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Influential Search

Influential Search is a boutique finance and accounting recruitment firm dedicated to building high-performing teams within the office of the CFO. Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area with reach across the United States, the firm partners with Fortune 500 enterprises, middle market companies, venture-backed startups, and private equityowned businesses, as well as financial services organizations including venture capital, private equity, investment management, and real estate firms. Led by founder Meghan Hansona CPA who began her career at PwC, moved into hedge fund accounting, and has specialized in finance and accounting recruiting since 2012Influential Search brings first-hand technical expertise to every engagement and speaks the language of its clients and candidates. The company focuses on direct hire, permanent recruitment and executive search across the CFO organization, delivering talent for roles such as VP Finance, Chief Accounting Officer, Controller, Director of Revenue, Assistant Controller, Accounting Manager, Finance Manager, Senior Accountant, Senior Financial Analyst, SOX & Internal Controls Manager, and SEC Reporting Manager. Its relationship-led, quality-over-quantity model blends rigorous candidate vetting with a streamlined process that removes friction for hiring managers: job description creation and guidance, initial screening, interview scheduling and coordination, compensation analysis and market data, reference checks, and offer closing assistance. For candidates, the team provides career advice, resume reviews, interview preparation, and offer negotiation to accelerate outcomes. Recognizing that many top performers are passive, Influential Search unlocks access to a curated network while providing market insights on pay ranges, hiring trends, and competitive positioning. Whether augmenting an internal TA team or serving as an outsourced recruiting partner, the firm guarantees urgency, attention to detail, honest feedback, consistent communication, and an unwavering commitment to successful, lasting matches. Above all, Influential Search fosters long-term relationships built on integrity, collaboration, and trust, persisting until the right hire is made and ensuring both companies and professionals move forward with confidence.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceMedical DevicesHealthcare AdministrationMental Health Care

HQSan Francisco, United States

hireOcto

hireOcto (Octo) is a recruitment platform and RPO partner that combines a next-generation ATS with a curated community of independent recruiters to deliver a modern, success-fee hiring model. Built as an all-in-one, mobile-friendly middleware, the Octo platform plugs into leading HR technologies for sourcing, market data, engagement, scheduling, reporting and LinkedIn, giving employers a seamless way to open positions, collaborate, track candidates and manage offers while paying no licenses or subscriptions. Employers only pay a transparent Hire Fee, typically 510% of the candidates annual base salary and visible on each talent profile, once an offer is accepted; recruiters are paid one month after the start date, acting as a warranty that protects employers against no-shows or early mismatches. Octos crowdsourced model incentivizes its network of recruiters to compete to submit the best qualified, interested, and often passive candidates, reducing time to submit and lowering total TA costs by up to 70% compared with traditional agency and executive search fees. The platforms free ATS centralizes dashboards, notifications, position profiles with intake details and Q&A forums, candidate records including compensation expectations and recruiter ratings, and match tracking through approvals, interviews, offer, and onboarding, with the ability to negotiate hire fees and compensation in line with market reality. Employers can open roles to the full community or work privately with selected recruiters, while built-in analytics convert activity into actionable insights and facilitate collaboration among hiring managers and stakeholders. By digitalizing the product (the job) rather than just the process, Octo focuses sourcing on the right talent populations and leverages human screening to validate interest and availability before submission, improving candidate experience and hiring outcomes. In addition to the marketplace, Octo offers Next Gen RPO, Recruiter On Demand, TA consulting and sourcing capabilities so hiring teams can scale flexibly during seasonal spikes without fixed overhead, using a qualified human approach rather than bots alone. Designed by entrepreneurs for recruiters and employers alike, hireOcto aligns incentives, brings transparency to every transaction, and turns fragmented recruiting workflows into a predictable, data-driven experience for filling predominantly white-collar and mid-management roles.

