Xist4

Xist4 is a specialist recruitment agency focused on data, technology and leadership recruitment for organisations where specialist hiring truly matters. The company works with mission-led, cultural and heritage organisations, selected greentech firms, and ambitious technology start-ups and scale-ups, taking on a handful of clients at a time by choice to ensure searches are run properly rather than simply sending over CVs and hoping for the best. Xist4 holds itself to a 91% placement retention rate at one year, recognising that making the hire stick is the actual job and that a role filled by the wrong person costs more than leaving it open. The recruitment agency specialises in finding data, technology, AI and leadership people who can do the work, fit the environment and want to stay.

Xist4 recruits across multiple core specialisms including senior appointments, infrastructure and cloud platforms, cyber security, data engineering and architecture, data science and machine learning, and business intelligence and insights. In mission-led, cultural and heritage organisations, the company helps teams hire the data, technology and leadership people they need to modernise, protect their systems and deliver their core mission, often working with small teams facing real constraints where one poor hire carries heavy cost. In greentech, Xist4 works with companies electrifying transport, energy and the built environment, including public EV charging networks, smart charging and energy flexibility, battery technology and analytics, fleet electrification software, smart buildings and commercial IoT, recruiting people who can build systems, improve platforms, make sense of complex data and lead teams through growth and change. The agency also supports ambitious technology start-ups and scale-ups building engineering, data and leadership teams, focusing on organisations moving quickly, hiring carefully and unable to afford a key hire going wrong.

Xist4 operates from offices in Bristol and London, serving clients across the United Kingdom. The company distinguishes itself by looking past the obvious shortlist, hiring for what someone can actually do, how they think and where they are heading rather than only where they have been. Xist4's approach is guided by UN SDG 8 on decent work and economic growth, working with organisations that care about fair pay, equal opportunity and long-term fit. The agency manages the entire recruitment process from brief to offer, keeping candidates engaged and clients informed throughout, and offers a Hiring Campaign Diagnostic service to help organisations spot problems in their brief, job description, salary, sourcing plan and candidate journey before going fully to market.