Senior hires, found with evidence.
Discovr maps the whole market for a role, scores every candidate against your bar, and delivers the search as an interactive microsite your team can interrogate, not a document they have to trust.
Head of Applied AI, EMEA
Intelligence-led, so you see the whole market
Most searches show you the names that came to mind. Ours start from the full population for a role and narrow down with evidence, so the shortlist is defensible rather than just plausible.
Map the whole market
We screen the full field for a role, often more than a thousand profiles, not a convenient shortlist. Nothing good hides.
Score against your bar
Every candidate assessed on a structured framework built around the specific role, so the shortlist stands up to a board.
Show the thinking
Each search arrives as an interactive microsite. You interrogate the longlist, scoring and shortlist yourself.
Move at pace
First calibrated names in two to three weeks, and a clear, agreed timeline to shortlist from there.
A real search, shown in full
Head of Applied AI, EMEA
A senior search for a frontier AI company, taken from an open brief to a defensible shortlist. The brief, the market, the method, seventy assessed leaders and the approach to the person at the top of the list, exactly as the client saw it, with every identity removed.
Four ways to work with Discovr
Talent Map
The market landscape for a role or function: who is out there, where they sit, and what it will take to move them.
Search Intelligence
The role mapped, every candidate scored and a tiered shortlist, delivered as an interactive microsite. Your team runs the process.
Retained Search
Search Intelligence plus the full mandate, end to end: approach, assessment, references, offer and close.
Embedded & interim
Senior search leadership inside your team for a defined window, to run, build or rebuild executive hiring.
Every mandate, not a selection
Board and C-suite appointments down to specialist hires, filterable by function, level, region and scope. We are open about which were run end to end and which were research engagements.
Talent intelligence, published
Market studies we have produced on the talent pools our clients hire from. They show the data advantage we bring to every search.
European ML Talent Market
396 machine learning engineers across Europe's leading AI companies: tenure, mobility and education.
Read the report →Anthropic Research Engineers
How a frontier lab's research engineering team is built: structure, backgrounds and where the talent came from.
Read the report →European CTO Landscape
Technology leadership across European scale-ups: backgrounds, tenure and movement.
Open the dashboard →Agentic AI CPO Landscape
Chief Product Officers in the emerging agentic AI sector, mapped and profiled.
Open the dashboard →Vienna Kotlin Engineering
The Kotlin engineering talent pool in Vienna's technology ecosystem.
Open the dashboard →ML Talent Explorer
The European ML dataset as an interactive tool, with filtering by company, tenure and background.
Open the dashboard →Pitch decks candidates remember
A candidate's alignment with your mission and vision is critical to a successful hire. We build highly personalised candidate pitch decks that bring your vision, mission and brand to life. Candidates regularly tell us they are the best they have received.
Qiddiya
Saudi Arabia's flagship entertainment, sport and culture destination.
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CoachHub
Europe's leading digital coaching platform, hiring across AI and engineering.
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Hurtigruten
The global expedition cruise and travel group.
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DoSomething
The youth-led movement for social change.
View deck →In their words
Douglas has been a pleasure to work with. He works really hard to distil the true essence of your brand and communicate that authentically to candidates, bringing in candidates who might not have previously considered a role with your company.
He's one of the best executive search recruiters I've worked with. He has entered new markets and within a short period of time has quickly mapped the talent landscape better than any local market firms.
Founder-led, by design
Discovr is led by Douglas Gambling, who has spent his career in executive search and in building and scaling technology organisations, the last ten years of it running Discovr. Every mandate is led by him personally.
Most recently he led senior search for ON, the Swiss sportswear company, through a period of fast growth. His wider career includes hiring for Microsoft, Skype, Spotify, King and Apple, and Discovr has delivered for CoachHub, Omidyar Network, Hurtigruten, Telefónica Alpha, Adevinta and Five.AI.
Sectors: AI and technology, consumer, sport and luxury, marketplaces, venture and impact investing, and education. Leadership and specialist hires across engineering, product, commercial, people, legal and finance.
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