Understand the business.
We get to know your team, your culture, and what success in the role actually requires.
EXCEPTIONAL TALENT. OUTSIZED IMPACT.
The right talent.
Your next stage
of growth.
We specialize in recruiting for early-stage AI and SaaS startups. We partner with founders and investors to find the leaders and operators who build strong teams and drive commercial growth.
A PERSONAL APPROACH
TO WHAT COMES NEXT.PORCHLIGHT TALENT
TO WHAT COMES NEXT.PORCHLIGHT TALENT
HOW WE WORK
Quality over quantity.
Always.
Find the right people.
We seek out talent with the experience, judgment, and motivation to contribute at your stage—and help them understand why your opportunity matters.
Make thoughtful introductions.
We introduce people we’d want to work with ourselves, with clear context on why they fit. Candidates arrive prepared, with an understanding of the company, the role, and the vision.
FOR COMPANIES
Areas of expertise
From founding hires to executive leadership, we recruit across the roles that help AI and SaaS startups build, sell, and scale.
Executive Search
Functional Leaders · VP · C-Suite
Pre-Sales
Account Executive · Sales Leadership · Partnerships · Partnerships Leadership
Strategy & Operations
Chief of Staff · Strategy & Operations · S&O Leadership · Business & Revenue Operations
Post-Sales
Deployment Strategist · Special Projects Lead · Agent Product Manager · Deployed Engineers · Account Management · Customer Success · Post-Sales Leadership
Marketing & Growth
Growth · GTM Strategy · Demand Gen · Product Marketing · Marketing Leadership
Product Talent
Product Manager · Product Lead · Head of Product
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Recruiting is personal.
It should feel that way.
I’m Diana Rosen, founder of Porchlight Talent. Before recruiting became my business, hiring was a core part of my work as an operator.
I spent nearly a decade at Bain & Company, where I participated in both pre- and post-MBA hiring, before building and leading GTM and strategy & operations teams at Gympass, LinkedIn, BetterUp, and Paraform. I’ve seen firsthand how the right person at the right time can unlock business value.
While scaling our global customer success team at BetterUp, I realized how much energy I got from finding and hiring top talent. That led me to co-found Talent Density Partners, helping grow it into a seven-figure recruiting business, before founding Porchlight.
Today, I lead our searches with an operator’s perspective: understanding the business, the people, and what success requires. At an early-stage company, every hire shapes the culture. Finding someone who will thrive on your team matters as much as finding someone who can do the job.
Diana RosenFOUNDER, PORCHLIGHT TALENT
Connect with me on LinkedIn WAYS TO PARTNER
A search built around your needs.
Contingent search
A success-based model, with a placement fee when you hire through Porchlight.
Milestone-based retainer
A committed search partnership, with payments tied to agreed milestones throughout the search.
We’ll discuss the role, your priorities, and the scope of the search to find the right structure together.
Selective about the searches we take on. Committed to the ones we do.
We take on searches where we believe we can make a meaningful difference—and give each one the attention it deserves. Whether contingent or retained, we enter every partnership with the same intention: to make the right hire.
FOR FOUNDERS, EXECUTIVES, TALENT LEADERS & INVESTORS
Let’s build
your next team.
Whether you’re a founder, executive, Head of Talent, or investor supporting a venture- or PE-backed technology company, we’d love to hear what you’re building. Share your hiring needs and we’ll respond within 24 hours to explore a fit.
Looking for your next role? Introduce yourself on our candidate page.