What roles do you recruit for?

Growth, marketing, comms, and community, the people-facing functions where Unbound has deep operating experience. We focus there deliberately rather than claiming to recruit every role, because operator-led assessment only works in functions we have actually run.

Do you guarantee a placement?

We commit to honest, operator-led sourcing and assessment, not to a number. We will not pad a shortlist or overstate a candidate to force a placement. If the right person is not there yet, we say so and keep looking rather than manufacture a result.

Why use you instead of a specialist recruiting firm?

For growth, comms, and commercial roles in frontier categories, we have run the job we are hiring for. That means we can assess whether someone can actually do it rather than matching a keyword list, and candidates take the call because it comes from an operator.

What roles do you actually place?

Growth, marketing, communications, partnerships, and commercial leadership, at senior and operator level. We do not place engineers, and we say so rather than taking the brief and subcontracting it.

How do you handle a bad hire?

We structure engagements so the risk is shared rather than sitting entirely with you. More usefully, we try to prevent it, which mostly means being honest during the process about a candidate we have doubts about instead of closing the placement.

TALENT AND TEAM BUILDING

recruiting for the hires hardest to assess

Recruiting at Unbound finds the growth, marketing, and comms people who are hardest to hire. We source from an operator network, then screen and assess for the judgement that a resume hides, so you make a permanent hire with confidence. Operators who have done the role evaluate the people who will do it next.

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WHAT THIS IS

Growth and comms roles are notoriously hard to hire for. The skills are judgement-heavy and context-dependent, the strong candidates are rarely on the open market, and a polished resume tells you almost nothing about whether someone can actually run the function at your stage. A bad hire in these roles costs months and momentum a lean company cannot afford.

We recruit the way operators evaluate operators. Because Unbound is built from people who have run growth, marketing, and comms, we can source from a network rather than a job board and assess for real capability rather than keyword match. The result is a shortlist of people who can do the job, screened by people who have done it.

WHAT IT COVERS

the work, specifically

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growth and marketing hires

Growth and marketing recruiting at Unbound finds people who can actually run growth at your stage. We source demand, performance, and growth talent from an operator network and assess for the judgement a resume hides. Because we have run these functions ourselves, we can tell an operator who delivers from one who only presents well.

A role profile tied to your stage and growth goals
Sourcing from an operator network, not only the open market
Screening for hands-on growth and marketing capability
Practical assessment of judgement and channel fluency

02

comms and community hires

Comms and community recruiting at Unbound finds the people who carry your company's voice. We source and assess communications and community operators, the press leads, social voices, and community builders whose work shapes how the market sees you. We screen for voice and judgement, not just a portfolio, because these roles are felt in public.

A profile for the comms or community role and its remit
Sourcing communications and community operators from the network
Assessment of voice, judgement, and crisis instinct
Evaluation of platform and community fluency

03

screening and assessment

Screening and assessment at Unbound tests whether a candidate can actually do the job. We run operator-led evaluation of growth, marketing, and comms candidates, including ones you have already sourced, so a hiring decision rests on demonstrated capability rather than interview performance. It is the part of hiring most likely to be skipped and most likely to be wrong.

Operator-led evaluation of shortlisted candidates
Practical, role-relevant assessment of capability
Structured scorecards for consistent comparison
A read on judgement, not just skills on paper

IN PRACTICE

For an early AI team making a first growth or comms hire, operator-led sourcing and assessment turns a guess into an evidence-based decision, candidates judged on what they can actually run, represented honestly with no inflated reach or placement claims.

RECRUITING FAQ

questions, answered

Growth, marketing, comms, and community, the people-facing functions where Unbound has deep operating experience. We focus there deliberately rather than claiming to recruit every role, because operator-led assessment only works in functions we have actually run.

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