Bottle Rocket Search Group — Executive Search for Coworking & Flex

MO 0 · THE MANDATE

Four services.
One measure.

Every engagement is scoped to the same axis the hero is drawn on — how long the person we place keeps compounding in the seat. A search that ends at the start date isn’t finished.

01

Executive Search

The keystone seats — founding GMs, heads of community, C‑suite for platforms and portfolios. The hires a workplace brand lives or dies by.

RETAINED · GLOBAL
02

Recruitment & Selection

The people your members actually meet. Screened for what the role really is — one part host, one part seller, one part operator — because hiring for a third of it is how doors start revolving.

TEAM · MULTI-SITE
03

Consultancy

Org design, honest comp bands, and hiring plans built for spaces that scale — insight priced in years of tenure, not slide decks.

ADVISORY
04

Talent Retention

The service this industry forgot it needed. We build the conditions that keep your best people in seat — clear scope, real progression, comp that holds — so the arc keeps climbing after we’re gone.

THE DIFFERENCE

WK 1–12 · THE SEARCH

A desk that only
does this industry.

Coworking and flex is all we search. We know which operators are expanding, which landlords are launching, and which exceptional people are quietly ready to move — because this desk maps the industry every week, not once per mandate.

Led by a founder whose search career has run mandates in 54 countries.

COWORKING & FLEX ONLY · EST. 2024

WK 1
The brief
Your goals, your culture, and the honest shape of the seat — weighted host / seller / operator before anyone is approached.
WK 2–4
The map
The live industry map: who holds this seat everywhere, who is rising beneath it, who is reachable.
WK 4–9
The approach
Direct, discreet, senior-led. Passive candidates take our calls because the desk knows their world.
WK 9–12
The shortlist
A handful, not a haystack — each one screened against the weighted seat, the comp band, and the years ahead.

MO 18 · THE CLIFF Month 18: where the industry’s community managers resign. Ours are still in seat.

THE PART NOBODY PUTS ON A WEBSITE

The industry has a
revolving door.
We refuse it.

Industry press puts the average community-manager tenure near eighteen months — hired for warmth, burned out on scope, gone before the community ever settles. Members notice. Brands pay for it twice.

So every Bottle Rocket search is scoped past the start date: the role weighted honestly, the comp band defended, and our retention practice standing behind the placement. We’re measured on the years, and we like it that way.

THE BOARD

Mandates on
the desk.

Search is confidential work — clients stay unnamed, so the board shows the shape of the work instead. Profiles are representative and anonymized.

General ManagerMulti-site operatorEMEAPLACED
Head of CommunityLandlord flex launchNorth AmericaSHORTLIST
Regional DirectorPortfolio operatorAPACIN SEARCH
Member Experience LeadSingle flagshipNorth AmericaPLACED
Head of SalesFranchise platformEMEAIN SEARCH

Have a seat like one of these open? Put it on the board.

TWO FLIGHT PLANS

Built for the two buyers
of the next decade.

FLIGHT PLAN A

Operators, scaling

You’ve outgrown founder-led hiring. The next twelve seats decide whether your brand scales as a culture or as a spreadsheet. We hold the map of who’s exceptional in your world — before you need it.

FLIGHT PLAN B

Landlords, launching flex

The management-agreement era put you in the operating business. Your building has capital-markets DNA; your flex brand needs hospitality DNA — and your first hire decides whether it works. That hire is precisely our specialty.

Exceptional in this industry yourself? Get on the desk’s radar.

THE DESK