Ben Watkins

Intrinsic Executive Search

Co-founded Intrinsic in 2006, to support B2B SaaS and tech firms by finding them new senior leaders and Senior Sales executives who drive growth. 

→ Assisting Hiring Managers in sourcing exceptional commercial talent, particularly in regions where they may have a limited network or need confidential replacements. 

→ Providing high-quality candidate shortlists within 3-4 weeks

→ Supporting clients who have tried advertising or contingency searches without success.

→ Closed more than 1,000 placements across 10+ European countries with a network of over 30,000 tech executives, in regions like the UKI, Germany/DACH, Nordics, Benelux, Spain and France.

→ Become a go-to headhunting partner for startups, scale-ups, turnaround, and corporates.

→ Expertise covers B2B software areas from Customer Experience, Business Analytics, Big Data, Compliance, ESG, Retail/CPG Software to Market Research, Open Source, Fraud/AML, and more.

SaaS Executive Recruiter

Salt - Previously Enigma Resources International

Hired to sell retained searches across new territories like Germany, France and  Benelux. 

→ Sourced and placed VP and Senior level Executives for B2B Tech firms.

→ Clients including FAST (Microsoft), Spotfire TIBCO, Human Inference, Lycos Europe, MicroStrategy, Watchfire, Vitria, Truition, FICO & Skype.

→ Grew revenue in mainland Europe from zero to 1 Million Euro +

Executive Recruiter Europe

eBay

FairMarket, Boston (NASDAQ - FAIM) Selling B2B and B2B2C, SaaS based Pricing Software into Travel, Telco, High-Tech and Manufacturing market spaces.   Acquired by eBay in 2003.

→ New Logos included: Mitel Networks, De Vere Hotels and Starwood Group Inc.

Senior Sales Executive

HALL KINION & ASSOCIATES INC

(NASDAQ - HAKI) Senior Recruiter, UK / Germany, France, Benelux, Nordics

→ Hall Kinion were one of the largest High-Tech Recruitment companies with 56 offices worldwide and a turnover of approximately $400 million.

→ Qualified for 3 x Club Trips, Won the Largest Company Deal and Top Recruiter in Europe Awards

→ Customers included: BroadVision, ATG, Commerceone, Ariba, Zygon, Interwoven, OpenMarket, JCP, Intershop, Misys

Headhunter, Enterprise Software

SaaS Recruiter / Helping SaaS firms hire senior talent from a network of 30k+ SaaS Execs

Are you struggling to hire great SaaS talent in Europe? Let’s change that.
► UK - Germany - Nordics - Benelux - France.
► A-Players from £90k to £250k base salaries.   
► CEO, CRO, COO, VP Sales, Director, Senior Sales, Marketing, Customer Success.
► Retained Executive Search.

FOR JOB SEEKERS:

► Receive CV feedback and a high-quality CV and LinkedIn Profile.  
► Check out my offers >>> bit.ly/executivesupport

SaaS Sales Executive Recruitment business.

We help SaaS firms attract and hire the Best Senior Commercial Talent into their businesses!  

UKI, DACH, NORDICS, BENELUX, FRANCE, USA

Intrinsic is a leading Global Boutique Enterprise Software Headhunting company which helps scale emerging High Growth Software / SaaS firms.

We cover Software areas such as Customer Experience, Voice of the Customer, Business Analytics, Big Data, Retail / CPG Software, Market Research, Surveys, Procurement, Open source, Fraud/AML, Integration, Trade & Risk Management, Content Management, Business Process Management and eCommerce market places

Head of Software Development

Who Am I?

Experienced leader in software development, having successfully delivered digital transformation programmes in multiple sectors, including financial services, advertising, and travel

Track record of delivering value-rich software systems, to budget and on time, meeting all functional and non-functional requirements, establishing/leading multi-disciplinary teams from development to production and beyond.

What Can I Deliver?

I bring a purposeful approach to software development, focusing resources to deliver in line with company strategy
Having both been a Principal Engineer and fulfilled Architect functions in prior roles, I ensure solutions are commensurate with commercial value
I ensure software development is compliant with GDPR, ISO, and FCA requirements
I build multi-disciplinary, value-focused development teams and empower them with the tools to succeed, including a philosophy of regular upskilling.

What Have I Done?

Managed full SDLC of large scale SaaS/PaaS platforms from initial concept into production, support, and continuous improvement
Introduced Engineering Rigour and Quality First working practices, including TDD & CI/CD into a Start-Up business – part of their journey to Scale-Up
Ensured development/IT focus aligns with company strategy, breaking down barriers with non-IT stakeholders and promoting cross-team cooperation
Implemented Agile across a multi-team department, utilising both Scrum and Kanban and following Agile Release Train principles, ensuring coordinated delivery and support of high-value functional systems
Authored, Implemented and Managed Secure Processes, including Personal Data Management, to ensure GDPR, FCA, and ISO compliance
Managed hybrid, remote, and offshore teams, comprising permanent and contract staff coupled with third party resources
Driven a “We can do better” mind-set, ensuring Retrospectives deliver positive change
Led adoption of Microservices to build more scalable, flexible platforms, including supporting mobile applications
Introduced Bug triaging/fixing and Technical Debt focus into SDLC
Embedded INVEST & SOLID principles into development
Led large scale projects to replace legacy systems, whilst performing “keeping the lights on” maintenance
Driven transformation from WinForms to Browser Based, and On-Prem to Cloud (Microsoft Azure)

Most Recent Technologies Managed

C#, SQL Server, .Net Frameworks, .Net Core, JavaScript/Typescript, React, Angular, Kotlin, Swift, and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform

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