Case Study: Starling Bank achieves rapid scale to 1,100+ employees and seamless remote hiring with Workable

Starling Bank scales from 50 to 1,100 employees in five years, staying efficient with Workable

Starling Bank, a mobile-first UK challenger bank, scaled from about 50 to over 1,100 employees in five years while expanding across four locations and serving millions of customers. Rapid growth created hiring challenges: maintaining consistent, high‑volume evaluation of top talent, avoiding costly breakdowns, quickly onboarding new hiring managers, and sustaining recruitment as the company shifted to fully remote work during the COVID‑19 pandemic.

Using Workable’s ATS, Starling standardized and sped up hiring with Video Interviews, self-scheduling, and responsive customer support, allowing recruiters and hiring managers to operate with almost no training. The result: 1,000+ new hires in five years, uninterrupted high‑volume recruitment through the pandemic, faster time-to-hire and a seamless remote hiring process that supported Starling’s continued rapid growth.

Starling Bank

Marc Douch

Talent Acquisition Manager