Every company needs people who can actually use AI and data — not frontier researchers, but the engineers and scientists who build pipelines, ship models and turn data into decisions. PHM recruits that applied talent for mid-market technology, industry, and firms adopting AI for the first time.
The Artificial Intelligence and Data Act died when Parliament was prorogued in January 2025 and has not come back, so an AI governance hire in Canada is working to privacy law, human rights law and provincial rules instead. Those rules already differ: Ontario makes you declare AI screening in a job posting whether or not a human reviews the result, while Quebec’s disclosure duty bites only where no human is involved at all. Someone who learned this from the commentary rather than the statutes will get it backwards.
Hiring the wrong AI or data lead costs a year. The platform gets built the wrong way, and the cost is only visible when you try to put something into production.
Our AI and data recruiters assess people on what reached production and stayed there — and on whether they can name which rules actually apply, not the ones that were proposed.
A focus area we’re actively building — real and growing depth across the data, analytics, and AI disciplines, and the same search rigour on every mandate. A sample of where we place:
Levels from data engineers, analysts, and scientists through ML engineers, data architects, analytics and data-platform leads, and directors and heads of data & AI.
Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →
Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive data mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Data science, ML, and applied-AI talent for software and product companies building AI into what they ship.
Analytics, BI, data platform, and governance for organizations turning data into decisions at scale.
First data and AI hires for engineering, construction, and manufacturing firms putting AI to work in the real world.
The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.
Our focus is the applied talent the mid-market actually needs — the engineers and scientists who ship real models and pipelines — not the frontier lab researchers. That’s where we add the most value for our clients.
Yes. We assess AI fluency directly as part of how we vet — whether a candidate can truly use these tools and judge their output — and we press on it in conversation, so you’re not relying on a polished resume.
Exclusive contingency. You get the reach and rigour of a retained search, invoiced only when you hire — so an unsuccessful search costs us, not you.
Across Canada and the United States. We’re headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada and remote-fluent by design.
Often not. The strongest data and AI people are in high demand and rarely on the open market — they’re reached through direct search, where the role is filled before it is announced.
An advisory conversation about the data hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.