Connect. Build. Grow.

Specialist recruitment services connecting you with leading industry talent

To build exceptional products, you need to have an exceptional team

At Ostara we partner with Founders and Leaders who are scaling Engineering, UX, Product, Data and AI teams with customers in Tech for Good, Greentech, Fintech and Edtech that aim to build products to make impactful change.

Our core expertise is cultivating dynamic and diverse technical teams to drive growth and innovation from early stage start-ups to established enterprise. Our edge is our network and our transformative hiring process that offers flexibility and a relationship approach focusing on humanness as opposed to transactional recruitment.

Our work spans UK and International, we are ready to bring the collaboration, passion and enjoyment to recruitment at all levels!



Are you Ready To Build With Us?

Looking to add that all important next team member? Going from a founding team to multiple squads?

We are here every step of the way!

Our Services

Ostara offers flexible models via a single point of contact to enhance agility and ensure consistent, clear and direct communication. With our cost effective talent strategies, we can easily adapt to the business needs at your required pace. 

We understand client representation is paramount, particularly when it comes to candidate experience, and we feel our relationship driven approach leads to better candidate engagement, trust and ultimate culture fit. 

Our long standing networks built from the last 20 years, often allows us access to the best talent and seemingly passive candidates.   

models we Offer

  • Project based solutions

  • Embedded

  • Contingency

  • Retained

Work With Us

roles We Specialise in

Software Engineering

  • Backend - Go, Java, Rust, Python, C#

  • Front End - JavaScript, React, Angular

  • Full Stack - Node, Typescript, JavaScript

  • Mobile - iOS, Android, React Native

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Observability Engineering

  • Site Reliability Engineering

  • Security Engineering

  • DevOps / Platform Engineering

Operations

  • Program Management / PMO

  • Service Management

  • Release Management

Design & Product

  • UX Design

  • UX Research / Research Ops

  • Product Management

  • Product Operations

We also can support on

  • Forward Deployed Engineering

  • Technical Writing

  • Quality Assurance

  • Data Engineering

  • AI Research

  • Machine Learning

  • Customer Success

  • Marketing

  • Programmatic

Technology Solutions Built for Impact

Gary Traisneau

DIRECTOR & FOUNDER

Gary has over 20 years in technical recruitment supporting UK start-ups and scale-ups, through to established enterprise B2B / B2C SaaS.
Personally delivered over 200 hires into one of the UK first tech unicorns across Software Engineering, Product Management and UX Design.
Founding Talent Acquisition Manager for a B2B Adtech start-up responsible for all department headcount growth including Sales, CS, Marketing, Programmatic and Finance.
Gary’s focus is on trust and integrity, and feels this is the basis on which partnerships thrive, communities are built and forward thinking businesses succeed.

Why Ostara? I am a Father of three daughters, based near the Ridgeway and Uffington White Horse. As a family we like to honour the natural wonders surrounding us and celebrate the turning of the seasons together. Ostara seemed fitting since the business was founded on the Spring Equinox known as ‘Ostara;’ the Goddess associated with Rebirth, Renewal and Growth. The name reflects my passion for growing teams in business whilst simultaneously connecting to nature and my enjoyment of exploring the ancient lands here.

What our Clients Say

“Gary is undoubtedly one of the most professional and honest recruitment consultants I have worked with. He has an excellent knowledge of the financial and IT sectors.
Gary successfully placed me at a large asset manager in the city. He was very professional and easy to work with through out the process.

Gary knew the company he was working with well and most importantly knew the role and the team. He was able to clearly describe the role and the project, which I believe is a key characteristic of a successful consultant.

Gary also has exceptionally good relationship management skills. He continues to keep in touch with me and takes a genuine interest in my progress. I would like to wish Gary all the very best.”

Salesforce Solution Architect - Schroders
Heshan Weerasekera

“Gary and I worked together on recruitment for many roles through several years at Anaplan – some for roles reporting directly to me, and others for roles across other teams.

Gary was tirelessly helpful throughout each recruitment project. He takes good care to understand the needs of the roles, always resulting in good quality candidates coming through to me, and we’ve made many great hires together. The quality of his sourcing was always coupled with a great deal of support through the process – from helping to write and format job specs, to support in the interview process and closure with successful candidates. Feedback from candidates shows that he is equally helpful on the other end, making him a great ambassador for the company.

Finally, Gary is always an absolute pleasure to work with, bringing his cheerful demeanour to every interaction.”

Director of Engineering - Anaplan
Nick Chapman

“'I've had the pleasure of working with Gary during his time as FunnelFuel's Talent Acquisition Manager, where he made an invaluable impact on our business.
Gary is incredibly proficient in technical recruiting and turned his hand wonderfully to recruiting the wide array of roles which we were filling, from sales to marketing, CS, engineering, finance and ad operations; consistently bringing in top-tier talent who have played a crucial role in helping us scale rapidly and achieve our growth targets.
His ability to identify and attract candidates with the right skills and cultural fit has strengthened our team and allowed us to accelerate key initiatives across the board. A re-occurring theme was the positivity of candidates, whether or not they made it through the process, towards both Gary and FunnelFuel based on the work he did..”

CPO / Co-Founder - FunnelFuel
Michael Harty

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