Climate Policy Radar – Client Case Study

Building a high-performing Tech and Data team to accelerate climate innovation.

Disciplines: Product, Software Engineering, Data Science, MLOps.

Client Overview: Climate Policy Radar is on a mission to organise, analyse and democratise the world’s climate law and policy data.

Their data and tools help governments, researchers, international organisations, civil society, and the private sector to understand and advance effective climate policies and deploy climate finance. They are open data, open source, and not-for-profit.

The Challenge

After securing £6.8m in philanthropic funding, Climate Policy Radar needed to make six new full-time hires to scale their impact:

• 1 x Product Manager
• 2 x Full Stack Software Engineers
• 1 x Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
• 1 x Senior Data & MLOps Engineer
• 1 x Product Data Scientist

Key challenges included:

• Speed – hiring multiple roles quickly without an internal talent team.
• Skills – sourcing niche technical expertise across Product, Engineering and Data.
• Values – finding a recruitment partner that shared their mission and purpose.
• Industry expertise – working with a partner experienced in Climate Tech and start-ups.
• Diversity & inclusion – increasing representation within the team and attracting under-represented talent.

Our Approach / Solution

We partnered with Climate Policy Radar as their Recruitment Partner, managing the end-to-end process. Our approach included:

• Dedicated Account Managers for seamless communication and coordination.
• Specialist Consultants across Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science and Product Management.
• Co-branded talent attraction campaign across multiple channels, generating high volumes of applications and closing ads within a week.
• Proactive headhunting and LinkedIn outreach to add passive candidates to the pool.
• Managing inbound applications from their website and branded LinkedIn ads, with access to their ATS (Personio) for a consistent workflow across all sources.
• 48-hour SLA for candidate feedback to ensure a positive experience for all applicants.
• Technical screening – 45-minute calls combining technical and values-based questions, managed by ADLIB on behalf of Climate Policy Radar.
• Inclusive hiring lens – diverse shortlists and a post-hire D&I report detailing representation across the process.
• Slack communication – quick responses and bi-weekly updates to keep hiring managers informed.

The Outcome

• All six roles successfully filled within agreed timelines.
• 3 out of 6 hires were women, meeting the client’s objective to improve gender diversity.
• Positive candidate experience – maintained a 48-hour SLA for feedback and streamlined interview scheduling.
• Business impact – enabled Climate Policy Radar to accelerate product development and data innovation to support global climate policy.

Roles Filled

• Product Manager
• Full Stack Software Engineer x2
• Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
• Senior Data & MLOps Engineer
• Product Data Scientist

ADLIB Teams Involved:

• ADLIB Agile Product Recruitment team
• ADLIB Technology Recruitment team
• ADLIB Data Recruitment team