2025 Recruitment Agency of the Year @ SSG Excellence Awards

The talent engine behind AI growth.

Helping early AI companies scale. Placing the experts that turn early vision into category-defining businesses.

What We Build

Talent Architecture for the AI Ecosystem

Frontier AI
AI Infrastructure
Gen AI & Agentic Systems
Deep Tech
Security

Leadership Search

Placing C-Suite & VP-level executives who transform companies, connecting you with leaders who have successfully built and scaled organisations
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AI Engineering & Research

Building elite teams of Engineers and Researchers with deep domain expertise
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Go-To-Market

Building exceptional Sales, Marketing & Customer Success teams that drive real growth
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Our Approach

Talent. Architecture

Leading venture capital funds partner with us to support their portfolio companies with long-term talent strategy. We work as trusted advisors, taking a rigorous, precision-led approach to building elite teams.

Strategic Alignment First

Alignment to understand growth plans, culture, and the requirements of the team being built. This ensures the search is strategically positioned before engaging the market.

Market Mapping & Intelligence

Market mapping across relevant talent pools identifies individuals operating within the most relevant organisations. This provides insight into competitor talent, org structures, and emerging leaders within the market

Speed Without Compromise

A focused search process designed to move quickly without lowering the bar. Candidates are assessed through structured competency and technical conversations before progressing through the process.

High-Impact Matching

The strongest candidates are shortlisted and presented with clear profiles outlining experience, strengths, and overall fit. The interview process is managed from briefing and scheduling through to feedback to support confident hiring decisions.

Long-Term Partnership

Offer management includes negotiation and counter-offer handling to support successful outcomes. Support continues beyond placement, helping clients build teams as their organisations grow.

Results & Impact

Scale is built on
a precise talent strategy

11 days

Leadership hires secured.

24 Days

Average search timeline across our portfolio

Global Team Builds

US | EMEA | APAC

$0 → $100m+ ARR

Growth supported through strategic partnership

11 days

Leadership hires secured.

Global Team Builds

US | EMEA | APAC

24 Days

Average search timeline across our portfolio

$0 → $100m+ ARR

Growth supported through strategic partnership

TESTIMONIALS

Scale is built on a precise talent strategy

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Tyler was instrumental in helping me land my VP of Sales role at UnifyApps and was key in hiring my first Enterprise AE. He has a sharp eye for talent, understands the urgency and nuance of early-stage hiring, and operates like a true partner. If you’re building a high-performance GTM team or making a career move, Tyler is someone you want in your corner

Colin Callahan
VP of Sales at UnifyApps
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It was a pleasure working with Hamza during my own transition, and now having him as a partner on the hiring side for our AE and BDR roles has been just as seamless.Hamza is the definition of a high-touch recruiter. He’s incredibly communicative, friendly, and actually takes the time to listen to the specific needs of the business rather than just pushing resumes. He made the entire process easy for me as a candidate, and he’s bringing that same level of detail and commitment to our internal recruiting efforts now.

Bruce Gibson
VP Sales at Backslash Security
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I highly recommend Ignition Growth and have used them now for 7 hires. Very good at listening and understanding your exact requirements. If your brief is good, they will find you exactly what you are looking for. If you need to change your brief slighty as you go along, they adapt with your requirements and only bring relevant candidates.  Hamza is fast, efficient and always on the ball with a great understanding of our hiring process and time required.

Morten
Co-Founder, Bullwall
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Great experience, we worked with Ignition Growth & Tyler on 4 different positions and each time received great, relevant profiles. We really appreciated Tyler style: fast and hands-off, enabling us to run our processes without unnecessary intermediation. One of the best headhunters I've worked with so far.
Thank you Tyler!

Philippe Cayrol
CEO, Futurae
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Tyler has a proven track record in placing excellent sales executives in our company. He has a deep understanding of our requirements and of the market. He has taken time to understand our culture and values and he has personal relationships with our leadership team. Because he understands us, he adeptly identifies and places the best candidates for us. He is an excellent choice for anyone who needs an awesome executive recruiter. Highly recommend!”

Colleen Garrett
VP People, Enveil
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