RPOPermanent RecruitmentPayrolling/EORAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQSan Francisco, United States

Growth by Design Talent

Growth by Design Talent (GBD) is a recruiting advisory and search firm built to help highgrowth technology companies scale intentionally and sustainably. Over six years, the team partnered with innovators from earlystage startups through public companies to design talent strategies that enable rapid growth without sacrificing quality, with a consistent focus on building inclusive teams, durable recruiting cultures, operations for scale, and distinctive employer brands. GBD combined executive and augmented search with embedded, ondemand recruiting support, advising clients on resourcing, systems, data, process, and programs while delivering handson training to elevate hiring capabilities across all levels in scaling tech organizations. Their practical approach was supported by original content and tools, including a newsletter for talent leaders with thousands of subscribers and Recruiting Plan, a capacity planning tool purposebuilt for fastgrowing companies. GBDs collaborations spanned many of the most recognizable names in technology, reflecting breadth across software, product, data, and gotomarket organizations. In 2025, GBD announced that it had been acquired by Cursor, whose AIpowered developer platform is rapidly adopted by engineering teams globally; two founding partners and several team members joined Cursor to help build its talent systems and culture from the ground up, while other GBD alumni continue independently with advisory and recruiting work focused on foundational recruiting, process, and strategic guidance. Throughout its journey, GBD remained committed to being a pragmatic, metricsdriven partner that aligns talent priorities to business outcomes, whether leading executive searches, standing up embedded recruiting programs, or diagnosing and optimizing endtoend recruiting operations for technology companies scaling at pace.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtRPOSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQSan Francisco, United States

Vivid Recruitment

Vivid Recruitment is a boutique Australian recruitment consultancy focused on the built environment, providing a clear and simple service to clients and candidates across Architecture, Engineering, Planning and Construction. Founded in 2020 and based in Melbourne and Ballarat, the firm supports hiring needs nationwide with an active presence across Geelong, Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, the Gold Coast and Brisbane. The team brings more than two decades of dedicated recruiting experience and a practical ethos that values relationships, market knowledge and straightforward delivery over gimmicks. Vivid Recruitment specialises across six key areas: Architecture and Interior Design, Urban Design and Planning, Engineering, Commercial Construction, Residential Construction and Business Support. Their coverage spans multidisciplinary architecture studios and interior practices, urban planning and design consultancies, and engineering firms from boutique specialists through to multinational consultancies. Within engineering, they recruit building services (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and fire), civil and structural, ESD and sustainability, and niche disciplines such as acoustics. For construction and property, they support commercial and residential project delivery functions as well as core business support roles that keep firms running smoothly. Services include permanent recruitment for growth and replacement hires, and retained search for confidential or business critical mandates where deeper market mapping, targeted outreach and structured shortlists are required. For candidates, the firm provides job search support, resume submission and job alerts, along with open communication around role fit, flexibility and career progression. For clients, Vivid offers a transparent process, tailored shortlists and access to a wide network built across years in sector-specific recruiting. The firm also shares practical insights through blogs, resources and salary guides that reflect current hiring conditions in architecture, engineering, planning and construction. Whether building a team or planning a career move, Vivid Recruitment aims to cut through noise and deliver results with discipline, speed and genuine care for long term outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial MachineryChemical Manufacturing

HQMelbourne, Australia

Hello Generalist

Hello Generalist (HG) is a specialist recruitment and talent platform that helps early-stage startups and growth companies access fractional, part-time, and advisory operators across core business functions. Designed for teams that need impact without the constraints of a full-time hire, HG partners 1:1 with founders and hiring managers to scope the role, calibrate budget and time commitment, and quickly deliver a short list of deeply qualified candidatestypically within 35 business days. Clients meet highly vetted operators with proven startup experience across BizOps and data, chief of staff, customer success, finance, growth, marketing, operations, people ops and HR, product, and project management, then move straight to interviews and offers while HG manages the paperwork. Engagement models include Advisors (seasoned leaders providing 15 hours per week), and fractional or part-time contracts (typically 530 hours per week, ongoing), with startup-friendly contracts, clear deliverables, and ACH payroll handled end to end so founders can get right to work. Built by startup veterans, HG blends hundreds of data points with a human touch to scope roles accurately and match candidates who are available, aligned to the brief, and within budget; nearly all customers hire from their first five intros. The operator community is carefully curated through an application, a screening call, and a 90-minute onboarding workshop to define offerings and build standout profiles, after which HG hand-matches them to exclusive contract opportunities and ensures on-time payment. In addition to single hires, HG supports multi-hire team builds with reduced fees, and offers a simple conversion path to full-time for a flat $10,000 fee when theres a great mutual fit. Trusted by operators with backgrounds at companies such as Airbnb, Google, Uber, PayPal, Box, General Assembly, and HelloFresh, HG makes flexible hiring the easy choice for startups, enterprises, and PE/VC firms alike.

