Dan Butterworth

Senior Technical Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Partner with experience supporting SaaS, technology and digital businesses across the UK, EMEA and US markets. My background spans agency, embedded and in-house recruitment, delivering hiring across Software Engineering, Data, Cloud, Product, AI/ML, UI/UX and Digital functions for startups, scale-ups and global technology organisations. Experienced working in fast-moving, high-volume and business-critical hiring environments, partnering directly with hiring managers and leadership teams to support technical hiring, talent mapping, market insight and end-to-end recruitment delivery. Key areas of experience include: ✅ Technical Recruitment & Talent Acquisition ✅ Embedded / In-House Recruitment ✅ Engineering, Data & Product Hiring ✅ SaaS & Technology Recruitment ✅ Technical Sourcing & Boolean Search ✅ Talent Mapping & Market Insights ✅ Remote & International Hiring ✅ Contract and Permanent Recruitment Experience includes supporting hiring projects and recruitment delivery across businesses including Meta, Adobe, Workday, ServiceNow, Kainos, Commscope, Aristocrat Technologies & more Available for fully remote: 🔹 Contract / Outside IR35 engagements 🔹 FTC opportunities & fractional roles 🔹 Permanent, salaried positions 📧 info@techitrecruitment.net

Talent Acquisition Partner supporting Digital Services hiring across complex technology and digital transformation programmes within the UK public sector. Partnered directly with hiring managers, delivery leads and senior stakeholders to deliver Technical Recruitment and Talent Acquisition across Software Engineering, Data, Cloud, Product, UI/UX, QA/Test and technology delivery functions. Key areas of hiring included: • Software Engineers & Developers • Data Scientists, Data Engineers & Analysts • UI/UX & Product Designers • QA & Test Engineers • Business Analysts • Project & Programme Managers • Technical Delivery & Digital Transformation roles Responsible for end-to-end recruitment delivery including: ✅ Stakeholder & Hiring Manager partnership ✅ Technical sourcing & Boolean search ✅ Talent mapping & market insight ✅ Candidate attraction & engagement ✅ Interview process management ✅ Offer management & recruitment delivery Delivered hiring support across fast-moving, business-critical and security-cleared digital programmes, with a strong focus on quality, pace and long-term hiring success.

Talent Acquisition Partner – Digital Services (via Join Talent) ➡️ Supporting a respected UK SaaS organisation via Join Talent, delivering end-to-end recruitment across Digital Services roles. Partnering closely with hiring managers to shape briefs, run targeted sourcing, manage the interview process, and take hires through offer to onboarding. Keeping things efficient, candidate-friendly, and high quality throughout, as always! ➡️ About Join Talent: Join Talent is a ‘talent acquisition as a service’ (TAaaS) business - dedicated to driving business scale up growth performance. As leaders in the Talent Acquisition space we provide strategic consultancy and delivery support to founders & business leaders on designing & implementing highly effective recruitment models for your company, as well as on how to build a unique & compelling employer brand to attract top talent. Our business is a 100% founder-owned British start-up/scale-up that has successfully supported 250+ clients in their growth plans, earning us recognition as one of EMEA's stand-out scale-up success stories of the last 3 years in our own right. Today Join Talent employs over 250 professionals across 21 countries and has an enviable roster of clients from start-ups to Unicorns and through to FTSE 30 household names. As the 13th fastest growing company in Europe in Financial Times 1,000 2023 ‘Fastest Growing Companies in Europe’ list, we are no stranger to scale up success first hand. Join Talent have also been winners of the Scotland & NI region of Great British Entrepreneur Awards for Start-up (2021) and Scale-Up (2022), as well as 2nd place in the Top 100 UK SMEs 2023. We were included in the Times & LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders 2022 list and individual winners of their Disruptor of the Year award for 2022. We are also a registered diversity vendor as a female majority owned and run business. Proudly registered as an ISO accredited organisation.

