Pay once per hire · No monthly recurring fees

Hire the people your startup runs on — vetted by a recruiter's brain, not a checklist.

Engineers, designers, PMs, SDRs, finance and AI-automation talent — remote, hybrid, or onsite in Pakistan. Our screening was built across 14 years of hiring inside US startups like Spekit, so it weighs what a skills-only screen misses: communication, ownership, and real role fit. Most roles filled in about two weeks.

400+Hires placed in 3 years
60+Companies served
~2 wksAverage time-to-hire
✓ Vetted
Afifa intro
AfifaAppointment Setter
✓ Vetted
Mariyum intro
MariyumB2B & B2C Sales
✓ Vetted
Muneeb intro
MuneebSales Manager

Trusted by 60+ startups and agencies across the US, UK and Gulf

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The offshore hiring problem

Most offshore hiring is a gamble. This isn't.

Generic agencies and freelance marketplaces hand you a CV and disappear. You inherit the risk, the ramp time, and the turnover.

Hiring offshore usually means…

  • Stacks of unscreened CVs and no real shortlist
  • Recruiters who've never sat in a hiring manager's seat
  • Weeks lost to no-shows and mismatched candidates
  • No accountability once the invoice is paid

With Pakistan Recruitment you get…

  • A curated shortlist of pre-vetted, interview-ready talent
  • Screening by someone who's built teams inside US startups
  • Most roles filled in around two weeks
  • A replacement guarantee and no recurring fees
Who we hire

The roles that keep startups moving

From the first engineer to a full pod of SDRs — we place the people North American teams hire most.

AI Automation & Agentic AI

AI automation specialists and agentic AI developers — n8n, LLM agents and workflow automation that scale your ops.

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Developers & Designers

Full-stack, backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps and AI/ML engineers — plus product, UX/UI and brand designers who ship real SaaS.

Product Managers

PMs and project leads who can own a roadmap and ship alongside your team.

SDRs & BDRs

Outbound sales reps who book meetings — built into full pods, as we did in Nashville.

Amazon BAs & VAs

Brand analysts and virtual assistants for ecommerce and operations-heavy teams.

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US Accountants & Finance

Bookkeepers and finance pros fluent in US accounting, NetSuite and QuickBooks.

Meet the talent

Hear them before you hire them

Short intros from real candidates we've placed — so you can judge English, communication and presentation before the first interview.

Muneeb — candidate intro
Muneeb
Sales Manager
Business dev · Customer success · 10+ yrs
Mariyum — BDR intro
Mariyum
B2B & B2C Sales
Client management · 5 yrs
Afifa — Account Executive intro
Afifa
Appointment Setter / SDR
Cold calling · Appointment setting · 3+ yrs

More candidate intros available on request, and on our YouTube channel →

Hassam Khan, Founder
Hassam KhanFounder · 14 yrs in tech talent
Why us

The vetting framework, designed by someone who's been the hiring manager.

Most agencies screen for the one thing they're built around — a skills test or a good interview. Hiring well takes more than that. Pakistan Recruitment is built by a talent leader who spent 14 years hiring across Pakistan, Asia, the US and the Gulf — including as Head of Talent inside US startups. That experience is distilled into a vetting framework every candidate runs through, so quality is a system you can rely on, not a favor you hope for.

Talk to the founder →
  • Head of Talent — Folio3Built and scaled tech hiring at one of Pakistan's largest software houses.
  • Head of Talent — Spekit (US SaaS)Built the recruiting function and employer brand for a venture-backed US startup.
  • Recruitment Manager — TalPods (UAE)Sourced talent globally for a Gulf-based talent supply agency.
  • Founder — Pakistan Recruitment14 years of hiring instinct, distilled into a system that works for your startup.
The recruiter's lens

How a recruiter's brain vets differently

Screen only for skills and a strong communicator who can't deliver still slips through. Screen only on the interview and a brilliant builder who can't collaborate gets cut. Offshore hires rarely fail on raw skill — they fail on the four signals a checklist never captures. Every candidate runs through all five.

