Who is Global Search RC?
A boutique executive search firm for the language industry — localization, translation, language technology, AI and interpretation. Founded in 2020 by Melanie Francis, it places the commercial and leadership talent that language businesses grow on, for clients across the United States and beyond.
The firm in numbers
The firm
- 1 in 3
- Résumés that become an offer
- 94%
- Placements retained
- 20
- Verticals covered
- 2020
- Founded in Cardiff
Firm-published, 2022
Firm-published, 2022
What we do
We hire the people who sell and lead language businesses
Our clients are the companies of the language industry — the localization and translation providers, interpreting businesses, language-technology platforms and language-data companies behind everything from dubbing to on-demand medical interpreting to the multilingual data that trains AI.
We place the commercial and operational leaders who grow those businesses: VPs of sales, revenue leaders, and operational leadership. The people we place already know this industry, and the CEOs and leaders who hire us come to us because we know it too — and because we know who the right people are.
Four practices
How we work
Boutique on purpose, and deeply networked
01
Boutique on purpose
A small, senior team of six, not a volume agency. Executive search in this industry rewards a deep network and real judgment over headcount, and it is an insular market where the same companies return to the same specialists.
02
Confidential by design
The firm does not publish who it places, or who it places them with. Discretion is part of what clients hire it for, which is why there are no client logos on this site.
03
In the room
The firm is a fixture at the language industry's US conferences. In a relationship business, being in the room is how the network that makes retained search viable actually gets built.
The founder
“Recruitment in this industry is too specialist, too high-stakes, and too human, to be left to generalists.”
Melanie Francis — globalsearchrc.com
A native Welsh speaker with a background leading sales recruitment, Melanie founded Global Search RC in 2020 and still runs searches herself. Clients work with her directly rather than being handed to an account team.
More about Melanie FrancisWhere
Founded in Cardiff, working mostly in the United States
Most of the work is in the United States, across every region rather than any one city, and searches are run fully remote. Six markets have their own pages.
The team
A team of six, and the circuit it is built on
The person who scopes a brief is the person who runs it. Much of the network behind that is built in person, on the language industry conference circuit and around it.
Looking for a search partner who knows this industry?
A consultation is a call about the role, the market and whether the brief is winnable as written.