Specialist search across the US and Europe, from backend and ML engineers through to research scientists and Heads of Sustainability. Climate, clean energy and sustainability, IC to executive.
Specialist coverage across two continents, three disciplines and every level of an organisation.
Hiring here isn't generalist hiring, whether you're after a staff engineer, an electrochemist or a Head of Sustainability. The talent pool is narrower, the mission filter is real, and the best candidates are choosing between a handful of companies rather than a hundred.
We hire across technology, science and R&D, and sustainability and ESG, in the sectors below. Which means we already know who's building what, and who's ready to move.
Goldenacre Partners is a specialist recruitment firm helping climate, clean energy and sustainability companies hire across three areas: technology, science and R&D, and sustainability and ESG. We work across the US and Europe, from individual contributors through to executive hires.
I've spent over six years in technology recruitment, including a year at Meta hiring machine learning and data engineers. That year taught me what a genuinely high bar looks like, how the best technical teams actually assess people, and why so many good candidates get filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with their ability.
Alongside that, I spent time leading new business across ESG, food and agriculture, working closely with the companies and leaders tackling these problems commercially. That is where the interest turned into something I wanted to build a business around, and it is why the science and sustainability side of these companies is as familiar to me as the engineering side.
Goldenacre exists because climate hiring is genuinely different. The talent pool is narrower, the mission filter is real, and the companies solving these problems deserve better than a generalist agency treating them like any other software business.
Most agencies in this space cover one side or the other. A Series B storage company hiring a staff data engineer is usually also hiring electrochemists and a Head of Sustainability, and briefing three different recruiters on the same market is a waste of everyone's time. I cover all three, because they are the same market.
Whether you're making your first senior hire or scaling an established function, across engineering, science or sustainability, we'll map the market, run a focused process, and bring you people who actually want to work on the problem you're solving.
We work with engineers, scientists and sustainability professionals looking for roles with genuine impact. Confidential conversations, honest market context, and introductions only where there's a real fit.
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