One-time need
Project-based support
Add focused capability for launches, systems changes, market tests, or operating initiatives without permanently expanding the team.
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What we cover
Contract hiring gives growth teams a practical way to cover urgent gaps, accelerate a priority project, or test the shape of a role before committing to a full-time search.
AC Lion applies the same market knowledge, screening discipline, and digital talent network used in executive search to contract and project-based hiring needs.
Use cases
The model is useful when the hiring need is real, but the right commitment level, timeline, or budget is still moving.
Add focused capability for launches, systems changes, market tests, or operating initiatives without permanently expanding the team.
Keep momentum while a permanent leader is being hired, an internal team is being reshaped, or a key seat is temporarily open.
Use a defined engagement to validate fit, scope, and operating rhythm before converting the role into a permanent hire.
Talent focus
Sales, account management, partnerships, and customer success operators who can support growth, transition, or urgent revenue coverage.
Demand generation, product marketing, performance, brand, content, and marketing operations talent for active growth needs.
Product management, product design, UX/UI, research, and project talent for teams shipping digital products or improving user experience.
Recruiting, HR, people operations, and business operations talent to help teams stabilize, scale, or cover temporary gaps.
How it works
Define the business outcome, required skills, expected duration, budget range, and whether the role could convert to permanent.
Map the candidate archetype against the team, market, seniority, and pace of the assignment.
Use AC Lion's digital network and recruiter judgment to surface candidates with the right experience and working style.
Help align expectations, coordinate interviews, and keep the engagement moving from shortlist to start date.
Start with the gap
Tell us where the team is blocked and we will help shape the right contract, interim, or project-based search path.