Founded by the team behind Charity Search Group
Talent Echo Advisory Group is an executive search and advisory firm helping organizations build responsible AI leadership — from the conversations that define the role, to the people who fill it, to the governance that holds it accountable.
Founded by the team behind Charity Search Group — 60+ executive placements · 98% completion rate · 92% retention.
The EU AI Act is here. NYC Local Law 144 is enforced. The FTC is watching. Insurers are asking about your AI risk posture, and your board wants to know who owns the answer. The market for Responsible AI leadership is not coming — it has arrived.
We run the search that finds the leader.
Retained executive search for Chief AI Officers, VPs of AI, Heads of Data and Machine Learning — the senior leaders who set the strategy, own the budget, and ship the work.
Learn MoreHeads of Responsible AI, AI Ethics leads, Chief Trust & Safety Officers, AI Risk Officers, and the senior leaders who build and defend your organization’s AI governance program.
Learn MoreAI-fluent board members, senior advisors, and governance-ready leadership for organizations whose boards need to keep pace with their technology.
Learn MorePaid working sessions, advisory retainers, board workshops, and leadership readiness assessments — for organizations that need strategic clarity before or alongside a search.
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When Charity Search Group needed AI governance leadership, the big firms wanted a percentage of the hire’s salary — the higher the compensation, the higher their fee. We thought that was a misaligned incentive. Why should your search firm benefit from inflating your candidate’s package?
So we built Talent Echo on a flat-fee retained model. You know the cost before we start. It never inflates with the candidate’s compensation. And we get paid in thirds as we deliver — at engagement, at shortlist, and at placement.
It’s the model we use ourselves. It’s fairer, it’s transparent, and it puts enterprise-caliber AI leadership search within reach of organizations the big firms overlook.
One transparent price. No percentage of compensation. No surprise inflation.
One-third at engagement. One-third at shortlist. One-third at placement.
We succeed when you get the right leader — not when the package gets bigger.
Governance, ethics, risk, and policy are not afterthoughts in our practice — they are the practice. Our team has deep experience in board governance, equity-centered hiring, regulatory environments, and the kinds of organizations that answer to regulators, insurers, and the public.
Our process was built over hundreds of searches in high-scrutiny environments — organizations where board dynamics, compliance, and stakeholder trust make or break the hire. We bring that same discipline to every AI leadership search.
We do not place individual contributors, ML interns, or contract data scientists. We run retained executive searches for the leaders who will own your AI function, sit on your senior team, or advise your board.
Every search is led by a senior partner from start to finish. Each of our consultants carries only three to four active searches at a time. You get our attention, our network, and our judgment — not a junior recruiter and a database.
Flat-fee retained search. No percentage of compensation. Aligned with your interests.