Executive Search Consultant - Deep Tech & Advanced Engineering in Brighton

Executive Search Consultant - Deep Tech & Advanced Engineering

If you’ve got some recruitment experience and want to step up into the elite tier, this consultancy are genuinely different, operating in exotic, cutting edge technology markets and working extremely closely with their clients to meet their talent needs.

You’ll join a specialist executive search team working across some of the most advanced areas of technology - where AI, robotics, sensing, communications, advanced engineering and space technologies increasingly overlap.

Rather than recruiting into one narrow vertical, you’ll work across a broad deep-tech ecosystem where the clients are often building products that simply didn’t exist a few years ago.

The Market

The team operates across highly specialist technology areas including:

• Electronic Warfare
• RF and advanced communications
• Advanced Propulsion
• Autonomous Systems
• Counter-UAS technologies
• Advanced sensing and tracking
• AI and robotics
• Space and satellite technologies
• Semiconductors
• Cybersecurity
• Advanced manufacturing

The interesting part is how interconnected these markets are.

A company developing autonomous systems may also need expertise in AI, sensing, RF, semiconductors and edge computing. A space business might be building communications infrastructure, propulsion technology or advanced navigation systems. An advanced manufacturing company may be scaling teams around robotics, electronics and intelligent automation.

That makes the desk far more varied than a traditional single-market recruitment role.

The Opportunity

The role will start in a 180 capacity, giving you the chance to learn the market properly, understand the clients, map key talent pools and become confident speaking with highly specialist candidates.

You’ll initially focus on:

• Market mapping
• Headhunting
• Managing search processes
• Supporting senior consultants on live assignments

From there, the expectation is that you’ll transition into a 360 role, gradually taking more ownership of client relationships, business development and ultimately winning your own work.

So you won’t be thrown straight into cold BD before you understand the market, but there is a clear route to becoming a fully-fledged 360 consultant.

Why Join?

• Work across some of the most unique and technically interesting markets in recruitment
• Build expertise across AI, robotics, space, advanced engineering and next-generation communications
• Start with delivery and research before progressing into 360
• Learn from established specialists with deep market knowledge
• International searches across highly specialised talent pools
• Strong earning potential through 10-30% commission
• Hybrid working with 2-3 days WFH
• Clear path to owning clients and building your own desk

Who They’re Looking For

• Recruitment experience preferred
• Technology, engineering or technical recruitment experience highly advantageous
• Strong research, sourcing and headhunting skills
• Curious and interested in understanding complex technologies
• Commercially minded and keen to develop into 360 recruitment
• Ambitious and motivated to become a genuine market specialist

You don’t need previous experience across these exact markets.

What matters is that you’ve got solid recruitment foundations and want to move into something more specialist, interesting and commercially valuable.

This is a great opportunity for a recruiter who wants to build a long-term career in a genuinely distinctive market - starting by learning the space properly, then progressing into client ownership and 360 recruitment as your confidence and expertise grow.