Ambition Expands U.S. Capabilities with Opening of New York Office

​International recruitment firm Ambition has expanded its U.S. capabilities with the opening of a New York office.

The U.S. team specializes in the recruitment of marketing, business development, and communications professionals in the legal industry.

"We are tremendously excited to plant a stake in the U.S. and in New York’s Chrysler Building, which is such an iconic part of the city’s skyline," said Ambition’s Regional Managing Director, Nicky Acuna Ocana.

"Our expansion into the U.S., starting with an office in New York, was seen as the next logical step in our firm’s global growth and was sparked by demand from many of our UK law firm clients seeking talent in the U.S. Now we’re here and ready to service existing and new clients, specifically in New York and Washington, D.C. but also across the country.”

The opening of the New York office comes at an exciting moment for the Australian- headquartered firm, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Founded in 1999 by Nick Waterworth and Paul Lyons in Sydney, Australia, Ambition has already grown a successful presence across Asia, the UK, and Australia, with offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, and Melbourne.

Ambition’s growth has been underpinned by its corporate philosophy of “inch wide, mile deep,” emphasizing its focus on narrow, specialist areas of recruitment and building exceptionally deep knowledge in those fields.

The demand from UK clients requesting Ambition’s deep expertise in recruiting marketing and BD professionals for their U.S. offices has seen Ambition serving U.S. law firm clients for the past year from London. The new New York office in midtown Manhattan will enable Ambition to significantly expand its services to U.S. law firms.

The office will be under Acuna Ocana’s direction, along with Associate Director Ben Curle, who has transferred from London to be on the ground for the U.S. expansion efforts.

"The U.S. legal market is the largest in the world,” Acuna Ocana said.

“As firms continue their own growth and expansion, they will need top-tier marketing, BD and communications talent to take them forward. In just over a year in the U.S., we've already shown that we can be a critically important resource for our long-time global and new clients."

In the U.S., Ambition recruits for positions from Director and C-suite to specialist-level marketing, BD, and communications, with a focus on business development planning, bids and proposals, client relationship management, communications and public relations, digital marketing, events, graphic design, key account management and other related areas.

Added Acuna Ocana: “Where our international growth has been most successful has been when we have played to our profound DNA in certain disciplines, and this is certainly the case here in the U.S. One of the most obvious aspects in how this has played out already is our ability to engage with, and understand, the career dynamics of high-caliber candidates. Without this, we would not have reached this important stage in our growth.”

Read more about Ambition's US expansion in Law 360

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