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    On-Demand Recruiting Expertise for Startups

  • Clients

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  • Our Focus

    Hiring at a startup is like building the boat you’re already sailing. Whether your process is streamlined or half-built, we help you keep moving—with the right crew on board.

    Growth

    Before an in-house recruiter:

    Move fast, stay lean

    → Maximize team focus on what they do best

    → Add process where it helps

    → Hire standout talent

    Bandwidth

    When your team's stretched thin:

    → Spinning up new teams or roles
    We plug into tools + systems fast
    → Great for tricky or confidential searches

    Continuity

    Your recruiter, on call:
    → Jump in fast, with any setup
    → Long-term thinking, short-term help
    → Easy re-engagement - we remember everything
  • Case Studies

    Flexible, On-Demand Support

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    Bridging the Recruiter Gap

    - Animoto

    Animoto didn't need a full-time recruiter but did need occasional support to bring in key hires and backfills. Hito Labs understood their team, culture, value proposition, and business goals, stepping in as needed to make targeted hires. As the company grew, we helped them transition by hiring a full-time recruiter. When bandwidth was temporarily streteched, we helped that recruiter.

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    Boosting Efficiency

    - Shortcut

    Shortcut needed multiple front-end hires, at different experience levels. We helped to define the interview agenda and assessment, increasing the amount of interviewers for later stage screens - giving more balance to the team and maximizing recruiting efforts. Measuring, and improving, candidate conversion and time in stage, allowed us to set expected hire dates and plan for feature development and hiring pace.

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    Growth Spurt

    - The Nonprofit

    The Foundation needed to to build a new digital division, including several senior roles and functions that were new to the organization. The Foundation didn't need Recruiting headcount beyond this push. Hito assisted hiring managers to define the scope of the new role, and trained interview teams to conduct efficient assessments. We introduced a simple Hiring Plan and Debreif format that was used across the organiztion and helped hired over 30 talented full time employees, many who have already been promoted and leading groups.

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    Diversity

    - CommentSold

    Many of our Clients prioritize the strengths diversity brings to their team and demand it in the recruiting process. Some clients have done well hiring referrals, but recognize the referral pool does not always bring diversity - or the best candidates. We help supplement recruiting efforts to bring top tier diverse talent.

  • Roles We've Recently Filled

    AI / ML Engineer

    Engineering Manager

    Solutions Architect

    Data Scientist

    Head of Product Management

    Customer Success Manager

    Senior Product Manager

    Backend Engineer

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    Meet the Team

    We’ve been burned by bad recruiting. That’s why we do it differently.

    We’ve been in your shoes—as operators and HR leaders—and now we’re here to help you get it right.

  • Pricing

    1

    Retainer

    → 1/3 upfront

    → 1/3 at 3 great candidates

    → 1/3 at placement

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    Hybrid

    Most Popular

    hourly charge

    small placement fee

    3

    Monthly Flat Fee

    based on # of roles

    small placement fee

  • What's New?

  • Contact Us

    Don't be afraid to reach out. You + us = awesome.

  • Topics We Like Talking About

    Recruiting! Interview process, assessments, reducing bias, and candidate engagement. That special something that makes a Product Manager great, interview-to-hire ratios, AI recruiting process efficiencies, pickled vegetables, pickleball, DIY projects, people who love their jobs, and podcasts.

  • This Is Recruiting

    March 4, 2025
    Do post-interview debriefs feel a bit like a formality? You gather the interviewers, people share their thoughts, and the hiring manager makes the final call. Simple, right? Except… it’s not. Without a structured, thoughtful approach, debriefs can be rushed and chaotic, biased, or just plain...
    There is a cost when you delay making a crucial hire, or when you move too fast and make the wrong hire, or in just being indecisve! But, very rarely do we see these costs ever being considered! They become particularly painful the longer your search takes!     #1) Lost Revenue Due to Vacancy...
    Diversity and inclusion have emerged as cornerstones of progressive organizational development, with research showing that companies with diverse workforces consistently outperform their less diverse counterparts in areas such as innovation, resilience, and growth (and revenue). Boom. Mic drop. ...
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