Executive searches rarely fail at the start. They fail at the close and after the start date.
Vee forecasts both: who will actually accept, and who will actually perform so the hire you make is the hire you keep. Search craft, made predictable by science.
Six ways we build the leadership and design teams to drive transformation.
Executive & Leadership Search
Retained search for Director-to-C-level design, branding, product, and innovation leaders, including hard-to-source and confidential mandates. Every search draws on a global network of 10,000+ design leaders and specialists, built over decades of design search.
Talent Capability & Team Build
Standing up and scaling entire design and innovation functions: job architecture, persona definition, org design, and multi-role team builds across regions.
Selection Science & Assessment
Organizational work science methodology for talent selection: structured interviewing, behaviorally-anchored scales, validated assessment, and competency predictors.
AI & Data-Driven Search Forecasting
We bring data and AI to the part of search that usually runs on instinct. Our proprietary HireFly platform and HireRisk forecasting engine map the competency gaps a hire has to close, forecast who will accept and who will perform, and flag where a search carries risk: relocation, compensation drift, competing offers, and the path to a signed start date.
Employer Brand & EVP
Vee assembles a global, AI-powered employer-brand design and strategy team to design and deploy the narrative, creative, and candidate experience that make a company a talent magnet. Talent-attraction strategy and an employer value proposition that delightfully engage design talent. And hire them.
TA Strategy & Operations
Recruiting-process and candidate-experience optimization, talent intelligence and benchmarking, and the operating model behind a high-performing talent function. Vee maps how senior hiring actually runs inside a company, then redesigns the workflow, metrics, and candidate journey so it gets faster, fairer, and more consistent at scale.
Decades of design search, deep global talent network, and the design leaders to drive innovation.
Selected clients across our practice and design-search heritage:
Automotive & Mobility
BMW · Ford Motor Company · General Motors · Groupe Renault · Hyundai · Nissan · Toyota
Consumer, Retail & CPG
Clorox · Coca-Cola · The Hershey Company · Lowe's · Mattel · McDonald's · Method Products · Mondelez · Nike · PepsiCo · Procter & Gamble · Staples · Whirlpool · Calvin Klein · LVMH
Technology & Software
Apple · Box · HP · Microsoft · SAP · Sapient
Finance, Insurance & Payments
Allstate · American Express · Bank of America · E*TRADE · JPMorgan Chase · Mastercard · Morgan Stanley · Scotiabank
Health, Life Sciences & MedTech
Danaher · Intuitive Surgical · Philips
Industrial, Building & Materials
3M · LIXIL / American Standard · Masco · Shawmut
Aerospace, Government & Science
Icon Aircraft · NASA
Design, Innovation & Strategy Firms
BMW Designworks · Cogniance · Marks · Prophet
Education & Design Institutions
ArtCenter College of Design · College for Creative Studies · Jefferson University · Pratt Institute · SCAD
Culture, Media & Sports
MoMA · NFL Properties
Across Experience, UX, UI, digital, industrial, product, and packaging design; design research and strategy; branding and innovation, at Director, VP, and C-level, management and individual contributor and teams.
Design organization talent outcomes at scale.
A Fortune 50 global automaker: design org for EV & autonomous-vehicle experience
Sole preferred-vendor partner for four years, building the design and innovation organization behind the company's electric-vehicle and autonomous-vehicle experience programs. Across five cities in the US and China, Vee ran 50-plus retained searches spanning ten design disciplines, from Design Strategy and Research to Interaction, Communication, Product, and Service Design, at Director, Lead, and senior individual-contributor levels. The work ran deeper than search: an organizational-work-science assessment system, built from critical-incident interviews and applied to live candidate pools; an organizational benchmarking study for the autonomous-vehicle experience-design unit; a 3X capacity expansion; and process re-engineering that compressed search timelines from fourteen-plus weeks to as fast as seven.
Preferred Vendor · Capability Build · People ScienceGlobal consumer & CPG brands: design & innovation capability build
Job-architecture and persona development, talent assessment, benchmarking and compensation, candidate-experience management, and multi-region executive search to build design and innovation capability across business units, categories, portfolios, and brands in Europe, the US, Asia, and Latin America.
