What Atlas Search does

Atlas Search is a privately held, full-service executive recruiting and professional staffing firm headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Cranford, New Jersey, and active operations across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida. The firm places highly skilled professionals across eight verticals: Accounting & Finance, Financial Services, Front Office, Tech/Development, Healthcare (Permanent), Healthcare (Temporary), HR & Business Operations, and Clinical Research. Its service portfolio comprises three core offerings — Direct Hire, Executive Search (both contingent and retained), and Contingent Workforce (staff augmentation, consulting, contract-to-hire, and project-based support) — supplemented by a separate subsidiary, Atlas Search Health Solutions, LLC, which delivers Joint Commission-certified healthcare staffing.

The business model is professional services-based, monetizing through placement fees on permanent hires and billable rates on contract/contingent engagements. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, varying by role complexity, seniority, and engagement type. Go-to-market is sales-led and primarily direct: recruiters engage hiring managers and HR departments, supported by an SEO-optimized job listings portal that functions as a self-serve inbound channel for candidates. The firm runs a multi-channel marketing engine spanning LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, content marketing, email newsletters, and earned media (Forbes, Glassdoor features of founding partners).

Operationally, Atlas Search is a people-driven, relationship-led firm rather than a technology platform. Source data explicitly characterizes its core competency as recruiter expertise, industry networks, and personalized candidate-client matching, with no proprietary SaaS, AI models, or technology IP disclosed. The 101–250 employee organization is founder-led (Rob Parks, Peter Riccio, Scott Stenzler as Founding Partners; Pablo Ismael as COO), with a managing director (Lisa Gootman Yudico, Accounting & Finance since 2017) and executive director (Daniela Lotito, Temporary Healthcare since 2019) anchoring the two most developed practice areas. Brand credibility is supported by 126+ verified Google reviews and Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for Health Care Staffing Services.

Name

Atlas Search

Legal name

Atlas Search LLC

Website

https://atlassearchllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Atlas Search is a privately held New York-based executive recruiting and professional staffing firm placing talent across accounting, finance, healthcare, technology, and clinical research verticals via direct hire, executive search, and contingent workforce solutions across the Northeast and Florida.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Search & Staffing Services

NAICS

Executive Search Services (561312), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Functional Leadership Search (HR/Finance/Legal/Marketing/Sales/Ops) (BPACAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare & Life Sciences Leadership Search (BPACAAAE), Financial Services Leadership Search (Banking/Insurance/PE/Asset Mgmt) (BPACAAAF)

Keywords

• Executive search services
• Direct hire staffing
• Contingent workforce solutions
• Healthcare staffing services
• Finance accounting recruiting

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Direct Hire Placement Services: Professional search and recruiting services for companies of all sizes, where the firm carefully screens talent and matches candidates to client needs.
2. Executive Search Services: Senior-level talent placement for leadership and management positions, provided on both a contingent and retained basis, leveraging the firm's network of executives.
3. Contingent Workforce Services: Staff augmentation, consulting, contract-to-hire, and project-based support, along with bespoke professional services for end-to-end workforce solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Atlas Search is a professional executive recruiting and staffing firm that places accounting, finance, healthcare, clinical research, technology, and administrative talent through direct hire, executive search, and contingent workforce engagements. The firm sources, screens, and matches candidates to client organizations across multiple specialized verticals, including Joint Commission certified healthcare staffing.

Product overview

Atlas Search is an executive recruiting firm offering a portfolio of staffing and recruitment services rather than a unified software platform. The core offerings consist of Direct Hire (full-cycle professional recruiting), Executive Search (senior-level talent acquisition on contingent and retained basis), and Contingent Workforce solutions (staff augmentation, consulting, contract-to-hire, and project-based support). Healthcare staffing is a specialized vertical available in both permanent and temporary/per diem variants, supported by Joint Commission certification. These services are complemented by Job Placement Resources for candidate career development. The company does not offer a SaaS product or technology platform; its services are delivered through personal interaction, relationship-building, and industry expertise across multiple verticals including Accounting & Finance, Clinical Research, Financial Services, Healthcare, HR & Business Operations, and Tech/Development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Direct Hire
• Executive Search
• Contingent Workforce
• Healthcare Staffing (Permanent)
• Healthcare Staffing (Temporary)

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half International: Global staffing and consulting firm with a deep finance/accounting placement practice and a separate executive search arm (Protiviti). Directly comparable to Atlas Search in core Accounting & Finance and Financial Services verticals, though with vastly larger scale, national footprint, and proprietary tools.
• Korn Ferry: Global organizational consulting firm with one of the largest executive search practices, serving financial services, healthcare, and technology leadership mandates. Comparable to Atlas's Executive Search and senior-level finance/financial services placement offerings, but at significantly larger scale and with consulting adjacencies.
• Heidrick & Struggles: Global executive search and leadership advisory firm with strong financial services, healthcare, and technology practices. Comparable to Atlas's Executive Search services at the senior leadership level, though with international reach and premium retained search positioning.
• Aerotek: National staffing firm placing professionals across technical, professional, and industrial functions, with significant presence in finance/accounting and engineering. Comparable to Atlas's contingent workforce and contract-to-hire offerings, but with substantially larger scale and broader geographic coverage.

Direct peers

• The Execu|Search Group: NYC-based, multi-vertical staffing and executive search firm placing professionals in accounting/finance, technology, healthcare, and HR/operations — a near-mirror of Atlas Search's vertical mix and go-to-market model, operating at comparable scale in overlapping Northeast geographies.
• Insight Global: Large, privately held staffing firm with significant presence in IT/tech, finance/accounting, and healthcare staffing — overlapping with Atlas's Tech/Development, Accounting & Finance, and Healthcare practices, though with national reach and a stronger contingent/contract orientation.
• WinterWyman: Northeast-based recruiting firm placing professionals across accounting/finance, technology, HR, and administrative functions — closely comparable to Atlas Search in vertical mix, regional concentration, and boutique service model.
• TEKsystems: Large IT staffing and services firm with significant placement activity across software engineering, data, DevOps, and infrastructure roles — directly comparable to Atlas's Tech/Development vertical, though with national scale and stronger managed services capability.
• Accounting Principals: Specialized staffing firm focused on accounting and finance placements across temporary, contract-to-hire, and direct hire engagements. Closely comparable to Atlas's Accounting & Finance practice, operating under a similar boutique-to-mid-market service model.

Regional players

• Hays plc: UK-headquartered global recruitment firm with strong finance/accounting, technology, and healthcare staffing practices in the US market. Comparable to Atlas across multiple verticals, though primarily a non-US incumbent that competes in the same US metros.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtiktok.com/@atlassearch
• Facebookfacebook.com/AtlasSearchLLC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/atlas-search
• Instagraminstagram.com/atlassearchllc
• TikToktiktok.com/@atlassearch

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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