Pivotal Partners

Pivotal Partners

Staffing and Recruiting

Austin, Tx 34,167 followers

Building history-defining software companies. One Pivotal hire at a time.

About us

We are a leading search firm specialising in building high-performing Go-To-Market (GTM), Product, and Customer Success teams for emerging disruptors in the software industry. Pivotal Partners is dedicated to supporting founders and forward-thinking C-level executives in the early stages of their ventures. Every major success story in the software industry has achieved pivotal turning points in their journeys by acquiring remarkable early-stage talent, which is both hard to find and even harder to recruit. We have a track record in doing exactly that. Partnering with some of the world's most successful software organisations, including Snowflake, Databricks, Datadog, Confluent, Signalfx, Dremio, Imply.io, Singlestore, Starburst, Labelbox, Grafana Labs, AppDynamics, Harness, MongoDB, Vercel, CockroachLabs, Launchdarkly, Forter, ThoughtSpot, Instabase, Sprinklr and many others. Over the years, we have naturally developed strong relationships with several tier-one venture capitalists through our network of founders, executives, and board members. In the past nine years, our founders have recruited over 1,500 candidates for organisations backed by venture capital funds like A16z, Accel, Sequoia, Lightspeed and Battery Ventures. US - (646-692-0911) UK - (020 4572 1776 info@pivotalpartners.io

Industry
Staffing and Recruiting
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Austin, Tx
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2023
Specialties
Go-To-Market (GTM), Product, Customer Success, Headhunting, Venture Capital, AI/ML, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data & Analytics, DevOps, Security, Marketing, B2B, SaaS, and Software

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    We are partnered directly with the CEO of a $40Mil Series A Gen AI Risk Decisioning platfform, to land their Founding EMEA Enterprise AE. Reaching out to our network to speak with Enterprise AE's from the AML/Fraud space with a track record in growing EMEA territories via net new customer acquisition. We have 6x ARR in 2024 and have one of the strongest leadership teams in early stage software. The bar is high. If you have an exceptional track record FinCrime OR AML reach out to Samson Abodunrin to hear more.

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    There is no slowing down for us here at Pivotal Partners, as we welcome 2 new key hires to the business... James Cato - From working with both our founders James Whipp & Harry Thornton for 7 years at their previous company, we welcome James to the leadership team as a "Partner". James joined his previous company as the 3rd employee scaling them to 50+ heads WW, launching both the Digital practice & US function from scratch. A master of his craft, he has achieved industry breaking billings, 5x President's club, and the recruiter mind behind 9 exits within the SaaS space. We're delighted to have James play a monumental part in our global expansion and leadership deicisions over the coming years. Oscar Lane - Joins the business as an Associate with big aspirations to climb the ranks of the business. When recruiting junior talent, our founders Harry & James are looking for especially unique individuals with bundles of PHD (Persistence, Heart & Desire). Oscar is the definition of someone with PHD, committing himself fully to anything put in front of him, whether than be in his 2:1 degree in English Literature from Birmingham University, his personal hobbies in Kitesurfing, Rugby, Football, or his worldwide travels to over 20 countries at the age 21. We're pumped to have you onboard, and we're sure you will leave a large impact to all of our early stage software founders in their pursuits in hiring leading GTM teams. Welcome James & Oscar!

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    Founder & CEO | Pivotal Partners

    Excited to announce our United States expansion in Austin, Texas....🎉 On October 1st, Pivotal Partners launched its........ first international office and today, I am incredibly proud to celebrate James Cato joining us to spearhead our US operations. James will be joining the Pivotal Partners leadership team as a "Partner" and Head of the US business. I had the pleasure of working with James Cato for 7 years at my previous company, and he was our first choice when establishing our first international office. Some of the key highlights of why James.. - Joined his previous company as the 3rd employee, before scaling to 50+ people and acquiring the Head of US sales role. - Founded and headed their B2B Digital division, growing that business unit from 1 to 12 people. - Launch their international office in Austin, growing his team from 0-8 people consisting of talent executives, consultants & senior consultants.  - Grew US revenue by 5x. - Partnered with 23 B2B SaaS businesses who 9 of which experienced successful exits.  - 5x Presidents Club trips. James and I will be doing a US roadshow in San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, and New York from October 15th to November 3rd. We are eager to connect with new clientele looking to recruit the industry’s top GTM talent—we can build your new teams one Pivotal hire at a time. Pivotal Partners is looking for passionate and intelligent individuals to fill various internal roles, including BDMs, Senior Recruiters, and Associates, in Austin, Texas. We will grow our US business from 2 people to 15 over the next 12 months. GET IN TOUCH. Harry@pivotalpartners.io James Cato James Whipp Oscar Lane Brad Houston Annalisa Girgenti Samson Abodunrin Joe Marron

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    We are partnered directly with the CEO of a $30 Mil Series A Database vendor, to land their founding EMEA Sales Director to build an own the region. Reaching out to our network to speak with Enterprise AE's from the Data space with a track record in growing EMEA territories via net new customer acquisition. After a highly successful 1st year of selling within the Americas winning 20+ Fortune 500 accounts, scaling to $10 Million ARR, they already have $1.5 Million of business in Europe to walk into. Hiring our founding GTM from the likes of Confluent, Cockroach Labs, Imply, Starburst Data, Databricks. We're looking to speak to Data's finest sellers. Reach out to Joe Marron to find out more.

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    It's very rare that both our founders James Whipp & Harry Thornton get quite this excited about any one company. We have just engaged in an exclusive partnership with a $200 Million Series B - Gen AI & LLM vendor, to build their founding GTM function based in New York. Being founded in 2021 and only market ready in late 2022, they have already become cash flow positive after securing some of the biggest Fortune 500 names within the FSI sector. Securing investment from 3 of the most notorious VC's within software and recently landing one of Softwares finest playbook leaders as VP WW Sales, we are now on the hunt for NY's most elite Enterprise sellers to aggressively scale. If you have a proven track record within net new logo's for Financial Services, with a background in either MEDDIC, Command of the Message, or Force Management. We want to speak with you. Message Harry Thornton to arrange a call. We are also hiring Sales Engineers within New York. If you have a strong background within FSI, and have worked at a MEDDIC led company, reach out to James Whipp to find out more.

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