One Tech Talent Partner, Real Growth.
Permanent hires. Contract Delivery. One Partner.
The Technology Industry's Talent Partner of Choice
The people who power growth.
The expertise that delivers results.
Built by industry experts. Driven by market insight.
Less noise. Better judgement. Exceptional 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 the technology industry's trusted talent partner.
The cost of getting talent wrong is measured in missed revenue, delayed delivery and opportunities lost to competitors.
That's why we start with outcomes, not job descriptions.
Technology and channel is not a market we recruit into. It's the market we come from.
With experience spanning vendors, distributors, MSPs, resellers and enterprise technology teams, we understand the difference between a CV that looks good and a person who delivers.
Permanent hires. Contract specialists. On-demand technical teams.
One firm. Every talent model. Built for growth.
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Calibrate
The outcome, not the job title. We define what success looks like first, then identify the talent model that gets you there. So you're investing in results, not headcount.
Source
Permanent hires, contract specialists, and on-demand technical resource. We access the market beyond active applicants. So you see the talent others miss.
Validate
Real-world evidence over recruitment theatre. Proven delivery, technical capability, and commercial impact. So every recommendation has earned its place.
Deploy
The right people, in the right model, at the right time. From a critical leadership hire to a project team delivered at pace. So your business keeps moving forward.
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Technology vendors, channel businesses and organization’s that rely on technology to grow. From venture-backed software companies scaling their teams to enterprises requiring specialist technical resource on demand, we provide the people that keep growth moving.
Roles We Cover
Sales, leadership and technical talent across the technology ecosystem, including Account Executives, Channel Managers, Sales Leaders, Solutions Engineers, Pre-Sales Consultants and specialist engineering teams.
Permanent search. Contract delivery. Flexible technical resource. One trusted partner.
Whether It's One Hire or a Whole Team
We deliver the talent your business needs, when it needs it, and at the pace growth 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
