Narae Partners

Narae Partners, Inc. is a recruiting firm run by people who have, in its own words, sat on all sides of the hiring table. The company supports team growth from individual contributors through to executive leadership, and works with companies at stages from pre-seed and seed through Series A, B and C and on to post-IPO. Its two co-founders are Anne Kim, a startup operator whose background covers product, business operations and chief of staff roles at technology startups from seed to post-IPO stage including two successful exits via Opendoor and Eppo, and Steve Yoo, a recruiter with more than ten years of recruiting agency experience who has placed hundreds of candidates from startups through to enterprise clients such as Meta, One Medical, Workday and Amazon.

Hiring is organised into four areas. R&D covers engineering and product, including ML and AI, software engineering, hardware and robotics, data science, product and DevSecOps. Sales and marketing covers go-to-market work: sales, marketing, customer success, RevOps, solutions engineering and FDE roles. G&A covers operations roles such as business operations, chief of staff, finance, accounting and legal. A fourth area handles global US market entry, hiring US talent for international brands moving into the American market.

The client work described on the site spans AI SaaS, AI infrastructure and fintech companies, with filled searches including Director of Engineering, VP of Engineering, General Counsel, Head of Strategic Finance, Head of Demand Gen, enterprise account executives and senior AI product engineers. The company says its focus on quality is what brings clients back, and reports an average turnaround of five days to an initial shortlist. Enquiries come through a form that asks for company stage, and the team commits to responding within one business day, or clients can write to [email protected].