Fractional Recruiting
We build your team while you build your company.
You don’t need a recruiting team yet. You need a recruiting partner who moves like one.
Just Genius plugs into your hiring process, fills your pipeline, and gets people in seats.
No long-term contracts. No 20% placement fees. Just recruiting help, when you need it.
The Problem
Growing shouldn’t make hiring harder.
You’ve got more roles. More hiring managers. More pressure. And recruiting is becoming another job for people who already have one.
- Too many open roles
- Not enough sourcing capacity
- Difficult-to-find talent
- Hiring managers overwhelmed
- Inconsistent candidate pipelines
- No need for a full-time recruiting team yet
The problem isn’t always that you need a recruiting team.
Sometimes you just need experienced recruiting capacity.
See How We HelpOur Position
Built for the messy middle.
You’ve outgrown founder-led recruiting. You’re just not ready to build a full internal TA function, or maybe you don’t need to. That’s where Just Genius comes in.
Once you’ve got an internal team in place, we don’t disappear. We stick around for:
- Supplemental capacity
- Specialized searches
- Overflow recruiting
- Strategic recruiting support
Who We Serve
Growing companies. Ambitious teams.
We work with growing healthcare and SaaS companies at every stage, from early startup teams to established organizations going through a hiring surge.
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C+
Seed through Series A is our sweet spot. But we work with growing teams at every stage, including established companies that need extra recruiting support for a stretch.
Healthcare & Healthtech
Companies building the technology and services behind clinical care and health operations.
SaaS
Software companies scaling product, go-to-market, and engineering teams at once.
Talent Expertise
Recruiting across the teams that build and scale companies.
These are focus areas, not a claim that we’ve filled every one of these roles. Our experience spans clinical, technical, go-to-market, and operating functions.
Clinical & Healthcare
- Clinical
- Clinical Operations
- Healthcare Operations
- Behavioral Health
- Nursing
- Allied Health
Technical
- Software Engineering
- AI / ML
- Data
- Product
- Technical Leadership
GTM
- Sales
- Customer Success
- Partnerships
- Marketing
- Revenue Operations
G&A
- People
- Finance
- Operations
- Administrative Leadership
How We Can Help
Recruiting support that fits where you are.
Whether you need an experienced recruiter in your corner or help solving one specific hiring challenge, Just Genius can meet you where you are.
Your recruiter without the full-time headcount.
Dedicated recruiting capacity that plugs into your team, tools, and hiring process, without requiring you to build a full internal recruiting function.
Best for companies with ongoing hiring demand that need an experienced recruiting partner.
- Ongoing
- Monthly
- Embedded
Need something specific? Let’s fix it.
Focused recruiting and talent projects designed to solve a specific problem without committing to an ongoing engagement.
Best for companies that need a defined recruiting, hiring, or talent-acquisition project completed.
- Fixed Scope
- Project Based
- Defined Outcome
Fractional Recruiting
Experienced recruiting capacity, when you need it.
You don’t always need another full-time employee.
Sometimes you need someone who can step in, understand your hiring goals, build the pipeline, partner with your hiring managers, and get to work.
That’s what fractional recruiting is designed to do.
Just Genius sits in the messy middle, helping companies move from founder-led recruiting toward a more scalable hiring function.
Engagement Models
Recruiting support that scales with you.
Every engagement is scoped around your hiring goals, complexity, hiring volume, and level of support required.
Foundation
Recruiting capacity when you need it.
Companies with ongoing hiring needs that need dedicated recruiting support without a full-time recruiter.
1–2 priority searches
- Recruiting strategy
- Role intake and calibration
- Candidate sourcing
- Passive candidate outreach
- Candidate screening
- Candidate presentation
- Interview coordination
- Candidate communication
- Weekly pipeline reporting
- Hiring-manager partnership
90-day minimum
Let’s TalkGrowth
Your fractional recruiting partner.
Companies actively scaling and hiring across multiple functions.
3–5 concurrent searches
- Everything in Foundation
- Deeper hiring-manager partnership
- Talent-market mapping
- Interview process optimization
- ATS ownership
- Hiring dashboards and reporting
- Compensation-market insight
- Employer messaging and outreach strategy
- Offer support
- Weekly leadership sync
- Hiring planning
90-day minimum
Let’s TalkEmbedded
A recruiting function without the buildout.
Companies that need deeper recruiting capacity or an embedded talent acquisition partner.
5+ concurrent searches
- Everything in Growth
- Embedded partnership with leadership
- Recruiting operations
- Hiring strategy and workforce planning
- Interview architecture
- Hiring-manager enablement
- Recruiting process design
- Recruiting analytics
- Employer branding support
- Expanded recruiting capacity
Custom 3–6 month engagement
Build Your Recruiting FunctionFinal scope is based on hiring volume, role complexity, seniority, and the level of recruiting support required. Let’s talk about what you’re building.
Most fractional engagements begin with a 90-day commitment.
Why Fractional?
You don’t need to choose between an agency and a full-time hire.
You’re not ready for another full-time employee. But founder-led recruiting isn’t sustainable either. Just Genius sits between the traditional agency and the full-time recruiting hire, built for startups and able to scale with your hiring demand.
| Comparison dimension | Traditional Agency | Full-Time Recruiter | Just Genius |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement Model | Transactional, often placement-based | Salary and benefits | Predictable monthly engagement |
| Recruiting Ownership | External vendor, limited ongoing ownership | Owned in-house, requires internal hiring | Hands-on, working inside your team |
| Capacity | Limited to what you post | Fixed; may fluctuate with hiring demand | Flexible, scales with hiring demand |
| Relationship | Transactional | Long-term, single company | Embedded, hiring-manager partnership |
| Strategic Support | Limited beyond the search itself | Depends on the individual hire | Strategic recruiting support built in |
Talent Projects
Need something specific? Let’s fix it.
