Helping Europe’s most promising startups and scale-ups locate, hire and develop their most important asset – their people

Working as People & Talent leaders with Uber, Booking.com, Bitpanda and TourRadar, Andrea and Patrick have first-hand experience with the challenges of global hyper-growth tech companies.

It was with these companies they realized that other founders and their executive teams could benefit from their personal learnings and expertise in order to gain efficiencies quicker and set-up their people for success.

What we offer

We are not just filling jobs, we can help set an overall strategy, build out proper sourcing and interview strategies, identify bottlenecks in the interview process, and take our learnings of hiring top global talent at scale to our clients.

We can help build the foundation of a thrilling HR experience for your team members. We help you to offer structured training, coaching, guidance, and processes for managers and employees to foster an environment of growth and development. 

    Rogue Talent Team

    SERVICES

    Recruitment

    • Executive Search – retained, exclusive search with a portion of the fee paid up front

    • Contingent Staffing – pay for success model

    • Fixed-term Staffing – we find short term experts for you on an hourly rate

    • Talent Advisory – we act as your interim Head of Talent Acquisition

    HR Business Partnering

    • Strategic HR business advisory to Executive & Senior management

    • HR Advisory we act as your interim Head of HR

    • Performance Management & Development programs that help grow talent

    • Compensation, Rewards & Benefits establishing the right programs together with you

    How we work?

    We understand your business needs

    We make an effort to understand your business needs because we have been business leaders ourselves too.

    build a sustainable people strategy

    We partner with you to build a sustainable people strategy for your company because we know what is important. We failed in our careers too, learned from it, and thrive to make it better.

    We team up with you

    We love what we do and do it with passion. We team up with you to celebrate success together.

    We are flexible

    We are flexible and can adapt our service based on your business needs. We can partner directly with founders, or partner with the leadership team to set the strategy or act as interim HR leaders until the teams are built out.

    team

    Patrick Burke

    Co-founder

    Patrick is a 20-year veteran of the tech recruitment industry, spanning three continents. He spent his first 10 years on Wall Street, placing software engineers and quantitative analysts into many of the world’s most successful investment banks and hedge funds.

    After spending two years in Asia completing his Master’s Degree, he moved into corporate talent acquisition. He was an early employee at Uber, leading their tech recruiting team in NYC. After moving to Europe in 2017, he worked as Head of Talent for TourRadar and Global Head of Recruiting for Bitpanda, one of Europe’s largest crypto exchanges. Patrick is a native of New Jersey, an avid Mets fan and proud father of his two children, Hanna and James.

    Andrea Eckerstorfer

    Co-founder

    Andrea started her career as an early Booking.com employee in 2006, ultimately becoming Regional Director for Partners Services – Northern EMEA. The second half of her tenure there was a move into HR, eventually becoming Regional Director HR for the entire EMEA region, overseeing Recruitment, HR Business Partnering and Office Management for over 5000 employees.

    After spending significant time with Booking.com in Vienna, London and Amsterdam, Andrea decided to move back to her native Austria in 2018 to start a new chapter in her life and became the mother of an inspiring daughter, Caroline. This move coincided with her next professional challenge as VP of People at TourRadar – the world’s 1st Adventure Booking Platform, where she met her Rogue Talent co-founder Patrick.