Most growing businesses reach a point where hiring becomes a bottleneck. Not because the talent isn't out there, but because there is no clear strategy behind the process. Arcus works alongside your team as a senior talent consultant, building the foundations, designing the process and supporting searches for your most critical roles. Without the commitment of a full time hire.
Built on 15+ years of senior talent leadership
15+ years building, leading and growing global talent teams for high-growth companies, across every major region, without borders.
Whether you are an early stage startup or an established business, there comes a point where hiring becomes harder to manage without the right resources behind it. Processes become inconsistent, poor candidate experiences can damage the reputation you are working hard to build, and agency costs stack up.
A full time Head of Talent isn't justified yet. But doing nothing could be costing more than you think.
AI is changing how the best talent teams operate. Arcus builds AI driven automated workflows and integrates the right tools so your team moves faster, makes better decisions, and spends time where it actually matters.
Every engagement is scoped around your specific situation, not a template. We work with startups, scale-ups, and established businesses across all industries that are ready to build a talent function that truly performs.
Talent strategy and process, designed around your business
A bespoke talent engagement designed around your specific situation. Whether you are building from scratch or improving what exists, we start with a thorough discovery and audit before agreeing scope, timeline and deliverables, shaped entirely by what you need.
Best for founders and people leaders who want to hire better, faster and more consistently
Ongoing retainer availableOnce your programme is complete, Arcus can remain on hand, iterating, updating and advising as your team and hiring needs evolve.
Dedicated search support for your most critical roles
Arcus works alongside your team as a dedicated search partner, supporting the hiring cycle for one role or several and running the search on your behalf until the position is filled.
Best for senior, critical and hard to fill roles across technical and non-technical disciplines when you need to move fast
A focused conversation to understand your business, your hiring challenges, and where you want to be. No obligations. Just an honest conversation.
Free · 30 minsWe assess everything: ATS, processes, tools, JDs, employer brand, data and candidate experience. Nothing gets built until we fully understand your current state.
Included in programmeA programme built around your audit findings: clear deliverables, defined timeline, fixed monthly investment. Every client gets something different because every situation is different.
3-month minimumWe build, configure, document and hand over. Your tools are live, AI is integrated into your processes, your team is trained. Ongoing retainer support available for clients who want Arcus to stay close.
Clean exit or continued supportA focused conversation to understand your business, your hiring challenges, and where you want to be. No obligations. Just an honest conversation.
Free · 30 minsWe assess everything: ATS, processes, tools, JDs, employer brand, data and candidate experience. Nothing gets built until we fully understand your current state.
Included in programmeA programme built around your audit findings: clear deliverables, defined timeline, fixed monthly investment. Every client gets something different because every situation is different.
3-month minimumWe build, configure, document and hand over. Your tools are live, AI is integrated into your processes, your team is trained. Ongoing retainer support available for clients who want Arcus to stay close.
Clean exit or continued supportArcus provides senior talent consulting and search support to growing businesses. We work alongside your team to set hiring strategy, design process and frameworks, and support your most critical searches — giving you experienced talent thinking without the cost or commitment of a full time hire.
We work with startups, scale-ups and established businesses from seed to Series D, across all industries, with a specialism in technology, engineering and manufacturing.
Every Arcus engagement starts with a thorough discovery and audit so we understand exactly where you are before agreeing scope, deliverables and timeline.
We work with whatever you have in place, auditing and optimising existing setups or recommending and implementing a new solution if that is what your situation requires. We have specialist experience in Greenhouse but are comfortable working across all major ATS platforms.
Book a free discovery call and we will listen to where you are, what you need and recommend the right path. No obligation, just an honest conversation.
Based in the UK but working globally across all major regions.
Unlike an agency that fills a role and moves on, Arcus advises on the strategy, process and capability your business needs to hire well for the long term, and can support specific searches when you need extra hands.
Yes. Our combined Arcus Programme and Arcus Search engagement is designed exactly for this, giving you one partner handling both your talent infrastructure and your most critical hires simultaneously.
Chris has been invaluable in helping us get Treiva's hiring foundations right. He advised us on how to identify and attract the right candidates for our needs and stage, walked us through our employment options for various locations and helped us build robust hiring processes and frameworks that give us confidence as we scale.
Arcus Talent is a talent acquisition consultancy built on more than 15 years of experience across high-growth technology and engineering businesses, delivering thousands of hires across every major global region. We partner with your team to build the strategy, process and systems that make great hiring repeatable, driving critical searches and delivering the senior talent leadership your business needs, without the commitment of a full time hire.
We have the experience of building talent functions from scratch and scaling them across global markets. Arcus was founded to bring that same rigour to businesses that need it most: whether a seed-stage startup, a Series D scale-up, or an established company that has never developed a mature in-house talent function.
Every Arcus engagement starts with a conversation. Book a discovery call to see if we are the right fit for where you are and where you are headed.