We Win Inaccessible,
World-Class Talent for Founders, CEOs and Boards
“Stephen is simply the best technology recruiter I've had the pleasure to work with.
Simon Pincus
VP Engineering at Opengear
Trusted by top venture-backed and
bootstrapped startups, scaleups, and unicorns
across Australia, Silicon Valley, and the Globe
approx $50B+ market leader in no-code automation
Perpetuate Hired
Principal + Senior Staff Engineers X 3 in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia
Series A, backed by EVP and other high pedigree VCs. A cutting-edge, sophisticated Data & MLOps Company. Founded by ex-Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) Principal Engineer(s).
Perpetuate Hired
Engineering Lead
Senior Product Manager
Principal Engineer
(NASDAQ: WDAY) $70B+ global SaaS company
Perpetuate Hired
8 Senior & Principal Engineers
ASX-Listed (ASX:EVS) EnviroTech x Sensor and Modelling Platform
Perpetuate Hired
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Senior Software Engineer
Head of Cyber Security
Pre-seed HealthTech startup, backed by Co-Founder of Canva, Co-Founder of Google Maps
Perpetuate Hired
1 Senior Full Stack Engineer
(ASX:MAP) A Life Science, Genomics HealthTech; a world-leader in human gut microbe diagnostics, and cutting edge analytics platform
Perpetuate Hired
Principal Engineer
Their profound understanding of our cultural dynamics, technical requirements, and the intensity needed for success in our fast-paced environment has set them apart.
The consistently high quality and diverse pool of candidates presented to us in a timely manner have empowered us to engage with exceptionally strong individuals and ultimately make the right hiring decisions.
Perpetuate's commitment to excellence has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in our recruitment success, and we look forward to continuing this valuable partnership.”
Jason Cooper
CEO & Managing Director of Envirosuite (ASX:EVS)
Brittany Zenger
Director of Software Engineering, Zapier (ex-Salesforce)
Scott Savage
VP Product & Technology at ResApp Health
and many more
Talent is a
Craft Game.
At our core, we believe Talent and Hiring is, and should be - a Craft Game NOT a ‘numbers game’.
Our Craft, every day, is oriented towards winning the highest calibre of Australian Tech, Product, Engineering, Scientific and Innovation Talent - for world-class DeepTech, HardTech and Innovation-Led Customers. We proactively headhunt. We don’t wait for world class, top 5% individuals to magically land in our lap.
We achieve Craft by utilising our hyper-contrarian, precision-oriented, and (we think) highly-sophisticated Talent System™, unique to us. Foundationally, our sourcing & matching System™ is built on concentric circle Signal recognition, researching Pattern and crafting the most artisan, hyper-customised pitch(s).
Perpetuate aims to disrupt traditional Recruitment, by guaranteeing better Signal. (who you ultimately hire). And, eliminating noise + distraction (the ‘smokes & mirrors’ process of TradRec).
Hiring Senior, DeepTech Talent with us, is frictionless
All we need is 1 hr (max) of the founder or chief decision maker’s time.
We craft the job descriptions for you, do the outreach to our talent network – and you’ll get introductions to top candidates within 5-10 days.
Today
Message or call us to get started
Simply email, text, or call to get started or to learn more about our process.
During our first call
We create a profile of the role(s) for you
We create a highly-sophisticated and customised Pitch of the role(s) + your company (we take care of this)
Within 48-72 hrs of call
20+ high calibre individuals
Simply email, text, or call to get started or to learn more about our process.
Within 5-10 days
Get 2-3 top candidates
We’ll then introduce highly qualified, accurate and precise individuals.
What our founders are saying
“Perpetuate, under Stephen's guidance, has consistently matched and delivered talent exceptionally. Almost every candidate seems to bring unique value to the team, fitting more into a 'yes' or 'not yet' rather than a 'no', indicating a deep understanding of our specific requirements.”
Jess Flanagan, Co-Founder @ Deckard
(ex-Qualcomm, Engineering Lead), Series A
Customer Review(s)
Stephen consistently maintains a high level of professionalism, ensuring a seamless and efficient recruitment process. His dedication and commitment to finding the right fit for each role have made him an invaluable assetIf you are seeking an outstanding tech recruiter, I strongly recommend Stephen. His eye for talent will undoubtedly make a significant difference in your organization's growth and success.”
James Davies
Founder, Skedulo
He has placed excellent people into my teams and has always maintained constructive, low pressure contact.He has really come into his own since founding perpetuate, with a keen eye for innovative businesses and a knack of finding the right people to place into them.If you're wondering whether you should work with Stephen and Perpetuate, let me assure you that having him thinking about your business is only a good thing.
David Novakovic
EM, CalcTree, Ex-Twitter
The consistently high quality and diverse pool of candidates presented to us in a timely manner have empowered us to engage with exceptionally strong individuals and ultimately make the right hiring decisions. Perpetuate's commitment to excellence has undoubtedly played a pivotal role in our recruitment success, and we look forward to continuing this valuable partnership'
Jason Cooper
CEO of Envirosuite
(ASX:EVS) a $100M Environmental Modelling Platform
The quality of candidates presented has been impressive, often leaving me spoilt for choice. Almost every candidate seems to bring unique value to the team, fitting more into a 'yes' or 'not yet' rather than a 'no', indicating a deep understanding of our specific requirements.
Stephen's professionalism, marked by his promptness, flexibility, and supportive approach, has significantly contributed to this success, making Perpetuate a highly recommendable partner for recruitment services.'
