Digitalent - AI & Machine Learning Recruitment worked on a co-author list for a research benchmark built by two US VC-backed AI startups.

Digitalent is a specialist AI/ML executive search and talent advisory firm serving VC-backed startups, high-growth companies, and enterprises across the US, UK, and Australia. AI/ML hiring fails when it's treated like regular tech recruitment. The talent pool is small, compensation is volatile, and technical assessment requires genuine domain expertise. Most companies discover this after months of failed contingent searches, wasted interviewer time, and delayed product roadmaps. We work differently. Every engagement begins with a talent strategy phase before any search activity starts. We benchmark compensation against live market data, map the realistic candidate pool by subdomain, scope the role against what the market can actually deliver, and design interview processes that evaluate real ML capability. Then we run a dedicated, exclusive search against that strategy. This is not a CV-forwarding service. We take on a limited number of retained and exclusive engagements and commit the depth of research each one requires. The result is a 92% fill rate across direct engagements, with client relationships spanning years and dozens of placements, not one-off transactions. Our practice areas: AI/ML Leadership (VP, Head of ML, CTO), Machine Learning Team Build-Outs, Applied AI & Research Functions, MLOps & ML Platform Teams, NLP/LLM Specialists, Computer Vision, and AI Product Management. Synergy, our proprietary video interview service, is embedded into client hiring workflows to compress time-to-shortlist and give hiring managers deeper candidate insight before committing interview time. Founded in 2017. 4 years exclusively in AI/ML recruitment. Clients from seed stage through Fortune 250.

Founded 2017