For founders and CTOs who'd rather be building than recruiting.
Your company is moving faster than your hiring. We close the gap.
From leadership roles to team build out, we find and attract tech and go-to-market talent for early stage AI-native companies with a high bar for quality.
“Paul and his team are simply stellar at what they do. They've hired the majority of our engineering team.
Our market is fiercely competitive but they move fast without cutting corners and hit a standard other agencies couldn't match.”
Anna Bremberg, Operations Lead at SanaHire without cutting corners or slowing down
Each search is led by an experienced headhunter prioritising disciplined research and leveraging expert networks.
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We research the people who clear your hiring bar and approach them through one-to-one outreach and warm introductions. Drawing on relationships built over years helps us find the most trusted path to elite talent.
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Our expert recruiters are focused on searches, and work on only a few at a time to ensure your search gets the attention it needs.
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You meet the people and decide who moves forward. We coordinate every step in between, so candidates stay engaged and momentum doesn’t slow.
Successful hiring starts with who you can reach.
Tell us about the seat you need to fill. We'll introduce the first three candidates within a week.
Anywhere in the world.
No matter where you're building.
We support cross border searches across Europe and North America. Some of our searches span a dozen countries. Others are hyperlocal and city specific.
A globally distributed team: 43 hires across 12 countries and 4 continents
12 countries
Doubling a remote engineering team in three months, across 15 countries
15 countries
Palo Alto
Founding engineers and GTM for an in-office team in Palo Alto
Trondheim
An on-site engineering team in Trondheim, a small tech market
Stockholm
An onsite engineering team hired over four years
Paris
A New York company’s new engineering team build-out in Paris: 12 hires in 18 months
New York
An AI startup’s Head of Customer Experience on site in New York
London
6 Staff Engineers for a payments company’s London office
Porto
A Director of Engineering for a US unicorn’s Porto office
Our Work
You’re in good company
AI-native vector database
We hired
43 hires: Engineering, Support, Sales
12 countries
Backed by New Enterprise Associates, Battery Ventures
AI-native enterprise learning
We hired
22 Senior Software Engineers
Stockholm, Sweden
AI productivity software
We hired
Director of Engineering
Porto, Portugal
Backed by a16z, IVP
AI search, vector database
We hired
4 Principal and Senior Engineers and SREs
Trondheim, Norway
Backed by Blossom Capital, Yahoo
Vector search engine
We hired
Applied AI, Principal, Support and Solutions Engineers
US, Canada, Europe
Backed by AVP, Bosch Ventures
AI health software
We hired
9 Managers in Global Partnerships, Brand Marketing and Communications, Sales, Customer Projects and Success; Senior Software Engineers
Berlin, Germany; London, UK
Payment processing
We hired
2 Heads of Engineering, 3 Staff Engineers, Head of Vendor Management
London, UK
AI agent platform
We hired
Founding Engineer, Full-Stack Engineers, UX/UI Designer
US, UK, Spain
Backed by Benchmark, Snowflake Ventures
AI financial research
We hired
3 Senior Python Engineers
London, UK
Backed by UBS, FinTech Collective
Mobile AI
We hired
19 Mid-Senior Software Engineers
US, Europe, Latin America
Backed by General Catalyst, Zeno Partners
Healthcare blockchain
We hired
Full Engineering Team: 12 hires
Paris, France
Backed by Equasens, Techstars
African mobile payments
We hired
9 Lead and Senior Software Engineers
Europe, distributed
Backed by Zagadat Capital
AI legal billing compliance
We hired
Senior AI and Software Engineers
London, UK
Backed by Lakestar, Concept Ventures
German fintech
We hired
UX Lead, Compliance Manager, Partnership and Sales Manager, 2 Data Engineers
Berlin, Germany
Backed by Mosaic Ventures
AI for SaaS deployment
We hired
2 Founding Engineers, Founding GTM
Palo Alto, US
Backed by RTP Global
AI SaaS platform
We hired
Senior Go/Python Full-Stack Engineers, Data Engineer
London, UK
Backed by Notion Capital, Hoxton Ventures
Real-estate decision intelligence
We hired
Head of Customer Experience
New York, US
Backed by HV Capital, Speedinvest
Climate AI cloud platform
We hired
6 Software Engineers
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Backed by Blue Earth Capital
University and edtech
We hired
AI Product Lead, Head of Engineering, 2 Senior Product Managers
Berlin, Germany; London, UK; Lisbon, Portugal
AI-native legal drafting
We hired
Head of Engineering, Lead AI Engineer, 2 QA Engineers
Germany, remote
Backed by Acton Capital, Semapa Next
We hired
Backend, Frontend and Fullstack Engineers
Porto, Portugal
Backed by Indico Capital Partners, Cherry Ventures, Accel, Lakestar
AI backend infrastructure
We hired
Chief Marketing Officer
Zurich, Switzerland
Backed by Blue Wire Capital
Meet the people on your search.
Panda is a team of expert recruiters led by partners who do the work themselves.
Paul Anderson
Paul has specialised in recruitment for tech companies since 2010. His work spans engineering, product, design and commercial hiring.
Paul combines specialist knowledge of the market with 16+ years of hands-on delivery, building strong relationships and earning trust in expert networks.
Paul established Panda in 2020 (he’s the P.And in Panda). He still delivers searches himself, while leading a team of experienced recruiters who share his approach.
Zarah Rasool
Zarah plays a central role in finding and engaging senior candidates across tech markets. She graduated from the University of Cambridge and spent 14 years working internationally across sectors as an intellectual property and commercial litigator. She brings a lawyer’s analytical rigour to candidate and market research.
Her work - in both law and people - has always been about understanding what people and organisations are trying to achieve and helping them make great decisions to get there.