As the bank dug into their redesign project, they quickly realized that launching the websites on time would be a huge challenge. The deliverables were tight, and their internal teams were already pushed to maximum capacity. To ensure an on-time delivery, the bank turned to outside help. They needed an agency who could partner with their stakeholders, gather requirements, work within branding guidelines and manage deliverables for some of their smaller-scale landing pages and microsites.

While working on their high-priority core websites, the bank discovered they were lacking expertise within several of their workstreams: project management, information architecture, creative design, user research, content strategy and front-end development.

Because the bank’s needs were twofold—deliverable-based project work and staff augmentation—Horizontal Talent and our sister company, Horizontal Digital, were an ideal fit. Horizontal Talent supplied consultants for their high-priority projects, while Horizontal Digital took on their smaller-scale web projects. 

As Horizontal Digital became fully immersed in their project work, Horizontal Talent gained a clearer understanding of the types of candidates who would be thrive on the bank’s teams. We leveraged our in-house experts who were working on the bank’s deliverables to help vet candidates during the screening process. This enabled our recruiters and account managers to gain a sense of the unique complexities of the bank’s job requirements. With both Horizontal companies working closely together on behalf of this client, we were able to provide them with the best talent and assets possible.

We continue to provide this bank with unrivaled service. We seamlessly scale up or down depending on demand, while providing them with high quality talent and state-of-the-art web solutions.

As a Tier-1 staffing vendor for their business/strategy management, digital marketing/creative and IT teams, Horizontal Talent has placed more than 230 consultants with the bank—many of whom have become full-time employees. With the help of Horizontal Talent and Horizontal Digital, the bank was able to complete the majority of their website redesign objectives ahead of schedule in just two years.

Our partnership continues to flourish. In fact, this bank nominated us for the Supplier of the Year Award for the North Central Minority Supplier Development Council—an award we ended up winning.