Propeller Tech

Who are we

Founder, Louise Ogilvy, has been working in the recruitment industry for over 20 years setting up her first recruitment agency at just 24.

During that time, she has worked with a number of business owners and founders to take them from a one or two person partnership to a successful team.

Identifying talent is just one small part of the service that she and the team at Propeller-tech offer to their clients. With an average turnaround time of just 48 hours from taking a brief to providing a first fully vetted candidate, they have enabled multiple startups to achieve their product roadmap on time.

Understanding the challenges that early stage startups face enables the team to add immediate value when it’s needed the most.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Katie Nightingale

Katie starter her career in recruitment in 2016 in the blue collar industry.

Over the years she has recruited in different sectors and most recently has gained invaluable experience and skills working with scaling up tech startups.

She loves this area of recruitment and joined Propeller-Tech in January 2023 bringing with her a wealth of experience in the tech startup scene and a tonne of ambition, “my passion is to help people get the jobs they deserve and want,” says Katie.

Candidate Manager

Natalie Harper

Candidate Manager, Natalie Harper joined the business in February 2022 to ensure we give the BEST customer service to our wonderful candidates.
Having worked previously within the tech start-up world at Innovative Physics and later launching and running her own street food business, Natalie understands what it takes to work in a fast paced environment and will be using this experience to help to guide candidates on their journey.  

Why Propeller Tech?

Here are just a few of the reasons why we are the go-to recruiters for the startup and early stage tech industry.
  • We live and breathe startups
  • We manage the entire recruitment process giving you back much needed time to focus on building your business
  • Our average turnaround time from taking a brief to providing our first vetted candidate is just 48 hours
  • We have a network of technical candidates across the USA and the UK who are looking to join an innovative tech startup
  • We support you through each stage of the process from helping to define the role to providing you with a blank contract of employment to populate
  • We won’t bombard you with CVs that don’t match the brief. Our ratios are typically 2:1
  • We can ensure that you have a diverse workforce by specifically headhunting minority groups
  • We’re genuinely nice people to deal with.
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Career Opportunities

Jobs in startups

Are you someone who craves variety with high levels of collaboration? Are you excited by the prospect of being involved in something new and exciting from the ground up? We work with startups in the tech sector and proactively seek out those who are looking for a challenge. We look for candidates who demonstrate high levels of flexibility to be able to undertake multiple responsibilities.

Software Development

Our candidates use a multitude of languages and tools including Python, C#, Java/Javascript, PHP, Perl, Ruby/Rails, VB.net, ASP.net, SQL, R, C++, ISO/Swift, Scala and Groovy, CSS, HTML, Selenium.

Permanent developers are often in high demand which is why we only take a detailed and in depth headhunting approach to find those inactive candidates.

We tend to look for individuals with previous experience in similar business domains, those with prior startup exposure and those who exhibit entrepreneurial characteristics (courage, enthusiasm, commitment, leadership) for the following roles:

  • Software developer

  • Software engineer

  • Web developer

  • Applications developer

  • Front-end developer

  • Back-end developer

  • Full stack developer

  • Mobile developer

  • Data Scientist

  • Software Development Engineer in Test

  • Embedded Developer

AI & Robotics

The demand for machine learning engineers, data scientists and AI researchers is at an all time high and continues to increase. Competition is fierce which is why our approach to candidate mapping gives you access to an untapped pool of candidates in the following roles:

  • Data science
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • AI research
  • Deep learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine learning
  • Algorithm development
  • Research engineer /scientist
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Software Testing

Software testing is vital in any startup for improving quality, building trust with customers and enabling you to give the best first impression. Most of our startups operate an agile environment and typical test roles that we focus on include the following:

  • Test Manager
  • Test Lead
  • Agile Tester
  • Web Tester
  • QA Analyst
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IT Management

When it comes to working with startups to secure more senior level staff, we understand that this isn’t going to involve running large teams from day one. What it will need, is someone who can take ownership of the full technical landscape. Often there is an idea, a vision and even customers waiting – someone is just needed to bring this to life.

Typical senior roles that we deal with include:

  • Hands on CTO /Lead Developer
  • Technical Lead
  • CTO
  • Head of Development
  • Head of Product
  • Scrum Master
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Take a look at our Job portal and see some of the live roles. Get in touch even if you can't see a role that suits.

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