Senior Tech Recruiter & Senior Embedded Talent Acquisition Partner supporting global technology and SaaS organisations including Meta, Adobe, Workday, ServiceNow and Aristocrat Technologies across the UK, Ireland and wider EMEA markets. Delivered Technical Recruitment and Talent Acquisition across Engineering, Product, Data, GTM, Marketing and Digital functions within fast-moving, high-growth and business-critical hiring environments. Supported both permanent and contract hiring across remote, hybrid and international hiring models, partnering directly with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders across multiple business functions and regions. Key areas of recruitment included: 🔹 Software Engineering, Web & Mobile Development 🔹 Data Engineering, Analytics & Data Science 🔹 Product Management, UX/UI & Design 🔹 Cloud, SaaS & Technology Hiring 🔹 GTM, Solutions Consulting & Product Marketing 🔹 SEO, Paid Search, Paid Social & Digital Marketing 🔹 EMEA localisation and language-specific hiring Responsible for end-to-end recruitment delivery including: ✅ Technical sourcing & Boolean search ✅ Talent mapping & market insight ✅ Stakeholder & Hiring Manager partnership ✅ Market calibration & compensation alignment ✅ Candidate engagement & recruitment delivery ✅ Contract and permanent technical hiring Known for supporting difficult and hard-to-fill hiring projects by balancing hiring urgency, technical requirements, market realities and candidate quality within complex stakeholder environments.

Built and operated an independent Technical Recruitment business for almost 13 years, delivering contract and permanent recruitment solutions across Technology, Engineering, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security and UK Defence markets throughout the UK. Supported SMEs, scale-ups, digital agencies, enterprise organisations and regulated environments, partnering directly with business owners, Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders to deliver Technical Recruitment and Talent Acquisition across difficult-to-fill and business-critical hiring projects. Delivered recruitment across areas including: 🔹 Software Engineering & Web Development 🔹 .NET, PHP, Python & JavaScript recruitment 🔹 Cloud, Infrastructure & IT Support 🔹 Data, SQL & Analytics hiring 🔹 Cyber Security & Defence recruitment 🔹 UX/UI, Digital & Product hiring 🔹 Project Delivery & Technical Management roles Responsible for full end-to-end recruitment delivery including: ✅ Technical sourcing & Boolean search ✅ Talent mapping & market insight ✅ Stakeholder & Hiring Manager partnership ✅ Contract and permanent recruitment ✅ Client relationship management ✅ Market calibration & hiring support ✅ Recruitment process management & delivery Built long-term client relationships through honest, delivery-focused recruitment support within highly competitive and fast-moving technical markets. Successfully operated the business through multiple market cycles before transitioning back into embedded and internal Talent Acquisition environments following the long-term impact of COVID-19 market disruption.

Senior Technical Recruiter delivering contract and permanent recruitment across Technology, Engineering, IT, Digital, Cyber Security and Defence markets throughout the UK. Supported SMEs, enterprise organisations and regulated environments, partnering directly with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders to deliver Technical Recruitment across software, infrastructure, support and digital hiring projects. Delivered recruitment across areas including: 🔹 Software Engineering & Web Development 🔹 Infrastructure, Networks & IT Support 🔹 Cyber Security, IT Security Accreditation & Defence recruitment 🔹 .NET, SQL and Microsoft technology hiring 🔹 Digital & Technical project delivery 🔹 Technical support and engineering environments Responsible for full recruitment lifecycle delivery including: ✅ Technical sourcing & Boolean search ✅ Market mapping & talent identification ✅ Stakeholder & Hiring Manager partnership ✅ Contract and permanent recruitment ✅ Candidate attraction & engagement ✅ Recruitment delivery within competitive technical markets Built strong foundations in technical recruitment, stakeholder management and delivery-focused hiring across fast-moving and commercially driven environments.

Started career within recruitment during the late 1990s, initially supporting Education recruitment in partnership with Lancashire County Council before moving into Technical and Engineering recruitment environments. Supported contract Systems & Software Engineering recruitment onsite with BAE Systems, Warton, delivering recruitment across highly regulated and security-sensitive defence programmes and technical engineering environments. Partnered directly with Engineering Managers, technical stakeholders and programme leadership teams to support hiring across: 🔹 Systems Engineering 🔹 Software Engineering 🔹 Defence & Aerospace programmes 🔹 Technical project environments 🔹 Contract engineering recruitment Following BAE Systems, moved into IT and Technology recruitment within smaller start-up agency environments in Lancashire, delivering recruitment across Software, Infrastructure, Engineering and Technical hiring projects throughout the UK market. Developed strong foundations across: ✅ Technical sourcing & candidate generation ✅ Contract and permanent recruitment ✅ Business development & client partnership ✅ Stakeholder & Hiring Manager management ✅ Full recruitment lifecycle delivery ✅ Technical market mapping & recruitment support Early experience within fast-moving and commercially driven recruitment environments helped build the direct, delivery-focused and commercially grounded recruitment approach carried throughout later embedded and in-house Talent Acquisition roles.