Clients
Build Teams That Shape What Comes Next.
Most recruitment stops at the offer. We stay involved until the hire is working, the team is stronger and the decision looks as good at twelve months as it did on day one.
What Makes Us Different
We work with fewer clients than most agencies. That is a deliberate choice.
It means when you brief us on a role, it gets our full attention. Not split across forty open vacancies. Not handed to a junior consultant to fill a quota. Ours. From the first conversation through to the point where your new hire is settled and performing.
We will tell you honestly if the brief needs refining, if the salary is out of step with the market or if the role as written will struggle to attract the right people. That kind of candour is rare in recruitment. We think it is exactly what a hiring manager needs.
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What Working With Us Looks Like
A proper brief, not just a job description handed over and actioned. Honest market feedback, even when it is not what you want to hear. A considered shortlist with context, not a pile of CVs to sift through.
Candidates who are properly prepared for interview, kept informed throughout and supported through to their first day and beyond. And if something is not right, you will hear it from us first.
No handoffs. No volume targets. Just focused, accountable recruitment from start to finish.
What Our Clients Say
“For a fast-growth startup struggling to fill a complex role combining technical expertise, management experience and languages, Xist4 quickly delivered standout candidates and smoothly coordinated a multi-country interview process. We ended up choosing between two top talents and would recommend Xist4 for quality delivery, sharp selection advice and impeccable communication”
— Leandro, CTO, Tech Startup
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Whether you need a specialist recruitment partner or want to sharpen your approach before going to market, we can help.
Hire with Xist4. We manage the search from brief to offer, keeping candidates engaged and clients informed throughout.
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Our Hiring Campaign Diagnostic is a practical pre-launch review of your brief, job description, salary position, sourcing strategy and candidate journey, so your campaign goes to market in the best possible shape.
Who we work with
We have built deep specialist knowledge in three sectors and a strong track record with ambitious technology businesses across the board.
Arts, Cultural and Heritage Institutions
Driving digital transformation in Arts, Cultural and Heritage Institutions requires leadership, data and technology professionals who can protect cultural legacies, improve digital access and guide organisations through modernisation with confidence and care.
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Fintech
Payments is changing fast, shaped by modernisation, tighter regulation and machine learning. These companies need data, ML and engineering specialists who can process payments at scale, catch fraud and verify identity. We recruit the talent behind it, with a focus on payments fraud, risk and identity.
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Greentech
We focus on the companies electrifying transport and the grid: public charging networks, smart charging and grid tech, battery software and analytics, and EV fleet software. These are software, data and infrastructure businesses as much as energy ones, and they compete for the same engineering, data, cloud and cyber talent as FinTech and SaaS. We recruit the people who build the platforms, work the data and lead the teams. Not the electrical, hardware or commissioning side.
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Startups & Scale-ups
Finding and retaining the right talent is the single largest barrier to growth for UK startups and scale-ups. Early stage and scaling technology businesses need software engineers, data specialists, cyber security professionals and leaders who can build from scratch, move fast and perform under pressure. In this market, competing for senior technical talent against well-funded corporates is a real challenge. The right recruitment partner makes the difference between securing the people who move your business forward and losing them to someone else.
Learn moreThe Roles We Place
From C-suite appointments to specialist hires, we recruit across the full range of data, technology and leadership roles.
Leadership
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
- Chief Data Officer (CDO)
- Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- VP of Engineering
- VP of Data
- Head of Engineering
- Head of Software Development
- Head of Data Science
- Head of Data Engineering
- Head of Cyber Security
- Head of IT
Specialist and Mid-Senior
- Software Engineer
- Full Stack Developer
- Back End Developer
- Front End Developer
- DevOps Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Solutions Architect
- Cloud Architect
- Data Scientist
- ML Engineer
- AI Engineer
- Data Engineer
- Data Architect
- Data Product Manager
- ETL Developer
- NLP Engineer
- BI Manager
- BI Developer
- BI Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Insights Analyst
- Reporting Analyst
- Business Analyst
- Quantitative Analyst
- Database Administrator
- Cyber Security Analyst
- Security Architect
- Cloud Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- IT Manager
- RPA Engineer
- AI Engineer
- Generative AI Specialist
- LLM Engineer
- LLM Ops Engineer
- AI Product Manager
Recently filled roles
Product Manager
Amsterdam
€75 – €95,000
Software Engineer
Berlin
€50 – €65,000
Senior Software Engineer
London
£80 – £100,000
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Bristol
£70-85,000
Head of Data
London
£100 – £115,000
Digital Programme Manager
London
£60 – £75,000
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