For Mid Market AEC + Manufacturing Companies
The Strategic Hire that changes everything
We don't fill seats. We diagnose your business challenge, then identify the talent built to solve it.
Executive search, strategic hiring, staffing solutions and talent advisory for companies between $25M and $250M.
Why Elevate Studio
We're not a recruiting firm. we're your talent advisory partner.
Most search firms take your job order and send résumés. We start by understanding what's holding your business back — then we find the person built to fix it.
We diagnose before we search
Every engagement starts with the business problem, not the job description. We assess your structure, growth stage, and what the right hire needs to achieve before the search begins.
Deep industry Expertise across a coordinated network of specialized firms
When you work with Elevate Studio, you access a national network of specialized search partners — geographically embedded, industry-focused, and strategically coordinated wherever you operate.
we meet you where you are
critical leadership vacancy
critical leadership vacancy
critical leadership vacancy
You Need to Make a Leadership Hire That Defines Your Next 3 Years.
A leadership level seat that's open or underperforming. We dedicate exclusive resources to your search, provide market intelligence throughout, and don't stop until we find the right person — for the role and for your company.
scaling company
critical leadership vacancy
critical leadership vacancy
You're Growing Past the Point Where Informal Hiring Works.
You need a Controller, Project Manager, Studio Leader, or a Department Head who can grow with your organization. We build the talent infrastructure your growth demands — from individual strategic hires to full team builds.
project hiring capacity
critical leadership vacancy
project hiring capacity
You Need Skilled Capacity Now Without a Long-Term Commitment
A major project is ramping, a key person just left, or you're entering a new market. Our contract and staffing solutions put the right people in place fast — without the commitment of a permanent hire before you're ready.
Market insights
critical leadership vacancy
project hiring capacity
You Need Data Before You Hire, Restructure, or Set Compensation
We provide competitive pay analysis, talent market insights, industry benchmarks, and compensation for AEC and Manufacturing firms — the intelligence layer that makes every people decision smarter.
client impact
what it looks like when we partner with a company
These aren't placements. These are companies who elevated their talent. These are professionals who elevated their career.
These are elevate outcomes that transformed business.
From One Studio Hire to Firm-Wide Transformation- A 135-Year Architecture & Engineering Partnership
What started as a single Senior PM placement in an underperforming California studio became a multi-year, multi-layer talent partnership that transformed a 135-year architecture and engineering firm. The Senior PM not only stabilized the CA studio — he was promoted to Senior Associate and became the model for studio turnaround. Over the next two years, we became an embedded talent partner across every level of the organization.
We identified a Project Manager for their Grocery/Retail division who helped anchor new clients. We placed a Director of Operations who unified project management practices across all studios — solving a critical operational gap. We identified a specialized QC/QA architect to be firm's SME. We replicated the CA studio model by placing a Senior Associate in Colorado. We recently added leadership for their Civic and Interior design practices.
Then came the highest-level engagement: we advised on their CEO search. We helped define the profile, sat in on initial interviews, provided feedback, and ultimately helped identify an internal candidate to lead the firm's next chapter.
Today, we continue as a strategic partner to HR— providing compensation benchmarking, retention strategies, bonus program design, and industry intelligence.
OUTCOMES: Studio Turnaround · Multi-Location Expansion · Leadership Pipeline · CEO Succession Advisory · Ongoing HR Partnership
One COO hire that triggered a company wide transformation
A second-generation owned facility management and construction firm generating $100M+ in revenue needed a COO to lead them into their next growth chapter. They had reached a ceiling and knew it — but didn't quite understand why. We identified a COO who had already accomplished exactly what this ownership wanted: building a scalable, efficient organization.
Within weeks of starting, the new COO diagnosed the real problem: 80% of their revenue was being generated by just 20% of their staff. That single insight reframed everything. His restructuring didn't just solve the immediate problem - it created a cascade of transformations. A Director of HR joined to rebuild their hiring process and embed culture. A CFO came on board not just to solve month-end chaos, but to implement margin controls that gave the company sight into true project profitability and aligned cost centers for the first time. Eventually, this clarity enabled an expansion into Retail Construction — a brand-new division we supported by identifying project-level staff to execute their growing pipeline.
OUTCOMES: Organizational Restructuring · Revenue Concentration Fix · C-Suite Build-Out · Margin Controls · HR Culture Transformation · New Business Division Launch · Revenue Expansion
The Elevate network
Lion Search
STRM RECRUITING
Lion Search
Lion Search is our Boise-based Accounting and Finance search partner for AEC & Manufacturing companies across our Pacific Northwest clientele: ID, OR, WA + UT.
STRM RECRUITING
Lion Search
When you engage Elevate Studio, you access a national network of specialized search firms — each deeply embedded in their geography and industry vertical. No matter where you operate or what you need, we have a specialist in market.
STRM RECRUITING
STRM RECRUITING
STRM RECRUITING
STRM Recruiting is our Portland-based Skilled Trades search partner that supports MEP Engineering, Construction Trades and Skilled Trades in Manufacturing for our Pacific Northwest clientele: ID, OR, WA & UT.
PEAK EXPERIENCE
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
STRM RECRUITING
Peak Experience is our Southern California-based Accounting and Finance search partner for AEC and Manufacturing companies across our Southwest clientele: California, Nevada, and Arizona.
BREWER GLOBAL
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
Brewer Global is our Las Vegas-based search partner specializing in Executive Search, Accounting, Finance, Legal, Construction, and Manufacturing hiring. They support our Southwest clients across California, Nevada, and Arizona.
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
M.A.R.S RECRUITING
M.A.R.S Recruiting is our Southern California-based search partner that supports Construction Trades and Skilled Trades in Manufacturing for our Southwest clientele: California, Nevada and Arizona.