity later. We will walk you through ours during the initial conversation.
Let's begin

Tell us about the role you cannot afford to get wrong.

Send us a brief and we will revert within one business day with an honest read on the mandate, the market and the timeline.

Contact

Start a conversation

Whether you are opening a mandate or considering your next move, the first conversation is always confidential and without obligation.

Submitted in confidence. We will revert within one business day and will not contact anyone in your organisation without your say-so.