Permanent placements
For full-time roles where fit, function, and the team a person joins matter more than headcount. Single-vacancy or multi-hire mandates.
Cadre is a Singapore hiring agency. We don't run job boards or send CV stacks. We build small, vetted cohorts of senior practitioners for permanent placements, fractional roles, and executive search.
Different client problems call for different shapes of help. The criteria we apply (fit, judgement, demonstrable track record) do not change.
For full-time roles where fit, function, and the team a person joins matter more than headcount. Single-vacancy or multi-hire mandates.
Senior practitioners on retainer: fractional CMOs, COOs, CTOs, and individual contributors. For companies that need experience without a full-time hire.
Confidential, retained search for leadership and board appointments. Mapped against the Singapore market and adjacent regional talent pools.
Most placements fail not because the wrong person was hired, but because the wrong question was answered. We spend more time on the brief than most agencies spend on the entire engagement.
A working session, sixty to ninety minutes, to understand the role, the team it joins, and the bar you actually hire to. We write the position description with you, not for you.
We build a shortlist of three to five candidates from our network and the open market. Each one hand-vetted against the brief. No database dumps, no volume submissions.
You meet only candidates we'd hire ourselves. We pre-brief both sides on context, expectations, and the specifics of the team you're building.
References, offer, contract, settling in. We stay involved through the first ninety days. That is where most placements quietly fail, and where most agencies have already left.
We focus where the cost of the wrong hire is high and the supply of the right hire is thin. Currently active in:
Software engineering, AI and data, security, infrastructure.
Fractional CMO, COO, CRO, and senior product, growth, and RevOps individual contributors.
Regulatory, legal counsel, financial controllers, and risk specialists for regulated industries.
Mandates outside these areas considered case by case where the brief and the network alignment are strong.
We don't run a candidate database. We run a network. Every shortlist is hand-built against the specific brief. No scraped CVs, no recycled longlists.
We work with Singapore companies on Singapore roles. Local market, local context, local references. Regional placements only by invitation.
Briefs are taken by senior consultants, not graduate trainees with a script. Fewer mandates, taken more seriously.
Most engagements start with a thirty-minute call. No commitment, no obligation. We will tell you honestly whether it's a brief we can take and how we'd approach it.
Office hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm SGT. We respond to every brief within one working day.