In this 2-part series with Chief People Officer Geraldine Butler-Wright, we discuss topics within people, talent and HR that are affecting scale-ups in the tech sector right now:

• Part 1 - Hiring in a challenging market - is interim the answer?

• Part 2 - HR trends scale-ups need to know about.

Santa Monica Talent provides cost effective, on-demand access to interim talent for the world’s most ambitious challenger brands and scale-ups. We have immediate access to the skills, knowledge and market insights specific for your sector. Our market knowledge and sector specific experience have been built over 25 years within executive search in multiple locations covering Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.

A case study for a typical VC backed Series A, 100 headcount, B2B SaaS scale-up in 2023. Insightful tips on how to build a marketing team in 2023 to increase revenue, achieve product/market fit and raise brand awareness. Ellis Seder in conversation with Michael Williamson, veteran CMO with over 25 years of senior strategic technology marketing.

AI scale-ups often undervalue the need to build strong sales and marketing teams that can effectively define, communicate and sell the value of their AI solutions. Here are 6 tips to hire sales & marketing talent for AI hyper-growth scaleups.

Building and growing a winning sales team is complex and nuanced, because your business is unique. But, one thing that scale-ups ALL have in common right now is the pressure on revenue targets and the urgent need to drive sales for growth in 2023.

At Santa Monica Talent we recently completed senior marketing leadership searches for VP Marketing and CMO roles. During the hiring process, we interviewed over 200 candidates, and have created a summary of what those candidates ‘looked like’.

The tech industry is the place to be for job seekers, with salaries on the rise. So we’ve updated our salary calculator to reflect the market average for a range of senior roles.

Seed and Series A founders face countless challenges and dilemmas when it comes to hiring. Part II of this article looks at the key leadership roles we believe Series A start-ups simply have to get right.

Seed and Series A founders face countless challenges and dilemmas when it comes to hiring. Part I looks at the key leadership roles we believe Seed start-ups simply have to get right.

Office vs Remote and 5pm finishes… Welcome to work in 2022!

This is part II of the article on staff shortage. Having recently seen both The Guardian and The Times talk about staff shortages and what to do about them, I wanted to detail my own 2021 experiences.

Having recently seen both The Guardian and The Times talk about staff shortages and what to do about them, I wanted to detail my own 2021 experiences. They are lengthy, so I’ll break them into two parts. Part I below, part II coming next week.

Following FinTech’s lead, InsurTech has become a real growth marketplace and that looks set to continue in the coming years. But in what sub-sectors will that growth occur? And how can startups get their hiring right for 2021 and beyond?

If you’re running a fast-growing start-up, your employees are key to the future success of the company, share option schemes are certainly worth thinking about. We have put together an article with some key insights.

How Vault Platform is helping to capture incidents of workplace misconduct. Our latest Founders’ Insights interview is a prime example of tech extending into new and vital territory – and succeeding. Tori Reichman is the VP Commercial of Vault Platform, a workplace misconduct platform built on the back of the #MeToo movement.

We were fortunate to catch up with directors and co-founders Robert Lumley and Stephen Brittain to learn more about the journey they’ve been on, and why the insurtech space will be such a haven for innovators and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors in years to come.

I’ve just published an article on the latest talent trends in partnership with Barclays’ Fintech hub, Rise. It includes my take on how remote working might influence the talent market, how existing roles might be affected, and whether Covid-19 could mark the end of blitzscaling.

Hamish Grierson is a refreshingly straight-talking Founder. His start-up, Thriva Health, provides at-home, personalised blood test kits that allow consumers to find out more about their long-term health, fitness and more.

This is, in Hamish’s own words, “preventative” tech – and with more than 100,000 blood tests processed to date. Here are the best bits from a fascinating conversation…