Behind Iperium's speed is talent.ai our proprietary talent intelligence platform built to identify where the best technology talent is, who is outperforming, and how to reach them.
Executive search has traditionally had a speed problem.
A mandate is agreed. Researchers begin mapping the market. Longlists are built. Candidates are approached. Weeks can pass before a meaningful shortlist reaches the client.
Today, the challenge isn’t finding people. There is more professional data available than ever before.
The challenge is cutting through that noise to identify the right people, faster.
That’s why we built talent.ai.
Search shouldn't start when the mandate does
For most search firms, market research begins when the engagement starts.
At Iperium, much of that intelligence already exists.
Built on more than two decades of specialist technology search, talent.ai structures the technology talent market into strategic Talent Pools across executive, GTM and technical functions.
It means we’re not starting every search with a blank page.
We're starting with intelligence.
Who are the proven CROs within enterprise cybersecurity?
Which executives have operated within Private Equity and successfully exited?
Where are the strongest AI engineers concentrated?
Who has built a Centre of Excellence before and where should we build the next one?
The more specific the question, the more valuable the intelligence becomes.
From thousands of executives to the three that matter
Executive search isn’t a volume exercise.
There may be thousands of executives with the right title. Hundreds with relevant experience. Perhaps 30 who look compelling.
But there might only be three who genuinely match the investment thesis.
talent.ai helps us interrogate the market against specific outcomes, sector, scale, geography, investor experience, transformation, international expansion, exits and, critically, evidence of performance.
The objective isn’t to create the biggest longlist.
It’s to get to the people who matter fastest.
From three executives to a 10-person COE
Now change the challenge.
A technology company wants to build a 100-person Centre of Excellence.
Before asking who should we hire?, we can answer a more important question:
Where should we hire them?
talent.ai allows us to understand where relevant skills are concentrated, which companies employ them, talent-pool depth, languages, compensation and local competition.
Instead of choosing a city and hoping the talent exists, organisations can understand the talent landscape first.
Recruitment intelligence becomes business intelligence.
One platform. Two very different questions.
A CEO asks:
“Who are the three best people capable of becoming our next CRO?”
A CHRO asks:
“Where should we build our next 100-person technology hub?”
They’re different assignments, but fundamentally they’re asking the same thing:
Where is the talent that will help us achieve our next business objective?
That’s the question talent.ai helps us answer.
That’s how we move faster
Across Iperium’s Impact stories, there’s a recurring theme.
Executive appointments completed in weeks. Successful candidates identified in days. International teams built at pace.
That speed isn’t achieved by cutting corners.
It’s because we know more before the search starts.
Traditional executive search spends significant time building the map.
With talent.ai, we start with it.
That allows our consultants to spend less time searching the market and more time assessing, engaging and securing the people who can genuinely make an impact.
Technology won’t replace executive search.
But it can make great executive search considerably better.
Less time searching the market. More time securing the talent that moves it.
Toby is a Managing Director at Iperium, leading international executive hiring for high-growth, PE and VC-backed companies. Since 2018, he has partnered with global leadership teams to hire GTM, Product and Technical executives who drive scalable growth. Specialising in GTM and Leadership searches, Toby works closely with founders and investors to shape commercially aligned global hiring strategies. Toby is recognised for identifying impactful leaders and the high-performing teams they go on to build.
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