Two service lines. One practice.
Whether it is hiring key players or putting in motion your talent/HR systems, processes, best practices or compliance, I can help.
Service line one
Recruitment
Senior engineers, backend and full stack, five to twelve years. Early go-to-market hires. First people leaders. Exclusivity on every role, and a 60-day replacement guarantee on sourced hires.
Embedded Plus (Preferred)
I work as your in-house recruiter, inside your ATS and on your company email, Slack, etc while managing all or some of your roles including inbound applications, scheduling, referrals and postings. Your team gets a recruiting function when you're not ready to hire someone full time - you get your time back. No additional fee for inbound hires and a discounted rate for hires I source. This is my preferred method as we get to know each other very well and I am able to be incredibly dedicated to your project.
Retained IC & Executive Search
Your partner on hiring critical roles. I source, screen, and hand you a short list of people worth your time and calibrate along the way. I build the scorecard, map the market, run every conversation, and stay with you through the offer. Weekly calibration so the shortlist keeps getting closer. Allows for more guaranteed time and focus on my end.
Contingency Search
The closest to your typical agency search, but better, because I'm running it - I don't throw spaghetti at the wall and hope it sticks.
Roles filled
Everything from execs to BDRs
A snapshot roles across startups, scale-ups and public companies that I have filled or can fill. Tap a category to see the roles inside it.
- Chief Revenue Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief People Officer
- VP of Engineering
- VP of Sales
- VP of Marketing
- VP of Customer Success
- VP of People
- Head of Product
- General Manager
- Backend Engineer
- Full Stack Engineer
- Frontend Engineer
- Staff Engineer
- Principal Engineer
- Engineering Manager
- Site Reliability Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- Data Engineer
- Machine Learning Engineer
- QA Engineer
- Mobile Engineer
- Product Manager
- Senior Product Manager
- Director of Product
- Technical Program Manager
- Product Designer
- UX Researcher
- Design Lead
- Data Analyst
- Analytics Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Business Intelligence Manager
- Revenue Operations Analyst
- Business Development Representative
- Sales Development Representative
- Account Executive
- Enterprise Account Executive
- Strategic Account Executive
- Sales Manager
- Sales Engineer
- Partnerships Manager
- Channel Manager
- Demand Generation Manager
- Product Marketing Manager
- Content Marketing Manager
- Brand Manager
- Lifecycle Marketing Manager
- Growth Marketer
- Field Marketing Manager
- Customer Success Manager
- Enterprise Customer Success Manager
- Implementation Manager
- Solutions Consultant
- Support Lead
- Technical Account Manager
- Controller
- Accounting Manager
- FP&A Manager
- Business Operations Manager
- Recruiter
- Technical Recruiter
- People Operations Manager
- Executive Assistant
- Office and Culture Manager
Service line two
Fractional VP of People
For seed through Series B companies that need a people leader but not a full-time one. Buy the six workstreams together or one at a time.
People systems
I select and set up the ATS, the HRIS, the benefits broker, and the PEO if you need one, so you never have to become an expert in any of them.
People and culture foundations
I turn the culture you already have into something you can hire for, onboard into, and hold people to.
Policies, procedures, compliance roadmap
I write what you need now and give you a dated list of what becomes required as you grow.
First-in-seat hires
I hire the first sales leader, first engineering manager, or first people leader, the roles you have never hired before and cannot afford to get wrong.
Performance management
I build the review cycle, the feedback cadence, and the exit path, and prepare (or sit with) you for the hard or celebratory conversations.
Recruiting infrastructure
I design the hiring process and train your interviewers so the function runs without you in every loop.
In their words
I recruited Kelsey directly after having worked with her at TrendKite. You will be hard pressed to find a more well rounded People leader at the startup stage. She possesses the ability to be both a strategic partner and hands-on executer, whether its setting up HR systems and foundations or finding a first in seat critical technical hire.
Kelsey recruited me to join Bigcommerce, and helped change my life. She is one of the best people I have had the privilege of working with. Of the group I came in with, all of which she recruited, the majority were still with the organization after two years. Most have had multiple promotions. I have seen first hand how Kelsey's contributions produce exponential results.