Jessica Flanagan
Co-Founder & CTO of Deckard
(ex-Qualcomm)
Stephen also has a great network, which makes recruitment a much quicker process than I would normally expect. In some instances it took just 1 week from the first conversation with Stephen and till an offer was made to a successful candidate.
I highly recommend Stephen to anyone who wants to find the right people for their organisations. Whichever company Stephen chooses to work for, he will be my first point of contact to find suitable candidates.
Elena Chirich
Director, MINIBOSS Business Scool
He has a great sense of the level of candidates and their potential fit and as a result I've had only compelling candidates referred to me that all brought real skills to the table.
Even when the market has been sparing Stephen has managed to find candidates that match our requirements. He is one of the few recruiters in the software industry who I will immediately recommend to both job seekers and employers.
Christopher Mckay
Senior Engineer, Zapier
Stephen is one of the few recruiters I have kept in touch with over the years, and he is always my first contact when I want to know about the job market, either as a hiring manager or as a candidate. I trust Stephen to give me a knowledgeable and candid view of the market and provide pertinent advice. Therefore, I highly recommend Stephen to anyone hiring or seeking new opportunities.
Paul Chiu
Engineering Lead, Mr Yum
The A-class candidates that he puts forward are next to none that I have ever seen before. It may seem like a waving of a wand to us, but I am sure it is down to some hard work, diligence, and smarts (this guy has it in droves).
Steve sticks with you the whole way through the candidates' journey, being transparent and communicating often and frequently. I can't recommend him enough.
Demelza Green
Co-CEO, Patient Zero
He has sourced many great candidates and continues to deliver incredible talent to our fast growing business.
Without his professionalism, expertise and persistence I know we would not be where we are today without him.
Leigh Appel
CTO & Co-Founder, Safesite
Our Thesis
Our Rationale is predicated on the belief that genuine A-Grade, World Class DeepTech (& peripheral-to-deep-tech) Talent is exceptionally rare. The demand (v supply) curve for high pedigree, high talent Engineers, Innovators + Scientists is more other asymmetrically amplified compared to most knowledge worker professions.
‘They’ can afford to be super selective when choosing their next employer.
‘We don’t choose to advertise any of our open portfolio roles in public. Ever. Because we aim to win you un-winnable talent, elsewhere. We strongly believe the best (usually) need to be won proactively, not reactively.
Active Job Seekers will become increasingly easier to access. Because of the convergence:
Highly-skilled internal hiring teams
The (insane) momentum of artificial intelligence technology
Traditional agency recruitment, will very easily help identify + source [active] job seekers. Providing access to the same talent you can access yourself - is the direct opposite of our North Star + Purpose.
“People are Power Law, too.”
Sam Hinkie
87 Capital
“One of the best ways of acquiring high calibre talent, is if you already have it.”
Paul Graham
Y-Combinator
Our North Star.
Our Purpose is to deliver Better and Different Talent, at warp speed. We want to amplify Australian A-Grade Product Innovators, Engineers, Scientists and Designers onto the global stage.
Who We’re For
By definition of our Craft + Precision orientation, we’re not for everyone.
In fact we pride ourselves on Fewer, but Deeper Customer relationships.
We only work with DeepTech + HighTech native** customers.
We hire at the Senior or Principal Individual Contributor (IC) Level AND Leadership / Executive Levels, only.
Pay above average, to top quartile ($) compensation range. How much you pay – is Signal. Arguably, the most immutable, Signal.
‘Companies won’t be able to overpay for underperforming talent, or underpay overpforming talent.’
Genuinely, Product & Tech-native. In simple English, we strongly prefer our Founder Team or CEO – to be ex-Engineers, or Scientists or ‘sophisticated’ Product folk. We work with The Ideators, the Innovators and The Builders.
‘Empowered Engineers are the single most important important thing you can have in a Product Company.’
Is the company's mission purposeful? Is the ‘problem space interesting enough to attract A’s. (A’s are always already-engaged, and likely pretty comfortable). Will us Pitching (your company) be enticing enough to win their attentional initially, and ultimately their feet.
‘Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.’
Our aim is to achieve 100% successful close of every assignment. We prioritise and double down on two-way diligence (sophisticatedly vetting the Customer-side as much, or even more, as the Talent-side).
How we source
Our special sauce is our sourcing system.
We won’t give away all our secrets. What we’ll say - is that there’s ultimate conviction and regular feedback looping - that it works.
Every interaction we curate is predicated on Signal, Pattern and the Concentric Circle ‘Power Law’. Every evaluation we make, is based on data.
We trade-off ‘small talk’
We acknowledge relationships make the world better. We care about relationships, a lot.
AND we understand that our customers (from both sides) care (a lot) more about our ability to deliver BETTER, FASTER and more PRECISE outcomes. Not, what we did on the weekend.
Some of the World's Best VCs + Incubator(s) bet on Our Customers
What our Founders are saying
“Over the past few years Stephen has helped myself and One Model scale our development team, and has been provided many excellent candidates that have been key hires for us.
I have also referred a colleague, who had only ever been critical of recruiters, to Stephen as a candidate and they were impressed and only had positive things to say. I'd happily recommend Stephen to any business, or candidate looking for a recruiter.”
Matt Wilton
Co-Founder CTO @ One Model, Techstars Alumni
Precision
and
Velocity
Our focus is on sourcing and developing strong relationships with high-level talent.
Stephen Tung
Founder, Perpetuate
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