Contract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtPayrolling/EORSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceE-commerceLuxury GoodsBanking

HQSan Francisco, United States

Golden Gate Recruits

Golden Gate Recruits is a boutique recruitment partner focused on connecting talented business generalists with strategic and operational roles at high-growth startups and leading investment firms across the United States. Built by former operators with experience at organizations such as Bain and Peloton, the firm brings practical, operator-led insight to every search, helping candidates and clients navigate ambiguous, fast-moving environments common to venture-backed companies. GGR specializes in placements spanning Strategy & Biz Ops, Growth & Expansion, Strategic Finance, Go-to-Market, Chief of Staff, General Manager, Director of Operations, and Portfolio Operations, supporting needs from associate and manager levels through VP, COO, and other executive appointments. The team partners with early-stage startups through late-stage and pre-IPO technology companies, as well as VC funds, PE firms, and family offices that require mission-critical operators in roles such as Chief of Staff or portfolio value-creation leaders. Their client and role portfolio reflects breadth across SaaS, AI, fintech, healthtech, edtech, consumer tech, and travel tech, with frequent searches in hubs like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, plus flexible remote and hybrid opportunities. For candidates, GGR offers curated open roles, a general application for proactive introductions, and practical resources including a compensation survey, a Substack newsletter, and a comprehensive job reflection and prep guidepositioning the firm as recruiter, career counselor, and thought partner in one. For employers, GGR runs end-to-end searches from intake and calibration through shortlisting, assessment, and offer close, drawing on a network of consulting- and finance-trained operators, many with STEM/CS backgrounds, who are prepared to drive growth, build systems, and scale teams. Known for long-term relationships and a tailored approach, Golden Gate Recruits consistently delivers high-caliber, execution-minded talent that advances strategic priorities for startups and investment platforms alike.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceInsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTech

HQSan Francisco, United States

Talnt

Talnt is a modern recruitment partner built to deliver precision hiring at scale by fusing AI-powered sourcing with seasoned recruiter judgment. Trusted by 425+ clients, the firm focuses on speed, accuracy, and measurable outcomes, leveraging a proprietary process that combines AI, machine learning, and automation to surface high-fit candidates within hours and deliver interview-ready shortlists to client inboxes within 24 hours. With more than 2 million candidates in its database and a 91% submission-to-interview rate, Talnt emphasizes quality at pace: every candidate is vetted by a recruiter for hard skills, relevant experience, and culture add before being presented. The engagement model is simple and flexible. For executive and complex mandates, Talnt offers retained search that includes strategic market mapping, competitor insights, custom outreach to top-tier talent, and fully vetted shortlists with detailed recaps alongside end-to-end support throughout the hiring journey. For broader needs, its contingent model lets clients pay only when they hire, while still benefiting from same-day sourcing, comprehensive screening, unlimited roles and searches, and a dedicated recruiter driving each assignment. The operating cadence is designed for clarity and momentum: a focused intake locks priorities in 15 minutes, an AI market scan instantly maps the talent pool, and an iterative refinement loop improves results as feedback flows in. Communication stays streamlined with a single point of contact, real-time updates, and full visibility across each stage, from discovery and targeting through coordination, scheduling, and close. Whether the goal is to accelerate a critical leadership placement, build out a key team, or keep pipelines flowing with fully vetted talent, Talnt blends human expertise with technology to reduce time-to-hire, lower cost, and raise the bar on candidate quality.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentPayrolling/EORAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQSan Francisco, United States

Remote Staffing

Remote Staffing is a specialist partner providing pre-trained, compliance-focused virtual assistants that help mortgage brokers, real estate professionals, and global businesses streamline operations and scale with confidence. Founded in 2021, the firm focuses on outcomes that matter to time-pressed owners and teams by removing credential-sharing risks and avoiding long-term contracts or hidden costs, making engagement simple, flexible, and transparent. Its Australian mortgage broking support is anchored in rigorous process knowledge and compliance, with loan processors trained on leading platforms such as AFG, Loan Market, and Finsure to perform document preparation, accuracy and compliance checks, and lender follow ups aligned to Australian lending standards. Beyond mortgages, Remote Staffing delivers end to end administrative and back office support, including data entry, invoicing, inbox and calendar management, call handling, appointment booking, and customer support. Growth-oriented teams leverage its sales and lead management capability for cold calling, structured follow ups, pipeline hygiene, and CRM updates, while its social media and marketing assistance covers content creation, engagement, and paid ad coordination to keep brands visible and responsive. Every client is supported by a dedicated Client Liaison Officer who serves as a single point of contact for coordination, feedback, and continuous improvement, while ongoing training and quality assurance ensure consistent delivery and rapid ramp-up for new processes and tools. With a team of around 15 professionals and a global operating model, Remote Staffing supports businesses worldwide while maintaining deep specialization in mortgage broking and real estate. The companys mission is to free leaders and revenue teams to focus on client acquisition and strategic work by taking ownership of repeatable, process-driven tasks and delivering reliable, compliant, and scalable capacity on demand.

