AI Talent Intelligence · 南京 Nanjing + Global · Est. 2015 / Circle 2018
Core talent who drivetechnological evolution —不是简历,是核心人才· 21 days.
Circle 猎头 is a 14-person retained executive search firm in Nanjing + Silicon Valley, working exclusively across Internet, AI, autonomous driving, embodied intelligence and foundation models. Since 2015/2018 we have placed 100w–300w RMB technical leaders into ByteDance, Pinduoduo and tier-1 labs — leaders who drive product innovation and organizational upgrades, not just fill seats.
Trusted by teams at 字节跳动 ByteDance · 拼多多 Pinduoduo · 爱诗科技 Aishi · Tier-1 Internet & AI Labs
Live Talent Signal 核心人才雷达--:--:-- 南京 GMT+8
Currently Employed · 在职
C-094 · Algorithm Director 算法总监
Shanghai · Relationship built 24 months ago · via Knowledge Planet
01 / 04
200
Mapped 触达
60
Assessed 评估
15
Shortlist 短名单
4
Finalists 终选
87% of shortlists are currently-employed core talent — passive to the market, reached through 10 years of relationships, original research and the Knowledge Planet community. Synthetic illustration.
Industry average 45 days. 3–6 months end-to-end vs industry 6–9.
Offer Acceptance
94%
vs industry ≈70%. Hot-button negotiation prep on both sides.
Placement Retention
92%
Still in role year after year, plus 12-month follow-up as standard.
Salary Band
100w–300w
RMB annual (¥1M–3M) — the main range for technical leadership.
Tier-1 Clients
ByteDance · PDD
ByteDance, Pinduoduo and tier-1 IT/Internet — plus Aishi 爱诗 AIGC.
Strategic Stages
3
Find experts in China · bring experts home 海归 · hire globally.
Signature tool · 人才智能导航
Configure your AI search. Watch the machine respond.
Four instruments, one engine: the Talent Navigator, the Search ROI Calculator, the Org AI Readiness Visualizer and the Cross-Border Talent Map. Real inputs, real arithmetic from our placement data — the same lens we bring to your mandate.
Assessment lens 评估视角
Recalculating talent pool… 重新计算中
No mapped pool matches this exact configuration.
Ultra-narrow combinations (e.g., Embodied Intelligence at 300w+ in Nanjing) legitimately don't exist yet — that's usually the signal to run a Stage-2 returnee or Stage-3 global search instead. Widen one filter, or let us map it from scratch on a retained mandate.
A calculation faulted on your filter combination. Resetting restores the full pool — if it persists, email tommy@hrquanzi.com and we'll send the mapping by hand within 24 hours.
87% currently employed — core talent driving tech evolution elsewhere, not browsing job boards. Relationships built 8–31 months before your mandate begins.
Shortlist quality profile · weighted by composite lens
Mandate readout · 委托摘要
Output mirrors the diligence memo you receive in Week 1 of a retained search.
Circle approach metrics · live vs industry
Recent placements matching your filters
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Free · one step of the real thing
Get your Free AI ROI Score — the exact number above, on your org's data, in one page.
*Vacancy burn at your inputs + fee + expected re-search cost. 94% acceptance and 92% retention are Circle trailing-36-month figures; industry benchmarks ≈70% / ≈75%.
Methodology note — pool sizes derive from Circle's relationship database and original-research mapping (trailing 36 months); quality scores are medians of shortlisted candidates across 24 tracked placements. Figures shown are illustrative composites, tagged synthetic where applicable, and recalculated live from the filters above — never hard-coded decoration.
Approach · 职场决策支持系统
Not for everyone. For the right fit — a complete career decision support system.
Most people think a headhunter recommends jobs, polishes résumés, rehearses interviews and negotiates salary. An advanced headhunter's value goes far beyond. We built 职场决策支持系统 — a complete decision support system that helps candidates make correct, long-horizon career choices, and helps employers find the core talent who trigger technological evolution, product innovation and organizational upgrades.
