We provide bespoke recruitment services to help your organization find the specific candidates needed to achieve your headcount and growth goals.

While you’re focused on people and culture, we are solely focused on recruiting for product management, design, marketing and sales leaders for technology startups and scale-ups.

Trusted by some of the world's largest tech brands:

Martyn Bassett Associates took the time to understand our unique position and growth trajectory in order to provide us with the proper insights and guidance; getting us where we needed to go in terms of finding a candidate whose background and experiences aligned with the mandate of the role.

Amanda Small
Head of People and Culture, NestWealth

Reduce Your Time and Resources Spent on Hiring

Both the depth and breadth of product talent Martyn Bassett Associates was able to present was fantastic. I was connected to professionals I would have never been able to find on my own.

Shelley Wood
VP Human Resources, Mariner Partners

10 Facts About Martyn Bassett Associates

Building tech startups since 2001.
70% of our clients are Seed or Series A funded.
Hyper-focused on recruiting for mission-critical functions: Product Management, Marketing & Sales/Growth.
Outcome driven: when you engage us to start a search, you've engaged us to complete the search.
Our average "time to fill" is 60 days for individual contributor roles or 85 days for leadership roles.
We're about quality not quantity. We want you to get to your hire as quickly as possible.
We organize ourselves into agile scrum teams (Researcher, Recruiter, Account Lead + Admin) to deliver the hire.
Our retained relationship model allows us to focus the resources required to scour the market, attract those with the right experiences, and consult with you throughout the interview, offer, negotiation, and acceptance.
While based in Toronto, we are location agnostic and execute searches across North America and Western Europe.
We launched our Product Practice in 2016 and have become one of Canada’s top product-focused recruitment firms.

The entire Martyn Bassett team was easy to work with and we were able to quickly develop an open and transparent partnership. Leveraging their strong expertise and extensive talent network, they helped us find the technology sales leaders and management services experts we needed.

Erin McLean
SVP, Marketing & Human Resources, Herjavec Group

Our Recruiting Process

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Before We Start

We specialize in helping early-stage, high-growth technology companies build their Product Management, Design, Sales, and Marketing teams. Our niche focus allows us to provide maximum value to our clients.

Kicking Off The Recruiting Project

You will meet your recruitment team and kickoff with a deep dive into the requirements of the role, company growth goals and initiatives. Your recruitment lead will leave that meeting fully understanding the profile of the ideal candidate, including: level of experience, previous results achieved and pay band.

We will craft a compelling message about the opportunity and company and hit the market. On average, we reach out to over 100 candidates per role. More than 90% of our prospective candidates come from this proactive outreach to passive candidates. Candidates then go through a pre-qualification process to ensure fit.

Support Throughout

We help to facilitate scheduling interviews and offer feedback throughout the process. When you’re ready to extend an offer, we can work with your team to facilitate negotiation.

Once an offer is accepted, we coach your new employee on the resignation process as well as prepare them to handle potential counteroffers.

Looking to build your team and hire mission-critical roles smoothly and efficiently?

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We help Talent Acquisition teams close their toughest to find roles across Product, Design, Marketing & Sales