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Leaders You Won’t Find on a Job Board
We asked each of our Practice Leads to shortlist one person a CEO should meet if they were ready to make a hire. This is that short list — identities stay confidential until you're talking to us directly.
Led Enterprise AI Strategy for a $700M ARR Platform
Stage fit: PE-Backed Enterprise Scale / AI Transformation
- Founded and sold his own computer vision startup, then joined via acquisition
- Led enterprise-wide AI strategy as VP Product at a $700M ARR, PE-backed platform
- Built and ran a 15-person cross-functional AI R&D team spanning PM, engineering, and data science
20+ Years Shaping Enterprise Networking and Security Products
Stage fit: Enterprise Networking / Security Platforms
- 20+ years driving product strategy across SD-WAN, SASE, and network security portfolios
- Hands-on with API-driven development (Python, REST, Postman) and AI-powered design tooling
- Drove revenue through pricing strategy and GTM across enterprise and service-provider markets
Built a Product Org From Zero to 50%+ of a BI Platform's ARR
Stage fit: Growth-Stage Enterprise SaaS / PLG Transformation
- Founding product/design leader for a company's international hub, growing it to 25+ people responsible for over half of ARR
- Led the turnaround integration of an acquired analytics product into the core platform roadmap
- Built the company's Product-Led Growth motion from scratch, turning free trials into a lead source
Grew an Industrial Marketplace From $1M to Near $10M ARR
Stage fit: Blue-Collar B2B / AI-Driven Operations
- Took an industrial B2B marketplace from $1M to just under $10M ARR
- AI tooling (RAG, MCP, agentic automation) cut integration costs 80%
- Previously scaled a platform team handling $4Bn+ annually across 71M subscribers
Doubled ARR From $7M to $14M as Head of Product
Stage fit: Growth-Stage Marketplaces / Blue-Collar AI Adoption
- First product hire at an early-stage gig-economy marketplace, promoted to Head of Product in 7 months
- Took a cloud storage platform's ARR from $7M to $14M as Head of Product
- Currently building agentic voice and conversational AI for a blue-collar customer base
Turned a Migration POC Into a Product Used at 1,000+ Sites
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Builds / Engineering-Led AI Adoption
- Turned a single-building migration POC into a product now used at ~1,000 sites, promoted Senior to Staff
- Drove Cursor and Claude Code adoption from 5-person pilots to full engineering orgs, twice
- Owned a React Native app end-to-end as an early technical hire at a crypto trading platform
Rebuilt a Failing App Into $3.5M in Revenue
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Builds / Enterprise Frontend at Scale
- Rebuilt a failing claims app in React Native that generated $3.5M in revenue in year one
- Employee #4 at a health & wellness spending platform, scaling ARR from $0 to several million
- Architecting enterprise frontend at scale, apps managing 500M+ records
Built an AI Contract-Review Engine as the Sole Developer
Stage fit: 0-to-1 AI Builds / Solo Technical Ownership
- Architected a 20+ step AI evaluation pipeline flagging missing terms and underpayment across 15+ rubrics, solo
- Built a full conference-management platform from scratch for a ~1,000-person annual event
- Led an 18-month backend migration for a 250+ location franchise client as primary technical liaison
Cut Infrastructure Costs 70% by Rearchitecting a SaaS Platform Solo
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Rearchitecture / Applied AI Agents
- Rebuilt a real estate SaaS platform's architecture solo, cutting infra costs 70% and pulling launch forward 3 months
- Architected an SSR migration for a $100M+ e-commerce platform, cutting time-to-interactive 60%
- Ships production multi-agent/LLM systems with real observability and cost guardrails
Scaled a Wellness App's Infrastructure to 1M+ Users at 99.98% Uptime
Stage fit: High-Scale Backend / Cloud-Native Infrastructure
- Architected multi-tenant cloud infra serving 1M+ monthly users at 99.98% availability
- Directed a zero-downtime migration of 500+ GB of production data, cut database load 60%
- Built production RAG pipelines and agentic workflows, plus a high-throughput push notification engine
Built a National Health Platform Serving 5M+ People From Scratch
Stage fit: National-Scale / Compliance-Heavy Greenfield Builds
- Directed zero-to-one delivery of a national immunization platform now serving 5M+ people, at 99.95% uptime
- Built three separate platforms from blank slate to production across government, consulting, and hospitality
- Founding engineer on a national real-time payments rail now clearing 23B+ transactions monthly
Scaled a Consumer AI Chat Platform to 1M+ Daily Active Users
Stage fit: High-Traffic Distributed Systems / LLM Infrastructure
- Helped scale a consumer AI chat platform to 1M+ daily active users and 30M+ requests/day
- Built an orchestrated multi-agent coding workflow with isolated containers and human-in-the-loop validation
- Took a new trading platform live at a ~$112B AUM pension fund, cutting booking overhead 80%+
Took an Insurance Platform From Blank Slate to Production, Solo
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Builds / Enterprise Modernization
- Took a large pension-plan client's benefits platform from blank slate to production, architecting the full stack
- Built AI-agent UI panels handling nondeterministic LLM output for a global tax/legal technology platform
- Led a PoC that consolidated a major telecom's fragmented service portal into one clean application
Founding Engineer Who Took a Retail POS Platform to Scale
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Builds / Multi-Tenant Platforms
