Azimuth Partners / Practices / Practice 02

Talent
Acquisition.

Embedded hiring teams for VP, Director, and senior IC roles, built for companies that need to hire for multiple roles at speed without compromising on rigor. We sit inside your team, use your tools, and answer to your hiring bar.

Engagement
Embedded
Cadence
Month to month
Coverage
US · EU

How we
work.

Our recruiters embed inside your hiring team. We use your ATS, sit in your standups, and represent your company in every candidate conversation. To the candidate, we are you.

Each engagement is overseen by an Azimuth partner who sets the calibration, audits the pipeline weekly, and steps in when offers get hard. You get the velocity of an in-house team and the discipline of a retained firm.

Roles we
own.

We staff the middle of the org, the layer between executive search and high-volume recruiting. That's where companies stall, and where the right hires compound the fastest.

— 01

VP & Head-of

Functional leaders: VP Engineering, VP Product, VP Sales, VP Marketing, Head of People, Head of Finance.

— 02

Director & Senior Manager

The first layer of leverage below the executive team. Builder-leaders who run teams of 8 – 30 and report to a VP.

— 03

Senior Individual Contributor

Staff-and-above engineers, hardware engineers, principal designers, senior PMs, enterprise AEs. Calibrated against your bar, not market average.

— 04

Specialized Functions

AI / ML leadership, security, regulatory, compliance, and other roles where the candidate pool is thin and adversarial.

Engagement
models.

Three ways to bring us in. Most clients start with a Sprint and convert to Scale or Surge once the model proves out.

— 01

Sprint

1 – 3 roles

A focused engagement to fill up to 3 critical seats. Focused attention on securing you superb talent.

  • Dedicated recruiter
  • Partner-led calibration
  • Weekly pipeline review
  • 90-day replacement guarantee
— 02

Scale

4 – 8 roles

A recruiter or pod embedded inside your team. We carry the req load and the candidate experience.

  • 1 – 3 recruiters on-site or remote
  • Your ATS, your standups
  • Partner audit each Friday
  • Monthly hiring bar reviews
— 03

Surge

8 – 10+ roles

A team built for a specific scale-up window, opening a region, post-funding hiring sprint, or pre-IPO build-out.

  • 4 – 8 recruiters
  • Coordinator + sourcer support
  • Joint planning with your CPO
  • Wind-down plan included

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