1

Skill, verified

Role-specific competence tested against the actual work — not buzzword CVs or a passed take-home alone.

2

Communication

Spoken and written English plus async clarity — the way your team will actually experience them day to day.

3

Ownership

Evidence they move work forward across time zones without hand-holding or constant check-ins.

Often overlooked
4

Reliability & intent

Why they're moving, how long they tend to stay, and whether they'll show up. A real flight-risk screen.

Often overlooked
5

Context fit

Have they worked with US/global teams and startup ambiguity before — or will your role be their experiment?

Often overlooked
Skills-only screeningAsks: can they do the task?
Interview-only screeningAsks: do they interview well?
The Recruiter's LensAsks: will they actually work out?

Offshore hires rarely fail on raw skill. They fail on the four signals a checklist never captures — so that's exactly what the Lens is built to catch.

How it works

From first call to onboarded hire in ~2 weeks

1

Discovery call

We map the role, your stack, your culture and what "great" looks like for you.

Day 1
2

Curated shortlist

You get a handful of pre-vetted, interview-ready candidates — not a CV dump.

Days 3–5
3

You interview & select

Meet the shortlist on your schedule. We coordinate everything in between.

Week 2
4

Onboard & guarantee

Your hire starts, backed by a 30–90 day replacement guarantee.

Live
The difference

They send you a freelancer. We build you a team.

What you getPakistan RecruitmentGlobal marketplacesGeneric VA shops
Screened by a real hiring leader
Curated shortlist, not a CV dumpPartial
~2-week average time-to-hireVariesVaries
No recurring platform fees
Replacement guaranteeLimited
Builds full pods (e.g. 10 SDRs)Partial
Proof, not promises

Teams we've quietly built

30+

Scaling a Salesforce partner

For DTC Force, a Salesforce Silver implementation partner, we placed 30+ people over two years across technical and delivery roles.

Salesforce · 2-year partnership
15+

A full GTM pod in Nashville

For Blue Equinox we built out a team of 15+ — including 10 SDRs, 2 developers, and 3 marketing and VA hires.

Nashville agency · GTM team
Zoho · .NET

Specialist developers on demand

For Sales Element we sourced and placed Zoho and .NET developers matched precisely to their tech stack.

North America · Engineering
Spekit

Building a function from scratch

As Head of Talent, our founder built Spekit's recruiting efforts in Pakistan and scaled their employer branding.

US SaaS · Talent function
In their words

What founders and tech leaders say

★★★★★
"Hassam is both a terrific leader and recruiter. He helped build out our recruiting efforts in Pakistan and started scaling our employer branding. Personable, driven, hardworking and collaborative — a fantastic Head of Talent."
Melanie Fellay
Melanie FellayCEO, Spekit
★★★★★
"It's been an honor to work with Hassam. A great partner in finding the best engineering talent for our team at Spekit — skilled at talent strategy and never shy of the day-to-day work of attracting the best. A real asset."
Hammad Akhwand
Hammad AkhwandDirector of Engineering, Spekit
★★★★★
"Hassam isn't only a great recruiter — he's a sounding board to help you think through exactly the kind of person you're looking for. Experience matters, and it shows in speed and outcome. I recommend him without reservation."
Danish Iqbal
Danish IqbalFounder + CEO, Medusa
★★★★★
"Hassam is very professional with sound technical knowledge. We've worked with him for more than three years now and have hired multiple resources through him."
Obaid Rehman
Obaid RehmanCo-founder & CTO, ZOD
Low-risk by design

Hire with confidence

30–90 daysReplacement guarantee on every placement
No recurring feesPay once per hire — no monthly platform lock-in
Pay on successYou commit when you've met the right person
Ready when you are

Your next great hire is two weeks away.

Book a free consultation. Tell us the role. We'll bring you a shortlist worth interviewing.

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