We live and breathe disruptive technology and recognise the importance of fully understanding our clients' value propositions before we articulate it to our trusted network of professionals. AJR offers a truly collaborative experience and has the proven credentials to evangelise leading edge solutions to Greenfield territories.
AJR’s retained search model is a pro‐active methodology best suited to high technology companies that are looking to make a strong impact by attracting and retaining the top percentile of senior level executives across the whole of EMEA. It is widely accepted that the highest calibre technology professionals are not on the open job market and they need to be found. This is where AJR step in.
When multiple hires are required within an aggressive timeframe, AJR’s managed service offering can be tailored to any start‐up’s need. Our fixed term solution can be deployed remotely or onsite, providing a centralised point‐of‐contact for all recruitment requirements.
We believe that every search is unique and before embarking on a new assignment, AJR provide original research for each client. We understand the importance of first impressions, which is why we make it our business to understand our clients’ propositions, industry and competitors before embarking on a full sweep of the market’s top candidates.
“AJR Partnership has delivered transformational leaders into organisations around the UK and Europe for over a decade. We take great pride in our forensic approach, which has come to be relied upon by our partners, some who have been with us for 8-10 years. We believe it’s the exceptional quality of service we provide that ensures referral remains our key source of business development to this day”
Prior to an incoming Series B funding round, Snowplow wanted to expand their EMEA commercial presence, with a particular focus on UK, DACH and Nordics. AJR was successful retained and completed searches across Sales Leadership and Presales.
Following a very successful previous engagement with the incumbent SVP Worldwide Sales, AJR was contracted by Enablon to scale the Global Accounts Team. AJR quickly fulfilled 3x Global Account Director roles in EMEA and US. Subsequently AJR was signed to source a US Director of Sales.
Throughout NuoDB’s exciting journey from Series B to acquisition by Dassault Systems, AJR was the exclusive EMEA recruitment partner. This included hiring the Founding members of the EMEA sales team; VP Sales, VP Sales Engineering as well as Principal-level Customer Success execs.
AJR has been exclusively retained for strategic searches in EMEA and US. Primary focus to date has been Enterprise Sales and Presales as well as Field CTOs in both regions.
Following a $38.5m Series A investment round, Harbr retained AJR exclusively to scale the international go-to-market team and assist with market entry into US and APAC. To date, AJR has successfully sourced a number of hires across Sales, Presales and Customer Support.
AJR was exclusively retained by Streamsets to expand the go-to-market team into a number of European territories. This included Sales and Presales Leadership in UK, DACH and Southern Europe as well as strategic hires in US. AJR continued to be retained following Streamsets acquisition by Software AG 2022 and was trusted to hire a VP EMEA to lead the newly formed business unit.
Prior to Series A investment, AJR were retained exclusively to hire the go-to-market team for this leading UK start-up (now acquired by Informatica). AJR delivered 26 hires (EMEA & US) across Senior Leadership, Sales, Presales, Marketing and Customer Success
AJR were engaged exclusively to scale Quantexa’s international go-to-market presence across Banking, Government, Telco and Insurance. This resulted in 10 Sales leadership hires in UK, Southern Europe, Central Europe, Nordics and US.
Following a significant investment round and subsequent hyper-growth, AJR was exclusively engaged to expand Dataiku’s Enterprise Sales presence in Northern EMEA. This resulted in 14 hires across the region: RVP Sales (x3), RVP Sales Engineering and Enterprise Account Executives (x11).
