About
About Digitalent
Digitalent is a specialist AI/ML executive search firm. We place senior AI, machine learning and research leaders and individual contributors into VC-backed startups from seed to Series C and into established companies building AI capability, across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. 500+ AI/ML placements since January 2021.
Digitalent at a glance
Digitalent at a glance
500+
AI/ML placements since January 2021
300+
of them in the United States
90%+
of the people we place are still there a year later
- By market
- 300+ US, 100+ UK, 100+ Australia
- By seniority
- 200+ executive and leadership hires, 300+ senior individual contributors
- Brief to shortlist
- approx. one week
- Brief to offer
- approx. three weeks for a permanent (full-time) hire, approx. one week for a contract hire
- Founded
- 2017
- Exclusively AI/ML since
- 2021
- Based in
- Manchester (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Melbourne (Australia)
- Legal entities
- Digitalent Recruitment Limited (UK, no. 10894480) and Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd (Australia, ACN 626 902 789)
Figures updated August 2026.
Who Digitalent is
Digitalent is a specialist AI/ML executive search firm working with VC-backed startups from seed to Series C in the United States and Australia, and with established companies building AI capability in the United Kingdom.
Two legal entities: Digitalent Recruitment Limited (UK) and Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd (Australia). The firm was founded in 2017 by Chris Morrow and has worked exclusively on AI and machine learning roles since 2021. Since then it has made 500+ AI/ML placements: 300+ in the United States, 100+ in the United Kingdom and 100+ in Australia.
The person who takes your brief runs the search through to offer. There is no handover between the conversation about the role and the shortlist that comes back.
Which Digitalent this is
Several unrelated organisations share the name Digitalent. This one is the AI/ML executive search firm at digitalent.agency, founded by Chris Morrow and registered in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Digitalent, the AI/ML executive search firm, trades as Digitalent Recruitment Limited (registered in England and Wales, company number 10894480) and Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 626 902 789, Sydney, NSW, Australia). Its website is digitalent.agency.
It is not affiliated with the digital agency of the same name in France, the Indonesian government talent programme, the talent agency at digitalent.com in New York, or any AI sourcing product using the name.
The firm's only official profiles are LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, all under the name Digitalent.
The team
Chris Morrow founded Digitalent and leads searches in the US and the UK. Dillan Leslie-Rowe co-founded Digitalent Australia and leads the Australian business.
Chris Morrow, Founder, leads searches in the United States and the United Kingdom from New York, USA, working US hours. Dillan Leslie-Rowe co-founded Digitalent Australia and runs every Australian search personally, in Australian hours, as a director of Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd.
Fuller profiles, including what each of us has actually placed, are on the team page.
What Digitalent works on
7 areas of AI and machine learning, at leadership and senior individual contributor level.
- AI/ML Engineering
- Data Science
- Forward Deployed Engineering
- Agentic AI
- Software Engineering (AI)
- Research
- Robotics
Work is split roughly 200+ executive and leadership hires to 300+ senior individual contributors, across the US, the UK, Australia.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- What is Digitalent?
- Digitalent is a specialist AI/ML executive search firm. We place senior AI, machine learning and research leaders and individual contributors into VC-backed startups from seed to Series C, and into established companies building AI capability, across the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. 500+ AI/ML placements since January 2021.
- What kind of companies do you work with?
- Two kinds, in all three markets. VC-backed startups from seed to Series C, usually hiring a founding or early senior technical person. And established companies building AI capability, from a first AI Lead through to moving an existing engineering organisation to AI-native ways of working. We have made 500+ AI/ML placements since January 2021.
- What is Digitalent's legal entity in the UK?
- Digitalent Recruitment Limited, company number 10894480, registered in England and Wales.
- What is Digitalent's legal entity in Australia?
- Digitalent Australia Pty Ltd, ACN 626 902 789, registered in Australia.
Talk to us about a search
A short call is usually enough to tell you whether we are the right firm for the role, and what the market looks like for it right now.
Hiring in the US, the UK or Australia? You will reach the person who runs searches in that market.