REALM
Principal Consultant - AI Infrastructure & Data Centres
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The Role
This is an opportunity for an established Senior, Principal or Managing Consultant who wants to operate at a high level, build a valuable market and have genuine ownership over their success. You'll work across AI, cloud infrastructure and Web3, partnering directly with companies tackling complex engineering challenges.
You'll own the full recruitment lifecycle, from developing client relationships and winning new business to identifying and securing exceptional technical talent. But this isn't simply about filling roles.
We want someone who can become a genuine authority in their market. Someone clients trust for their judgement, candidates respect for their knowledge, and colleagues look to as an example of what great looks like.
You'll have the autonomy to operate as a high-performing individual contributor, with the infrastructure, relationships and support of an established business behind you.
What You'll Be Doing
- Owning your market. Building deep relationships across a specialist technical ecosystem and becoming recognised for your expertise.
- Winning and developing business. Working directly with founders, CTOs and engineering leaders to understand their challenges and shape hiring strategies.
- Delivering exceptional searches. Identifying, engaging and securing hard-to-find engineering talent across global markets.
- Building long-term partnerships. Developing client relationships that extend well beyond individual placements.
- Raising the standard. Contributing to a high-performance environment where quality, commercial ambition and personal accountability matter.
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Who We're Looking For
You've already established yourself in software engineering recruitment and have the results to demonstrate it. You know how to build a market, develop relationships and consistently generate revenue. You're commercially sharp, technically curious and confident engaging with senior stakeholders. Ideally, you'll bring experience across AI, cloud, infrastructure or adjacent engineering disciplines, although we're more interested in your track record and ability to learn than an exact market match.
You're ambitious, but not simply chasing your next commission cheque. You want to build something valuable. A reputation, a network, a market and a career with genuine long-term upside. And you want to be surrounded by people who take their work as seriously as you do.
Why REALM?
We're building the kind of search firm that ambitious recruiters want to be part of. A business with the clients, markets, technology and culture to give exceptional people the opportunity to perform at their best. We've invested significantly in our brand, systems, technology and people. We're moving into a substantially larger London office, expanding our team and creating new opportunities for people who want to play a meaningful part in our growth.
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You'll benefit from:
- Exceptional earning potential. Industry-leading commission, high-value markets and the opportunity to build substantial personal billings.
- Genuine career progression. Clear pathways into leadership, with opportunities to build and develop teams as we scale.
- A serious technology platform. Best-in-class hardware, Bullhorn, SourceWhale and AI-powered tools designed to make you more effective.
- International exposure. Direct access to ambitious, well-funded technology companies across the US and Europe.
- Real autonomy. The freedom to develop your market, make decisions and take ownership of your success.
- Experienced leadership. Work alongside founders who are still actively involved in search, understand your market and know what it takes to bill.
- A high-performance culture. Ambitious, capable people who support each other, celebrate success and take pride in the quality of their work.
Benefits
- Industry-leading, uncapped commission structure
- Vitality private medical and dental insurance from day one
- Vitality wellness and lifestyle benefits
- Five-star international incentive trips
- Hybrid working, including two days from home and enhanced flexibility for Principal Consultants and above
- Birthday off
- Christmas shutdown
- CSR and volunteering days
- Company pension
- Ongoing training, development and career progression
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