Fractional Talent Acquisition Leadership
We build the foundation. You build the future.
Groundwork Talent is fractional TA leadership for startups between 20 and 100 people — built for teams who need real recruiting infrastructure but aren't ready to hire a full-time TA leader yet. Ten years running talent functions inside insurtech, healthtech, and B2B SaaS companies, brought in exactly when you need it.
The Foundation
The walls are going up before the foundation's set.
Somewhere between 20 and 100 employees, hiring stops being something a founder or an office manager can handle on the side. Reqs pile up, interview panels are inconsistent, and nobody owns the data on why a role has been open for ten weeks.
You're also not big enough to justify a full-time Head of Talent, and a bad hire in that seat costs you a year you don't have.
Groundwork exists for exactly that gap — solid enough to build on, flexible enough to scale down once the framework holds.
What I Do
Four ways to shore up your talent function
Engage on one, or bring me in across all four as an embedded partner.
Recruiting
Individual requisitions
Hands-on, embedded recruiting for the roles that matter most right now — run with the rigor of an internal team, without the internal headcount.
TA Operations
Tools, data & dashboards
Assessing and implementing the ATS and sourcing stack you actually need, plus the reporting that tells leadership what's really happening in the pipeline.
Training
Interview & hiring manager enablement
Structured interview training for hiring managers and recruiters so hiring decisions hold up under pressure, and under scale.
Strategy
TA strategy assessment
A ground-level read on where your talent function stands today, and what it needs before your next stage of growth.
Who's Building
Ten years building talent functions from the ground up
I've spent the last decade building and running talent acquisition functions inside insurtech, healthtech, and B2B SaaS companies — the stretch where a company is growing fast enough to need real infrastructure but hasn't built the internal team to own it yet.
Groundwork Talent exists for exactly that stretch: founders and operators who need someone who's done this before, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Grounded in real recruiting work, not just frameworks.
Ready to build on solid ground?
Book a discovery call and we'll talk through your stage, your open reqs, and where Groundwork fits.
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