Contract recruiting and boutique search as an extension of your in-house team, for engineering, AI/ML, biotech and clinical-stage teams. Domain-fluent recruiting that operational leaders trust and budget owners can measure, from your first-in-function hires to scaling teams for commercial growth.
Our service delivers best when success criteria is aligned up front with executive leadership visibility and where cost efficiency is a priority. Then we run a process your hiring managers trust, with reporting your operations leaders can read, and we prepare your hiring managers with the evaluation framework to own the decision.
We speak the language of your researchers, engineers, and the business, so the success criteria you set becomes a precise technical bar for each role.
Budget leaders and operating officers get predictable cost and reporting on every channel, so recruiting spend reads like any other line item.
Deploy our framework to specific functional areas and validate the channel. Hiring managers and scientists get high-throughput signal and reproducibility, so they're prepared to own the decision.
First-in-function hires at early-stage startups through clinical-stage and early commercial organizations, Seed to late-stage through IPO.
Research scientists, ML engineers and platform teams for AI-first companies.
→Strain engineering, protein design and the automation teams behind them.
→Medicinal and computational chemistry, biology and translational science.
→Genomics, biomarker and data science talent for targeted therapies.
→In vitro diagnostics development, assay, regulatory and quality roles.
→Clinical operations, development and contract research organization teams.
→Chief Medical Officers, Principal Investigators and Medical Directors, plus Medical Affairs, Regulatory and Quality leaders.
→Every engagement moves through phases, like the programs our clients run. Prove fit on a pilot, then expand into embedded RPO (recruitment process outsourcing) once the results are in.
Two to four priority roles with fixed scope and agreed success criteria. A low-commitment way to see the process and the quality of candidates.
Recruiting capacity that works as part of your team: sourcing, screening, process design, interview coordination and offer management.
Build out from first-in-function hires to full teams against your hiring plan, through clinical stage and early commercial growth.
Regular reporting on sourcing channels, pipeline conversion and cost per hire, so you know which channels work and where the budget goes.
Founder · Global Talent Partner
TrialPhase is led by James, a Global Talent Partner with 10+ years in full-stack talent strategy and executive search. His global experience spans 60+ countries. He specializes in standing up and accelerating technical and clinical-stage recruiting, from individual contributors to executives.
His work spans AI/ML and engineering, synthetic biology, drug discovery, precision medicine, diagnostics and clinical research. He has scaled specialized teams from first-in-function hires at early-stage startups through clinical-stage and early commercial organizations.
His candid, consultative, alignment-first process consistently produces offer acceptance rates in the 90th percentile. A background as an HR business partner leader means clients get recruiting that fits how the company actually runs.
A 20-minute intro to talk through your hiring goals, or a 45-minute session to scope out a pilot engagement.