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Search Associate — Data, Research & Intelligence
Location: London (Hybrid)
Engage PSG is looking for an ambitious Search Associate to join our specialist Data, Research & Intelligence practice.
The Search Associate will support the delivery of retained and contingent recruitment searches by researching markets, identifying high-performing candidates, conducting initial qualification calls, and maintaining strong candidate relationships throughout the recruitment process.
You will work closely with experienced consultants while developing a detailed understanding of the companies, markets, and commercial roles we recruit across.
Over time, you will be given genuine ownership of the candidate side of live searches and will play an important role in helping our clients identify and secure exceptional talent.
The Desk You Will Be Joining
You will join our specialist Data, Research & Intelligence recruitment practice.
The team partners with rapidly scaling companies that provide data, research, technology, and intelligence products to some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations, including:
- Hedge funds and asset managers
- Private equity and venture capital firms
- Investment banks and financial institutions
- Strategy and management consultancies
- Corporates and professional services organisations
Our clients include alternative-data providers, financial-data platforms, investment-research businesses, expert networks, market-intelligence companies, AI-powered research platforms, and other specialist information-services businesses.
You will help recruit commercial professionals into these organisations, including Sales, Business Development, Account Management, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, and senior commercial leadership positions.
Main Responsibilities
- Research, identify, and attract suitable candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, our CRM System, professional networks, and other appropriate sourcing methods.
- Build candidate pipelines for current and anticipated recruitment assignments.
- Approach prospective candidates by telephone, email, and LinkedIn.
- Conduct initial qualification and screening calls to understand candidates’ experience, performance, motivation, compensation, and career objectives.
- Work closely with Consultants on the team to qualify, shortlist, and present suitable candidates for defined vacancies.
- Produce accurate and compelling candidate profiles, interview summaries, and written submissions.
- Coordinate candidate interviews and maintain regular communication before and after each stage.
- Use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and AI notetakers to improve research, sourcing, written communication, and productivity.
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Who We Are Looking For
A confident communicator, who is organised, commercially sharp, and calm under pressure. Someone with real ambition, who genuinely wants to earn well.
Experience and Skills
You will ideally have around one to two years’ experience in recruitment or executive search.
What You Will Gain
You will have the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting companies operating across Data, Research, Intelligence, and AI.
These are rapidly scaling businesses whose platforms, datasets, and insights support decision-making for leading investors, financial institutions, consultancies, and global organisations.
You will receive hands-on coaching, regular feedback, and exposure to live recruitment searches from the beginning.
As your capability develops, you will be given increasing ownership of searches, candidate relationships, client interaction, and commercial responsibilities.
There is no fixed ceiling within the role. Progression, responsibility, and earning potential will be based on performance, quality, consistency, and behaviours.
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About Engage PSG
Engage PSG was founded on a simple belief: meaningful partnerships drive lasting success.
Data is in our DNA.
Our story begins more than 30 years ago at Dun & Bradstreet, one of the world’s original business-data companies, where our CEO, Kevin Cruickshank, built his career selling data, insight, and risk solutions into financial services.
Working with banks and financial institutions, he learned first-hand how the right data drives some of the world’s most important commercial decisions.
He also developed deep expertise in business identity, compliance, and financial services, which continues to shape how Engage operates today.
After going on to lead the Banking and Financial Services organisation at one of the world’s foremost Know Your Business companies, Kevin launched Engage PSG, combining that data-led commercial mindset with the principles of high-touch executive search.
Since then, Engage PSG has grown from a UK-based search business into a global specialist, with teams in London, Los Angeles, and Sydney.
Our consultants bring decades of collective experience across Data, AI, Digital Identity, Risk, Fraud, and Compliance. We partner with rapidly scaling vendors whose technology, data, and intelligence power decision-making for sophisticated investors, institutions, and global businesses.
We do not simply recruit within the data world—we come from it.
By joining Engage PSG, you will be learning from people who have operated within these markets and understand them from the inside.
Sound Like You?
If you are ambitious, hungry to learn, and excited by the idea of becoming an expert within a specialist, fast-scaling market, we would like to hear from you.
Apply now and start building a major career with Engage PSG.
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