NextPlay

NextPlay provides executive search and headhunting for board and C-suite appointments, working from Peregian Beach in Queensland with venture-backed technology companies.

• C-suite, VP and Head of appointments where the hire shapes what the company becomes, run confidentially and end to end by the firm’s most senior operators.
• Founder-led delivery by a team of founders and operators who have built, scaled and exited high growth companies, including a three time CTO and a founder whose recruitment technology business was acquired by SEEK.
• Multi-role projects for companies scaling fast, covering engineering, product, design and go-to-market teams from founding hires through to entire functions.
• Placements made for venture-backed companies in AI engineering, machine learning, software engineering, product, design, customer success and marketing.

Best for: founders and boards at venture-backed technology companies making a senior appointment that sets the direction of the business.

NextPlay provides talent pipelining and talent pools through the intelligence layer built inside the search firm and released as NextPlay Intelligence.

• Market mapping and role calibration run underneath every search, with candidate assessment and reference work.
• Targeted searches that return matching people across companies, ranked by recent signal and team fit.
• Permanent search for a specific senior or staff role, delivered end to end on the same intelligence engine.

Best for: technology companies that want a mapped view of the market before they commit to a hire.