The context

Rolemapper’s mission is to help organisations create inclusive workplaces. Transforming how companies design jobs, they help them reap the commercial and social benefits of a truly inclusive workplace.

As a Tech Nation Rising Star company, when it came to developing a tech team to enable their product to scale, CEO Sara and COO Gill knew hiring the very best talent was going to be an important part of their growth journey.

After a recommendation from Tech Nation, they reached out to us.

"Engaging with Alan initially, the advice and insight helped us make a direct hire and plan for future roles. When we needed to hire a key role, CTO, we turned to ISL and they delivered some great candidates via a thorough process. They were involved throughout the hiring project to make sure we all worked together on securing a quality hire. We’ve continued to work with ISL on hiring in other areas, like marketing and product, and having worked with several of the team we’ve consistently had a good experience."

Gill Stewart, Chief Operating Officer

Solutions

We initially advised and guided them, for free, to directly recruit their first product hire.

After their positive initial experience with us they had no hesitation in engaging us commercially when they needed a key senior hire, a CTO.

They chose our Base_down product, partnering on an exclusive and retained campaign.

We’ve since continued our exclusive partnership, working on data, QA, digital marketing and product roles.

The Results

Jon, Role Mapper’s CTO has been in place for 10 months, and is loving his new role. Whilst maintaining a relationship with our co-founder Alan, Gill and Sara are supported by experts within our delivery team.

Paying it forward

We’ve loved our conversations with RoleMapper from the start, partly because of how Sara and Gill come across, and also as it’s typical of how we like to engage with scaleups. Initially we were able to give some advice and insight, which helped them hire direct. They trusted us when they needed to engage with someone for a CTO, and we co-created a hiring process, which included showing off their story directly to candidates rather than hiding behind anonymous job adverts.

Across the business

Whilst tech is at our core, we support our clients across their hiring needs and RoleMapper is a great example of this. After placing their CTO we’ve continued to work across product, support and marketing teams.

Face to face at key stages

We met all the CTO candidates before their final stage interviews, as well as meeting with Gill and Sara to guide them on interviewing for this role. This increased involvement helped secure their preferred candidate within 24 hours, leaving everyone happy.
Their advisor was impressed enough with what we did that he’s since recommended us to another of his companies, where we’ve since made key technical hires.

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