Your next hires. Your recruiting foundation.

I help startups hire their key roles and build a simple hiring system their team can run on its own.

Hands-on recruiting. Practical processes. A team ready to take over.

Is this you?

Hiring is growing. Your process hasn’t caught up.

For founders and operations leaders at startups of roughly 20 to 150 people, with no recruiter or one person doing it all.

You have several roles coming up, perhaps after a funding round, and no clear plan for filling them.
Founders spend hours on hiring, but important roles stay open.
Every interviewer asks different questions. Decisions come down to gut feel.
Every offer starts from scratch, without levels or pay ranges.
You’re building your first sales team or starting to hire in the US or Canada.

What I do

Fill the roles. Build the way you hire.

You get someone doing the recruiting and building the foundation alongside it.

Hire your priority roles

I run full-cycle recruiting for the roles that matter most, from defining the role and finding candidates to interviews and a signed offer.

Hiring plan and role intake
Sourcing and candidate communication
Interview coordination and offer support

Build your recruiting foundation

We put the essentials in place while we hire. Each process stays short, clear, and useful for your stage.

Levels, pay ranges, and offer approvals
Structured interviews and scorecards
ATS setup, hiring guides, and simple reporting

Make it yours

I train your hiring managers and move ownership to your team step by step. You leave with a process you can run and improve yourself.

Manager training on real searches
Clear owners and one-page process guides
A practical handover to your team

What makes this different

Built with your team, on real roles.

Recruiting and building together: The searches move forward while we put the process in place. Each informs the other.
Compliance considered from day one: My HR compliance background informs pay transparency, candidate data handling, and fair hiring practices. I flag questions that need legal review.
Only what your stage needs: Clear owners, short guides, and tools that fit your team. We add a step when it solves a real problem.
Tested before the handover: We use the interviews, scorecards, and workflows on live searches and adjust what doesn’t work.

How it works

Start small. Build as you hire.

We agree on the priority roles, deliverables, and time commitment together.

Start with a 20-minute call
Tell me what you’re building, which roles are coming up, and where hiring gets stuck. We’ll see if the work is a fit.
Set the foundation
A 30-day starter covers discovery, a hiring plan, initial role levels, and launching your first searches. We agree on scope before we begin.
Build while we recruit
I run live searches, test the process with your team, and train hiring managers as we go.
Hand it over
Your team takes ownership of the system. We can agree on lighter ongoing support or plan the move to a full-time recruiter.

Ways to work together

A starting point that fits your team.

Pricing shared on our call. You’ll receive a written scope and fee before any work begins.

Get started

30-day starter

A fixed-price engagement to map your hiring needs, set initial role levels, and launch your first searches.

For teams that need a clear place to begin.

Build momentum

Build and recruit

Part-time support over about three months. I recruit for priority roles, build and test the process, and train your managers.

For teams with several hires ahead.

Plan the handover

Full launch

Build the foundation and recruit for key roles, with help hiring and onboarding your full-time recruiter.

For teams preparing to bring recruiting in-house.

These are engagement lengths. Hiring timelines depend on the role and market; we set priorities together.

Hi, I’m Raisa.

Your recruiting partner

I’ve done the hiring and built the process around it.

I bring 7+ years across recruiting and HR, including technical sourcing at Google, full-cycle recruiting for engineering, sales, and go-to-market roles, and hands-on work on a two-person HR team.

I’ve built and administered Greenhouse, trained recruiters and hiring managers, and worked across HR compliance. I bring that experience to the tools and habits your team needs next.

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Let’s talk hiring

Planning to hire in the next few months?

Let’s talk through your plan. You’ll leave with at least one idea you can use, whether we work together or not.

Book a 20-minute call