Search Associate

Engage PSG is looking for an ambitious Search Associate to join our specialist Data, Research & Intelligence practice. The Search Associate will support the delivery of retained and contingent recruitment searches by researching markets, identifying high-performing candidates, conducting initial qualification calls and maintaining strong candidate relationships throughout the recruitment process. You will work closely with experienced consultants while developing a detailed understanding of the companies, markets and commercial roles we recruit across. Over time, you will be given genuine ownership of the candidate side of live searches and will play an important role in helping our clients identify and secure exceptional talent.

The Desk You Will Be Joining: You will join our specialist Data, Research & Intelligence recruitment practice. The team partners with rapidly scaling companies that provide data, research, technology and intelligence products to some of the world’s most sophisticated organisations, including:

• Hedge funds and asset managers
• Private equity and venture capital firms
• Investment banks and financial institutions
• Strategy and management consultancies
• Corporates and professional services organisations

Our clients include alternative-data providers, financial-data platforms, investment-research businesses, expert networks, market-intelligence companies, AI-powered research platforms and other specialist information-services businesses. You will help recruit commercial professionals into these organisations across: Sales, Business Development, Account Management, Customer Success, Product, Marketing and senior commercial leadership.

Main Responsibilities:

• Research, identify and attract suitable candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, our CRM System, professional networks and other appropriate sourcing methods.
• Build candidate pipelines for current and anticipated recruitment assignments.
• Approach prospective candidates by telephone, email and LinkedIn.
• Conduct initial qualification and screening calls to understand candidates’ experience, performance, motivation, compensation and career objectives.
• Work closely with Consultants on the team, to qualify, shortlist and present suitable candidates for defined vacancies.
• Produce accurate and compelling candidate profiles, interview summaries and written submissions.
• Coordinate candidate interviews and maintain regular communication before and after each stage.
• Use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude and AI notetakers to improve research, sourcing, written communication and productivity.

Who We Are Looking For: A confident communicator, who is organised, commercially sharp, and calm under pressure. Someone with real ambition, who is motivated by success and wants to build a meaningful career.

Experience and Skills: You will ideally have around one to two years’ experience in recruitment or executive search.

What You Will Gain: You will have the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting companies operating across Data, Research, Intelligence and AI. These are rapidly scaling businesses whose platforms, datasets and insights support decision‑making for leading investors, financial institutions, consultancies and global organisations. You will receive hands‑on coaching, regular feedback and exposure to live recruitment searches from the beginning. As your capability develops, you will be given increasing ownership of searches, candidate relationships, client interaction and commercial responsibilities. There is no fixed ceiling within the role. Progression, responsibility and earning potential will be based on performance, quality, consistency and behaviours.

About Engage PSG: Engage PSG was founded on a simple belief: meaningful partnerships drive lasting success. Data is in our DNA. Our story begins more than 30 years ago at Dun & Bradstreet, one of the world’s original business-data companies, where our CEO, Kevin Cruickshank, built his career selling data, insight and risk solutions into financial services. Working with banks and financial institutions, he learned first‑hand how the right data drives some of the world’s most important commercial decisions. He also developed deep expertise in business identity, compliance and financial services, which continues to shape how Engage operates today. After going on to lead the Banking and Financial Services organisation at one of the world’s foremost Know Your Business companies, Kevin launched Engage PSG, combining that data‑led commercial mindset with the principles of high‑touch executive search. Since then, Engage PSG has grown from a UK-based search business into a global specialist, with teams in London, Los Angeles and Sydney. Our consultants bring decades of collective experience across Data, AI, Digital Identity, Risk, Fraud and Compliance. We partner with rapidly scaling vendors whose technology, data and intelligence power decision‑making for sophisticated investors, institutions and global businesses. We do not simply recruit within the data world - we come from it. By joining Engage PSG, you will be learning from people who have operated within these markets and understand them from the inside. If you are ambitious, hungry to learn and excited by the idea of becoming an expert within a specialist, fast‑scaling market, we would like to hear from you.