Kestrel Search
Embedded hiring for engineering and data teams
- Embedded recruitment
- Engineering search
- Hiring process design
About Kestrel Search
We embed a recruiter into your team for three to six months rather than sending CVs on contingency. Monthly fee, full process ownership, and every candidate interaction is visible to you.
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- Placements
- 4
- Results captured
- 1
- Employer testimonials
Practice areas
What you can engage this business for — and the proof behind it.
Search methods
- Platform & infrastructure hiring
- Data and ML roles
- Interview scorecard design
Featured placements
Featured placement
Building a 14-person platform team in five months
Payments scale-up (anonymised)
- Challenge
- Two agencies had produced 60 CVs and one hire in four months.
- What they did
- Rebuilt the scorecard, cut the loop from six stages to four, and sourced directly against it.
- Result
- All 14 roles filled within five months with strong offer acceptance and no early attrition.
Placements
1 published item — open any one for the full detail page.
Hiring outcomes
Outcomes reported against delivered work. Each is labelled with its own verification state.
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All 14 roles filled within five months with strong offer acceptance and no early attrition.
Building a 14-person platform team in five months
Self reported
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Interviewer agreement improved and first-year attrition on new hires dropped.
Interview process redesign for a data organisation
Self reported
Employers
2 further engagements with clients who have not consented to being named.
Employer testimonials
She ran our hiring better than we did, and told us plainly when our interview loop was the problem.
Diarmuid Kelly · VP Engineering · Payments scale-up5
Commercial profile
How this business works with others, from what it has declared and shown on B2B.ID.
Hiring specializations
- Roles placed
- Embedded recruitment
- Engineering search
- Hiring process design
- Specializations
- Platform & infrastructure hiring
- Data and ML roles
- Interview scorecard design
- Offerings with delivered work
- Embedded recruitment· 1 delivered project
- Engineering search· 1 delivered project
- Hiring process design· 1 delivered project
Employers and industries served
- Ideal customers
- Scale-ups hiring 8–40 engineers/year
- First-time hiring managers
- Post-funding teams
Placements
- Placements
- Building a 14-person platform team in five months· Case study · Embedded recruitment · Engineering search · Technology
- Interview process redesign for a data organisation· Case study · Hiring process design · Data & AI
- Testimonials
- Diarmuid Kelly, Payments scale-up· “She ran our hiring better than we did, and told us plainly when our interview loop was the problem.”
- Industries served historically
- Technology
- Data & AI
Business identity
- Business type
- Recruiting & Talent
- Industries operated in
- Technology
- Recruitment
- Data & AI
- Company size
- 11-50
- Headquarters
- Dublin, Ireland
- Positioning
- Embedded hiring for engineering and data teams
- Business description
- We embed a recruiter into your team for three to six months rather than sending CVs on contingency. Monthly fee, full process ownership, and every candidate interaction is visible to you.
Past relationships
- Companies that vouch for us
- Payments scale-up