Talent Leadership Insights & Tools

Building a hiring function that actually grows with your business takes more than posting job descriptions and hoping for the best. Companies often find themselves drowning in resumes while struggling to fill critical roles, especially during periods of rapid expansion. Rachel Blanton, founder of Ignite Talent Company and fractional VP of talent acquisition, has spent over 15 years solving this exact problem for fast-paced early stage companies and multi-billion dollar global brands.

When Rachel Hilary Blanton stepped into a high-growth SaaS company undergoing rapid scale, she encountered a familiar challenge: skyrocketing headcount without the infrastructure to support it. Hiring pipelines were fragmented, job architecture inconsistent, and onboarding lacked cohesion. “People are your business, they are the engine,” Blanton says. “If your talent function is misaligned, the business itself stalls.” Today, as founder of Ignite Talent Co., she parachutes into early stage companies and mature enterprises alike, bringing C-suite fluency and hands-on recruiting precision to help leaders turn disjointed hiring into a lever for growth. The consultancy builds systems, introduces AI-enabled workflows, and balances global hiring agility with a human touch, a model that has attracted clients across tech, consumer, and professional-services sectors.