Talent engineering and operations
AI raised the potential of every recruiting team. We'll get you to yours.
Getting there means work in your data, your workflows, and the tools your recruiters actually open. We find what's working, fix what's broken, build the tooling, and put AI where it actually helps.
Get in touch →The Squeeze
The hiring never stops long enough to invest in going faster.
“We're being asked to produce more, with no bandwidth to keep hiring going and improve our foundations at the same time. I know our team could be doing more with AI, but we don't know where to start. We bought AI tools and it's unclear whether we're using them properly, or whether they're even the right ones.”
Engagements
Four disciplines.
Understand · Diagnose · Design · Build · EnableWhere we start →Talent Engineering
Custom tools for your team.
The tools you can't buy. One side is the daily friction: the copy-paste, the scorecard chasing, the spreadsheet three people maintain. The other side is an advantage your competitors can't buy either. Most importantly, we build things your team uses every day.
Talent Ops
Data, workflows, systems.
The rec ops foundation your team scales on. ATS audits and full implementations, data hygiene, dashboards the room stops arguing with. Nobody sees this work. Skipping it is what quietly degrades a talent operation.
Chief of Staff, Talent
Whatever the function needs.
Former Heads of TA embedded with your leadership team: strategy, operating cadence, coaching your recruiters. We'll pinch hit wherever you need us.
Applied AI Training
Start from where you are.
You can copy a prompt without ever learning to write one. Learning this is like starting at the gym: a video can show you the movement, but it can't tell you your form is wrong. Your team brings work they already do by hand, and we coach them through building it themselves. One person or the whole team.
Proof
Two projects we shipped for clients.
Analysis
A monthly business review, rebuilt on a custom MCP to run itself.
28h → 0
After · pulls, checks, and dates itself
Product
A referral tool that maps who your company already knows.
10K → 80K
81,831
People in network
90,972
Connections
51
Contributors
100%
Enriched
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Recruiting Coordinator · Northwind Labs
Warm intro via Sam Ortega · In ATS · archived
Senior Recruiting Coordinator · Halcyon Robotics
Warm intro via Sam Ortega, Marcus Bell · In ATS · active
Why Us
We've scaled teams at
- Vercel
- Airbnb
- DoorDash
- Netflix
Every mistake we're helping you avoid, we made in your seat with an exec team watching.
If half your hires skip the offer stage and half don't, every conversion number you report is wrong, and no tool will notice.
Your recruiters quietly stop using tools built by people who have never run a search.
Most engagements end in a recommendation. Ours end with your team already using the thing we built.
Get in Touch
Tell us what's not working.
A short conversation about your team, your data, and where the time is going. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.
hello@talentcollective.io →