"The brief was narrow and the candidate pool is genuinely small in Indonesia. AlvaHunt mapped it accurately and gave us the right people to evaluate. We hired our first choice."
Managing Partner Venture Capital Firm, Jakarta
A Jakarta-based venture capital firm with a portfolio spanning fintech, consumer technology, and digital infrastructure was expanding its investment team. The firm needed a Senior Vice President of Investment to lead deal origination, manage due diligence processes, and take board observer seats at portfolio companies.
The brief required a specific combination. The SVP needed genuine investment execution experience: sourcing, structuring, and closing deals, not only portfolio monitoring or investor relations. The person also needed a strong network within Indonesia's startup ecosystem to drive proprietary deal flow. And critically, the SVP had to be credible in board-level conversations with portfolio founders who were often as commercially sophisticated as the investors backing them.
The managing partner had spent four weeks reaching out through personal networks. Two candidates expressed interest but were not at the seniority level the role required. The investment team had bandwidth to run one focused process, not a prolonged multi-month search.
AlvaHunt's Requirements Deep Dive confirmed that deal execution experience was non-negotiable. Portfolio monitoring backgrounds, even at senior titles, would not satisfy the mandate. The firm needed someone who had personally led transactions from term sheet to close.
Strategic Talent Mapping focused on three pools. Investment professionals at Indonesia-focused VC and growth equity firms at the VP and Director level with direct deal execution credits.
Senior associates and principals at regional PE firms with exposure to Indonesia technology investments. And investment bankers or corporate development leaders at Indonesian technology companies who had transitioned to or were actively seeking a principal investment role.
The third pool proved most productive. Several candidates from the corporate development and M&A community carried the deal structuring rigor the firm valued, combined with deep ecosystem relationships that pure VC track hires sometimes lacked.
AlvaHunt delivered a shortlist of four candidates within 72 hours. Each profile documented specific deal credits: number of transactions led, ticket sizes, sectors, and current status of those investments.
The managing partner conducted single-round deep interviews with three candidates. The preferred candidate, a Director of Corporate Development at a listed Indonesian technology company who had led five strategic acquisitions over four years, accepted the offer. AlvaHunt managed compensation benchmarking based on current market data for investment professional roles in Indonesia's VC landscape.
| Metric | Outcome |
| Time to shortlist | 72 hours |
| Time from mandate to signed offer | 5 weeks |
| Candidates presented | 4 |
| Offer acceptance | First-choice candidate |
| Retention at 12 months | Confirmed |
Board & C-Suite Search · Leadership & Market Intelligence
The personal network search surfaced candidates who were interested but underpowered for the role. AlvaHunt's mapping specifically targeted deal execution evidence, not just investment titles.
The third candidate pool, corporate development professionals seeking a principal investment transition, opened a segment that the firm's existing network had not considered. In Indonesia's investment talent market, this adjacent pool consistently produces some of the strongest SVP-level candidates because they combine transaction rigour with operating company fluency.
For VC and asset management firms in Indonesia, headhunter-led search produces sharper results than network outreach because the relevant candidate pool is too small and too passive to surface through conventional approaches.
AlvaHunt is an executive search partner specializing in placing high-impact leaders across Indonesia, with supporting networks across Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific. We deliver top-tier talent with speed, precision, and absolute discretion.
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