Marc is hands down the best recruiter I've worked with. I've worked with Marc over the last couple of months to hire Applied Scientists and ML Engineers for my deep tech AI startup, and I am extremely proud of the caliber of talent we've managed to hire. I can confidently say this would not have been possible without Marc's help.

Here are the top things that sets Marc (and Techire) apart from the rest:

1. Marc has a really good understanding of the tech, which has a number of positive downstream effects. He is able to understand our requirements exactly, so he's able to filter out unfit candidates before passing them on to us. Our conversion rates are extremely high because of this. I would say close to 90% of people Marc brings our way is a strong match and gets interviewed. A high percentage of them end up getting offers. Marc's technical depth also enables him to speak to candidates about what we do with a level of credibility that I have not observed in other recruiters. This has been great in getting candidates excited about the work we do.

2. Marc is very proactive, and very communicative. Because of this, we're able to go from candidate review, to interview to offer extremely quickly. And this has been a key aspect that has enabled us to hire top talent quickly.

I would strongly recommend Marc and Techire to anyone looking to level up their talent.

(2 ML Research Engineers in Generative Speech/Audio)

Allys on the Techire AI team worked tirelessly to help us find the ideal candidate for our growing ML research team. Our needs changed several times throughout the process and she was flexible and responsive to each. The candidates she brought forward were of the highest quality. We were able to higher the perfect candidate for the role.

That first experience was so successful that we worked with her again to fill a second role. We were once again pleasantly surprised with how smoothly the process went, and we were able to find another candidate quickly. I've recommended Techire to several friends looking to hire in the ML space and especially recommend Allys as your hiring partner.

Over the years, I've had many interactions with many recruiters, but Marc stands out. I've known Marc for a few years at this point, but most intensely I worked with Marc over a period of months to build an entirely new team of AI engineers from scratch. His professionalism, punctuality, attention to detail, and most importantly - his humanity - shined throughout the entire process. Marc treated each and every candidate with respect, even when we decided it wasn't a good fit. This first interaction with a new company is crucial, setting the stage for the company's reputation. The recruiter is the first glimpse into company culture, and Marc excels at this. I've also worked closely on the other side with Marc, as a candidate for leadership roles. Marc has earned my trust with his transparency, humanity, and professionalism. I've already recommended him many times by word of mouth. He's clearly an expert in the AI and voice space with a formidable network, but also more broadly in the machine learning, AI, LLMs, computer vision space he knows his stuff. I think it's pretty rare for a recruiter to be able to go so deep into the space itself, and this is actually much more important than holding a conversation. When I was building my team of AI engineers, Marc only sent me the best of the best, because he can tell quickly if the candidates really know their stuff.

Overall, if you're considering engaging with Marc as either a hiring manager or a candidate it's a clear choice. Choose Marc!

(2 Research Engineers in generative modelling for vision)

(VP Research & VP Innovation - Speech Recognition)

We had the privilege of working with Allys and Marc at Techire as we strengthen our internationally distributed technology team. We were continually impressed by the dedication, creativity, patience, and professionalism of Marc and Allys during the entire process. Our team (and even the candidates!) were often amazed at how the Techire team was able to locate some of the best talents in our industry across Europe and U.K. We're grateful to have Techire as partners and supporters in the single-most important decision that startup management will ever make - investing in its people.

Techire AI worked on a retainer alongside this start-up for several years, starting from 2021 shortly after their inception and seed round through to Series B. 8 new hires in R&D, mostly in TTS / speech synthesis, speech recognition, and large-scale speech/language AI deployments. Hires came from companies such as Amazon, Apple, Meta, and start-ups.

Techire AI worked with Rabbit to define the interview and hiring processes for the newly formed applied AI engineering team. As they didn’t have an internal recruitment team, we managed the whole process end-to-end. Headhunting and shortlisting applied engineering candidates for relevant requirements in different areas of AI (LLMs, Natural Language, Speech, Computer Vision). We conducted all first-stage interviews, managing the whole candidate process and offers. Offer acceptance rate of 83%. Successfully hired the first round of hires (5) for this team within 3 months.

(2 NLP Tech Leads & 1 Staff ASR Engineer)

Allys, and Techire, are great to work with. Allys is a talented and thoughtful recruiter. She took time to understand what we needed and brought us amazing candidates with ASR and NLP backgrounds. I'd definitely work with Allys again and recommend that anyone looking for conversational AI candidates to give Allys and Techire a try.

I had the pleasure to speak with Allys after I saw a couple of AI-related job postings advertised by her that I was interested in. Thanks to techire.ai and Allys in particular, I managed to land a job I honestly didn't expect I could land at this stage of my career. The conversations i had with her prior to the actual interview rounds with the company offering the job proved extremely helpful to come prepared and eventually get the offer I was aiming for. I first got in touch with Allys thanks to a recommendation made by a former colleague and friend, and now I'm making the same recommendation to anybody who's willing to advance their career in AI significantly by landing their dream job 🙂

Job search is often stressful, but it has been a pleasure working with Marc. He has found very relevant positions to my background, very promptly. I always felt he understood well both my background and company requirements -- which is sadly a skill all too rare in the recruitment industry, in my experience. On top of that, during the whole process I felt that Marc put me first: made an effort to understand my priorities, what I'm comfortable and uncomfortable with, and made sure I would be satisfied with whatever we move forward on. His communication is very clear, attentive and prompt. He made everything move smoothly, and when there were some bumps along the way, as there inevitably are, he pushed the process just the right way to smooth it over. I felt I could trust him and that my career was in good hands. This next bit is cheesy but: He's the Apple of recruiters :) All these separate aspects come together in a polished whole that just leaves you with a great experience. I wholeheartedly recommend working with him!

Techire AI were tasked with hiring 2 critical roles for a start-up that had recently won a large-scale project with a tech giant. They needed an AI advisor (non-executive) to help them navigate the build of a new foundation model. The other hire was an experienced ML Lead, helping them build a short and long-term product roadmap and navigate their new project in collaboration with a big tech company. Both of these positions were resourced, and interviewed with offers accepted within 15 days from the initial briefing meeting. 100% offer acceptance rate.

Allys is the best recruiter has ever contacted me!

Techire AI worked alongside Ada’s internal talent team to deliver on 5 new hires for their applied science team. We successfully hired senior and staff scientists with backgrounds in NLP, NLU, and NLG, and their VP AI, an industry leader in the speech and language AI space.

Techire AI worked with this conversational AI start-up focused on providing conversational AI agent and platform to various companies in public and private sectors. We were tasked to find 3 new hires in R&D and a technical director.