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Household Staffing for Private Clients, Estates, and Family Offices

Deb’s Domestic Agency supports private clients, estates, and family offices with nationally coordinated household staffing designed for long-term continuity and operational stability. Each search is tailored to the structure, standards, and pace of the household, with careful attention to discretion, alignment, and the preservation of day-to-day consistency across roles and residences. Our core placements include household managers, estate managers, executive housekeepers, private chefs, domestic couples, caregivers, and childcare professionals. Childcare and nanny placements are offered as one specialized category within our broader household staffing work.

Not Sure What Role You Need?

Private household titles are not used uniformly. Deb’s Domestic Agency helps clients define a role by its actual scope, authority, residential complexity, reporting relationships and schedule—not title alone.

Household Manager or Estate Manager?

Household Manager: Leads the day-to-day operation of one principal residence or a relatively limited residential scope. Typical responsibilities include service standards, staff scheduling, vendor coordination, household administration and the smooth daily rhythm of the home.

Estate Manager: Carries broader operational authority across a substantial estate or multiple residences. The role may include significant budgets, capital projects, property systems, maintenance and security coordination, vendor leadership, senior staff oversight, family-office interaction and direct Principal trust.

The roles can overlap, but an Estate Manager is not simply a more senior title. The appropriate level depends on the authority, scale and complexity the position must carry.

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Peace of Mind

Our placements are handled with careful vetting, household discretion, and close attention to long-term fit. We focus on protecting continuity, reducing disruption, and introducing professionals who can integrate smoothly into the structure, standards, and pace of the home.
Our Guarantee

Who We Work With Deb’s Domestic Agency works with private households, estate managers, family offices, and principals managing one or multiple residences. Our searches are designed for environments where discretion, continuity, and operational consistency are essential. We are most often engaged during periods of transition, growth, or when existing household structures require refinement or stabilization. Our role is to support the long-term function of the household by placing professionals who align not only with the responsibilities of the role, but with the standards and expectations of the home.

When a search involves multiple residences, household leadership, vendor coordination, or family office communication, clients may also review our Household and Luxury Estate Staffing services and our article on estate staffing versus traditional domestic staffing.

Before beginning a complex search, clients may also find our guidance on operational continuity across multiple residences and long-term household staffing placement success useful for clarifying role scope, reporting structure, and retention expectations.

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