A boutique firm, built on obsession with the craft of hiring.
Talent Authority Partners is a small recruiting firm by design. TAP takes on a limited number of active searches at a time so every client gets the discernment and follow-through that management and executive hiring actually requires, across industries.
Founder
Jonathan Tureau
Founder & Principal Recruiter
Former Lead Executive Technical Recruiter at Google
- 17
- Years in recruiting
- Cross-industry
- Management to C-suite
U.S.-based searches, selective capacity
- Founded 2025
- TAP is headquartered in Houston, Texas and works with clients across the United States.
- U.S.-based searches
- Founder-led: every search is run by Jonathan Tureau
- Leadership & Executive Search and Embedded Recruiting
- Engagement fee plus a success-based placement fee — see fees and packages
- A limited number of active searches at a time
Seventeen years spent deciding who gets hired.
Every search Talent Authority Partners runs is led by Jonathan Tureau, the firm's founder and principal recruiter. Before founding TAP, he spent seventeen years making hire and no-hire calls at Google, inside Fortune 100 companies, and alongside founders building their first teams, across a range of industries and functions.
LinkedIn Recognition
Top 10 Recruiter Worldwide
Named by LinkedIn in 2021 for candidate outreach response rates. LinkedIn then asked him to teach his approach so it could train its own staff.
- Former Lead Executive Technical Recruiter at Google.
- 17 years recruiting across Fortune 100 companies, Big 4 firms, federal and defense organizations, and startups.
- 17 years recruiting management through C-suite roles across technology, professional services, and government-adjacent organizations.
- Built an applicant tracking system from the inside, which shapes how TAP structures screening so strong candidates aren't filtered out by a process.
Jonathan built Talent Authority Partners to bring that same standard, cross-industry judgment and direct candidate engagement, to companies hiring their next manager, director, VP or executive.
A Distinction Few Recruiters Can Claim
Jonathan has personally placed professionals at the White House.
Individual career placements, made prior to founding TAP, span the White House, NASA, Lockheed Martin, the Big 4, and Fortune 100 companies, reflecting what the most selective employers look for.
Individual Career Placements
Placements made over Jonathan's career, before founding TAP, include roles at:
The White HouseNASAGoogleBoeingLockheed MartinBig 4 FirmsFortune 100 CompaniesStartups
Across the U.S., Canada, Central America, Europe, and Japan, over the course of Jonathan's career.
A third-generation recruiter who builds teams for a living.
Jonathan Tureau is a third-generation recruiter. His grandparents and parents each built recruiting firms before him, and he spent his early career in talent acquisition, running recruiting teams and partnering with startups and established companies before founding Talent Authority Partners.
He built TAP to bring that cross-industry hiring judgment, direct candidate conversations, and hands-on process to companies hiring managers, directors, vice presidents, and executives, not to serve a single sector or company stage.
TAP uses modern tools for sourcing, research, and workflow, but the conversations, evaluation, and final judgment on every search stay with Jonathan. That combination, cross-industry experience and direct human involvement, is the standard Jonathan holds every search to.
Jonathan Tureau
Founder · Talent Authority Partners · Houston, Texas
TAP also offers optional career advisory for senior professionals, separate from its employer recruiting services. Learn more
Jonathan Tureau's recruiting career.
Before 2016
Began his recruiting career
2016 to 2021
Agency, fractional and in-house recruiting for companies including Chewy, Fiserv, Western Union, DISH and HomeAdvisor. Founded a boutique recruiting practice at the request of hiring leaders for their highest-stakes roles.
2021 to 2022
Lead Executive Technical Recruiter, Google (contract)
Apr 2022 to Apr 2023
Lead Technical Recruiter and Recruiting Coach, RocketPower (embedded with startups including Clari, FLYR and Parasol)
Dec 2022 to Feb 2024
Head of Technical Recruiting, Parasol (seed-stage Web3 startup)
Apr 2024 to Nov 2025
Head of Recruiting, Two Shared Services
Nov 2025 to present
Founder, Talent Authority Partners
A strike team — not a resume factory.
Boutique by design. Disciplined by habit. Cross-industry by scope.
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Selective search capacity.
TAP takes on a limited number of active engagements at a time so each client gets direct, hands-on attention rather than being one of many.
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Cross-industry leadership hiring, U.S.-based.
TAP recruits management, senior leadership, and C-suite roles across technology, professional services, and government-adjacent organizations, drawing on 17 years of recruiting experience.
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Embedded, not arms-length.
TAP works as part of the client's team, whether through a focused search engagement or embedded recruiting support, whichever fits the hiring need.
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Human discernment, AI-leveraged.
Tools support sourcing, notes and workflow. Candidate conversations and final judgment remain with the recruiter.
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Direct communication.
TAP moves at the speed of the search, with clear, direct updates rather than portals or unnecessary process.
The Standard
People working with people. Tools that sharpen the work — never replace the judgment.