Where Recruit Unboxed Fits in Your Portfolio
Fractional Recruiting Support:
Portfolio-wide sourcing without agency drag.
We step in immediately to source and fill critical roles across your portfolio, reducing time-to-hire without agency fees.
Training & Enablement:
Upskill leaders for consistent, repeatable hiring.
We upskill portfolio leaders and internal recruiters to drive consistent, repeatable hiring decisions.
Frameworks that Scale:
Standardize hiring across companies to protect value.
We build the processes, interview workflows, and ATS setups that can be replicated across multiple portfolio companies.
Embedded Leadership:
Fractional Talent executives without full-time overhead.
We act as your Fractional Head of Talent, giving you senior-level Talent leadership without adding full-time overhead.
For VC & PE Firms, Hiring Risk is Portfolio Risk.
Most portfolio companies gamble on two bad options: a single underpowered hire trying to “figure it out,” or a revolving door of agencies that never understand the business. Neither builds a foundation. We do.
At Recruit Unboxed, we believe great hiring starts with structure—not luck. We partner with you to analyze what’s working, what’s not, and what’s missing from your current approach. Then we build a Talent Acquisition framework tailored to your portfolio needs and goals.
We deliver:
- A defined hiring philosophy that matches your culture and scale
- Role clarity and repeatable interview workflows
- Training for hiring managers to ensure consistency and accountability
- Support in hiring and onboarding an internal recruiter who can own it long-term
- Recruitment support that functions as a piece of your business, Looking for the best talent, not an agency trying to sell you a candidate.
You don’t need a unicorn hire or another overpriced agency—you need a hiring engine you control. We build it right the first time, and hand you the keys.
Build once. Scale forever.
We don’t just understand Talent Acquisition — we’ve built it, rebuilt it, and scaled it in the environments where execution mattered most: PE-backed, VC-funded, and high-growth companies.
At Recruit Unboxed, we specialize in moving portfolio companies beyond ad hoc hiring into sustainable, repeatable talent engines. Our experience comes from leading TA through mergers, acquisitions, and investor transitions — where talent execution directly impacts value-creation plans, growth timelines, and enterprise value.
We’ve done the work:
- Built and scaled TA functions that supported 338%+ headcount growth during aggressive PE-backed expansion
- Created and operationalized talent playbooks, interview workflows, and assessment models that scaled across multiple portfolio companies
- Led ATS migrations and tech stack optimization that cut time-to-fill and provided investors with clear hiring visibility
- Designed candidate communication strategies that elevated employer brand and improved conversion rates in competitive markets
- Trained and enabled recruiters, hiring managers, and executives to adopt repeatable, data-driven practices that reduced mis-hires and reliance on agencies
- Supported portfolio companies pre- and post-acquisition, stabilizing and scaling TA during investor transitions and integration phases
Our experience spans the exact inflection points where hiring makes or breaks enterprise value: rapid scale, acquisitions, integrations, and investor transitions.
Because in private equity and venture environments, hiring isn’t just about filling roles. It’s about protecting enterprise value.