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Fractional Talent Leadership

Build the talent strategy that your growth demands.

What we do

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 embeds into your business as a senior talent leader, building the foundations, designing the process and leading searches for your most critical roles. Without the commitment of a full time hire.

Our founder is a HIGHER Top 100 Talent Leader

15+ years building, leading and growing global talent teams for high-growth companies, across every major region, without borders.

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15+
Years Experience
Global
All Major Regions
Top 100
HIGHER Talent100 Winner
ARCUS TALENT Your Head of Talent, without the commitment of a full time hire
The problem

Your hiring should be driving growth.

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-Integrated Approach

Talent operations
built with AI at the core.

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.

AI strategy & implementation
We audit what you already have, identify where AI genuinely adds value, and lead the implementation end to end. No unnecessary tools, no wasted spend. Just the right solutions, properly integrated.
AI Workflow Automation
We build your hiring workflows once, properly and automated from the ground up. Intake processes, interview frameworks, candidate communications and feedback loops all running consistently without your team starting from scratch every time.
AI driven reporting dashboards
We connect your existing recruiting tech stack to powerful AI driven solutions, turning your hiring data into real time dashboards, pipeline reporting and talent intelligence so your team makes faster, better and more informed decisions.
Services

Two ways to
work with Arcus.

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.

01
Primary offering

Arcus Programme

Your acting Head of Talent, embedded in 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.

  • Drive end-to-end hiring strategy
  • Design hiring processes, interview frameworks, scorecards, sourcing and referral strategy
  • Build skills-based, fair and equitable interview question banks designed to identify the best talent for every role
  • AI workflows built and integrated into your hiring process
  • ATS audit, optimisation or full implementation depending on your current setup, with specialist experience in Greenhouse
  • Audit, refine and optimise your talent tech stack, systems and processes
  • Advise on employer brand strategy
  • Coach hiring teams and build internal hiring capability
  • Talent data, reporting & live hiring dashboards

Best for founders and people leaders who want to hire better, faster and more consistently

Bespoke scope · 3-month minimum engagement Start a conversation →

Ongoing retainer availableOnce your programme is complete, Arcus can remain on hand, iterating, updating and advising as your team and hiring needs evolve.

02
Embedded Partnership

Arcus Search

Embedded hiring for your most critical roles

Arcus embeds into your business as your internal talent partner, taking full ownership of the hiring cycle for one role or several, and running the search on your behalf until the position is filled.

  • Full ownership of the end-to-end hiring cycle
  • Talent mapping & market intelligence
  • Compensation benchmarking & offer strategy
  • Direct sourcing, headhunting & candidate outreach
  • Structured screening, shortlist & stakeholder updates
  • Offer management & candidate experience throughout
  • Global reach, all major regions

Best for senior, critical and hard to fill roles across technical and non-technical disciplines when you need to move fast

Monthly retainer · no placement fee Discuss a role →
How it works

From first call to fully built.

01

Discovery Call

A focused conversation to understand your business, your hiring challenges, and where you want to be. No obligations. Just an honest conversation.

Free · 30 mins
02

Talent Audit

We assess everything: ATS, processes, tools, JDs, employer brand, data and candidate experience. Nothing gets built until we fully understand your current state.

Included in programme
03

Bespoke Programme

A 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 minimum
04

Deliver & Embed

We 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 support

A focused conversation to understand your business, your hiring challenges, and where you want to be. No obligations. Just an honest conversation.

Free · 30 mins

We assess everything: ATS, processes, tools, JDs, employer brand, data and candidate experience. Nothing gets built until we fully understand your current state.

Included in programme

A 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 minimum

We 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 support
FAQ

Questions we get asked.

Fractional talent leadership means bringing on experienced talent leaders on a part-time or flexible basis to guide your hiring strategy, build your team and support growth without the cost or commitment of a full time hire.

We work with startups, scale-ups and established businesses from seed to Series C and beyond, 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 roles and moves on, Arcus builds the infrastructure, strategy and capability your business needs to hire well independently.

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.

Client feedback

What our clients say.

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.

DR
Danny Randhawa
Co-Founder, Treiva
Chris
Talent100
HIGHER Winner 2025
About

Built by someone who has
done it at scale.

Arcus was founded by Chris, a talent acquisition leader with 15+ years of experience building, leading and growing talent teams for high-growth companies. Most recently Head of Global Talent Acquisition at a fast-growing international SaaS business, with hiring experience spanning EMEA, North America, APAC and LATAM.

Having built talent functions from scratch and scaled them across global markets, Chris founded Arcus to bring that same rigour to businesses that need it most: whether a seed-stage startup, a Series C scale-up, or an established company that has never developed a mature in-house talent function.

Ready to build something
that lasts?

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.

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