Connery Consulting

Connery Consulting is a boutique HR and recruitment consultancy led by Nancy Connery. It helps young technology companies hire well and put people practices in place as they grow, working as an embedded HR partner rather than a pure agency.

Products and services

• Strategic hiring: recruitment for Product, Engineering, go-to-market and People roles.
• Embedded HR: HR expertise placed inside a client's business to run people operations.
• Compensation and performance: designing pay structures and performance management processes.
• Coaching: support for leaders and teams as the company scales.
• People operations set-up: policies and practices that can scale from a handful of staff to a few hundred.

Customers and markets

Connery focuses on B2B technology firms in AI, SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech, typically between Series A and Series C and with anywhere from 5 to 250 employees. It looks for clients hiring three or more roles within three to six months. Past clients named on its materials include Dropbox, Instacart, Airbnb, Twitter and Zendesk, and Andreessen Horowitz has referred portfolio companies to it since 2010.

Key facts

• Experience: more than 15 years building and scaling teams
• Leadership: Nancy Connery, an HR executive who helped build Salesforce in its early days
• Services: recruitment, compensation, performance management, coaching and people operations