Deal Baker

Part-time project. Reaching out to hiring managers on behalf of one engineer.

We're a UK-registered company. We're placing one of our own engineers — a senior Python/backend and AI specialist — into a remote contract role with a European company, and we need someone to run the outbound half of that search.

It's recruiting in reverse. You're not sourcing candidates for a client. There's one candidate, already strong, and the job is to find and open the companies.

What you'll do

• Build a target list of European companies that are hiring and pass our filter
• Find the decision-maker at each — VP Engineering, CTO, founder — not the careers inbox
• Write to them directly on our behalf and start a conversation
• Work your own network: ex-colleagues now in-house, agency contacts holding briefs that were never posted publicly
• Follow up three times over six weeks. This is where most of the result comes from, and it's the part that usually gets dropped.

Our filter — two conditions

• The role is genuinely fully remote. No on-site days, no hybrid.
• The company will contract with a supplier company rather than hiring the person directly — our UK entity invoices them.

Targets in Europe only, roughly CET ±2 hours. No US.

What this is not

On Djinni you write to candidates who have already signalled they're open. This is the opposite: cold outreach to a VP Engineering who didn't raise a hand, about someone they've never heard of. Reply rates are lower, the copy has to be much better, and the follow-up is what does the work.

What we need from you

• 3+ years in IT recruiting, agency or in-house
• You've worked on backend, ML or AI roles and can hold a technical conversation without a cheat sheet
• A network in European tech you can actually use — this is the main thing we're paying for
• Advanced English. You'll be writing to native and near-native speakers, and copy that reads foreign gets ignored.
• Your own tooling and your own contacts. Nothing sourced through a current employer's ATS or recruiter seat.

How we measure it

Weekly counts, running totals: companies added, conversations started, replies received, follow-ups sent, intros made. We judge on reply rate and intros, not on how many messages went out. Forty well-aimed first messages that get real replies beat four hundred that go nowhere.

Terms

• Two-week paid trial, extended if the numbers hold
• Paid weekly against your invoice
• Bonus on a signed contract — tell us what you'd want for that
• If this works, there's more of it. We'd rather keep one person than re-run this search.

Process: control questions → 20-minute call → paid trial.