About Proper Round

We’re business people who got tired of bad hiring.

Proper Round is a startup recruitment and headhunting firm built by operators — not career recruiters — for founder-led teams across Thailand and Southeast Asia.

Why we exist

We’ve sat in your seat. We’ve hired, mis-hired and rebuilt teams — and we’ve paid for the wrong hire ourselves. So we know, first-hand, what a founder needs from a hire and what the wrong one costs.

The traditional agency model frustrated us: keyword searches, floods of irrelevant CVs, and recruiters who’d never carried a number or shipped a product telling founders who to hire. We built Proper Round to do the opposite — start with your business problem, vet for startup fit, and only send people we’d be happy to hire ourselves.

What we believe

Four principles behind every search.

01

Operator-led

We’ve sat in the founder’s and the hiring manager’s seat. We hire the way we’d want to be hired for.

02

Business-first

We screen for outcomes and startup fit, not keywords. Every brief starts with your business problem.

03

Startup-fit obsessed

We vet for ownership, low ego, learning speed and comfort with ambiguity — not just a polished CV.

04

Regional & bilingual

On the ground across Thailand and Southeast Asia, with talent vetted in Thai, English and more.

The people behind Proper Round

Operators first.

[ Co-founder ]

Operations & growth

A Cambridge graduate with 10+ years building and running business operations across the region.

[ Co-founder ]

AI & product

A PhD from Carnegie Mellon in AI and human-computer interaction, formerly at Microsoft.

Hiring soon?

Tell us the role. We’ll find the person.

Startup-fit business talent across Thailand and Southeast Asia — vetted by operators, not keyword-matched.

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