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Venture Capital / Private Equity

1,700+ Flexible And Fractional TAs

Available Within 48 Hours To Enable Your Portfolio Companies' Growth

Your investment success requires effective and cost-efficient access to talent. Our global network of 1,700+ freelance / fractional recruiters provide “in-house quality” talent acquisition on a flexible basis. It’s the ideal way to ensure your investment success.

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Existing Talent Acquisition Solutions Lack Flexibility, Global Capability & Cost-Efficiency

As your portfolio companies scale, they reach that point where acquiring talent can’t be done via networks. And before they go to an in-house recruitment team, they invariably use agencies or an embedded solution. 
But no agency on the planet has recruiters to match every possible need. Embedded TA functions are even less flexible, and can only make sense when you can guarantee a steady flow of similar role types.

Our Solution

Flexible Talent Acquisition To Enable Your Portfolio Companies’ Growth

Seasoned TA Experts

Global network of seasoned “in-house quality” freelance / fractional recruiters

Deliver On Any Brief

Ability to deliver on search, pink unicorns, project scale-up, new market entry, etc

Highly Cost-Effective

Payment on success only, guaranteed 20% lower than other external solutions

Interested to explore more?

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OUR CAPABILITIES

Hire For Any Role Globally Within 48 Hours

Our global network of talent acquisition specialists can begin work on any role, anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

Our clients have access to over 1,700 recruiter options with experience delivering  on six continents, largely with STEM and GTM hiring. We source niche specialists to requirement.

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Businesses We Work With...

We work with companies of all types, scales, and locations. Whether you’re seeking recruiting expertise in software development or sales, cloud and data, media & entertainment, chemicals or manufacturing, and electronics or engineering, our years of outsourcing expertise ensure that we can build the team you need.

How It Works

All Fractal clients are supported by a dedicated account manager, with a clear process

Step 1

You give us an idea of the type of roles you’d normally give to agencies anywhere in the world

Step 2

We deploy a virtual, fractional, in-country, skills- and language-matched recruitment team

Step 3

We verify, vet and assess all recruiters to ensure they meet your standards

Step 4

When you have a role, you engage our recruiter(s) within a process determined by you. We oversee performance to your standards on your behalf

Step 5

You only pay once a role is filled. Otherwise the Fractal solution is free to use, and risk free in addition

Meet Our Team

Fractal is led by a highly experienced senior team who will ensure your project’s success

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of roles can you support with hiring?

Whatever your role or project, we deploy recruiters with matching expertise. We provide you with a dedicated, “in-house quality” recruiter for your project within days. Our network of 1,700+ flexible / fractional talent acquisition professionals are located worldwide, offering an unrivalled range of functional and regional capabilities.

Can you support high-growth companies?

Yes. Clients come to Fractal when they need to ensure access to talent at scale and quality, despite having uncertain or highly changeable growth plans. We recognise that early-stage and scaling businesses evolve and adapt fast. It can be difficult to build or source the right suppliers for talent acquisition. Fractal is a single supplier who can support whatever scale and specialisms you need to hire within, anywhere in the world.

Who are your recruiters?

We’re a collective of 1,700+ outsourcing, agency and in-house recruitment professionals passionate about innovation, quality and effective delivery. Our recruiters offer experience and specialist focus that you would normally only get with in-house resources, but with flexibility to access only when you need. And they come with a “there is no option but to fill the role” attitude all great in-house recruiters have.

How does Fractal compare to building an in-house TA function?

We are the flexible bridge between founder networks driving talent acquisiton and you building your own recruitment function. If your companies’ growth relies on adaptability and the ability to scale in multiple areas or geographies, an in-house team isn’t necessarily the right solution. Fractal offers the same quality as an internal TA function but on a much more flexible basis.

How does Fractal compare to a recruitment agency?

We provide in-house recruiters not sales consultants.We guarantee to be 20% cheaper than agencies. We are not limited by our employee base as we don’t have one. We currently cover 84 countries and 61 specialisms via our network of recruiters. Our recruiters are experts in their fields and given their geographical spread, we are both deep niche specialists and global. Most agencies are one or the other.

How does your fee structure work?

Fractal offers a “no fixed cost” investment model. And we guarantee to be between 20% – 50% cheaper than alternative third-party suppliers. Access to Fractal talent acquisition specialists is fully flexible, meaning you’re never paying for resource that is not delivering hires for you.

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James Jenkins

Advisor

James is senior TA professional with over 20 years experience in leading brands across agency, RPO and in-house talent acquisition.

With extensive experience designing and leading global RPO solutions for Cielo and KornFerry, James has spent the last 7 years in-house in senior leadership roles for Accenture and Google, delivering high volume, high tech and innovative recruiting solutions within EMEA.

His passion remains being an advocate for the role of talent advisory, influencing workforce planning and data led recruiting efforts to support business growth. He also has great hair.

Steph Robson

COO

steph@wearefractal.io

With 5 years at a global leadership development consultancy under my belt, where I managed large-scale talent programmes, I then spent 8 years in the recruitment world. My journey took me from agency recruitment to internal talent acquisition, and RPO onsite with a global media giant. I've had the pleasure of working with organisations ranging from ambitious startups to large enterprises. I’m driven by helping drive growth and performance, and my sweet spot to do that is by combining my passion for operational excellence and my commitment to delivering fantastic service to every organisation I partner with.

Mark Lee

CEO & Founder

mark@wearefractal.io

With 25 years of experience in the recruitment industry, I have built global outsourcing businesses, owned successful recruitment agencies, and advised cutting-edge recruitment and tech start-ups, helping them scale and secure funding. My journey includes investing in numerous tech companies, completing a management buyout (MBO), and authoring a book.

Driven by a passion for innovation and social impact, I founded Fractal, inspired by the comment that I was "too much of a socialist to be a recruitment business owner"—the highest compliment I’ve ever received.

Paul Flavin

Amercias Lead

Paul has 25 years in the recruitment industry, 12 of those spent in-house leading Talent Acquisition functions for companies like PwC, Accenture and Deloitte in the UK.

In the US, Paul led recruitment functions for global financial services organisations like Credit Suisse, Macquarie and SitusAMC in the Real Estate industry.

He then spent 5 years leading Search, Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Recruitment Projects for Korn Ferry, delivering results for a range of leading brands across industries and various functions.

For 3 years prior to working with Fractal, Paul set up a US based Search and Project recruiting business delivering leadership search for companies as diverse as high-growth, Tech start ups through to Paramount+ and Dentsu in the media and marketing sectors.