Seekhr | People & Talent Recruitment
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Executive Recruiter — Deep Tech Scale-up, Central London
£130,000–£175,000 base + placement bonus
A rapidly-scaling, venture-backed deep-tech business is hiring its first dedicated Executive Recruiter — a genuinely rare opportunity to build an executive search function from scratch, in direct partnership with the founder.
The business
Founded within the last two years, the company has already closed a nine-figure funding round backed by a mix of leading venture and strategic industrial investors, at a valuation north of $1bn. Headcount has grown past 300 people this year alone, with further senior hires planned before year end. It's a business past the point of proving its technology works, and now building the leadership team to scale it.
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Only hits
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The role
This is not a pipeline-management job. You'll own full-cycle executive search, mapping, direct approach, assessment and close, across a portfolio of senior business and operational hires (think CFO, COO and equivalent), working in direct, high-trust partnership with a hands-on, fast-moving founder.
The plan is to build a small team of two to three underneath you as volume is proven, with the shape of the function largely yours to define.
What we're looking for
- Genuine agency or search-trained background, someone who hunts and sells, not someone used to managing inbound applicants.
- A track record of full-cycle executive/senior hiring, ideally within an early-to-growth-stage VC-backed deep tech, hardware business.
- Comfort operating under real pressure with a demanding, closely-involved founder, this is a role with direct access, not one insulated from that relationship.
- Resilience selling a strong opportunity from a low public profile, the calibre of the business isn't yet matched by name recognition, so this is as much a hunting and sales challenge as a search one.
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