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You need to drive innovation but lack the right people to do it?
Make use of our proven experience in the innovation space combined with a dedicated focus on talent gaps!

WAR FOR TALENT

The war for talent is the limited pipeline of candidates with the unique blend of skills required for innovation roles, intensified by evolving workforce expectations, unappealing traditional hiring practices, and intense competition from agile startups.

UNIQUE TYPE OF PEOPLE

A barrier to innovation lies in the difficulty of finding uniquely skilled individuals who combine entrepreneurial experience, passion for innovation, and nontraditional skills like design thinking and rapid prototyping, leading to a persistent talent mismatch in corporate innovation roles.

OUR SOLUTION

We understand the struggle of finding the unique type of people within this war of talent. Pioneers.Talent is your solution to get the best people for your innovation team or venture. We support organizations in hiring demanding profiles and key positions.

Our Approach

PROCESS:

We know how to effectively identify, attract and select the right talent for innovation:

1. IDENTIFICATION

We understand what corporates need in the innovation space

2. ATTRACTION

Through our strong brand and broad network we have direct access to innovation talents

3. SELECTION

Based on our proven expertise in innovation we can find out which candidates best fit the required needs

TALENT MATCH

METHODS:

We achieve matchmaking between companies and talents through a combination of proven methods and innovative recruiting formats:

Innovation Assessment Center

AI based Process Automation

Data driven Candidate Matching

Innovation Crashcourse

Talent Pool

Why Pioneers.Talent?

We combine a unique set of assets and skills. With backgrounds from the corporate and startup world, we understand the talent side of innovation in both settings.

Profound knowledge of the market and requirements

Large network in the startup & innovation scene

Strong brand positioning and trust in the market

Flexible on-demand support for individual hirings

Our Services

Innovation needs visionaries to make it fly.

HEADHUNTING

SERVICES

We find pioneering talents who contribute in key positions to the success of  new ventures

RECRUITING AS

A SERVICE

We take over recruiting operations of new ventures to build pioneering teams

PIONEERS IN

RESIDENCE

We enable the growth journey of new ventures with talents for interim management

 

Overview of latest references

Talent Sourcing for Growth

Finding, Selection and Onboarding of Key Players:

  • Chief Revenue Officer
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • 10 Country Managing Directors and Local Co-Founders

(Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates)

Recruiting as a Service

  • Set up recruiting strategy for the corporate venture studio:
    • Defined key roles and responsibilities
    • Created targeted sourcing strategies
    • Developed a structured interview and assessment process
  • Finding, selection, onboarding of:
    • Chief Executive Officer
    • 5 Venture Architects

Various New Ventures

Placement of Executive and Management Functions like:

  • General Manager
  • Co-Founder
  • Managing Partner
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Chief Sales Officer
  • Chief Operations Officer
  • Head of Product
  • Head of Customer Experience
  • HR Manager

Do you want to learn more about how we source the talent that makes innovation fly?

Schedule a brief introductory call with our Head of Pioneers.Talent Rupert Schmutzer. Simply send a quick email to rupert.schmutzer@pioneers.io.

Rupert Schmutzer
Head of Pioneers.Talent

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