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Work at Rivago

Build a career placing other careers.

We hire senior — and pay accordingly. Smaller team, bigger ownership, every search yours from intake to placement.

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How we work

A firm built for good recruiters.

Senior or solo
No farm of juniors. If you have placed in a sector for 5+ years, you will work as a partner here — your name on the brief, your call on the candidates.
Transparent comp
Open base bands, simple commission structure. No clawbacks, no quota gymnastics. Top recruiters take home $400k+ here.
No drip activity
We measure outcomes, not call dials. 48-hour shortlists, placement rate, client retention. Hit them — work how you want.
Perks & benefits

A grown-up package.

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Transparent commission
Open formula, no clawbacks, paid monthly.
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Remote-first
Optional office in your market. Quarterly partner offsites.
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Full health cover
Premium plan, dental, vision, dependents covered.
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28 days PTO
Plus your country's public holidays. We mean it.
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401(k) / pension match
5% match in US/CA. India EPF as statutory. UAE end-of-service gratuity.
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$3k learning budget
Conferences, courses, books — your call.
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Top-spec gear
M-series MacBook Pro + monitor + chair stipend.
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Equity from year 2
Stock options for all permanent partners after 12 months.
Working at Rivago

What it's actually like inside.

The day-to-day
Small pods, real ownership, no theatre.
You run your desk like it's your own business — pick your roles, set your approach, own the outcome. A partner reviews, never micromanages. Mornings are for candidate calls, afternoons for client work, and nobody's counting your dials.
5
Avg pod size
0
Activity quotas
50+
People, 5 offices
Rituals
Monday market reads & Friday wins
Every week opens with a 20-minute market read and closes with the placements we're proud of. Quarterly, the whole firm meets in one city.
How we talk
Async-first, calm by default
Slack for the day, docs for decisions, calls only when they earn it. Deep-work blocks are protected — your calendar is yours.
What we stand for

Four values we actually hire for.

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Own the outcome
From first call to signed offer, the search is yours. We trust you with the brief and back your judgement — and we expect you to stand behind it.
02
Quality over noise
Five right candidates beat fifty fast ones. We'd rather decline a brief than spam a client — and the same bar applies to how we work with each other.
03
Straight talk
Honest with candidates, honest with clients, honest internally. No inflated ranges, no ghosting, no politics. If something's broken, we say so.
04
Keep learning
Markets move, comp shifts, sectors evolve. The $3k learning budget isn't a perk — it's the expectation that you stay sharper than the market you place into.
Getting started

How we hire — four honest steps.

The same process whether you're a first-time recruiter or a sector veteran. No take-home tests, no twelve-round gauntlets — just real conversations about real work.

1
Intro call
30 minutes with a partner. What you've placed, what you want next, what you'd never compromise on.
~ 30 min · same week
2
Working session
We walk through a live brief together. Not a test — a real look at how you think about a search.
~ 60 min
3
Meet the pod
Coffee with the people you'd actually work beside. You're interviewing us as much as we're interviewing you.
Informal
4
Offer & onboard
Transparent comp, no negotiation games. Day one you get a desk, a pod, and your first brief.
Within a week
Where it all began

Built by people who'd grown tired of the theatre.

Before they founded Rivago in 2017, our three partners spent the prior decade inside the volume agencies and the orgs they hired for. They'd watched good briefs go unfilled while inboxes filled with mediocre résumés — and decided to build the firm they'd always wanted to hire from.

Rivago founders and early team
Build with us.
We're after senior operators who pair real craft with genuine care for the people they place. At Rivago every partner owns their desk end to end and shapes how we hire across four markets. Come do the best work of your career.
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