Embedded talent partner. Retained search for businesses building the green economy.
We find the people who believe in what you are building.
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How we work.
All Taino3 engagements operate on a retained basis, with us working as an embedded extension of your team, recruiting under your brand, representing your values, and keeping you informed throughout.
What’s consistent across our four core offerings is that we never operate anonymously. Every search runs under your brand, your name, your story, your values, so every candidate we approach gets a genuine picture of who you are and why working for you matters.
Here’s how that works in practice.
Our core offerings
Map
A market mapping and longlisting service for businesses that want to understand the talent landscape before committing to a full search. We scope the brief, research the market, and deliver a qualified longlist of potential candidates, giving you the intelligence to make informed decisions about your next hire.
Search
Our core retained search offering for roles at £65k+. We scope the brief, map the market, approach candidates directly, and deliver a shortlist of people assessed not just on skills and experience, but on values and cultural alignment. You have full visibility throughout via a shared workspace, no chasing for updates, no surprises at shortlist stage.
Partner
For your most critical hires, leadership, director and executive-level positions that will define the next phase of your business. A deeper, more extensive process with in-depth candidate assessment, detailed reporting, and greater stakeholder involvement. Minimum role salary £90k.
Build
For businesses hiring across multiple roles or building out a team over a defined period. We run a project-based engagement covering several hires under an agreed fee structure, efficient, joined-up, and consistent in how your brand and values show up throughout.
The people you’re looking for
The best people for your business aren’t just looking for a job. They’re looking for somewhere that means something.
Finding them takes more than a job board and a shortlist. It takes someone who understands your sector, recruits under your brand, and takes the time to find out what genuinely drives every candidate, not just what’s on their CV.
That’s what we do.
Track Record
26 years of search and in-house recruitment experience, now applied exclusively to the green and environmental economy. We’ve placed senior talent across the UK, Europe and North America, from renewable energy and biomass to carbon capture and environmental consulting, for businesses at exactly the stage where getting the right hire matters most.
Our clients
We work with founder-led and leadership-managed businesses in the green and environmental economy, renewable energy, EVs and charging, energy storage, green construction and environmental consulting, typically at growth or scale-up stage, where every senior hire shapes the culture and direction of the business.
Senior and specialist roles across commercial, marketing, technology and operations. Not volume hiring. Not every function. Just the hires that define what a business becomes.
Our retained model means we’re accountable to the outcome, not the activity; we don’t get paid to send CVs, we get paid when we find the right person. Every search is human-led from start to finish: real conversations, real judgment, no algorithms. We specialise exclusively in your sector, which means faster searches, stronger networks and a recruiter who already understands your world.
Taino3 is not the right partner for everyone. If you need ten people hired in six weeks, we’re not your firm. But if you’re scaling and care deeply about who comes through the door, we’d like to talk.
How we do it?
Deeper Thinking
The green economy is moving fast. We share our perspective on the hiring trends, talent challenges and market shifts shaping the businesses building it.
About Us
After 26 years in recruitment, running searches before LinkedIn existed, leading international in-house TA teams, and consulting on businesses in rapid growth, Ben Henry noticed a gap.
Growing businesses with a genuine mission were being let down by both sides of the market. Traditional retained search firms were expensive, opaque, and focused predominantly on executive roles. Standard agencies went to market under their own name, stripping out the very thing that made those businesses compelling: their brand, their story, their reason for existing.
The businesses that most needed values-aligned talent were the least well-served. Taino3 was built to fix that.
The focus on green and environmental businesses isn’t just commercial positioning. Ben wanted to work with founders driven by a genuine calling, and to bring the same sense of purpose he’s found outside work, through coaching, volunteering and community, into his professional life.
We work exclusively in the green economy: renewable energy, EVs and charging, energy storage, green construction, and environmental consulting, operating as an embedded extension of your team, recruiting under your brand, on a retained basis.
The name comes from the Taino people of the Caribbean, credited with the original barbecue, bringing people together around something worth gathering for. The 3 reflects a founding belief: the best hiring decisions always involve three voices. The business. The candidate. And someone who genuinely understands both.
If you’re building something that matters, we’d like to help you find the people who share your passion.
