Every great team starts somewhere.
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Buried in the wrong CVs
The wrong hire sticks
The people you want are not looking
Specialist reach, delivering when it matters.
From first conversation to the right person placed, a recruitment process built to get it right, not just get it done.
Discovery audit
Access the passive market
The right hire
Structured support
Where we focus, it’s where we excel.
Project Services
Delivery Manager
Project Coordinator
Change Manager
PMO Lead / PMO Analyst
Program Manager
Project Manager
Technology projects stall when the delivery backbone isn't right. Our Project Services team finds the project managers, program leads, and business analysts who keep complex builds, migrations, and transformations on track
Why our Project Services?
We only put forward people we'd trust to run our own projects, people who are usually already employed and performing well, not browsing job boards.
We headhunt rather than advertise, going directly to proven delivery operators across Perth, WA, and the wider Australian market who've run the kind of program your business is attempting now.
They're vetted against the specific delivery methodology, stakeholder complexity, and sector experience your role demands, backed by our three-month replacement guarantee.
IT infrastructure
DevOps
IT Infrastructure
Network Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Cybersecurity
Systems Administrator
Our IT Infrastructure team specialises in the network, cloud, systems, and security specialists who design and maintain the environments modern businesses depend on.
The IT Infrastruture Truth
We vet for depth, not keyword-matching,. real experience with your specific environment, vendor stack, and compliance obligations, not a resume that happens to list the right tools.
Every permanent placement carries our three-month replacement guarantee, and we stay close to the role until it's genuinely settled. For infrastructure professionals, we know the best people in this space are rarely applying anywhere; they're busy keeping systems up.
Software and applications
Platform Engineer
Product Manager
Solutions Architect
QA Engineer
Software Engineer
Technical Lead
Our Software and Applications team headhunts senior developers, architects, and technical leads across the full stack, matched against your actual codebase, product stage, and engineering culture.
How we're embedded
We only put forward engineers whose depth we've verified against the specific languages, architecture, and scale of your product, and every permanent placement is backed by our three-month replacement guarantee so you're protected if it doesn't work out.
If you're a developer or technical lead, we treat the search the way we'd want it handled for ourselves: a genuine conversation about the actual problem you'd be solving and the team you'd be joining, not a generic pitch about a "great opportunity."
We represent your skills and experience accurately to employers, prepare you properly for technical interviews, and stay involved through to offer, because the best software hires happen when both sides go in with real information, not a polished sales pitch.
Data and AI
Data Architect
Analytics Engineer
Data & AI Lead
Data Analyst
AI Engineer
Data Engineer
Data Scientist
Data and AI roles are some of the hardest in the market to fill, because genuine expertise is scarce and most of the best people already have jobs they like.
Let's talk Data and AI
We headhunt specifically for depth: real pipeline, modelling, or MLOps experience at the scale and maturity your business is actually at, not a resume padded with AI buzzwords.
Every permanent placement comes with our three-month replacement guarantee, so you can hire with confidence in a space where mistakes are costly and hard to reverse.
For data and AI professionals, we take the time to understand what you've actually built and the kind of problems you want to keep solving, then only bring you opportunities that genuinely match, not a flood of loosely related roles.
Results that speak louder than a pitch.
The questions worth asking first.
How do you know a candidate actually fits the tech and the seniority, not just the job title?
Titles are the least reliable thing on a CV. A senior engineer at a product company and one at a bank are doing very different jobs. So every candidate is screened and interviewed, covering what they built, what they owned, and where they sit between hands on and leading. References and the network confirm the rest.
We already have an internal talent acquisition team. Why would we use an external recruiter?
Because the two jobs aren't the same. Internal teams are built for volume and for roles the market will come to. Senior and specialist technology roles work differently. The people you want are employed, well paid, and never see the ad. SearchMann works alongside internal teams on the small number of roles that need headhunting rather than advertising, so your team isn't sorting through hundreds of applicants for a role that was never going to be filled that way.
Who actually does the work on my role?
Felix does. Every brief, every search, every conversation with a candidate. There's no handover to a junior consultant after the first call and no team of resourcers working from a keyword list. It’s why SearchMann commits to a focused portfolio of roles, ensuring each one gets genuine attention.
Do you only recruit in Perth?
Perth and WA are home, and that's where the market knowledge runs deepest. But searches aren't limited to it. SearchMann has recruited across Australia and Europe, which matters when a skill set genuinely doesn't exist locally and the search has to go interstate or offshore to find it.
Is there a guarantee period if the hire doesn't stay?
Yes. Every permanent placement comes with a three month guarantee. If the hire leaves or doesn't work out inside that window, SearchMann finds the replacement at no additional fee. In practice it rarely gets used, because the work that prevents a bad hire happens before the shortlist, not after the invoice. The relationship doesn't end when the three months does. If something surfaces in month four, you'll still get a call back.
Do you work with startups or only established companies?
Both. SearchMann has built application teams from scratch for scale-ups, and supplied contractors into global enterprise projects. The approach doesn't change with company size, though the conversation does. An early-stage team hiring its first Solutions Architect needs different advice to an enterprise adding a fifth.
