The right person changes everything.

Connecting the world's best AI, GTM, and engineering talent with the founders and teams building the future.

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The Reality

Most searches fail before they start. The recruiter doesn't understand the landscape well enough to evaluate candidates beyond keywords.

At most recruiting agencies, the person who sold you isn't the one running your search. It gets handed off to a recruiter who can't tell the difference between a platform architect and a senior developer. They cast a wide net, send a stack of resumes, and hope something sticks.

The real cost isn't the recruiting fee. It's the lost time, the missed momentum, and the search you have to run again three months later.

Our Methodology

01

Understand

We map your technical environment before we source. The architecture, the team composition, the delivery model, the gaps you need filled. By the time we start sourcing, we know your team well enough that the search goes beyond what any job description can capture.

02

Source

The best candidates aren't applying for jobs on LinkedIn. They're already being sought out (by your competition) and are heads down building something. We find them through direct relationships, prior placements, and targeted outreach. No recycled lists. No spray and pray.

03

Deliver

Every candidate we present has been technically screened, personally interviewed, and evaluated against your specific environment. Motivations, timeline, competing offers, relocation flexibility. All pressure-tested before they reach your inbox.

How We Work

Direct Hire

We run a dedicated search for a full-time hire embedded in your team. Managing the process through close and onboarding, including offer strategy, counter-offer risk, and more. Every search is led personally by our founder. No hand-offs, no junior recruiters running your search behind the scenes. This is how all our engagements work.

Fractional

Short-term builds, migration sprints, capacity gaps, interim leadership. Same vetting process, same technical depth, same follow-through. If it makes sense for your team, we'll find the right person for the engagement.

Recent hires include:

Enterprise Account Executive, YC-backed Series B SaaS Founding Account Executive, YC-backed Series A Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer, a16z-backed Series B Staff Backend Engineer, Series B Fintech AI Product Engineer, Series B Climate Fintech Senior Account Executive, YC-backed Series B DevTools Founding Account Executive, Sequoia-backed Series A SaaS AI Product Engineer, YC-backed Series A Legal Tech Engineering Director, Series C Founding Full Stack Engineer, a16z-backed Series A Staff Data Scientist, Series B Analytics Senior NLP Engineer, Series A Conversational AI Principal AI/ML Engineer, Series B Security Founding Account Executive, YC-backed Series A Marketplace Commercial Account Executive, Series B SaaS Enterprise Account Executive, Accel-backed Series C Founding Account Executive, Series A Fintech Senior Account Executive, Lightspeed-backed Series B Commercial Account Executive, Series C DevTools Enterprise Account Executive, Series B AI

Background

Robi Group was built by a recruiter who started on the technical side. Before recruiting, our founder came up in software engineering and IT, which means the conversations with your candidates aren't surface-level keyword matching.

They're real technical evaluations.

Our founder built Robi Group on full-desk technical recruiting expertise, previously managing up to 10 active contractors at a time while closing direct hire placements end-to-end, generating millions in revenue along the way.

Partnering directly with C-suite, engineering leaders, and sales teams across the world.

Every hire personally sourced, vetted, and closed.

Robi Group was founded on a simple premise: talent acquisition is too important to hand off to someone who doesn't understand the work.

5% of all gross revenue is donated to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Common Questions

Every search starts with a deep understanding of your team, how it operates, and what success actually looks like in your ecosystem. At the same time, we're evaluating motivations, culture fit, where someone is in their career, and whether they'll still be engaged well beyond the first year. By the time someone reaches your inbox, the unknowns are already resolved.
We stand behind every hire with a standard 90-day guarantee. If it doesn't work out within that window, we find the replacement at no additional cost. In practice, we've never had to. By the time a candidate reaches your inbox, we've already pressure-tested their motivations, competing offers, and long-term fit. Surprises are rare.
You're not handed off. At most firms, the person who sold you the engagement isn't actually the one hands-on running your search. Here, our founder leads every search personally so your questions get answered directly, no layers of account managers. Same person on the first call, the sourcing, the candidate conversations, and the offer stage. You get continuity in the form of a direct line to the person doing the work.
Most searches go from intake to offer accepted in two weeks or less. More complex or niche roles may run longer. We move quickly but never at the expense of quality. The goal is always the right person, not the fastest hire.
Both. We work with VC-backed startups, enterprise orgs, and lean technical teams where one hire changes everything. The common thread isn't size or stage, it's that the hire matters enough to get right.
Yes. Many of our searches are never posted publicly. Whether it's a leadership transition, a quiet replacement, or a hire tied to an unannounced initiative, discretion comes standard.

Referral Program

If you know someone we should be talking to, refer them to Robi Group and we'll give you $5,000 as a thank you if they're successfully hired.

Just email referrals@robigroup.ai with a brief note, we'll send over a short agreement to protect your payout, you share their details, and we handle the rest.