Case Study: DroneSeed scales hiring efficiently with IQTalent

How a small startup scaled from 3 employees to 18 team members with a limited budget and without a internal recruiting team

DroneSeed, a Seattle-based environmental technology startup, needed to scale quickly to meet growing demand for its drone-based reforestation work, but the founders lacked the time, hiring expertise, and budget to manage recruiting themselves. With no hiring manager in place, they turned to IQTalent for sourcing, research, consulting, and employment branding support to help build a stronger hiring process.

IQTalent acted as DroneSeed’s on-demand talent acquisition team, refining job descriptions, creating candidate profiles, mapping salary expectations, and building a higher-quality candidate funnel. By scaling support up or down as hiring needs changed, IQTalent helped DroneSeed hire 12 people over 18 months, keep costs under control, and achieve an average time-to-hire of under 45 days per role.

DroneSeed

Grant Canary

Chief Executive Officer