In Five Years

In Five Years is a recruitment startup serving fast-growing technology companies across Belgium and the BeNeLux region. Founded by Milan Pelgrims, a former head of recruitment at an international innovation agency, the firm addresses a gap in specialised recruitment support for SaaS and product-focused businesses. Pelgrims previously scaled an agency from a single Antwerp office to global presence with teams in London, the United States, and Singapore.

The company offers two complementary services: direct recruitment placing candidates across product, engineering, and go-to-market functions, and recruitment advisory building client hiring systems within Notion, combining documentation with AI where it adds value. Recruitment domains include product managers, designers, engineers (backend, frontend, platform, AI, ML), and go-to-market roles such as sales, customer success, and revenue operations.

In Five Years positions itself as a true talent partner embedded within client teams rather than a remote vendor. The firm commits to learning the client's culture before sourcing, screening candidates with structured filtering, staying close to candidates as they progress through client processes, and sharing market intelligence about role difficulty and talent movement within the scale-up ecosystem. The company also provides free mentoring to support candidates' growth within placed organisations.