Hello,
We Are
Oriental
Recruitment
A specialist search firm hiring across technology and commercial functions — from AI, data and engineering to sales, marketing, finance, operations and executive leadership — for ambitious companies across four continents.
We built Oriental Recruitment because the best companies deserve a search partner who understands both the technology and the commercial engine around it — not one or the other.
Every mandate we take on is handled by a partner from first briefing to final offer. We work with a small number of clients at any given time, and we say no to searches we cannot deliver against.
Four ways we help teams hire well.
Retained search
Board, executive and leadership hiring across technology and commercial functions.
Embedded hiring
Dedicated capacity for scale-ups building multiple teams in parallel.
Market mapping
Confidential intelligence before a role opens — competitors, comp, availability.
Cross-border search
UK, China, APAC, Europe and North America with real presence on the ground.
Commercial and technical, side by side.
Technology & AI
Research, engineering, data, ML, platform and infrastructure leadership for AI labs, SaaS and consumer product businesses.
Commercial & GTM
Sales leadership, marketing, revenue operations, business development and customer success across enterprise and consumer businesses.
Finance, Ops & Executive
CFO, COO, People and board-level leadership for companies scaling through Series B and beyond.
A four-step process, run by a partner from start to finish.
Brief
A working session to define the role, the market and the shortlist we should be aiming for.
Map
Confidential mapping of every relevant candidate in the market, not just the ones actively looking.
Engage
Direct, considered outreach — every candidate briefed properly on the opportunity.
Close
Interview support, references, offer strategy and onboarding for the hire that matters most.
Six sectors, current networks in each.
We focus deliberately. It lets us keep an honest opinion of every serious operator in the markets we cover, and move quickly when clients need us to.
All industries- Foundation Model & AI Labs01
- SaaS & Enterprise Software02
- Consumer, Retail & Marketplace03
- HealthTech & Life Sciences04
- Deep Tech & Robotics05
- Industrial & Manufacturing06
Two offices, four continents of coverage.
United Kingdom
London HQ. Coverage across the UK and Ireland for scale-ups, growth-stage and enterprise clients.
China & APAC
Shanghai office serving mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore and the wider APAC region.
North America
Coverage across the US and Canada for cross-border hires and global leadership mandates.
“They ran a search across two continents in the time most firms would take to build a longlist. Every candidate they sent was genuinely someone we wanted to meet.”
Everything you might want to know, on its own page.
About
Who we are, what we believe, twelve years of practice.
Process
The four-step search process behind every mandate.
Practice
What a partnership with our search team actually delivers.
Roles
The four practice areas and the roles we hire within them.
Industries
The sectors where we hold deep, current networks.
Global
Regional hubs across four continents, in the markets we work in.
Voices
What the teams we work with actually say about us.
FAQ
Fees, timelines and how our engagements are structured.