- Founding engineer on a cloud-based retail POS platform, leading its backend architecture through commercial scale
- Recently built and launched a production-ready multi-tenant SaaS platform solo, AI workflows included
- Built POS integrations with major commerce and accounting platforms at an earlier retail-tech company
Built an AI-Powered Legal Routing System With Strict Data Isolation
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Consulting Builds / AI Integration
- Promoted to Principal after taking over architecture ownership when the Director of Engineering departed
- Built an AI-powered legal transcription and routing system with strict per-case data isolation
- Owns the full zero-to-one lifecycle for client and internal systems, discovery through production
Took a Voice Analytics Product From Zero to $5-6M ARR in a Year
Stage fit: Enterprise AI Products / Voice & Conversational AI
- Built a voice conversation analytics product from zero to $5–6M ARR in 12 months
- Currently building an agentic workflow platform on Claude serving customers at 500K-seat scale
- Manages a team of PMs and has groomed direct reports into director-level roles
Led Product for Foundation Models at a Top-3 Consumer Tech Company
Stage fit: Frontier AI Products / Big Tech Scale
- Owns agentic capability, coding, trust & safety, and developer experience for a major model's APIs and runtime
- Personally led the re-architecture of a leading consumer voice assistant around LLMs
- Grew with the voice assistant from 1M to hundreds of millions of users before moving into model product leadership
Built a Voice AI Platform Handling 200,000+ Calls Weekly, From Scratch
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Voice AI Builds / Multi-Agent Systems
- Built a company's voice AI platform from scratch after personally running the build-vs-buy analysis
- Platform now handles ~200,000 calls weekly across three product lines
- Built an in-house evaluation platform with custom LLM evaluators, designed for reuse across products
Built the Trust and Security Layer for an Agentic Data Platform
Stage fit: Agentic AI Products / Enterprise Data Platforms
- Owns the skills-and-tools framework making agent output repeatable enough for a CMO or CXO to act on
- Built a real-time call-transcript analysis and in-call offer-generation product without ingesting customer data
- Previously founded and ran his own company with an engineering and operations team
Grew a Solo Feature Into a 7-PM Portfolio at a Major Data Platform
Stage fit: 0-to-Business Builds / Data & AI Governance
- Took a single platform feature from a solo IC role to a 7-PM organization spanning three product areas
- Owns a governed portfolio distributing data, applications, AI models, and MCP endpoints
- Built 14 Claude skills and packaged agents that run his own business operations end-to-end
Built an Agentic Legal Research Tool Spanning 7M+ Documents Per Matter
Stage fit: Agentic AI Products / Applied Legal Tech
- Built an agentic fact-investigation product operating across 7M+ documents per matter, 90-second target response
- Built a proprietary agent framework mixing open-source and frontier models, routed against evals
- Took the product from a give-away feature to one that carries its own cost structure
Grew Into the Largest Product Scope at a Leading Customer Service AI Company
Stage fit: Agentic AI Products / Applied Customer Service AI
- Grew from owning two teams to the largest product scope at a leading customer service AI company
- Builds and operates AI agents hands-on rather than only specifying them
- Runs a startup on the side while staying deliberate about the next agentic-space move
Built a Voice AI Org From 2 to 16 People, Pre-Revenue to $10M ARR
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Voice AI Builds / Partner-Led GTM
- Joined a voice AI company pre-revenue with 2 PMs and grew the org to 16 people by ~$10M ARR
- Launched a no-code studio letting non-technical users and partners build and manage their own AI agents
- Drove the shift to a partner-led motion that unlocked major hotel-chain customers
Founding Product Hire Who Scaled a Voice AI Company From Series A to C
Stage fit: 0-to-1 Voice AI Builds / Founder Experience
- Founding product hire for the European arm of a voice AI company, scaling it Series A through Series C
- Built a low/no-code studio for agent configuration used by both internal teams and partners
- Founded and ran his own voice AI company for SMB healthcare practices before returning to product leadership
Joined a Consumer Voice Assistant Before It Had an Assistant
Stage fit: Frontier Voice AI / Big Tech Consumer Platforms
- Joined a leading consumer voice assistant in its earliest days, shaping end-to-end task completion, not just speech
- Built third-party integrations with major consumer brands on a large-scale voice assistant platform
- First startup was acquired by a major software company before he moved deeper into applied voice AI
Built GTM Infrastructure From the Ground Up
Stage fit: Scaling SaaS + Services
- Built sales enablement, pricing, and CRM infrastructure from scratch
- GTM experience spanning both SaaS and services-based revenue
- 10+ years of enterprise BD in a technical, regulated industry
Built a $50M+ ARR Marketing Engine From Zero
Stage fit: Early-Stage Builders / Enterprise-Scale Turnarounds
- Built a marketing function from zero as a company's first marketing hire
- Scaled demand gen from sub-$10M to $50M+ ARR
- Turned an unstructured motion into a hybrid ABM/PLG engine
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I am a huge fan of Martyn Bassett Associates! Together, we ran a very successful executive search in record speed. They met or exceeded my expectations every step of the way. We were only presented with high quality candidates, and the team was thorough and attentive — a true partner!
