Fractional + Hire
A packaged engagement for companies building product and hiring at the same time. We start knowing we will replace ourselves.
The practitioners we embed set the strategy and ship the work, each directing a team of AI agents and drawing on one shared practice.
For the past 15 years we've built recruiting funnels and processes for startups, and we've built these teams at multiple startups in Silicon Valley.
The focus is always the right mix of skills and seniority, at the right time, for the right roles.
Many candidates go in. The right few come through. We know what to pulse for.
Your maturity, your product's complexity and product-market fit set the mix: where you need research, visual design, design systems, strategic design, and junior designers.
A team shaped to your company, on the modern design stack, with AI delivery straight to your codebase.
Founders, CEOs and product leads with an open design or product role and work that cannot wait for the hire.
We embed in your product, set up the ways of working your new hires will step into, and write the roles from what the work actually needs.
We run the search and the hiring process alongside the work. We work with recruiting partners who specialize in design, and we negotiate the terms for you. Or we plug into yours.
A shipped product, a team of your own hired against real work, and ways of working already in place when they start.
Most clients start with The Runway: two to four weeks in which we interview your customers and run a facilitated workshop with your stakeholders. You leave with a strategy, a plan, and several concepts that show both. Because your practitioner builds with a team of AI agents, those concepts can arrive as working code. The Runway is fixed price, and we quote it on the call. If you already know us, you can start a Fractional tier directly.
Every tier runs in The Loop. We work inside your feedback loops with customers and stakeholders, and our AI agents work inside them with us. We design and build with your team, ship, and go again. The work ends in a delivered product, a team built and in place, or an ongoing agreement in which we advise and direct the product that ships. Fractional + Hire ends with your team built and in place.
Quoted after a free 30-minute call.
From our track record
At an enterprise AI company, we rebuilt the design team and recruited a principal designer and a UX researcher out of big tech.
Fractional. One senior practitioner on your team.
Fractional Team. Several senior practitioners across the skills you need: product design, product, engineering and account service. Quoted after a free 30-minute call.
Fractional + Hire. We start knowing we will replace ourselves, and we hire the people who do. Quoted after a free 30-minute call.
Hire can be added to Fractional or Fractional Team at any point.
You only need help with the search. Or you are not hiring yet. Start with Fractional and add Hire later.
Book a free 30-minute call and we will tell you whether Fractional + Hire fits, or which tier does. Or start with The Runway.