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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
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.
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.
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.
Diversity
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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
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.
Matt Cholerton
Principal
Matt's led the recruiting function for several NY startups. He's seen how the sausage gets made. Determined to take the word 'recruiting' off the naughty list.
Jenn Carson
Head of Operations
Jenn has hired and managed teams, and knows the health space inside and out. She wants happy people doing what they love. She cuts to the chase.
Janessa Hunter
Project Lead
Janessa is a proven HR expert, leader and coach. This experience has given her just what is needed to understand candidates and fix process bottlenecks - sometimes before ther are even issues. She is a candidate champion.
Ann Bergquist
Senior Recruiter
Annie is a driver! She moves things forward with grace and power. She floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Annie works with urgency without ever missing the kindness, thoroughness and patience needed to land great candidates in jobs.
Andra Carter
Senior Recruiter
Andra is veracious and detail oriented. She turns all the stones. Andra is a practiced technical recruiting leader, a master of process, with a careful and compassionate eye to matching the right person to the right job.
Jessica Loughlin
Operations Manager
Jessica keeps the trains running. She's one step ahead and anticipates needs. /j·EH·sih·kuh/ noun: hyper organized, industrious, reliable, and amiable.
Pricing
1Retainer
→ 1/3 upfront
→ 1/3 at 3 great candidates
→ 1/3 at placement
2Hybrid
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→ hourly charge
→ small placement fee
3Monthly Flat Fee
→ based on # of roles
→ small placement fee
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Topics We Like Talking About
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This Is Recruiting
March 4, 2025Do 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...April 24, 2024There 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...January 12, 2024Diversity 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. ...More Posts
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