Overview: Global Expansion Through Embedded Recruitment

In February 2025, Unique, an agentic AI company for Financial Services, partnered with Rent a Recruiter to support its ambitious global expansion across Berlin, Zurich, New York, London, and Singapore.

With rapid growth and multiple technical roles to fill simultaneously, Unique.ai needed an experienced partner who could embed directly into their team and deliver fast, high-quality hiring results.

This embedded recruitment case study explores how Rent a Recruiter’s model enabled Unique.ai to scale globally while improving recruitment efficiency, quality of hire, and team bandwidth.

The Recruitment Challenge: Scaling Without a Dedicated Team

Unique’s recruitment operations were managed solely by the Head of People, who oversaw all hiring activity across multiple geographies. As the company scaled, each requisition often included several openings, creating a heavy administrative and operational load.

Need for Process Structure and Market Knowledge. Key recruitment challenges included:

• No dedicated recruitment or sourcing function.
• Limited internal recruitment bandwidth.
• A high volume of open roles across engineering, data science, and client success.
• Lack of structure within the company’s new ATS system.
• Excessive time spent scheduling and managing interviews, detracting from strategic HR priorities.

The Embedded Recruitment Solution

Unique needed an agile, embedded recruitment solution that could own the process end-to-end, bring market expertise, and free up internal resources to focus on scaling the organisation. Rent a Recruiter embedded an experienced Talent Partner, into Unique.ai’s organisation to lead and manage all recruitment activity. Working as a fully embedded recruiter, Rent a Recruiter became a trusted extension of the team, driving hiring across multiple global markets.

Streamlining Processes and Interview Coordination. 

• Managing the full recruitment life cycle, from application to offer.
• Conducting first-round cultural interviews via Microsoft Teams for most roles.
• Partnering with hiring managers to refine job requirements and set expectations.
• Implementing structure and best practices within Unique.ai’s ATS to streamline workflows.
• Actively sourcing technical candidates for hard-to-fill roles — a first for the business.
• Coordinating 291 interviews across time zones with efficiency and consistency.

This embedded recruitment model allowed Unique’s Head of People to focus on strategic HR initiatives while Rent a Recruiter handled the operational demands of scaling recruitment.

Scalable Hiring, Better Alignment, Stronger Outcomes

• Significant reduction in internal HR time spent on interview coordination.
• Improved quality of hire through structured screening and consistent evaluation.
• Enhanced collaboration between hiring managers and recruitment.
• Increased sourcing capability for niche technical roles.

How Embedded Recruitment Drove Global Hiring Success

Through our embedded recruitment model, Rent a Recruiter helped Unique build a scalable, structured, and efficient hiring process to support rapid global growth.

By embedding a dedicated recruiter directly into the business, Rent a Recruiter enabled Unique to:

• Scale hiring across four international markets.
• Improve quality of hire and candidate experience.
• Free internal teams to focus on strategic priorities.

This embedded recruitment case study demonstrates how a Rent a Recruiter’s partnership can deliver measurable impact for scaling tech companies worldwide.

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