These are software and data businesses as much as energy ones, and most are moving faster than their hiring can keep up with. A delayed engineering hire slows a product release. A gap in data capability means decisions made on instinct instead of evidence. A weak security hire in a connected infrastructure business creates the kind of risk regulators and investors notice.
The talent is scarce because it rarely sits neatly in one place. The people you need understand both the software and the physical system it runs on, and they are weighing your offer against FinTech, SaaS, cloud and AI employers who pay well and move quickly. Get the brief, the salary or the proposition wrong and the strongest candidates are gone before you speak to them.
We work with a small number of greentech businesses at a time and stay involved from brief to offer, and beyond it.
We are not trying to cover every corner of the climate and energy market. We specialise where software, data and connected systems are central to growth. That focus means you get a partner who understands the technology, the commercial stakes and what a strong hire actually looks like in your environment.
95% of the candidates we place are still in role after twelve months. In a market shaped by infrastructure rollout, product development and fast commercial growth, hiring people who stay is one of the most important decisions you make.
Our Candidate Journey Blueprint gives every search a clear communication rhythm and a live feedback loop, so counteroffers, competing interviews and candidate concerns surface early, not at offer stage.
We focus on four segments. Not the whole climate and energy market, and not everything with “green” in the name.
The companies deploying and running the UK’s public charging networks. They behave like infrastructure businesses and software businesses at the same time, and uptime, payments, the driver app and field data all depend on connected software. The hard hires reflect that.
Roles we place: SRE and platform engineers, senior backend engineers (charging, payments, APIs, telemetry), mobile engineers, cloud and DevOps engineers, product managers who understand both reliability and user experience, and technology leaders who can scale a platform alongside a network.
Load balancing, demand response, automated charging control and vehicle-to-grid. This is where mobility meets the energy system, and the talent is scarce because it has to understand both sides. The premium sits in forecasting, optimisation and real-time decisioning, not generic software.
Roles we place: machine learning engineers (forecasting, demand prediction), energy systems and forecasting analysts, data and platform engineers working with distributed assets, and product managers who understand grid constraints and charging behaviour.
Battery monitoring, degradation modelling, thermal safety and second-life systems. We recruit the software and data layer of these businesses: the people working close to the device in code, and the people making sense of battery data.
Roles we place: embedded software and firmware engineers, C/C++ engineers, and battery data scientists working on degradation and thermal analysis. We recruit the software and firmware that runs on the hardware, not the hardware design or cell engineering itself.
The B2B platforms managing depot charging, route optimisation, telematics and fleet scheduling. Operationally complex software, where the value is in getting routing, energy constraints and clean product delivery to work together.
Roles we place: optimisation engineers, backend engineers (telematics and third-party integrations), data engineers working with operational and telemetry data, and product managers who understand depot, fleet and logistics.
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.
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If you are looking for a recruitment partner who understands the EV charging, electrification and connected infrastructure market, knows the roles and takes the time to get them right, we would be glad to hear from you.
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