We are the first agency in Asia-Pacific to specialize exclusively in AI recruitment. That was a deliberate choice, made early, and we have not wavered from it.
Pivot Search was founded in Singapore with a single thesis: that the AI talent market in Asia-Pacific was maturing faster than the search firms serving it. Generalist agencies were treating AI as one vertical among many. We believed it deserved — and would increasingly demand — dedicated expertise.
We set up as a nuanced-hiring firm and have stayed that way. Every consultant on the team runs searches in multi-lingual, which means we access candidate pool seamlessly across APAC. Eight specialty recruiters. Every search run in-house from brief to close.
We work with a small number of clients at any one time, by design. That constraint means every mandate gets genuine attention — not a database blast and a hope. We want to be the firm you call first — and the firm you come back to.
Our 100% retention rate on placed candidates is not a marketing claim — it's the number that holds us to account. We're not done when the contract is signed. Post-placement check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days are part of our standard process.
We can hold a credible conversation about transformer architectures, RLHF, and inference optimization — not because we've read a glossary, but because we've spent years placing the people who build these systems.
Every search at Pivot Search is run by a named consultant — someone who knows your brief, speaks to your candidates, and owns the business results. We don't hand off mid-mandate.
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We work with a small number of clients and candidates at any one time. If the timing is right, let's talk.