Fractional HR & talent · Berlin, remote across DACH
Northlight embeds a senior HR operator into scale-ups from 30 to 300 people — building the hiring engine, the comp bands and the manager layer that stops the leavers.
Book a 45-min diagnosticScale-ups supported
Average days to hire
Regretted attrition, from 24%
Countries hired into
Sometimes you do not need a retainer, you need one specific problem gone.
We sit in on four of your interview loops and rewrite the scorecards, the take-home and the debrief.
German-law-compliant handbook, remote policy, leave and expenses, in DE and EN.
Process design, works council preparation, manager scripts and outplacement coordination.
Run, analysed and presented to the leadership team with a prioritised action list.
“We had lost four engineers in a quarter and told ourselves it was the market. Northlight found it was one manager and one broken promotion promise. Both fixed within eight weeks.”
“The comp review was uncomfortable reading and exactly what we needed before our Series B. Our investors asked who did it.”
“They hired their own replacement, briefed that person properly, and left. I have never had a consultancy work themselves out of a job so deliberately.”
What we find almost every time we cut exit data by reporting line rather than by department, and the two questions that surface it in a week.
The incentive maths, worked through honestly — including the cases where contingency search is still the right call.
We only take four new engagements a quarter, so the diagnostic is also how we decide if we can help.
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