Full-Cycle Recruiting · People Systems · HR Compliance

Built right,
from the start.

Boutique consulting for venture-backed and growth-stage companies. Full-cycle recruiting, people systems, and HR compliance — built right, from Series A to scale.

200+
Senior & technical placements
10→60+
Employees scaled, end-to-end
$1M+
Global TA budget managed
15+
Years building HR infrastructure

The companies that need to get it right the first time.

Most talent consultants hand you a framework and leave. I build the infrastructure, run the searches, and hand off something that actually works — because I've been the person doing both simultaneously for over a decade.

My clients are founders and senior leaders at venture-backed companies who know that broken hiring infrastructure and invisible compliance gaps are existential risks — not just HR problems.

01

Series A–C Companies

Building your first formal TA function. You need infrastructure and execution simultaneously — not one or the other.

02

Pre-IPO Organizations

Embedded recruiting execution with infrastructure built in parallel. You're scaling fast and the foundation has to hold.

03

Growth-Stage Companies

Standing up people operations from scratch — performance management, comp frameworks, onboarding, compliance infrastructure.

04

Fractional HR Practitioners

Managing compliance obligations across multiple client environments. I build the audit and handbook infrastructure you need to deliver at scale.

The full stack of
talent operations.

Every engagement is different. Some clients need infrastructure first, execution second. Others need both running at once. I know how to sequence the work so nothing falls through the cracks.

Full-Cycle Recruiting

Senior, technical, and hard-to-fill searches run from intake to close — sourcing, outreach, structured interviews, and offer negotiation. The infrastructure to make it repeatable gets built alongside the search.

ATS & Tech Stack Implementation

Full recruiting technology selection, negotiation, configuration, and training — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, GEM, GoodTime, SeekOut, and more.

Pipeline Analytics & Reporting

Funnel analytics, hiring dashboards, and executive reporting giving leadership real-time visibility into pipeline health, source effectiveness, and time-to-fill.

Performance Management

Goal alignment structures, feedback cycles, leveling frameworks, documentation standards, and manager accountability tools that actually get used.

Compensation & Leveling

Transparent salary bands and leveling structures across all functions and levels — designed for retention, benchmarked to market, built to scale with headcount.

Onboarding Program Design

Onboarding programs and structured check-in processes that accelerate new hire productivity and reduce ramp time across rapidly scaling organizations.

The gaps in your handbook are
more expensive than fixing them.

U.S. employment law changes constantly. Most handbooks are out of date, jurisdiction-incomplete, or both — and the exposure is rarely obvious until it surfaces in the wrong place.

Engagement Type 01

Handbook Compliance Audit

Your existing handbook reviewed against every applicable federal, state, and local compliance obligation — jurisdiction by jurisdiction, with risk ratings, dollar exposure estimates, and 60-day forward flags.

Gap analysis against all triggered compliance obligations Risk rating per gap: High / Medium / Low Financial exposure estimates with penalty ranges Source citations for every finding — no naked assertions
Starting as low as $750
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Engagement Type 02

Handbook Build & Update

Compliant handbook modules written for your specific employer profile — jurisdiction-appropriate language, correct thresholds, correct effective dates. Delivered as a structured draft ready for independent legal review.

Compliant policy language per identified obligation Tone options: Formal / Plain Language / Hybrid Multi-state layering where applicable Structured draft ready for counsel review and adoption
Priced per engagement
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A $10,000 audit that surfaces a $200,000 exposure is not a cost. It's a return.

The work speaks for itself.

200+
Senior technical hires placed
0→1
Full function builds from scratch
$1M+
Global TA budget managed
15+
Years of HR infrastructure

Leila Trimble

I'm a talent operations and people systems specialist with 15+ years running searches, building functions, and standing up the infrastructure that makes hiring organizations actually work — at companies from Series A startups to Fortune 150 enterprises.

I founded Tipping Point Talent Solutions to work with companies at the inflection point — where getting the hiring function, people infrastructure, and compliance posture right isn't a nice-to-have. It's the difference between scaling efficiently and fixing everything in year three.

I take on a limited number of engagements at a time and work hybrid or fully remote from Denver, CO. If the timing is right, I'd like to hear what you're building.

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M.Ed., Organizational Performance & Change — Colorado State University
BS, Business Administration & Psychology — Regis University

Recruiting Execution
Full-Cycle Search
Senior, technical, and specialist roles run from intake to close — I work the search myself. Sourcing strategy, structured outreach, interview design, candidate management, and offer negotiation.
Systems & Infrastructure
Talent Operations
ATS selection and implementation, intake frameworks, competency-based interview design, pipeline analytics, and the recruiting stack that makes hiring repeatable — not just for this search, but for the next fifty.
Org Infrastructure
People Operations
Performance management, compensation and leveling, onboarding programs, and the operational backbone a scaling organization needs before it needs a full HR team.
Risk & Regulatory
HR Compliance
Handbook audits, compliant policy language, multi-state layering, and risk-rated gap analysis — source-cited, jurisdiction-specific, delivered as structured consulting. No software required.
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Taking engagements
now.

I work with a small number of clients at a time. A short call is usually enough to know if we're a fit — reach out and let's find out.

Talent & People Systems

Recruiting infrastructure, ATS implementation, pipeline analytics, performance frameworks, compensation & leveling, onboarding design.

HR Compliance

Handbook compliance audits, handbook builds and updates, multi-state policy design, compliance gap analysis with risk ratings and exposure estimates.

Embedded / Fractional

Full-cycle recruiting execution alongside infrastructure build. Short-term embedded or ongoing fractional — depending on what you need.

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Phone 303.618.9207
Location Denver, CO — Hybrid / Remote