Opus Resourcing is a boutique recruitment partner specialising in Legal Tech, Legal BD & Marketing, and SaaS. Trusted by global law firms and technology companies to deliver exceptional talent across the UK, US and Europe for over twenty years.
Our business is boutique, highly personal, led by Managing Partners with 50 years of combined technology recruitment and executive search experience. We partner with the world’s leading law firms, Legal Tech companies, and SaaS businesses to hire the people who drive innovation, revenue, and transformation.
Since 2006, Opus Resourcing has been a specialist recruitment partner across technology, SaaS, Legal Tech, and Legal BD & Marketing. From engineering and product leadership to commercial, BD, and go-to-market teams, we embed ourselves in our clients’ growth plans and deliver searches that move the needle.
Our core services are Permanent hiring and Executive Search.
Our approach is research-led and consultative. We begin every search by mapping the market, identifying talent trends, and building a clear picture of the candidate landscape, so you understand not just who is available, but who is right.
One size never fits all, so we invest significant time in understanding your business, culture, and hiring needs. We will start by using data analysis to understand your talent insights and tailoring our approach and recruitment strategy to suit your unique requirements.
Our Managing Partners have decades of experience recruiting technology, product, legal BD, and senior commercial talent. That depth of knowledge across disciplines and sectors is what allows us to deliver where others can’t.
From software engineering and product to Legal BD leadership and SaaS go-to-market, we recruit across the full range of technology and commercial functions, so you never need to brief the same context twice.
In a market where candidates can apply for roles at the click of a button from anywhere in the world, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the volume of applications: not all of whom are qualified. Our extended talent networks and market mapping skills enable us to focus on delivering you the small number of quality candidates you require.
We work across the UK, US and Europe, with particular depth in the US legal market and European SaaS landscape. We understand the cultural and commercial nuances of hiring in each market.
For us, delivering a superior candidate experience is a critical ingredient in the methodology we use to ensure your success. This improves your job acceptance rate and enables us to secure trusted advisor status with candidates. Many of our former candidates
have gone on to use us as their recruitment partner.
Our clients range from seed-stage start-ups to Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies across the UK, US and Europe. They include Am Law 100 and Magic Circle law firms hiring BD directors and innovation leaders, Legal Tech SaaS companies scaling their commercial and engineering teams, and high-growth SaaS businesses building out go-to-market, product, and technology functions.
Managing Consultant
James Shenton is Co founder and Managing Consultant at Opus Resourcing, bringing over 30 years of experience delivering executive search and specialist recruitment across technology and commercial go to market functions for technology companies and Global Law Firms & US Big Law firms. Known for his consultative and data led approach, James operates at the intersection of technology, commercial strategy, and leadership hiring.
Strategic Advisor - US Legal Search
Lacie Marshall is the Founder and CEO of Onward Recruiting, with over two decades of experience building high-performing legal teams for law firms and legal departments across the US. In partnership with Opus Resourcing, Lacie provides an insider’s perspective on legal talent strategy, helping firms move beyond transactional hiring toward strategic, data-informed, and future-ready workforce planning.
Associate Consultant
Thomas brings a fresh perspective across recruitment, digital engagement and content. Having recently graduated from Newcastle University, he has been closely connected to the business for several years and has developed a strong understanding of how specialist recruitment works in fast-moving technology and innovation-led markets.
Opus Resourcing acting as talent partners have significantly grown Titian Software and Pexip in the UK, and US markets, who between them have gone on to achieve a successful VC buyout and IPO .
Opus Resourcing grew the Titian workforce by 20% across the US and UK in two years, including building software development, professional services, testing and application support teams.
Pexip is a video technology company that powers secure connections between people and technology, from business communication to ultra-secure government meetings, doctor’s appointments, and court proceedings. With operations in Norway, the UK / Europe, the USA and APAC.
Opus Resourcing have worked with me since 2011 across 3 organisations, specialising on building high performing technology teams, working on rapid product development and distributed systems. They are a preferred supplier due to their depth of experience, personal service and ability to deliver across a variety of roles, including Software Engineering, Product and DevOps.
Steve Hirst CTO
I have collaborated with James Shenton from Opus Resourcing on numerous recruitment campaigns over a 20 year period. James brings depth of industry knowledge, market reach and integrity to his approach to search and selection. He understands recruitment from both the customer and candidate experience and is able to be a highly credibly advocate for both parties.
Ed Bootle - Head of Recruitment
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