■ The desk · updated every Friday
Searches
Every search we run is published here, open and closed, with the funnel as it stands: how many people we mapped, called, met and shortlisted.
Live searches
Closed this year
Median days to signed offer
First calls on a typical search
Live now
■ Open searches
If one of these is you, or someone you would vouch for, write to the partner on the search. Every conversation is confidential.
#0412
Week 5 of 9
Head of Inference
Series C AI lab, 120 people
Own model serving for a lab moving from research demos to paid API traffic at 40,000 requests a second.
4,812
Mapped
212
Called
38
Met
6
Short
London
Inference & infrastructure
#0409
Week 3 of 8
Quant Researcher, Futures
Systematic fund, $9bn AUM
Signal research in a six-person futures pod that trades its own book and publishes nothing.
1,904
Mapped
96
Called
21
Met
0
Short
Chicago
Quant & trading
#0407
Week 6 of 8
Founding ML Engineer
Seed-stage robotics company
The first ML hire at a twelve-person robotics team teaching arms to handle soft, unpredictable objects.
820
Mapped
64
Called
19
Met
4
Short
Munich
AI & ML research
Closed
■ Placed and closed
The searches we have finished this year, and how long each took from the first brief to a signed offer.
#0401
Quant & trading
Head of Low-Latency Platform
Electronic market maker
Amsterdam
Placed in 54 days
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#0396
Leadership & team builds
VP Engineering
Series B developer-tools company
New York
Placed in 71 days
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#0390
AI & ML research
Research Scientist, Post-training
Frontier AI lab
Paris
Placed in 48 days
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#0386
Inference & infrastructure
Head of Data Platform
Regulated digital-asset exchange
Singapore
Placed in 66 days
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#0381
Leadership & team builds
Chief Scientist
Climate-modelling startup
Zürich
Placed in 93 days
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Mapped
Everyone doing the work
The number of people we identified, by name, who have done this job or the one just below it.
Called
First approaches
Every first call is made by a partner. We count the calls, not the messages.
Met
Two-hour conversations
The people we met properly, on systems and strategy, before we said a word to you about them.
Shortlisted
People you’d hire
Usually six. Each arrives with our notes, references we took ourselves and the offer that would move them.
■ Hiring for a role like these?
Brief us on the seat you can’t fill.
A two-hour briefing, a market map in two weeks and a shortlist of six in seven. If we don’t think we can fill it, we will tell you on the first call.
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