ABOUT KDR TALENT SOLUTIONS
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Specialist Data and AI Recruitment Since 2003
KDR Talent Solutions is a specialist data and AI recruiting agency supporting employers and candidates across the data and AI market.
Since 2003, we have helped organizations hire the people who turn data into insight, products, platforms, strategy and progress. We work with businesses building data and AI capability, and with professionals looking for roles that match their skills, goals and preferred way of working.
Our approach is built on specialist market knowledge, honest conversations and long-term relationships. Recruiting should feel clear, human and well managed and that is what we aim to deliver.
KDR is the original specialist data recruitment agency. In 2003, KDR was established as a dedicated pioneer for corporate Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. As the data explosion moved globally, we did too, establishing our dedicated US presence in 2013. Present day, our US team continue to combine deep, local market intelligence with two decades of foundational data recruitment heritage, making us a uniquely stable and deeply networked partner for modern Data and AI teams.
When we started in 2003, the data market looked very different. Since then, the roles, tools and expectations have changed dramatically. Data teams have become more technical, more strategic and more central to how organizations operate.
Today, we support recruiting across data engineering, data architecture, data management, governance, analytics, AI, machine learning and senior data leadership.
What has not changed is the importance of understanding people. Good recruiting is not just about matching a job title to a resume. It is about understanding what a business is trying to achieve, what a candidate is looking for and how to create the right fit for both sides.
Who We Are
KDR Talent Solutions is a team of specialist recruiters working across data and AI.
Our recruiters speak with candidates, hiring managers and data leaders every day. Those conversations give us a practical understanding of the market, from compensation expectations and candidate availability to role design, hiring challenges and career motivations.
We are part of the data community, not just observers of it. We take the time to understand the roles we recruit for, the people we represent and the organizations we support.
That is how we build trust and deliver better recruiting outcomes.
What We Do
We help employers hire specialist data and AI talent across permanent recruiting, contract recruiting, executive search and embedded recruiting.
We also support candidates looking for their next move across data, analytics, AI and machine learning.
Our recruiting specialisms include:
- data engineering
- data architecture
- data management
- data governance
- analytics and business intelligence
- data science
- AI engineering
- machine learning
- MLOps, LLMs and GenAI
- data and AI leadership
Alongside recruiting delivery, we provide talent acquisition services including compensation benchmarking, talent market mapping, candidate attraction, diversity, equity and inclusion insight, and hiring process advice.
Our People
Recruiting is a people business, and the people behind KDR matter.
Our team brings together specialist market knowledge, recruiting experience and genuine interest in the data and AI community. Each recruiter works closely with their market, building relationships with candidates and employers over time.
That means when you speak to KDR, you are speaking to someone who understands the roles, the market and the conversations happening within it.
MEET THE TEAM
Our Values
By living our values, we ensure our unique culture is nourished for future growth. Our values feed into our DNA: "the difference is we care", and this is reflected in the number of referrals we get from candidates who then become our clients as well as the number of clients who retain our solutions.
WE ACT WITH INTEGRITY
We build relationships and are consultative in our approach and that flows across all the clients and candidates we work with. Internally we work with honesty and follow strong moral principles.
WE LISTEN
We actively listen to the people we work with, whether that be clients, candidates, or our internal team so that we can find people the best solutions to whatever it is they are working towards.
WE DELIVER ON OUR PROMISES
If we say we are consultative and that we listen that also means delivering on our promises, so if we have promised a call back or a client a CV, we deliver on those promises.
It also means we don’t over promise, so understanding when we can’t help someone, because it is outside our area of expertise, is also important to us.
WE WORK AS A TEAM
Internally we run a very collaborative environment. We stand by each other through difficult times. We also act as a team for our candidates, helping them to get a role, and our clients, helping internal recruitment teams or hiring managers find the best people for their business.
Trusted by Data-Driven Organizations
KDR works with organizations hiring data and AI talent across the US, UK and Europe.
Our clients range from growing technology businesses to established organizations building, transforming or scaling data capability.
We support employers who need specialist market knowledge, relevant candidate access and a recruiting process that reflects the importance of the hire.
Our Community
We support conversations around hiring, skills, careers, leadership and the future of data and AI. Through our content, events, podcasts, reports and day-to-day recruiter conversations, we aim to add value beyond individual recruiting processes.
Being part of the community helps us stay closer to the market and gives clients and candidates a better experience.
