Brief your mandate. Get calibrated, pre-screened talent within 48 hours.
Explore confidential mandates and open engineering, product & GTM roles.
Specialist search across critical disciplines.
We focus strictly on the core roles that drive venture trajectory, product shipping velocity, and revenue.
AI & GenAI
Engineers who build systems, not prototypes.
Engineering
High-throughput builders for scaling tech stacks.
Product
Operators who transform ambiguity into shipping velocity.
GTM / Sales
Commercial performers who accelerate repeatable ARR.
Leadership
Executive leaders who steer company trajectory.
Startup Hiring
Complete hiring infrastructure built for venture speed.
Built for founders who cannot afford another slow search.
We remove recruitment friction through calibrated specialization, rigorous screening, and aligned commercial terms.
48-Hour Shortlist Capability
For calibrated priority mandates, our active pipeline and outbound mapping deliver initial qualified profiles in as little as 48 hours.
Pre-Vetted Talent
Every candidate is evaluated on functional depth, startup exposure, compensation alignment, and notice period feasibility before presentation.
Focused Shortlists Over CV Volume
We do not dump bulk resumes. A focused shortlist of role-ready finalists protects your team from interview fatigue.
Startup Hiring Specialists
Built ground-up around the realities of venture-backed hiring — navigating equity, speed, ambiguous scopes, and high-growth execution.
Success-Based Engagement
Our standard commercial model is contingent on successful placement: no hire, no fee. Complete alignment with your hiring outcomes.
India + Global
Comprehensive coverage spanning major Indian technology centers (Bengaluru, NCR, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune) and global remote hubs.
Critical hiring shouldn't take months.
When startups and scaleups are growing, the cost of an unfilled seat isn't just an open position. It compoundingly taxes the entire company.
Hours lost to manual LinkedIn sourcing and unqualified screening calls instead of company building.
Roadmaps pushed by months because critical technical or product leaders are missing.
Unfilled GTM seats, AE gaps, and missing sales leadership directly impacting ARR growth.
Existing senior engineers and managers burning out while covering unclosed strategic roles.
Inconsistent applicant quality forcing teams to restart search cycles repeatedly.
Traditional agencies sending 100 unvetted resumes, creating massive internal screening overhead.
TalixoHR solves the search, not just the vacancy.
We operate as your specialized search partner: mapping active and passive top-decile talent, pre-qualifying for startup fit, and delivering curated, calibrated shortlists that convert directly into high-impact hires.
We don't send CVs. We build hiring shortlists.
A high-signal search workflow designed to respect founder and hiring manager time at every step.
Clarify the Business Problem & Mandate
We get clear on the business problem, role, non-negotiable must-haves, compensation brackets, and timeline expectations before opening search channels.
Systematic Active & Passive Mapping
We identify relevant talent across our sourcing channels, targeting proven performers in comparable high-growth startups and tech organizations.
Deep Pre-Screening & Fitment Scoring
Relevant experience, technical fit, startup readiness, compensation boundaries, and notice period feasibility are assessed prior to submission.
Curated Finalists Ready for Interviews
You receive a focused set of role-ready candidates instead of a database dump. We support interviews through offer calibration and joining.
Complex searches. Calibrated solutions.
How we formulate the search, address specific market constraints, and deliver focused shortlists across key disciplines.
Production LLM & Agentic AI Engineer Search
Early-stage venture-backed startup requiring a senior technical contributor with authentic hands-on experience building autonomous agent workflows and fine-tuning LLMs.
High market noise with candidates presenting basic API wrapper tutorials rather than production-grade agentic architecture and latency optimization.
Targeted mapping of GitHub open-source contributors, AI research labs, and engineers at foundational model startups.
First Enterprise Account Executive (Founding AE)
B2B SaaS startup expanding commercial operations from founder-led sales to dedicated enterprise pipeline ownership.
Candidate needed full-cycle ACV deal closing capability ($40k–$100k+) combined with willingness to create initial playbooks from scratch.
Discrete headhunting across Tier-1 US/India SaaS scaleups where candidates were top-quartile quota achievers.
Head of Product for Scaling Fintech Platform
High-growth fintech platform transitioning from PMF to multi-product scale, requiring a product leader to own customer journeys and regulatory compliance.
Balancing strict compliance risk appetite with high velocity user onboarding and API integration speeds.
Targeted outbound across regulated fintech scaleups and fast-moving neobanks.
Staff Backend Infrastructure Architect
High-throughput consumer platform scaling past 10M active monthly users, encountering severe database bottlenecks and microservice latency spikes.
Limited pool of engineers with distributed systems debugging depth who still write clean, maintainable production code.
Passive talent mapping across high-concurrency consumer scaleups and platform infrastructure teams.
Simple by design.
Clear commercial expectations with zero retainers on standard mandates. We earn our fee when your critical hire joins.
Share your mandate
Submit your requirement through our qualification form or connect directly with our search partners.
Align on role & strategy
We align on the business context, non-negotiable capabilities, compensation bounds, and target market mapping.
Activate targeted search
Our search team accesses both our active candidate network and passive outbound sourcing channels.
Receive focused shortlist
In as little as 48 hours for priority roles, you receive a curated set of 3–5 role-ready candidates with signal dossiers.
Interview support & offer
We coordinate scheduling, benchmark candidate feedback, calibrate expectations, and prevent counter-offer friction.
You hire. We invoice.
Success-based engagement. Commercial invoice is issued only upon successful hiring and joining.
What we screen for.
Every candidate presented on your shortlist has been vetted across eight structured qualification dimensions before reaching your interview loop.
Functional Capability
Demonstrated technical or commercial craft depth verified through past deliverables, architectures, or deal structures.
Relevant Experience
Hands-on exposure to problem spaces closely matching your specific stage, tech stack, and user constraints.
Startup Exposure
Comfort with ambiguity, fast execution tempos, non-hierarchical collaboration, and high individual ownership.
Communication Clarity
Ability to explain complex technical or commercial concepts clearly to internal stakeholders and executive leadership.
Compensation Alignment
Clear upfront benchmarking of fixed CTC, variable incentives, and equity expectations to eliminate offer-stage surprises.
Notice Period Feasibility
Realistic buyout and transition timeline validation to ensure candidate arrives within your critical window.
Genuine Motivation
Understanding why the candidate is seeking their next chapter and confirming genuine alignment with your mission.
Stage & Culture Fit
Evaluating work ethics, autonomy tolerance, and resilience required to thrive in high-growth startup conditions.
Frequently answered questions.
Common questions founders and hiring managers ask about our mandate workflow.
Discuss Your Hiring Mandate
Let us understand what you are hiring for. We will review our network and share a realistic delivery capability.