How we work

We don't do hiring from a distance

We plug into your team, bring our network with us and show you every step of the search, so you always know where things stand and why.

The numi team on a London rooftop in matching black numi t-shirts

We bring our whole network with us

numi's community of product, engineering, AI and data leaders has been more than 20 years in the making. It runs from our founder Mark's early days in start-ups through to the large-scale digital transformations we support today, so your search starts with people we already know and trust rather than a cold list.

numi founder Mark Long with speakers at a numicon community event for product and technology leaders

We work as part of your team, not from the sidelines

We'll join your Slack, get to know your culture and the problems you're really trying to solve, and build a hiring plan around how you actually work. It should feel less like briefing an agency and more like adding a talent lead to the room.

Example
# talent-cto-search
Shared channel with numi
n
numi
Morning! 14 new conversations this week and 5 strong fits. Scorecards are in the shared folder.
S
Sam, CEO
Brilliant. Can we see the top three on Thursday?
n
numi
All booked in. The report's updated too, and the market's paying a little more than we budgeted, so worth a quick chat.
Example AI scorecard
Candidate A
Chief Technology Officer, Series C fintech
8.2
Scaling engineering teams
9/10
Grew a platform team from 12 to 60 through Series B to D
Technical depth
8/10
Led the move to event-driven architecture at scale
Product partnership
9/10
Co-owned the roadmap with the CPO for three years
Leadership and culture
8/10
Strong retention and two internal CTO successors
Commercial awareness
7/10
Owned a multi-million pound cloud budget
Recommendation: strong yes

Every candidate comes with a scorecard

Our AI-assisted scorecards assess each person against the criteria we agree with you at the start, with the evidence written down. You can compare a shortlist side by side and know exactly why someone's in front of you.

You'll see the inner workings of every search

We share data reports as the search moves, from how many people we've approached to who's interested and why, along with the market insight behind it, like where the talent sits and what it'll cost. No surprises, no fluff, just a clear view of what's happening.

Example search report
Head of Data search, week 3
Approached
120
Interested
38
Screened
16
Shortlisted
6
12 days
to first shortlist
£150k to £175k
market base salary
Most of the strongest candidates sit in fintech scale-ups across London and Manchester.

And we do things in nu ways. We think differently and look for people who do the same, which is how good teams become exceptional ones.

Our services

Growth Placements

SOW & Contract Solutions

Advisory & Insight

Roles we hire for

From your first AI engineer to your next CTO, we hire the product, engineering, AI and data talent that high-growth tech companies need, for startups, scale-ups and global businesses across the UK, Europe, MENA and the US.

Product

Product Managers

Heads of Product

CPOs

Product Designers

Engineering

Software Engineers

Engineering Managers

VPs of Engineering

CTOs

AI & ML

AI Engineers

Machine Learning Engineers

Heads of AI

Chief AI Officers

Data

Data Scientists

Data Engineers

Heads of Data

Chief Data Officers

99.8% average retention one year after placement.

Leave it to us, it's what we do, it's what we love doing.

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