Frequently Asked Questions

  • We place Fractional Talent Acquisition leaders and experienced Sr Recruiters inside growing companies as an extension of your team. Your recruiting partner sits in your hiring manager meetings, works out of your tech stack, and represents your employer brand the way an in-house hire would. While they're hiring your critical roles, they're also building the recruiting infrastructure you'll keep even after they roll off.

  • No. We do not offer contingent or retained searches for a % placement fee. We do not charge per hire.


  • Companies who are growing, experiencing a hiring spike, or don’t have internal recruiting infrastructure. Typically Series A, B, + but we also support Fortune 100 enterprises. The pattern we see most often is a leadership team who needs senior level recruiting help now, who has an internal team at max capacity and can't justify another full headcount for a cyclical need.

  • Technology & SaaS
    Energy, Oil & Gas
    Financial Services
    Consumer Brands & Retail
    Aviation & Travel
    Hospitality
    Healthcare
    Professional Services
    Private Equity & Portfolio Companies

  • Executive Leadership
    Engineering, AI
    Product & Design
    IT, Technology
    Data Science
    Operations
    Sales & GTM
    All Corporate G&A
    People, Human Resources
    Marketing & Creative Brands
    Finance & Accounting
    Physicians


  • We charge a monthly retainer. No per-placement fees, no percentage of salary, no hidden charges at offer stage. You're not paying for placements - you're paying for a capacity of valuable work and systems that outlast the engagement.

  • Then you hire two or three people! There's no additional fee for hiring more than one person from a pipeline we built. We're not incentivised to slow down or hold candidates back.

  • A full-time employee requires salary and payroll taxes such as benefits, equity (sometimes), and severance if the role gets cut when hiring slows. Our recruiting professionals are contractors who work on a monthly retainer, so none of the payroll tax lands on your books. You don't hire at the same pace all year, and you shouldn't carry permanent overhead for a cyclical need.

  • No long-term contract is required. Engagements start with a 3 month commitment before moving to a month to month basis. You can scale us up or down, based on your needs.

  • Every recruiting professional comes through the Ignite Collective™, which is selective by design. These senior professionals have at least 10 years of real in-house recruiting and strategic leadership experience. They also aren't working alone - the Collective gives them monthly workshops, vendor partnerships, and peers to pressure-test things with. A supported partner does better work than an isolated one.

  • Everything. Your ATS configuration, your candidate pipelines, your interview guides and scorecards, your hiring data, your documented process. We built it inside your systems, so there's nothing to hand back - it's already yours.