Success Story: A heroic hire recruiting a Head of Engineering for a leading prop-tech platform
Hunt & Co. are proud to specialise in a diverse range of digital talent, including many hard-to-find roles. We are not just recruiters, we are consultants who are driven by our purpose to create life-changing connections, and we are invested in going on the journey with you to find the right person for your team. But don’t just take our word for it. Read our success story of recruiting a Head of Engineering for a Brisbane-based prop-tech startup.
Let us give you a snapshot…
- A homegrown prop-tech startup engaged Hunt & Co. to source a high-impact Head of Engineering role – someone with strong leadership skills and the ability to support a remote team.
- The Hunt & Co. team quickly sprung into action and leveraged their existing candidate network and industry relationships to deliver not one, but two excellent candidates within days.
- Both candidates proceeded to the final stages with the client but ultimately, one candidate stood out due to their leadership abilities and team fit, both of which would help drive the business’s growth.
The Client
In 2022, Hunt & Co. were engaged to recruit a Head of Engineering role for a rapidly growing prop-tech startup founded in Brisbane. Created on the basis of supporting Queenslanders and other industries during the Covid-19 pandemic, this digital platform is currently helping over 300,000 visitors per month inspect properties from the comfort of their own homes. Over the past two years of business to now, the business continues to add incredible value to the industry, and its growing team.
Having successfully recruited a number of Sales, Digital Marketing and Technology roles for this organisation, the Hunt & Co. team were quickly appointed to support this critical hire.
The Role
This Head of Engineering role was a key role to fill within this team and one that would have a major impact on the business’s growth. As a technical leadership role, this candidate would be on the tools but also responsible for providing mentorship and guidance to junior Software Developers within the team. From a technical standpoint, they would also require strong React, Microservices and AWS experience and although not imperative, real estate or prop-tech experience was certainly a ‘nice to have’.
What was also interesting about this hire was the organisation’s flexible hybrid work arrangements. As the company operates largely remotely, the ideal candidate would not only require the key leadership capabilities to support and nurture a team in general but also have the ability to lead a remote team.
The Process
For the Hunt & Co. team, pace was imperative to fill this open role, especially as a leadership role. Following a client briefing, the Hunt & Co. team were able to immediately leverage our existing candidate network and industry relationships to deliver a solution to the client. The candidate had seen the role via one of our Recruitment Consultant’s Linkedin posts and reached out shortly after to learn more about the opportunity.
This is where this Success Story became quite interesting. This candidate, although making it through to the offer stage, was offered another job opportunity which they decided was a better fit for them. In the current recruitment climate, this is a very common scenario and one which all employers are currently dealing with as cited by the 66% increase in job advertisements for the technology sector (source: Australia Computer Society Australia’s 2022 Digital Pulse).
For recruiting partners, this is where deep networks and existing industry relationships count. Thanks to Hunt & Co.’s warm network, we were able to move quickly and line up two excellent candidates in approximately five days.
This Success Story was also a commendable collaborative effort within the team at Hunt & Co. whose teamwork resulted in a quick solution without compromising on quality. These two candidates ticked all the required boxes for this role and both proceeded to the final stage with the client – a huge win for Hunt & Co. in terms of nailing the brief and doing so with the speed that was so needed.
The Result
This was a timely and high-impact placement for our client who in the end was presented with two incredible candidates thanks to the teamwork demonstrated at Hunt & Co. The successful candidate who was ultimately offered the position was a strong technical leader and determined as a great cultural fit for the company. This candidate had exceptional leadership experience, strong management skills and the passion required to help the scaling company achieve their growth goals. All in all, the candidate was the perfect fit for this Head of Engineering Role and we were thrilled to facilitate this life-changing connection.
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