Contract StaffingTemporary StaffingPayrolling/EORBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementArchitectureInterior DesignAll industries

HQMelbourne, Australia

Hartman Group Consulting, LLC

Hartman Group Consulting, LLC is a boutique, founder-led staffing and recruiting practice that provides hands-on talent solutions tailored to each clients unique hiring goals. Operating within the staffing and recruiting industry, the firm supports organizations that need dependable guidance and execution across the full recruitment lifecycle, from defining role requirements and sourcing strategies to assessing candidates and securing accepted offers. Its approach combines consultative rigor with agile delivery, emphasizing transparent communication, market insight, and a curated candidate experience that reflects each clients brand and culture. Core services span permanent recruitment for critical hires, contract staffing to address time-bound or project-based workload, and executive search and interim leadership solutions for high-impact roles where leadership, confidentiality, and fit are paramount. The practice is intentionally lean, enabling direct senior-level attention on every assignment, faster decision-making, and measurable accountability throughout the engagement. Clients value the firms ability to translate hiring needs into clear competency profiles, build targeted outreach campaigns, evaluate both technical capabilities and soft-skill alignment, and guide offers through to acceptance with data-informed compensation advice. On the candidate side, Hartman Group Consulting, LLC prioritizes clarity and respect, providing timely feedback and coaching to ensure professionals understand role expectations and career trajectory. Beyond individual searches, the firm advises on talent acquisition process design, interview calibration, employer branding within the hiring journey, and practical analytics that reveal pipeline health and hiring bottlenecks. While the website is currently under construction, the firms operating model is centered on quality over volume, long-term relationships, and outcomes that endure beyond the start date. Whether building foundational teams, backfilling essential roles, or navigating leadership transitions, Hartman Group Consulting, LLC brings disciplined search execution and senior attention to every engagement, aligning talent decisions with business strategy and delivering an efficient, credible, and candidate-centric hiring process.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQSan Francisco, United States

Top Talent Recruiting, LLC

Top Talent Recruiting, LLC is a San Diegobased boutique recruiting partner dedicated to helping organizations attract, hire, and retain exceptional professionals while empowering candidates to advance their careers. Led by founder and Talent Partner Jennifer Alvarez, PHR, SHRM-CP, the firm blends more than 15 years of HR and recruiting experience with a high-touch, discovery-led approach that prioritizes role clarity, culture fit, and candidate experience. The company provides end-to-end permanent hiring support, from intake and job description revamps to employer value proposition (EVP) refinement, targeted sourcing, structured screening, and shortlist delivery, enabling leaders to focus on selecting the best fit while reducing time to hire. For clients seeking scalable support, Top Talent Recruiting offers embedded and project-based recruitment solutions that assess current hiring practices, identify bottlenecks, and implement actionable improvements to elevate talent acquisition performance. Dedicated sourcing services are available for hard-to-fill and niche roles, expanding talent pipelines through proactive research, outreach, and qualification. Beyond employer services, the firm delivers candidate-focused career offerings, including resume and LinkedIn optimization and interview coaching, helping job seekers strengthen their personal brand and convert interviews into offers. Whether partnering with an early-stage business building its first team or a growing organization seeking specialized skills, Top Talent Recruiting operates as an extension of the clients brand, bringing market insights, transparent communication, and consultative guidance to every search. The firms philosophy is rooted in genuine connection: listening closely to both clients and candidates, aligning capabilities and goals, and reintroducing the human touch to recruiting. With flexible, ,a carte options and full lifecycle support, Top Talent Recruiting, LLC streamlines hiring, enhances recruiting effectiveness, and delivers consistently high-quality outcomes for white-collar roles across a wide range of functions.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOPayrolling/EORAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQSan Diego, United States

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