Startup Talent, Hiring, and Team Growth
Hire Well, Onboard Fast, Build Culture Early
Calling founders, COOs, CPOs, HR and recruiting leaders, team leads, L and D and DEI leaders, and people operations teams. Learn how to build fair, efficient, and inclusive talent systems from 5 to 150 employees. Do not miss this opportunity to design hiring loops, compensation, and rituals that help your teams grow with confidence.
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Track Overview
Early talent decisions compound. This track provides practical frameworks to scope roles, run structured hiring, design onboarding, and build progression frameworks that align with business goals. We will cover compensation philosophy and equity, manager enablement, feedback systems, performance and growth plans, remote and hybrid norms, and inclusion by design.
Key Takeaways
- Define a hiring plan that aligns headcount to milestones
- Run structured interviews with scorecards and work samples
- Design onboarding that accelerates time to value
- Create compensation bands, equity grants, and refreshers
- Build career ladders and progression frameworks
- Train managers to give feedback and run fair reviews
- Set remote and hybrid collaboration norms and rituals
- Improve retention with engagement loops and growth plans
- Measure people outcomes with simple, trusted dashboards
Who Should Attend?
- Founders and general managers building their first teams
- Chief people officers, HR business partners, and recruiting leaders
- Team leads, managers, and skip-level leaders
- Learning and development, DEI, and employee experience leaders
- Advisors and operators who coach early people systems
Interested in Speaking?
Built a lean and fair people system that improved hiring speed and retention, share your templates, artifacts, and results to help founders scale better.
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