Senior People leadership on a part-time basis, for founders, post-Series-A teams, and companies between full-time CHROs. The seat is filled by an operator who has done the job, not a consultant adjacent to it.
A seat at the leadership table, not a vendor on the outside. Our fractional operators run People as an executive function: strategy, comp, performance, organizational design, alongside the CEO and CFO.
Every placement is an Azimuth-vetted operator with prior CHRO or VP-People experience. They are not generalists. We match the operator to your stage, sector, and the specific surface area you need owned.
A fractional engagement is scoped to specific outcomes. The most common: building the People function from scratch, or repairing one that has stalled.
Quarterly planning rhythm, leadership team operating model, and the dashboards a CEO actually uses to run People.
Salary bands, equity refresh, performance-pay structures, and a comp philosophy that survives funding rounds.
Performance frameworks, calibration rituals, succession planning, and the hard conversations leadership tends to defer.
Spans of control, role architecture, leveling, and the structural changes that need to happen before headcount doubles.
Policy frameworks, multi-state / multi-jurisdiction compliance, and a real incident-response process.
When the time comes, our fractional partner runs the search for their full-time successor, usually with our Executive Search team.