Scaling teams for startups
We help startups hire senior Sales, Product and Engineering talent with high-growth experience.
If you're using a recruitment agency, make it count. Whether you're making a key hire, like your first CRO or CTO, or building a Go-To-Market team with Enterprise AEs, we can help you hire and onboard experienced candidates quickly. Working in partnership to understand your business goals, we help clients avoid escalating recruitment fees and enjoy high retention rates.
Abtrace, a seed-stage HealthTech startup using machine learning to transform primary care, partnered with Wilson Grey to recruit a Sales Director to drive commercial growth - still in post thre years later.
HEALTHTECH
Stage:
Seed | 20+ headcount
Main role:
Sales Director
Time to fill:
11 days
Capitalise, a FinTech startup supporting businesses and advisers to access funding, partnered with Wilson Grey to hire a product leader who became VP of Product. Later retaining us after its Series A to deliver seven additional hires.
FINTECH
Stage:
Series A
Main role:
Senior Product Manager
Time to fill:
20 days
We help startups hire senior Sales, Product, and Engineering talent with high-growth experience. This includes key hires like your first CRO/CTO, as well as senior individual contributors and first-time leaders.
Senior Hires is designed for senior IC and functional leadership hires where you want speed, structure and predictable pricing. Executive Search is best for board-level or C-suite leadership appointments that require a deeper retained search process.
For senior permanent hires, you can expect to receive initial CVs within 24 to 48 hours after briefing. We then gather your feedback to fine-tune the search and keep the momentum going through interviews to offer stage.
Yes. We proactively headhunt startup-proven talent rather than relying on inbound applicants, so you reach candidates who build, ship and sell in high-growth environments.
Yes. We can run parallel searches across functions (GTM, Engineering, Product, etc.) through one coordinated process, with phased start dates to keep delivery moving.
For non-Executive roles, we recruit on exclusive or retained terms and charge a flat fee based on the first-year base salary. Every hire includes a replacement guarantee if things don't work out. Contractors and fractional hires are invoiced on a day rate basis.
See pricing & packages →We offer end-to-end support: from helping you define the role and interview process to advising on compensation and managing the search through to offer and onboarding.
Yes. We support hiring across the UK and US, depending on role, location, and time zone coverage.
We’re built for startups and scale-ups and focus on speed without compromising quality. Expect clearer ownership, fewer bottlenecks and a process designed to help you hit headcount targets within budget.
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They took the time to really understand our needs and quickly sent strong candidates. There was clear communication throughout, and their advice was crucial to us securing our preferred candidate.
Preview some of the best candidates we represent. Click profiles to discover their potential for your team.
My background is in building a Customer Success function from £0 to £2.5m in ARR; I'd love to bring that founder-level ambition, energy and urgency to a senior CS role in a scaling Series A/ B company.
I’m currently VP of Marketing at a B2B SaaS company where I lead go-to-market strategy and revenue-driven marketing to support the company’s growth from £5M to £10M ARR. My background is in scaling marketing functions within high-growth technology companies, with a focus on pipeline generation, product marketing and enterprise GTM.
I'm a Digital Healthcare Strategist and Transformation lead looking for senior roles in digital healthcare transformation - covering strategy, platform delivery and the practical application of AI across patient and clinician journeys. I'm interested in opportunities with Healthtech startups, independent healthcare providers and health insurers, and open to contract or permanent roles.
