Kyle Richards

Co-Founder

London, England, United Kingdom15 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in tech hiring.
Successfully built tech teams for high-growth startups.
Expert in aligning hiring strategies with business goals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technical recruiter with expertise in building high-performing tech teams.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingExecutive SearchFull Life Cycle Recruiting

Other Skills

Hiring PracticesStrategic HiringLeadershipDiversity & InclusionStartupsEarly-Stage StartupsHiringTalent AssessmentCross-Functional Team BuildingGlobal Talent AcquisitionStart-up VenturesRecruitingSalesTeam LeadershipMicrosoft Excel

About

For the last 10+ years I’ve helped tech companies hire exceptional people and build the best tech teams. At Kioni Talent, I work with founders, CTOs, Talent teams and hiring leaders to hire across engineering, DevOps, QA, security, product and leadership. My goal is always the same: help you hire the right people, quickly and with confidence. Recent partnerships include building a new squad for a Series A company in under four months, and helping a bootstrapped startup hire their Lead Developer in four weeks. I work on retained, fractional and contingent models, based on what each business actually needs. I partner with teams across the UK, US and EU, from early-stage through to scale-up. If you’re growing and want to get hiring right, let’s talk.

Experience

Polly

Talent (Fractional via Kioni Talent)

Oct 2025 – Present · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Working as part of the People and Talent team via Kioni Talent

Counterpart

Recruiter (Fractional via Kioni Talent)

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos · United States · Remote

Working as part of the People and Talent team via Kioni Talent

Full Life Cycle RecruitingTechnical RecruitingHiring

Polly

Talent (Fractional via Kioni Talent)

Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · 6 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

Working as part of the People and Talent team via Kioni Talent

Full Life Cycle RecruitingTechnical RecruitingTalent AssessmentCross-Functional Team Building

Kioni talent

Founder | Technology Recruiter

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Kioni Talent helps tech companies across the UK, US and EU build best-in-class teams - from early hires to scaling squads across engineering, product, and the wider tech stack.
We work closely with founders, CTOs and hiring leaders to deliver talent solutions that are fast, flexible and aligned to business goals. Whether retained, fractional or contingent, our model is tailored to what each company actually needs.
Skillsets covered include:
Software Engineering, Engineering Management, DevOps, Platform, QA, Cyber Security, Product Management, and Technology Leadership (Head of Engineering, VP, CTO)
Recent highlights include:
Multi Person Fractional partnership with Polly - a US-based Series B mortgage capital markets technology company (Oct 2025 – Present)
Fractional partnership with Counterpart -The first Agentic Insurance™ system combining underwriting, broker support, risk mitigation, and claims expertise with advanced AI (Sep 2025 - Present)
Fractional partnership with Polly - a US-based Series B mortgage capital markets technology company (Jan 2025 – Jul 2025)
Helping a Series A company build a new squad in under 4 months
Supporting a bootstrapped startup to hire their Lead Developer within 4 weeks
With over a decade of experience in tech hiring, I founded Kioni to bring a hands-on, high-quality approach to recruitment - one that values long-term fit, speed and results in equal measure.

Technical RecruitingExecutive SearchHiring PracticesStrategic HiringLeadershipDiversity & Inclusion+2

Scene

3 roles

Director, Technology Practice, UK

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos

Approached directly by the founder to build the technology practice in the UK, joining as employee #10. I led the growth of the tech division, initially focusing on the UK market before relocating to the US to establish and grow the technology practice there.
Worked closely with VC-backed start-ups and scale-ups, supporting hiring from seed stage through to IPO, with a focus on Software Engineering, Technology Leadership and DevOps.

Director, Technology Practice US

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023 · 11 mos

Technology Practice Lead

Jul 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Teksystems

5 roles

Lead Consultant

Promoted

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos

I joined as a Recruiter and progressed into a Lead Consultant role, focused on building technology teams within financial services — including investment banks, hedge funds, quant trading firms and insurers.
I specialised in hiring across Cyber Security, Infrastructure, DevOps, Production Support and Technology Leadership, helping companies scale their technology functions with high-performing, specialist talent.

Executive SearchFull Life Cycle RecruitingTechnical Recruiting