New households, built to last

Austin's households are young in a particular way. Many of the families we work with here arrived within the last several years — founders and tech leadership from the coasts, families following companies that moved — and are hiring household staff for the first time. The wealth may be new to staffing, but the standards aren't: these are people who build organizations for a living and want the household built just as well.

The geography pulls west. Tarrytown and Pemberton Heights in the city; Westlake and Barton Creek for space and schools; waterfront on Lake Austin, and land — real land — out toward Dripping Springs and the hill country. Waterfront and acreage properties need hands: boat and dock upkeep, wells and gates, heat that tests every system from May to October.

The talent pool here is growing but thinner than in legacy markets, so many senior searches draw candidates relocating from Dallas, Houston, or the coasts — people who want what Austin offers. We're straightforward about that from the start — about which roles the local market can fill well, which searches should go national, and what it takes to make a relocation stick.