PRACTICES
Two practices.
One model.

Commercial and Technical leadership deployment across the USEurope corridor.

Commercial.

Revenue leaders and the teams that scale them.

Revenue leadership
Presales & solutions
Sales teams
Customer success
Partnerships
Market entry
COMMON PATTERNS
A European company building its first US commercial team. East Coast or West Coast hub, sales-led or leadership-first.
A US company expanding into Europe. PEO market entry or local entity, single country or full region.
A CRO transition, when the next phase needs a different leadership profile.
A company transitioning from product-led sales to scalable, repeatable enterprise motion.
COMMERCIAL PROOF
yugabyte logo
28 days
VP EMEA placement. Leadership succession during $1.3B growth phase. CEO-retained.
$1.3B valuation
privitar logo
23 deployments
Full commercial buildout. Seed stage through acquisition by Informatica.
6-year partnership
quantexa logo
14 hires across 7 regions
Global GTM scale. Series D to $2.6B unicorn.
$546M raised
Technical.

Engineering and product leaders and the systems they build.

Engineering leadership
Platform teams
Product
AI & ML
Data infrastructure
Technical GTM
COMMON PATTERNS
A platform built for one growth stage, architecting for the next.
A founder-led technical team bringing in its first VP Engineering.
An AI team built around a board-level mandate.
An analytics function expanding into full data platform infrastructure.
TECHNICAL PROOF
dataiku logo
$4.6B platform
VP Solution Engineering. European technical leadership. Series D.
Series D
striim logo
$108M raised
Field CTO and technical GTM. Goldman Sachs-backed data streaming.
Goldman Sachs
nuodb logo
11 deployments
VP EMEA and full function. Sales, pre-sales, CS from zero. Acquired by Dassault Systèmes.
Acquired
Some builds need
both.

The CRO shapes the technical hire. The VP Engineering shapes what the CRO can sell. The sequence of those decisions, who goes first and how the second hire calibrates against the first, determines whether the build compounds or fragments. Running both practices under one partner means those decisions are made with full visibility, not across inboxes.

It’s rarely just leadership. Behind every VP Sales is a presales team that has to understand the platform. Behind every VP Engineering is a solutions architecture function that shapes the commercial conversation. One engagement covers the whole build.

HARBR DATA
9 deployments across both practices. US GTM. UK platform and engineering.
Tom Blacksellharbr logo

“We came to AJR through a portfolio company in our investor network at a point when we needed to scale quickly across both commercial and technical functions. They deployed across both practices: US market entry on the GTM side and platform and engineering in the UK. Richard, Greg and the team understood what we were building and didn’t overcomplicate it.”

Tom Blacksell
Chief Revenue Officer, Harbr Data
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