For employers 雇主
We invest deeply in Due Diligence — learning your business goals, team and position inside out, surfacing values, culture fit and long-term potential. That front-loading is what drives 21-day slates, 94% acceptance and 92% retention. Boutique, high-touch, relationship-driven — the opposite of Big-5 volume shops.
For professionals 候选人
Beyond the JD, you get a transparent, comprehensive view of every opportunity — the client's strategy, the hiring manager's hot buttons, the real future-space of the role. Resume, interview, salary — plus the decision itself. Sincere enthusiasm attracts candidates 真诚吸引人才.
Mapping session, Nanjing HQ — every mandate starts with the org chart, not the job board.
The six career stages · 职场的六个阶段
Summarized from 10+ years and countless résumés and job changes. Tap a stage — this is the lens we use to advise candidates and to profile your hires.
职场角落 · Workplace Corner — free salon
4 seats. One coffee. Zero pitch.
A free monthly salon in Nanjing for engineers ≤5 years after graduation: free Career Gene 职业基因 assessment, documentation-management thinking 文档化管理思维, and honest talk about the two mindsets of job-hopping 跳槽的2种思维.
Each service names its value, its delivery vehicle and the exact problem it removes — no "empowering tomorrow's leaders" here.
01 · Flagship 旗舰
Executive Search 高管寻聘
Retained search for senior technical leadership at 100w–300w RMB: AI Directors, Autonomous Driving Leads, Foundation Model Leads, VPs of Engineering. We clarify the real requirement — business development plus technical organization — then hunt core talent who can drive technological evolution, not résumé carriers.
▸Delivery: named senior consultant + proprietary 8-step process
▸21 days to first vetted slate · 3–6 candidates ≥90% of spec by day 30
▸94% offer acceptance · 92% retention · hands-on through counteroffers
Removes: the 9-month internal search that ends in a 500w bad hire.
Three strategic stages: top experts in China, experts returning from abroad 海归, and Chinese tier-1 hiring globally. Nodes in Silicon Valley, Canada and Singapore.
Removes: the "we can't reach them" ceiling.
04
Career Planning 职业规划
职场决策支持系统 for candidates: the six career stages, Career Gene assessment, and decision coaching — correct long-horizon choices, not just the next offer.
For headhunting firms: embed AI into search workflows so one partner's experience becomes replicable organizational capability — cost per hire down, quality up.
Removes: star-consultant dependency.
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Knowledge Planet · 猎头陪跑 · AI Agent
Since 2025, via the WeChat public account 猎头张振: frontline dry goods, the Headhunter Companion coaching circle, and AI Agent tooling that lifts deal capability and efficiency.
Removes: learning headhunting by losing deals.
30-second vacancy check · 空缺速算
Every month an AI leadership seat stays open, it quietly burns margin and momentum. Drag the sliders — the arithmetic is the same one we show boards.
Your vacancy is burning
¥660w
≈ ¥110w per month · vs Circle fee on a 200w search ≈ 50–60w
Personal experience is fragile. Org capability compounds.
Since 2025, through the WeChat public account 「猎头张振」, Tommy has shipped frontline headhunting dry goods and practical methods — then productized them. The stack we run internally is the stack we install into other search firms:
KP
Knowledge Planet 知识星球
The searchable method library — every mandate pattern, objection script and market map we've codified since 2015.
陪跑
猎头陪跑 · Headhunter Companion
Live coaching circle: consultants bring real deals, we work them together — deal capability and close rate go up measurably.
AI
AI Agent Tools
Agents embedded in sourcing, vetting and reporting workflows — the 8-step process becomes executable, auditable, fast.
组织
Org AI Implementation
For headhunting firms: we embed AI across your workflow and turn your best partner's instinct into a replicable org capability.
