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Industry: Quantum Computing
Working Together Since: 2025
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Roles Placed: Senior Data Scientist, Software Team Lead
Overview: Enabling Leadership Growth in a Quantum Business
A venture-backed company operating in quantum sensing and advanced technology faced a familiar challenge in the sector, scaling teams faster than leadership capability could support.
Despite sustained hiring efforts, two senior roles requiring both scientific depth and leadership experience had remained open for over five months. The combination of quantum expertise, instrumentation knowledge, and team leadership proved difficult to secure.
DeepRec.ai was engaged on an exclusive basis and delivered both hires within five weeks, strengthening leadership capacity and enabling continued expansion.
The Quantum Hiring Problem DeepRec.ai Was Brought in to Solve
The company had been attempting to hire for two senior roles for over five months without success.
These were not standard technical hires. Both positions required a combination of quantum or advanced scientific expertise, experience working with complex instrumentation, and the ability to lead and scale technical teams.
This created three core challenges:
Limited Availability of Quantum Leadership Talent
The pool of candidates operating at the intersection of quantum technology and leadership is extremely narrow.
Most available profiles fell into one of two categories:
- Highly specialised technical experts without leadership experience
- Proven leaders without the required depth in quantum or adjacent scientific domains
Very few candidates could operate across both.
Requirement for Scientific and Instrumentation Expertise
The company’s work required individuals who understood:
- Experimental and lab-based environments
- Hardware systems and sensing technologies
- The application of quantum research in real-world settings
This level of specificity significantly reduced the addressable talent pool and made traditional sourcing methods ineffective.
Need to Build Leadership Capacity, Not Just Fill Roles
The requirement was driven by growth.
The business needed to:
- Introduce additional layers of leadership
- Support multiple projects running in parallel
- Reduce reliance on a single senior decision-maker
Without these hires, expansion plans risked slowing, placing pressure on existing teams and limiting delivery capacity.
The Partnership
DeepRec.ai partnered closely with the company’s leadership team, working directly with hiring stakeholders across data science and software functions.
By engaging early and consistently, the team built a clear understanding of both the technical requirements and the leadership profile needed to support growth.
This included:
- Defining expectations around quantum and scientific expertise
- Aligning on leadership capability and team structure
- Understanding how individuals would operate within a scaling environment
This level of alignment ensured that every candidate introduced was relevant from both a technical and organisational perspective.
Precision Hiring: Network-Led and Outcome-Focused
By combining deep market expertise with an embedded delivery model, DeepRec.ai built a targeted and efficient hiring process aligned to the company’s growth plans.
The team leveraged specialist networks within quantum and deep technology, engaging candidates with the required mix of scientific expertise, instrumentation experience, and leadership capability. Ongoing alignment with hiring stakeholders ensured every profile met both technical and organisational requirements.
A defining example of this approach was the placement of a husband and wife combination into two separate leadership roles.
One candidate, already in process, introduced their partner as a highly relevant profile aligned to a second requirement. Both individuals were successfully placed, strengthening leadership capability across two functions and creating immediate alignment within the team.
This level of access and trust is difficult to achieve through traditional sourcing methods.
The Outcome
The partnership delivered significant impact across the company’s leadership expansion.
Two senior hires were secured across data science and software leadership, closing roles that had remained open for over five months. Time-to-hire was reduced by 80%, significantly improving hiring efficiency in a highly constrained quantum talent market.
Operating through a single point of contact, DeepRec.ai ensured a consistent and streamlined process, introducing 12 targeted candidates to secure both placements with precision.
The result was a strengthened leadership structure, enabling the company to introduce additional layers of oversight, set team-level strategy, and support continued growth without over-reliance on a single senior leader.
DeepRec.ai are very positive to work with, and they explain the process in a well-organised and open way. Everything including the salary is explained at the first stage. In addtion, you can directly feel his friendly attitude easily.
Candidate
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