About Rivago

A search firm built around
one quiet idea — that
hiring a person is not a transaction.

Founded in 2017 in Pune by three operators who had spent the prior decade hiring inside the orgs they now serve. Today, fifty people across three offices — headquartered in Delaware, with teams in Pune and Ontario, led by ten senior partners. No call centres. No automated outreach. No portal.

Scope

What we cover, and where we cover it.

3
Offices — Wilmington, Pune, Ayr
7
Ways to engage, from contract cover to executive search
8
Industry practices, each with its own specialists
Our story

A different kind of recruitment firm.

“We wanted to build the firm we had always wanted to hire from. Honest about the brief. Slow to send the wrong candidate. Fast for the right one.”

The search industry built itself around volume. More résumés. More portals. More “candidates per requisition.” We came up inside it and watched the work degrade for both sides — hiring managers drowning in unscreened profiles, candidates ignored after their fourth round.

So we built Rivago around the opposite premise. Fewer searches per partner. Longer relationships. Honest briefs in both directions. A single person on the line — who learns your business and stays with you for the next role, and the one after that.

It costs more per hire. It also sticks. The partner who placed them is still the person you call.

What we won't do

Our values, mostly stated
as the things we refuse.

01

We won't submit a CV
without explicit consent.

Every candidate sees the brief, hears who the company is, and signs off on the submission. We've lost mandates over this. We've never lost a candidate's trust over it.

02

We won't run a search
with no scorecard.

If we can't agree on what “good” looks like in writing, the search doesn't start. It's the single most reliable predictor of a sticky placement, and the easiest discipline to skip.

03

We won't hand off
to a coordinator.

The partner who took the brief runs the search. The partner who runs the search closes the offer. The partner who closed the offer checks in at month twelve. One name. One person. Always.

04

We won't poach
from our own placements.

Twelve months off-limits as standard on retained engagements; twenty-four on senior-most retained searches. The promise that lets clients tell us things they wouldn't tell anyone else.

05

We won't take an engagement
we can't deliver.

If a brief is unwinnable — wrong comp band, wrong location, wrong timeline — we'll say so on the first call and lose the work. Nobody benefits from a six-month search that ends in nothing.

06

We won't bill
for a portal.

Every fee we charge buys a person on the line. If you wanted software you would have bought software. We're aware of the irony.

Three offices

Where we're on the ground.

India · Delivery hub
Pune
43 Privet Drive
E-Commercial
Pune, Maharashtra 411045
50+ people
United States · Headquarters
Delaware
3524 Silverside Rd, Ste 35B
Wilmington
Delaware 19810, USA
22 people
Canada
Ontario
373 Vincent Dr
Ayr
Ontario N0B 1E0
14 people
United Arab Emirates · market served
Dubai
Market served remotely
from our Delaware and
Pune teams
No local office
Work with us

Start a conversation with
a partner — not a portal.

Whether you're building a team or weighing your next move, you'll talk to a senior partner who knows your market. No intake bots, no call queues, no résumé black holes.

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