60-second readiness snapshot · 组织AI体检速览
One input. Instant signal. The full visualizer lives in the Navigator tab ↑
FREE · ONE STEP
Field notes from 猎头张振 · since 2025
hover to pause
50+
yrs collective experience
10+
yrs method accumulation
14
people, deliberately small
Placements · 案例档案
Extraordinary AI leaders, on the record.
24 tracked placements across 2021–2026. Client names shown where confidentiality allows; the rest appear as their sector. Filter, search, open any row for the full diligence story.
24 placements
Archive of Circle executive search placements, 2021 to 2026
Client
Role
Leader placed
Year
Specialty
Band
Location
Open details
No placements match that combination.
Try widening the year range or clearing the search — or ask us directly; roughly a third of our work is too confidential to archive publicly.
Placement dossier · 案例详情
Active searches · 在招职位
Live mandates. Transparent, responsive, confidential.
For candidates: these are the searches currently on our desk. We reply to every qualified application within 24 hours — and we tell you where you stand, always. Not for everyone; for the right fit.
Nothing live under this tag right now.
Mandates open and close weekly. Send your profile confidentially and we'll match you the moment a fitting search opens — that's how 87% of our placements start.
Current employer never contacted without your written OK. 未经书面同意绝不联系现雇主。
Specialties · 专长领域
One lane, driven deep since 2015.
National recruitment across Internet, AI, autonomous driving and embodied intelligence. Pools below are live relationship counts — click a row to load it into the Navigator.
Specialty 领域Mapped poolPlacementsRoles we placeDepth
Six phases. Eight proprietary steps. Zero black box.
You see the search the way we see it — weekly. Hands-on involvement from diligence to day-365 follow-up ensures the leader we identify gets hired and stays hired. Tap any phase for its deliverable.
The proprietary 8-step, inside the phases · 独家八步法
Team · 团队
Fourteen people. Deliberately.
Employees
14
Avg. experience
5+ yrs
Collective
50+ yrs
Cities
6
Founder & CEO · 创始人
Tommy Zhang · 张振
Nanjing · Global — Circle猎头 since 2018 · Apollo since 2015
Nanjing University of Science & Technology (2002–2006). A decade of consultative and key-account sales management before moving into high-end headhunting and systematic team building — online platforms plus social networks, across multiple rounds of tech iteration. He reads business development and technical-org evolution the way others read résumés: which is why Circle clarifies the real requirement before a single candidate is named.
Since 2025 he publishes frontline dry goods via 「猎头张振」, Knowledge Planet and 猎头陪跑 — and installs AI Agents into other firms' workflows.
Small by design: the consultant who sells you is the consultant who searches. No bait-and-switch to a junior associate, no SHREK-style volume desk. Portraits are placeholders pending the team's approved headshots.
10y
2015 Apollo → 2018 Circle猎头 → 2026
A decade of one obsession: where the next technological evolution comes from — and who drives it.
Through the mobile internet, the algorithm era, autonomous driving, and now foundation models and embodied intelligence, we have tracked how talent demand mutates with every iteration — and built the relationships that let us move 21 days faster than the market.
"Nine months of internal searching got us a folder of résumés. Circle's day-21 slate had four names — three we didn't know existed, one we hired. He still runs our foundation-model roadmap."
"They told us our real problem wasn't the JD — it was the org design around the seat. That honesty is why we gave them the mandate, and why acceptance hit first-round."
"作为候选人,他们帮我做的不是一次投递,是一次职业决策——六阶段模型让我看清了未来五年的空间。"
≈100%
record of surpassing the brief
3–6mo
end-to-end vs industry 6–9
30d
3–6 candidates ≥90% of spec
12mo
follow-up as standard
Confidential consultation · 保密咨询
Hire the AI leader who drives technological evolution.
Tell us the mandate — confidentially. We respond within 24 hours with an honest read: whether we're the right firm, which route fits (domestic · 海归 · global), and what day-21 looks like. All inquiries handled with strict confidentiality. 所有咨询严格保密。
