Case Study: Cutover achieves rapid, cost-effective senior engineering hires (4 hires in 21 days, 100% offer acceptance) with Talentful

Helping Cutover reduce their average time to hire to 21 days

Cutover, a UK-based cloud-enabled work orchestration and observability platform, faced the challenge of scaling technical teams as an early-stage company with no internal talent function, low brand recognition and heavy reliance on costly candidate platforms. Cutover engaged Talentful (referred via Index Ventures) to establish a best-in-class outbound headhunting process and work alongside their incoming Head of Talent, leveraging Talentful’s Startups team and talent pool engineering methodology.

Talentful parachuted a Senior Talent Partner and Startup Director into Cutover to run executive-search style outreach, build senior-level talent pools and lead onsite hiring. The engagement delivered four senior engineering hires within the first two months, a 100% offer acceptance rate, a 21-day average time-to-hire, significant cost savings versus agency fees and an enduring talent-pooling framework—results Talentful achieved while navigating the COVID-19 market downturn (project started February 2020 and is ongoing).

Cutover

Alex Duell

Head of Talent