Associate, Private Clients

• Location: London, White City. Hybrid. Remote within the UK considered for the right person.
• Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 plus a quarterly bonus linked to completed placements.
• Contract: Full-time, permanent.
• Reporting to: Managing Directors.

You have spent your career looking after people who expect a great deal and say very little.

Guest relations at a top hotel. Membership at a private club. Client services at an auction house. A private banking desk. A lifestyle management team.

You know how to read a room, how to ask a difficult question politely, and how to keep what you learn to yourself.

Oplu is an executive search firm serving Private Estates, Family Offices and Luxury Brands. We place Estate Managers, Chiefs of Staff, Executive Assistants and Personal Assistants for principals in the UK, the US and internationally, and every search is conducted in strict confidence.

We are hiring an Associate to run the candidate side of our searches.

We would rather teach search to someone with your background than teach discretion to someone without it.

The role

• Approach candidates who are not looking; interview them properly; check what they tell you.
• Write profiles that a principal or their Chief of Staff can rely on.
• Manage candidates through interview, feedback, and offer logistics.
• Keep our database accurate; draft and manage job advertisements.
• Reporting to the Managing Directors. No selling, no client management.

What you bring

• A track record of serving UHNW or high-profile clients, in a role where the standard was set by the client rather than the manual.
• Writing that is precise and unhurried. Our profiles go to clients under our name.
• The judgement to ask a senior Estate Manager a direct question about pay or references, and the manners to get an answer.
• Discretion as a habit rather than a policy.
• Curiosity about how private households, Family Offices and Luxury Brands actually run.
• Additional languages are an advantage.

What we offer

• Full training in our search process from the Managing Directors.
• A competitive base with a quarterly bonus linked to completed placements.
• A small firm where your work is seen and your standards matter.
• Progression to Senior Associate and, in time, to leading the candidate team.

Apply through LinkedIn with a CV and a few lines on where you have looked after clients like ours.