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The shortlist matches the work.
Generalist recruiters screen on keywords. A specialist can tell research experience from production ML, or AppSec from SecOps.
For founders and engineering leads
One hard role. One specialist.
Stuck on a hire that won't fill? Operis introduces you to one small recruiting firm that only works on that kind of role: machine learning, security, data, platform or embedded. Only if you say yes, and the introduction costs you nothing.
- Free for you
- One specialist, not a queue of pitches
- Only with your yes
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Why a specialist
Hard roles need someone who knows the work.
A role that stays open for weeks usually isn't short of applicants. It's short of the right ones.
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They reach people who aren't applying.
The engineers who fit hard roles are rarely on job boards. Specialists already know them.
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Small firms take few searches.
The firms we introduce are founder-led and take a handful of searches at a time. Your role gets their attention.
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You decide after the first call.
Talk to them first. Their fee is agreed with you before any work starts, and only if you go ahead.
How it works
One role, one firm, your call.
Nothing happens until you say yes.
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Tell us the role.
Reply to our email or use the form below: the role, and a link to the posting if you have one.
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We pick one firm.
One that only works on that kind of role and has room for a new search. Not a list, not a bidding round.
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You get a short intro email.
Talk to them or don't. If you hire through them, you pay their usual fee. Nothing goes to Operis from you.
How Operis makes money
Recruiters pay us. You never do.
Get an intro
Tell us the role.
We'll suggest one firm that only works on roles like it. You decide whether to meet them.
From public information: your job posts, careers page and company news. We look for roles that tend to be hard to fill, like machine learning, security, data, platform and embedded.
No. We introduce one firm, and only if you say yes.
Their own fee, usually a percentage of first-year salary. You agree it with them directly before they start, and many founders talk to them first and decide after.
Tell us. We won't send another one unless you ask.
Recruiting firms pay Operis when we introduce them to a company that wants to talk. You never pay us.
Reply "stop" to any of them and we won't write again.