Fractional HR & Leadership
Too big to wing it. Too small for a VP of HR.
Companies between 10 and 75 employees need senior HR and leadership support, but often can't justify a full-time hire. Arnold closes that gap with executive judgment and repeatable systems.
Included
Senior people strategy, embedded where it matters.
Coaching for key leaders, manager onboarding, communication, conflict resolution, and performance frameworks.
Job descriptions, interview process design, compensation benchmarking, restructuring, and role design.
Quarterly strategy reviews, embedded leadership support, executive coaching, and outside perspective.
Immediate access when a people situation needs senior judgment — not a policy manual.
6-month initial term. Additional project work outside scope at $375/hour. On-site travel billed at cost.
Monthly Retainer Tiers
Essentials
$3,000 / month · 8 hrs
Monthly leadership check-ins, on-demand HR guidance, one active workstream.
Growth
$4,500 / month · 12 hrs
Hiring and interview design, performance frameworks, and quarterly strategy review.
Strategic
$6,500 / month · 18 hrs
Org design, executive coaching, and a fully embedded leadership partner.
In Practice
From reactive hiring to a proactive staffing strategy.
Length of engagement through a complex acquisition
Pay structure benchmarked from scratch
Hiring process handed off to run independently
A Bay Area company engaged Arnold to restructure their operations team, evaluate open candidates, and build a compensation framework while navigating a multi-party acquisition. Over four months, they moved from scrambling reactively to running a defined hiring process with clear role specs, a tiered pay structure, and a candidate evaluation rubric their own team could own.
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