Focused recruiting and talent projects designed to solve a specific problem, without committing to an ongoing engagement.
Not every hiring challenge requires a monthly recruiting partner.
Sometimes you need an ATS configured properly.
Sometimes you need your hiring process rebuilt.
Sometimes you need help finding candidates for one particularly difficult role.
That’s where Talent Projects come in.
ATS Setup + Optimization
Set up or clean up the systems and workflows that power your recruiting process.
- ATS configuration
- Hiring and interview stages
- Scorecards and templates
- Reporting and automations
Recruiting Process Audit
Identify what’s slowing down your hiring process and get a practical roadmap to fix it.
- Current-state assessment
- Funnel and bottleneck analysis
- Interview and ATS review
- 30/60/90-day action plan
Hiring Process Design
Build a consistent, scalable hiring process before recruiting volume gets out of control.
- Intake and job description framework
- Interview structure and scorecards
- Candidate communication framework
- Hiring SOP
Talent Sourcing Sprint
Focused sourcing support for roles that are proving difficult to fill.
- Candidate profile calibration
- Talent-market mapping
- Passive candidate outreach
- Candidate presentation
2–4 weeks
Discuss ProjectJob Architecture + Scorecards
Create the structure your hiring team needs to consistently evaluate the right candidates.
- Job description framework
- Role competencies and candidate profile
- Scorecards and interview criteria
Hiring Strategy Intensive
A focused working session to clarify your hiring priorities, recruiting strategy, and next steps.
- Hiring plan and role prioritization
- Recruiting strategy and capacity
- Written strategy and action plan
Half-day or full-day
Discuss ProjectSome projects solve a single problem. Others uncover a larger recruiting need. When ongoing support makes sense, a project can evolve into a fractional partnership.
Not sure which model fits?
Tell us what’s happening with your hiring. We’ll spend about 30 minutes understanding your goals, your challenges, and where you’re getting stuck, then help you figure out the right level of support.
Why Just Genius
Recruiting expertise without the agency baggage.
In-House Experience
We’ve worked inside growing companies, not just around them.
Startup-Native
We understand changing priorities, lean teams, and imperfect processes.
Healthcare + SaaS
We’ve recruited on both sides: clinical hires for health systems, technical hires for SaaS teams. Different playbooks, same rigor.
Fractional by Design
Get experienced recruiting capacity without adding another full-time hire right away.
Quality Over Volume
We’d rather hand you five people worth a phone call than thirty resumes that technically check the boxes.
Proof
Built from 6+ years of in-house recruiting experience across healthcare, SaaS, technical, GTM, clinical, and G&A hiring.
In-house background
Recruiting experience built inside growing companies, not learned from a call queue.
Two verticals, one recruiter
Healthcare and SaaS hiring don’t run the same playbook, and neither one gets treated like the side gig.
Full-function coverage
Clinical, technical, GTM, G&A. Recruiting across the whole org, not just one lane.
How It Works
Simple by design.
Understand
We learn your business, hiring goals, and recruiting bottlenecks.
Calibrate
We align on the role, candidate profile, compensation, and hiring process.
Search
We identify and engage relevant candidates.
Present
You get curated candidates with context, not a pile of resumes lobbed over the fence.
Close
We help move candidates through the process toward an accepted offer.
About
Hi, I’m Derek.
I’ve spent 6+ years recruiting from inside growing healthcare and technology companies, hiring across clinical, technical, GTM, and G&A functions.
I started Just Genius so growing companies could get experienced recruiting help without rushing into a full internal team.
I believe great recruiting is less about sending the most resumes and more about understanding the business, finding the right people, and creating a hiring process that actually works.
FAQ
Common questions.
Dedicated, part-time recruiting support instead of a full-time hire or a per-placement agency. You get consistent recruiting capacity without adding permanent headcount.
Fractional Recruiting is an ongoing monthly partnership for companies with continuous hiring demand. Talent Projects are fixed-scope engagements for a specific problem, like an ATS setup or one hard-to-fill role, with no ongoing commitment required.
Growing healthcare and SaaS companies that have outgrown founder-led hiring. Maybe they’re not ready for a full internal recruiting team yet, maybe they just don’t need one.
Seed through Series A is our sweet spot, since that’s usually when hiring outpaces internal recruiting capacity. We also work with Series B, Series C, and established companies that need extra recruiting support for a stretch.
Yes. Healthcare and healthtech, and SaaS, are our two main focus areas, with recruiting approaches built for each.
Clinical and healthcare operations, technical roles like engineering and product, GTM roles like sales and customer success, and G&A roles like people and finance.
Fractional partnerships begin with a 90-day commitment. Talent Projects are fixed-scope and typically run days to a few weeks, depending on the project.
Yes. We plug into whatever tools and process you’re already using.
Yes. Sourcing, outreach, and screening are core to every engagement, plus candidate presentation and interview support.
Yes. A Talent Sourcing Sprint is built for exactly that: focused sourcing support for a single role that’s proving hard to fill, without an ongoing engagement.
Every engagement is scoped around your hiring goals, complexity, seniority, and volume, so there isn’t a one-size number that fits every company. Let’s talk about what you’re building and we’ll recommend the right level of support and a price to match.
No. Just Genius runs on fractional and embedded engagements, not a pay-per-placement model.
You’ll hear back to schedule a short call and see if Just Genius is a fit for what you’re hiring for.
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