One Tech Talent Partner, Real Growth.
The Tech Industries trusted talent partner.
We find the people who move companies forward.
Deep technology expertise. Intelligent search. Human judgement.
From sales and technical talent to leadership and go-to-market, we deliver exceptional people for critical roles.
Built By Industry Leaders
Less noise. Better judgement. Stronger hires.
Build the tech team that moves growth forward.
Specialist recruitment for vendors, distribution and channel businesses.
We find sales leaders and technical talent who understand your market, your buyers, and the route to revenue.
Industry expertise. Trusted access. Talent built to scale.
Technology and channel businesses need two things: people who can sell it, and people who can build it.
We know this market. All of it.
Sales and technical talent for technology vendors and the channel. Permanent, embedded, or on demand - the model flexes, the standard does not
One partner. Whichever model fits the stage you're at.
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MK9 is a specialist technology talent partner. A bad hire costs you nine months and the number.
You'll know by month four. You'll act by month seven. By then the territory is cold, the pipeline is fiction, and the board wants an answer.
Technology and channel is not a desk in our business. It is our business. A decade inside vendors, distributors, VARs and MSPs, working in the industry. We assess people against industry standards.
Sales and technical. Permanent, contract, embedded.
One firm, however your headcount moves.
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Calibrate. The work, not the job title. What the role has to deliver, and what productive looks like at ninety days. So you're hiring for the job, not the advert.
Search. Advertised, headhunted, network-sourced. The whole market, not just the people already applying. So you see everyone worth seeing.
Assess. Evidence of what someone's actually done — never keywords on a CV. So the shortlist is short for a reason.
Deliver. People you'd genuinely hire, not a stack to filter. So your time goes into interviews, not admin.
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Series A and B technology vendors scaling their team. UK and US businesses building a channel presence. Resellers, distributors and MSPs hiring quota-carriers & technical talent who need to be productive fast.
Roles we cover: Account Executives, Channel and Partner Managers, Sales Leadership, Solutions Engineers and technical pre-sales — with contract and flexible resourcing available alongside permanent search.
Whether it's one critical hire or an entire go-to-market team, we work at the pace your growth plan demands
Why Companies Choose MK9 Over Every Other Recruiter
Channel / VAR / MSP Ecosystem Expertise
Deep expertise across partner recruitment, VAR/MSP routes to market, co-sell motions, and channel-led pipeline generation. More than a decade across AI, Data & Automation, cybersecurity, Cloud, SaaS, and enterprise technology sales brings practical insight into the people, roles, and motions that drive revenue.
Specialist focus on high-growth technology vendors where every sales hire impacts growth. Built for lean teams and evolving go-to-market motions.
Series A/B Vendor Specialists
Access exceptional talent with a replacement guarantee. We focus on delivering results, helping you secure scarce skills and accelerate growth with minimal risk.
Performance-Driven, Risk-Free
Talent Network
Through MK9's established talent network, clients gain direct access to hard-to-find specialists and high-calibre professionals, helping them overcome talent shortages and scale with confidence.
We use AI to read what sits underneath — quota history, Technical Certs, deal shape, channel and MEDDICC fluency. Then a practitioner chooses. Every name on your shortlist was picked by someone who has sold what you sell.
Innovative Candidate Matching
The Problem With Generalist Recruiters in The Tech Industry
Most recruiters cannot tell a CISO from a channel manager. That's a problem when you're hiring an enterprise AE who needs to navigate complex buyer cycles, VAR/MSP ecosystems, and MEDDICC-led sales motions from day one.
Mis-hires are expensive. A rep who doesn't understand the space takes 6+ months to ramp-if they ramp at all.
Speed matters. Fast-growing vendors can't wait 90 days for a hiring cycle that produces the wrong shortlist.
Keyword CVs aren't competency signals. Generalist recruiters screen for job titles, not quota attainment, deal complexity, or channel fluency.
MK9 exists to remove that risk. We recruit from a position of genuine domain expertise because we've done the job we recruit for.
Our Services
Five ways to hire. One specialist Talent Partner.
Permanent and contract sales and technical talent for technology vendors and channel businesses - from a single critical hire to an entire go-to-market team, covered on demand.
Ignite Search
Success only search for sales and technical roles. AEs, Channel and Partner Managers, Solutions Engineers and pre-sales. Assessed on quota carried, deals closed and systems built — not keywords. Nothing payable until someone starts.
Summit Search
A focused, retained search service for the hires that can't go wrong. Sales leadership, founding engineers, first commercial hires. Full market mapping, direct outreach and structured assessment, delivered against agreed timelines with the search run to completion.
Scale
Your talent function, without building one. We work inside your team on a monthly basis to define roles, run pipelines and hire at pace - the capability of an in-house recruiter, at a fraction of the cost per hire.
Capacity when the plan demands it. Contract, part-time and augmented teams across sales and technical, live in days rather than months, sourced to the same standard as our permanent searches. Scale up for a project or a peak, scale down when it's done — with no permanent headcount attached.
Surge
Hands-on go-to-market acceleration for early-stage vendors entering new markets or onboarding a first sales hire. Covers pipeline build, channel strategy, MEDDICC process implementation, and enablement so new teams can create momentum quickly.
Accelerate
Ready to Build a Revenue Team That Actually Sells?
Book a 30-minute hiring consultation. We'll assess your hiring need, your sales motion, and whether MK9 is the right fit. No fluff, No obligation. Just Clarity
