Certus Recruitment
Based just outside Cambridge, one of Europe's leading technology and innovation hubs, Certus Recruitment helps SaaS, AI and technology businesses attract the people who drive growth. We specialise in Go-to-Market and Technical recruitment, partnering with founders, investors and leadership teams to build high-performing teams across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. With over 25 years' experience, we combine specialist market knowledge with a genuinely consultative approach to hiring.
Certus Recruitment
For more than 25 years, Certus Recruitment has helped technology businesses solve one of their biggest growth challenges: hiring the right people at the right stage of their journey.
Based just outside Cambridge, we partner with SaaS, AI and technology businesses across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, supporting organisations from venture-backed start-ups making their first commercial hires through to established global technology companies building international teams.
Specialists in Growth
Our expertise centres on two critical areas of every technology business:
Go-to-Market
- Sales
- Marketing
- Customer Success
- RevOps
- Partnerships
- Commercial Leadership
- Fractional
Technology
- Software Engineering
- Data & AI
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Product
- Project & Programme Management
- Cyber Security
- Technical Leadership
Rather than trying to recruit across every industry, every one of our consultants specialises within the technology sector, enabling us to understand not just job titles, but business models, funding stages, growth challenges and the type of people who succeed within them.
More Than Recruitment
Our clients engage us because they want more than CVs.
We act as a strategic hiring partner, advising on organisational design, hiring strategy, salary benchmarking, market intelligence and employer positioning to help businesses make better hiring decisions. Whether recruiting a single specialist or building an entire team following investment or expansion, our focus remains the same: delivering long-term hiring success rather than simply filling vacancies.
Why Certus?
- Over 25 years' specialist technology recruitment experience
- Local to Cambridge with an international delivery capability
- Specialist expertise across Go-to-Market and Technical hiring
- UK, European, North American and Australian reach
- Trusted by founders, leadership teams and investors to build high-performing technology businesses
- A consultative, partnership-led approach focused on quality, speed and long-term outcomes.
Products and services
Talent Acquisition Partnerships
Enhancing your Talent Acquisition capability.
Most successful technology businesses already have internal Talent Acquisition or HR teams—and so they should. Those teams understand your culture, employer brand and long-term people strategy better than anyone. Our role isn't to replace them; it's to make them even more effective.
For more than 25 years we've partnered with technology companies to provide the external market knowledge, specialist networks and delivery capability that even the best internal teams simply can't maintain whilst also managing the day-to-day demands of recruitment. We bring access to passive talent, real-time salary and market intelligence, competitor insight and specialist expertise across both Go-to-Market and Product & Engineering hiring, enabling better and faster hiring decisions.
Whether supporting rapid growth, specialist appointments, confidential searches, international expansion or project-based hiring, we work alongside your existing team to increase hiring capacity without increasing permanent headcount. By combining your knowledge of the business with our specialist expertise and global networks, we help reduce the cost of hiring, improve quality of hire and enable your internal Talent team to focus on the areas where they add the greatest strategic value.
Global Growth & Expansion
Helping technology businesses build teams across international markets.
Expanding into a new geography presents far more than a hiring challenge. Every market has its own talent landscape, salary expectations, candidate motivations and cultural nuances. With established operations in the UK, Australia and the United States, together with more than 25 years of international recruitment experience, we help technology businesses enter new markets, build local teams and scale existing operations with confidence. Whether your growth plans are commercial, technical or leadership focused, we combine local market expertise with global reach to accelerate successful expansion.
Hiring Strategy & Advisory
Helping technology businesses make better hiring decisions.
For over 25 years we've worked alongside founders, boards and leadership teams as they have built, scaled and transformed technology businesses. That experience gives us a perspective that goes well beyond filling vacancies. We understand how successful technology companies evolve, the hiring decisions that accelerate growth, and the costly mistakes that can slow it down.
Our role is to provide independent market insight and practical advice, helping clients determine not only who to hire, but when to hire, what experience they really need and how to structure teams for sustainable growth. From organisational design and succession planning to salary benchmarking, talent availability, competitor intelligence and hiring strategy, we bring an external perspective that internal teams often don't have the time, breadth of market exposure or specialist networks to develop.
Whether you're making your first strategic hire, planning international expansion or scaling after investment, we help ensure every hiring decision supports your long-term business objectives.
Leadership & Fractional Talent
Building leadership teams that match your stage of growth.
The best leaders aren't simply the most experienced—they're the ones whose experience matches where your business is today and where it's heading next. Whether you're making your first strategic hire, building out commercial or technical leadership, or appointing experienced executives to scale internationally, we help identify permanent, interim and fractional leaders whose backgrounds align with your stage of growth. From 0-1 start-ups to organisations scaling from 10-100 and beyond, we recruit leaders across both Go-to-Market and Technology functions who can make an immediate and lasting impact.
Product & Engineering Teams
Finding the technical talent that powers innovation.
We recruit software engineers, architects, cloud professionals, data and AI specialists, product managers, project leaders and cyber security professionals for businesses ranging from early-stage start-ups to global technology organisations.
GTM Team Build
Helping technology companies build high-performing commercial teams.
We specialise in recruiting Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps and Partnerships professionals for SaaS, AI and technology businesses. From first commercial hires through to complete GTM team builds, we help companies attract the people who accelerate revenue growth.