Embedded Search Partners · Startups & High-Growth Companies
We find the Founding Engineers that shape everything after them. Executive search, technical hiring, and embedded talent — built for founders who can't afford to get it wrong.
What We Do
One partner for the full spectrum — from a single transformational search to building an entire function from scratch.
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C-Suite, VP, Director and Head-of searches. Board placements and strategic leadership appointments for companies at their most critical inflection points.
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Deep specialists in Engineering, AI & Machine Learning, Data & Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Infrastructure, and Product & Design.
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Acting as your in-house recruitment function — full-cycle support, hiring process design, interview training and scorecard creation. No agency feel.
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Market mapping, compensation benchmarking, competitor talent analysis, and landscape reporting — the data to make smarter hiring decisions.
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For exceptional talent. Career advisory, market positioning and direct introductions to the most ambitious companies building what comes next.
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Hiring strategy, organisational design and workforce planning. We help founders think clearly about team structure before it becomes a problem.
How We Work
We move fast without cutting corners. Here's what working with us looks like.
We spend time understanding your business, culture, team dynamics and the real shape of the role — not just the job spec.
Active and passive sourcing across our network. We approach the right people, not the most available. Quality over volume, always.
Structured interviews, bespoke scorecards and reference validation. You receive a shortlist of people who can actually do the job.
Offer management, counter-offer handling and onboarding support. We stay close until your new hire is settled and thriving.
AI Hiring Tools
Free tools to sharpen your thinking before — or instead of — a full search. No sign-up needed.
Describe the hire and we'll draft a complete search brief — ready to share with your team or with us.
Describe your company and the role. Get back an ideal candidate profile with sourcing strategy.
Turn a dry job spec into a compelling pitch that senior candidates actually want to read.
Get live salary benchmarks for any tech or leadership role. Useful for offers, job specs, and comp planning.
Client Stories
The people we place define what their companies become. Here's what our clients say.
"Unbound found us a CTO who'd actually built teams at our stage before. They didn't just fill the role — they challenged our brief and made it better. That's not what agencies do."
"We needed to build our entire AI team from zero. Unbound embedded with us, designed the whole process, and placed four exceptional people in under three months. Game-changing."
"The salary benchmarking report alone was worth it. We were underpaying our engineering leads and didn't know. Unbound gave us the data to fix it before we started losing people."
Who We Serve
We work with ambitious companies and exceptional people at the moments that matter most.
Founding hires are make-or-break. We help you find the first engineers, product leaders and executives who set the culture and capability of everything that follows. Get this right and you compound. Get it wrong and you spend years fixing it.
Start a search →Rapid growth creates hiring pressure that internal teams can't absorb. We embed as your talent function — building entire teams fast, without sacrificing bar or culture fit. You keep momentum, we keep standards.
Talk to us →Board searches, C-level appointments and senior leadership hires. We work with founders and executives who understand that the right person at the right moment changes the trajectory of an entire company.
Hire a leader →We represent elite technical and commercial talent — advising on career moves, positioning you in the market, and making direct introductions to the companies where you'll do your best work. Not for everyone, by design.
Register with us →Our Mission
To help ambitious companies hire exceptional people — and give exceptional people access to the opportunities that shape the future.
Get in touch →Ready to Build?
One conversation. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help, and how.
Or email us directly at hello@unboundsearch.com