Founder & Lead Recruiter

Meet Ryan Rayner.

The founder and driving force behind CiviSearch — and the recruiter behind every search the firm takes on.

Ryan Rayner, Founder and Lead Recruiter at CiviSearch
Ryan Rayner Founder & Lead Recruiter

Ryan Rayner is the founder and driving force behind CiviSearch.

He has spent years in one market — land development inside US civil engineering consultancies — and nowhere else. That focus has built a nationwide network and more than fifty placements from Florida to Arizona, from high-performing Project Managers to Directors, Vice Presidents and the leaders who open new offices.

He knows which firms are growing, who leads them, what they pay, and where a candidate will genuinely fit — long before it becomes obvious on paper.

Ryan founded CiviSearch to be the recruitment partner he believed the industry was missing: specialist, relentless, commercially aware and genuinely invested in both sides of every placement. Every search is run by him personally. There is no hand-off to a junior.

His ambition is not simply to fill more roles. It is to build the most trusted and effective land development recruitment firm in the United States — one career-defining placement and business-changing hire at a time.

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