Zak Hemraj
CEO
What Makes Our Recruitment Firm Different
Our dedicated team of specialists only focuses on searches for product management, sales, marketing, customer success, and engineering leaders for technology startups and scale-ups.
We are diligent about qualifying candidates before presenting them to you. We aren’t a resume shop or a generalized staffing agency—we won’t flood you with unqualified candidates and then disappear. Instead, you can count on us to be targeted, consultative, and supportive throughout the hiring process.
Our retained relationship model allows us to focus the resources required to scour the market, attract the very best, and consult with you through the interview, offer, negotiation, and acceptance.
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Working with the team at Martyn Bassett has been nothing short of wonderful. The team is flexible, detail oriented and extremely strategic. They are not just recruiters but partners. They helped me not only find game changing talent but increased my knowledge of the market and the talent within it.
Carla Guzzetti
SVP Customer Experience & Product Messaging
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Our Recruiting Process
We’re selective about the types of roles we work on and the types of clients we partner with. We specialize in helping early-stage, high-growth technology companies build their teams, with a focus on roles in Product Management, Sales, and Marketing. Our niche focus allows us to provide maximum value to our clients.
We take the time to understand your business and your needs up front, and will offer insight into the current state of the market for the kind of talent you need.
We start with a deep dive into your requirements for the role. You’ll chat with the lead recruiter on your project so that they fully understand the profile of your ideal candidate, including their level of experience, the results they’ve achieved in previous roles, and the salary range you’re targeting.
Your dedicated recruiter will craft a compelling message about the opportunity, and then hit the market. On average, they will reach out to over 100 candidates per role. While we do post ads on our website and on LinkedIn, more than 90% of our prospective candidate pool comes from proactive outreach to passive candidates—the rockstars who are achieving exceptional results for their current employers.
The candidates we hear back from go through a pre-qualification process, which answers the following questions: How well does their experience align with the requirements for your role? Are they really open to new opportunities, or are they just looking to network and learn more about the market? Are there any factors in play that would prohibit them from interviewing and accepting a position with you?
From there, we invite the pre-qualified candidates to share their resume, and do an in-depth qualification interview. Our team will eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit within the defined candidate profile. They then write up a brief list of bullet points that highlight what the candidate has achieved, and why we feel that they are worth your time.
We help to facilitate scheduling interviews, and offer feedback throughout the process. When you’re ready to extend an offer to the candidate, we work with you and the candidate to facilitate negotiating the offer.
Once the offer is accepted, we coach your new employee on handling the resignation process, as well as prep them for the best way to handle a counter offer, so that they’re ready and excited for their first day working with you.
Our goal is always to help you overcome your recruiting challenges, screen out candidates who don’t fit your profile, and bring the calibre of talent you need on board. We’ll be in close contact throughout the process, so that you always know what to expect, and when you can expect it.
Our Recruiting Process
Before We Start
We’re selective about the types of roles we work on and the types of clients we partner with. We specialize in helping early-stage, high-growth technology companies build their teams, with a focus on roles in Product Management, Sales, and Marketing. Our niche focus allows us to provide maximum value to our clients.
We take the time to understand your business and your needs up front, and will offer insight into the current state of the market for the kind of talent you need.
Kicking Off your Recruiting Project
We start with a deep dive into your requirements for the role. You’ll chat with the lead recruiter on your project so that they fully understand the profile of your ideal candidate, including their level of experience, the results they’ve achieved in previous roles, and the salary range you’re targeting.
Your dedicated recruiter will craft a compelling message about the opportunity, and then hit the market. On average, they will reach out to over 100 candidates per role. While we do post ads on our website and on LinkedIn, more than 90% of our prospective candidate pool comes from proactive outreach to passive candidates—the rockstars who are achieving exceptional results for their current employers.
The candidates we hear back from go through a pre-qualification process, which answers the following questions: How well does their experience align with the requirements for your role? Are they really open to new opportunities, or are they just looking to network and learn more about the market? Are there any factors in play that would prohibit them from interviewing and accepting a position with you?
From there, we invite the pre-qualified candidates to share their resume, and do an in-depth qualification interview. Our team will eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit within the defined candidate profile. They then write up a brief list of bullet points that highlight what the candidate has achieved, and why we feel that they are worth your time.
Support Throughout
We help to facilitate scheduling interviews, and offer feedback throughout the process. When you’re ready to extend an offer to the candidate, we work with you and the candidate to facilitate negotiating the offer.
Once the offer is accepted, we coach your new employee on handling the resignation process, as well as prep them for the best way to handle a counter offer, so that they’re ready and excited for their first day working with you.
Our goal is always to help you overcome your recruiting challenges, screen out candidates who don’t fit your profile, and bring the calibre of talent you need on board. We’ll be in close contact throughout the process, so that you always know what to expect, and when you can expect it.
John Woods
VP Marketing
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