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Take-Off Recruiting is a boutique recruiting partner focused on helping early stage startups hire fast and well through an embedded model that functions as an extension of the founding team or in-house talent function. Founded and led by Cameron Barnette, who previously recruited in-house at Google and Uber’s self-driving division (Uber ATG), the firm brings enterprise-grade recruiting discipline to Seed through Series D companies and adapts it to the realities of startup speed and ambiguity. Take-Off Recruiting specializes in building or augmenting recruiting infrastructure from scratch, advising on tools and workflows, and then executing end-to-end searches for critical hires across engineering, data, product, and technical leadership. The team conducts structured hiring manager intake to clarify priorities and ideal profiles, audits or stands up tools such as Teamable (formerly TopFunnel), Gem, and Betterleap, and implements pragmatic ATS solutions including Greenhouse, Lever, or even lightweight options like Notion when appropriate. Before launching sourcing at scale, they run candidate calibration to align on signals, iterate boolean strategies, and optimize top-of-funnel quality and volume. Acting as embedded recruiters, they handle outreach, first-round screens, candidate pitching, scheduling, and cross-functional coordination, and they lean in heavily at the offer stage to close top talent. When no recruiting infrastructure exists, they define scorecards and interview loops, establish data standards, and train hiring teams on best practices to reduce bias and cycle time. Where a partial function exists, they plug in immediately, lift response rates, and increase qualified pipeline without sacrificing quality by targeting the top 1–10% of candidates. Their track record includes placing founding engineers for Seed and Series A startups, Engineering Managers for growth-stage teams, and leadership roles such as Director of Product Management for a real estate tech company and Director of Cybercrime for a blockchain intelligence startup, as well as Data Scientists, Product Analysts, Technical Project Managers, and Technical Program Managers. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Take-Off Recruiting combines high-touch partnership with data-driven execution to help venture-backed startups scale teams with speed, precision, and a candidate experience that strengthens employer brand.
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