Footprint Talent

Footprint Talent is an advisory firm that helps founders and operators of private-equity-backed companies make decisions about people and hiring. It works in three ways: rebuilding how a company hires, running the talent function for a period, and searching for senior leaders.

What Footprint Talent offers

• AI-assisted talent systems: redesigning a client's hiring process with AI tools to make hiring quicker, lower risk and less dependent on one person's memory for compliance.
• Fractional Head of Talent: the founder leads a client's talent function for a fixed period, adding a small team as needed.
• Board and executive search: recruitment for board seats and senior leadership roles.
• Hiring platform setup: work with tools such as Greenhouse, Rippling, Pave, Gem and SeekOut, plus automation through n8n and Zapier.
• Employer brand and onboarding: support with employer branding, onboarding and scaling early-stage teams.

Who it works with

Founders and private-equity-backed operators, including early-stage teams that are growing.

Key facts

• Founder: Eryn McHugh, who ran her own search firm for eight years and then spent eight years building talent teams inside private-equity-backed companies
• Platforms: Greenhouse, Rippling, Pave, Gem, SeekOut, n8n, Zapier