Org Design · Assessment · SearchA global technology leader: employer brand site and strategy
Built the employer brand for a global technology leader's design organization: stakeholder research and a brand and naming audit, two creative territories, a full-funnel recruitment campaign across LinkedIn, Instagram, and Glassdoor, and a dedicated talent microsite to turn design talent into applicants.
Employer Brand · Microsite · CampaignAmerican Express: recruiting process & candidate experience
Re-engineered the recruiting process and candidate experience for a Fortune 50 financial-services enterprise across Technologies and Global HR, making senior hiring faster, fairer, and more consistent at scale.
TA Operations · Candidate ExperienceThe Hershey Company: global design & innovation org-development roadmap
Developed a three-year global design and innovation organization-development roadmap, mapping the capabilities, roles, and operating model to build and mature design and innovation across regions and brands, and sequencing it into a phased plan leadership could execute against.
Org Development · RoadmapThe brand-building muscle behind our employer brand.
Employer brand is brand strategy aimed at talent. Ours draws on deep brand-building work, from national to multinational programs: the same craft, applied to making a company a magnet for the people it needs.
A nation in the Americas: a unifying national brand
Built the national brand to attract investment and trade and reshape global perceptions for a culturally rich, diverse nation: a big idea, positioning and story, brand architecture, messaging framework, and visual identity system, shaped through engagement with top government leaders, state agencies, public and private CEOs, and civil society. The work was strong enough that the Tourism Ministry, then building its own separate brand, scrapped it and adopted ours, its incoming Minister telling our CEO the team had done the impossible and united the country under one brand for one people.
Place Brand · Strategy · IdentityScotiabank: regional brand alignment across Latin America and the Caribbean
Refined and aligned the core brand strategy, positioning, and taglines for the bank's international business so it would carry across the Caribbean, Central, and Latin America in English, Spanish, and French. Designed and ran a series of highly experiential stakeholder workshops, from pre-reads and an education module through creative and ideation exercises, to rally Country Managers and the heads of strategy, marketing, digital, and communications around the positioning each market would take to launch.
Brand Strategy · Stakeholder AlignmentSearch craft, made defensible by science.
Built on 50+ years of design-search heritage
Vee Ventures is built on the lineage of RitaSue Siegel Resources, the executive search firm that has specialized in design and creative leadership since 1969. Five decades of placing the leaders the best companies couldn't find on their own.
Organizational work science, not feelings
Every search is backed by organizational work science rigor: structured interviewing, behaviorally-anchored rating, validated assessment, and competency-based prediction. Senior hires that are defensible, fair, and built to last.
We replace the mystery of senior creative hiring with confidence: the right leader, proven, and built to last.
The people behind the firm.
Every hiring moment is consequential to a career, a livelihood, and a life.
Shari is Vee's principal rainmaker and its strategic center. Across 20-plus years leading consulting firms, agencies, and venture businesses, she has built the kind of relationships, with leaders in industry and government and with investors and developers, that open doors to talent, capital, and partnership. She has landed and led several multi-year, multi-million-dollar retained engagements spanning executive search, talent strategy, and employer brand, and as CEO she sets the firm's direction and owns the senior client relationships its growth is built on.
Kevin is a talent and executive-search leader, a rare combination of HR and talent-acquisition leadership, deep domain knowledge, and technical credibility. He optimizes technology to elevate human agency in talent acquisition and executive search, treating TA as an operating system where humans do the thinking and machines do the repetition, with empathy, ethics, evidence, and ROI built into every layer. Kevin previously excelled in design recruitment at RitaSue Siegel Resources, where he led global design, research, strategy, branding, and innovation searches across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Craig leads operations and the firm-wide systems behind Vee's search and advisory practice: the financial, process, and delivery architecture that keeps complex, multi-region engagements on track.
Jessica manages search execution at Vee: a data-driven, business-minded talent leader with a track record of recruiting the hard-to-find and first-of-kind hires. She specializes across the full spectrum of branding and human-centered design and innovation, equally at home with the physical (products and environments) and the digital (research, insights, and strategy).
Let's talk about the hire you can't make on your own.
Vee Ventures partners with leaders on senior design, branding, product, and innovation search; talent-capability build-outs; and AI-driven search forecasting.
Charleston, SC · Sydney · contact@letsvee.com