People — Non-technical hiring
Great companies need more than great engineers.
The sourcing and assessment discipline ProDevs built for engineering now covers the rest of the business: the people who sell, operate, account for, hire and lead. One partner for every role on the organisation chart.
01 Roles we hire
Six functions. One standard of assessment.
Whether you need one finance manager or a full commercial team, every candidate goes through the same structured process.
Commercial
The people who find, win and keep customers.
- Sales executives and account executives
- Account managers
- Business development managers
- Customer success managers
- Partnerships managers
- Sales operations
Operations
The people who make the business run on time.
- Operations managers
- Project and programme coordinators
- Supply chain and logistics
- Customer support leads
- Process and quality analysts
- Administrative and office management
Finance
The people who keep the numbers right and the auditors satisfied.
- Accountants
- Financial analysts
- Financial controllers
- Finance managers
- Payroll specialists
- Risk and compliance officers
People
The people who hire, develop and look after everyone else.
- HR business partners
- Talent acquisition specialists
- People operations managers
- Learning and development
- Compensation and benefits
- HR generalists
Marketing
The people who create demand and a brand worth remembering.
- Growth and performance marketers
- Content and communications
- Brand managers
- Product marketing managers
- Marketing operations
- Community managers
Leadership
The people who set direction and carry the accountability.
- Country and general managers
- Heads of department
- Chief Operating Officers
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Technology Officers
- Chiefs of staff
02 How we assess
How we assess non-technical roles.
Technical hiring has coding tests. For finance, commercial and operational roles, the evidence is harder to collect, so most companies fall back on CV reviews and gut feel. We don’t.
Our assessments run on Evalia, the assessment platform we built ourselves. Across the ProDevs network, more than 100,000 assessments have been completed.
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We define the job first
Before any sourcing, we agree what the person will own, what good looks like after six months, and which skills are essential rather than nice to have. Most failed hires trace back to a vague role.
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We test the work, not the CV
Candidates complete exercises that mirror the job: a pipeline review for a sales lead, a month-end reconciliation for an accountant, a process redesign for an operations manager. Scores are recorded against the same criteria for everyone.
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We check judgement and communication
Structured interviews probe how candidates handle ambiguity, conflict and trade-offs. For leadership roles, we add scenario discussions with you in the room.
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We verify what matters
References, employment history and professional qualifications are checked before an offer is made, not after the person starts.
03 When companies call us
From one critical role to a whole function.
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A critical hire
A finance manager before the audit, a country manager before the launch, a head of people before the next hiring wave. One role that cannot wait.
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A new team
A sales team for a new region, a customer operations team for a new product, or a finance team as the business outgrows its bookkeeper.
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A whole function
When you need structure as well as people, we design the function and staff it. See department buildout.
Hiring abroad without an entity? ProDevs can employ and pay the person locally while they work on your team.
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