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Experienced enough for enterprise.Agile enough for startups.

JPS helps technology founders and leadership teams decide who the business needs next, find those people, and explain why the right candidate should join.

Portrait of Paul Dakin, founder of JPS Selection.
Paul DakinFounder & Talent Partner.

Why founders trust the work

The hires that matter need more than a recruiter’s process.

A founder is trusting JPS with people who will change the company. The reason to do that is experience, judgement and proximity to the work.

  1. More than 20 years in technology search

    Work that runs from early teams through established global technology companies.

  2. Senior people stay close to the search

    The relationship is not handed to a junior process once the brief is signed.

  3. International search is part of the work

    United States, Canada, EMEA and APAC, including first teams in a new market.

  4. The business comes before the job description

    Product, market, stage and the outcome of the hire shape the search.

  5. Research is assisted. Judgement is not automated.

    Technology can widen the map. It does not replace the decision about who should be approached, or why they would move.

How the relationship works

A long view of the team, not a single vacancy.

Companies come back when the next stage needs a different kind of hire. JPS is built to stay useful from the founding team through later leadership searches.

  1. Start with the company

    Funding, customers, competition, gaps and what the founder is actually trying to do.

  2. Challenge the brief

    Level, timing and whether the role is asking one person to do incompatible jobs.

  3. Tell a story candidates can join

    Why this company, why now, and what the person gets to build.

  • Founding teams
  • Scale-ups
  • International expansion
  • Executive search

Talk to JPS

Discuss your next hire.

The conversation can start with the business problem. The job description does not need to be finished.

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