We have raised funding and need to grow our teams fast.
Build the hiring foundation before the scaling wave arrives, then run it at speed.
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Hiring is a system - not a guess.
We help scale-ups replace role-by-role improvisation with a hiring system that is costed, auditable, and repeatable.
Free tools by Talent Ascent
Would you like to explore the unit economics of your new hire?
Try these tools if you are asking yourself
Can we afford our next hire?
New Hire Runway Impact CalculatorWhen will our new hire pay back for itself?
New Hire ROI CalculatorHow much did we spend to recruit this hire?
Total Cost of Hire CalculatorNew Hire ROI - month by month
Keen to optimize your hiring spend?
Take a look at our New Hire Acquisition Cost Report - from $850
Talent Ascent Diagnose. Design. Direct.
What we do
Three ways we fix how you hire.
01 · Diagnose
We quantify the current cost and efficiency of your hiring system.
Our goal is to give you quantitative clarity before you commit further spend on hiring.
02 · Design
We design a hiring engine which delivers measurable results as you scale.
We architect a system tailored to your business context and ambitions.
03 · Direct
Strategic hiring leadership and retained monthly advisory.
We stay with you through your journey and continue to guide you and troubleshoot as you scale and pivot.
Where to start What hiring challenge do you need solved?
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Where to start
What hiring challenge do you need solved?
Hiring is taking too long and costing too much. We spend too much time interviewing.
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We need hiring leadership, but not yet a full-time Director of TA.
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Turnover is high. We are making hires — but they underperform.
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We are not finding the right talent.
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Diagnose
Reports
Hire unit economics analysis. Bookable online.
Audits
Business Process and Market Intelligence. Tailored to your operating model.
Design
Recruitment Process Design
Building recruitment & selection processes, bespoke to your ATS/HRIS tech stack and operating model.
Organizational Design
Designing team structure and capabilities built to deliver your commercial roadmap at scale.
Direct
Ongoing advisory
Fractional hiring advisory expertise — providing your growing business with ongoing and on-demand strategic leadership.
Diagnose
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Competitive Talent Architecture Audit
How six comparable companies structure the function you are trying to build or restructure.
Competitive Talent Architecture Audit
Design
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Organizational Structure Design
Designing the team structure — job profiles, leveling, and competency matrix.
Organizational Structure Design -
Interview Process Design
Designing tailored interview loops, scorecards and question banks for your business.
Interview Process Design -
Executive Succession Planning
Working with you to build a repository of key strategic talent you can consider for future critical hires.
Executive Succession Planning
Diagnose
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New Hire Acquisition Cost Report
Modeling the total cost of a vacancy: direct, indirect, and opportunity costs.
New Hire Acquisition Cost Report -
Hiring Effectiveness Audit
Diagnosing where your hiring process currently loses time and money, and how you can optimize.
Hiring Effectiveness Audit
Design
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Interview Process Design
Designing tailored interview loops, scorecards and question banks for your business.
Interview Process Design -
Organizational Structure Design
Designing the team structure — job profiles, leveling, and competency matrix.
Organizational Structure Design
Direct — Fractional
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Fractional Hiring Leadership
A hiring leader running your hiring, without adding a full-time executive.
Fractional Hiring Leadership
Direct — Advisory
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Hiring Advisory - Pack A
One working session a month, plus three questions answered between them.
Hiring Advisory - Pack A -
Hiring Advisory - Pack B
Two working sessions a month, plus five questions answered between them.
Hiring Advisory - Pack B
Diagnose
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New Hire ROI Report
Modeling when your new hire will pay for itself: the employee unit economics.
New Hire ROI Report -
Quality of Hire Audit
Diagnosing how reliably your interview process predicts which candidates become top performers.
Quality of Hire Audit -
Hiring Effectiveness Audit
Diagnosing where your hiring process currently loses time and money, and how you can optimize.
Hiring Effectiveness Audit
Design
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Interview Process Design
Designing tailored interview loops, scorecards and question banks for your business.
Interview Process Design
Diagnose
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Competitive Talent Architecture Audit
How six comparable companies structure the function you are trying to build or restructure.
Competitive Talent Architecture Audit -
Quality of Hire Audit
Diagnosing how reliably your interview process predicts which candidates become top performers.
Quality of Hire Audit
Design
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Organizational Structure Design
Designing the team structure — job profiles, leveling, and competency matrix.
Organizational Structure Design -
Interview Process Design
Designing tailored interview loops, scorecards and question banks for your business.
Interview Process Design
Reports
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New Hire Acquisition Cost Report
Modeling the total cost of a vacancy: direct, indirect, and opportunity costs.
New Hire Acquisition Cost Report -
New Hire ROI Report
Modeling when your new hire will pay for itself: the employee unit economics.
New Hire ROI Report
Audits
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Competitive Talent Architecture Audit
How six comparable companies structure the function you are trying to build or restructure.
Competitive Talent Architecture Audit -
Hiring Effectiveness Audit
Diagnosing where your hiring process currently loses time and money, and how you can optimize.
Hiring Effectiveness Audit -
Quality of Hire Audit
Diagnosing how reliably your interview process predicts which candidates become top performers.
Quality of Hire Audit
Recruitment Process Design
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Interview Process Design
Designing tailored interview loops, scorecards and question banks for your business.
Interview Process Design
Organizational Design
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Organizational Structure Design
Designing the team structure — job profiles, leveling, and competency matrix.
Organizational Structure Design -
Executive Succession Planning
Working with you to build a repository of key strategic talent you can consider for future critical hires.
Executive Succession Planning
Fractional
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Fractional Hiring Leadership
A hiring leader running your hiring, without adding a full-time executive.
Fractional Hiring Leadership
Advisory
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Hiring Advisory - Pack A
One working session a month, plus three questions answered between them.
Hiring Advisory - Pack A -
Hiring Advisory - Pack B
Two working sessions a month, plus five questions answered between them.
Hiring Advisory - Pack B
Who is behind Talent Ascent
Founded and led by Kristina.
A decade designing roles, building teams and rebuilding hiring processes inside high-growth technology companies — in-house, at the stage where hiring decides whether the plan lands.
Read the full background →- In-house talent leadership
- Deel · Amazon Music & Games · Disney+
- Earlier
- Executive recruitment at BAT; talent-strategy consulting for FMCG clients including Mars, Unilever and Royal Canin
- Markets
- US & Canada · EMEA · LatAm · APAC
- Background
- Graduate expertise in Organizational Psychology
Expertise cultivated through a decade of in-house global talent strategy leadership and execution with leading brands
- Deel
- Robin AI
- Disney+
- Amazon Music
- Amazon Games
- Disney Studios
- NatGeo
- ESPN
- Unilever
- BAT
- Mars
- PMI
- Booking.com
Why not a contract recruiter, an RPO, or an agency?
A contract recruiter fills the roles you've defined. An RPO runs your process as-is. An agency charges a fee per hire.
We design the hiring system that all three work inside.
Option
What they own
What you pay for
What you keep
Agency
Individual placements
A percentage of pay, per hire
The hire
Contract recruiter
Filling roles you have already defined
A day rate
Roles filled, process unchanged
RPO
Running your process as it stands
Per hire, at volume
Throughput, same system
Talent Ascent
The hiring system the others work inside
A fixed fee for a defined piece of work
A hiring system your team runs