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Hiring Expertise For Early Stage Tech Companies

From critical search and Ashby infrastructure to fractional talent leadership, we help growing companies hire well and build the foundations to scale.

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WHAT WE DO /

We provide high-impact, strategic talent support to early-stage and scaling tech companies, through a flexible, fractional model.

With over 16 years’ experience across corporates, unicorns, and seed-stage startups, we embed deeply into your business to help you build or transform your approach to hiring.

Whether you’re hiring your first key roles or need to scale fast post-funding, we act as your Head of Talent - owning hiring strategy, setting up robust infrastructure, and delivering hands-on support to get the right people in place, fast.

Our model is built on quality, trust, and adaptability. Every engagement is tailored to your stage, challenges, and goals, offering the benefits of senior talent leadership without the need for a full-time hire.

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SERVICES /

Fractional
Talent

Senior Talent expertise, embedded into your business when you need it.

  • Own your hiring strategy and priorities

  • Take over hiring during periods of growth

  • Advise founders and leadership teams

  • Build and improve hiring processes and infrastructure

  • Bring market, compensation and talent insight into decision making

  • Scale support up or down as your hiring needs change

  • Build the foundations for your future internal Talent team

Hiring Infrastructure

Build the hiring foundations you need to scale.

  • Implement, migrate or optimise Ashby

  • Audit your existing ATS, workflows and data

  • Build interview plans, scorecards and job templates

  • Improve reporting, dashboards and automation

  • Design approvals, offers and hiring workflows

  • Train Talent teams, founders and hiring managers

  • Establish scalable hiring processes and best practice

Certified Member of the Ashby Expert Program

Talent
Search

From founding hires to building your first Engineering or Sales team.

  • Hire critical founding and early team members

  • Build your first 10 person team

  • Define the role and what good looks like

  • Benchmark talent availability and compensation

  • Run targeted search across technical, commercial and leadership roles

  • Qualify candidates through a structured process

  • Advise through interview, offer and close

FAQS /

  • A: Fractional talent leadership means bringing on experienced talent leaders on a part-time or flexible basis to guide your hiring strategy, build your team and support growth without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.

  • A: We work with VC backed tech companies from Seed through to Series D; typically during phases of growth, hiring ramp-up, or team transformation. Whether you’re hiring your first key roles or scaling post-funding, we help build or evolve your talent infrastructure to support your next stage.

  • A: Every company is unique. We offer flexible service plans, from fractional leadership and talent infrastructure builds to hiring support - all customized based on your stage, goals, and challenges.

  • A: Yes. Talent Nova supports VC backed tech companies to implement Ashby as their chosen ATS.

    We help founders and teams set up Ashby properly from the start, including hiring workflows, interview stages, scorecards, automations, and reporting. The setup is tailored to your stage of growth so Ashby supports how you hire now and scales with you as the business grows.

  • Yes. We regularly work with tech companies that are already using Ashby but not getting full value from it.

    This typically includes cleaning up workflows, improving reporting and dashboards, streamlining automations, and refining interview kits and scorecards. The goal is to make Ashby easier to use, automate processes, improve candidate experience and give founders and leaders clearer visibility into hiring performance.

  • A: While based in the UK, we’ve supported companies all across EMEA, New York and San Francisco.

  • A: Reach out for a free discovery call, and we’ll explore your needs together to build the best talent plan for your company.

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TRUSTED BY /

  • Kingsley Macey: Chief People Officer at Ardoq

    Leah has redefined what great looks like in Talent Acquisition. She’s built trust across the business by leading the team to deliver high impact results and turning talent into a true strategic partner.

  • Dave Boylesekera: TA Partner at Artificial Labs

    TalentNova were amazing! I am the sole person in Talent here at Artificial and we are scaling massively in 2026. As soon as I spoke with Leah and Meena they were so helpful going above and beyond. They were so easy to work with and delivered on time as was agreed at the start.

    We are now live with Ashby and I can honestly say that without the team at Talent Nova it wouldn't have been possible. They give you lots of tips and tricks that will save so much time recruiting which, as a scale up, is super important. I would recommend working with them to anyone going through an ATS migration to Ashby.

  • Rick Tank: CTO and co-founder at ChangeEngine

    As a scaling startup, our hiring needs were complex, with many moving parts. Leah seamlessly hired for a wide range of roles, each with distinct requirements. Her dedication to understanding our brand, goals, culture, and hiring challenges was exceptional. She developed a strategic approach that aligned with our needs and helped us exceed our targets ahead of schedule.

  • Virraj Jatania: CEO & Founder at Pockit

    Leah made a significant impact during her six months with us at Pockit. Her proactive approach, efficiency, and talent-spotting abilities strengthened hiring across the entire company. Stepping in as a Head of TA, Leah moved quickly, identified top talent, and significantly reduced our reliance on external recruiters. I’d confidently recommend her for any talent acquisition leadership role.

  • Beatriz Lourenco: Head of People at Poolside AI

    Working with Leah was a fantastic experience. We’d recently migrated to Ashby and had a lot to set up. Leah drew on her Head of Talent experience to quickly understand our needs, make thoughtful recommendations, implement solutions seamlessly, and go the extra mile with tutorials and ongoing support. I couldn’t recommend her more highly.

  • Melissa Bachman: TA Manager at Gorilla

    Leah was a valued sparring partner and advisor, particularly because she is an experienced practitioner. Having sat in the Head of TA role many times, she brought practical, strategic advice, especially around best practices and simplifying workflows to support future scalability.

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FLEX /

FLEX:
Fractional
Leaders
Exchange

FLEX is a selective, invite-only Slack community designed specifically for fractional Talent and People leaders working in early-stage and scale-up tech companies.

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