Glass octopus

Embedded Growth Partners, Built to Scale Ambitious Brands.

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Hire freelance, contract, or fractional talent on demand

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Embedded Talent Partners

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Success-only recruitment model for hiring top talent

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Attract, Retain & Grow Top Talent On Demand

Glass Octopus is a collective of senior recruiters, HR experts, and industry leaders who’ve built teams inside ambitious SMEs, high-growth startups, scaleup's, and global corporates across marketing, media, and tech.

 

We’ve run hiring sprints under pressure, scaled functions from scratch, rebuilt underperforming teams, and grown capability that sticks.
Not just scaling fast, but scaling profitably, sustainably, with the right people.

 

Now we bring that same in-house firepower directly to you — flexibly, without the bloated overheads or agency-style surprises

Choose from four flexible delivery routes

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Senior expertise, on demand

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Success-only hiring, fast

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How We Work

Discover

We run a free Discovery Workshop to understand your goals, gaps, and growth plan.

Plan

We create a tailored hiring roadmap aligned to business priorities, with cost options.

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Your recruiter joins your team. Fully embedded or on a success only basis, aligned to your needs.

Deliver

You hire better people, faster while building a scalable, efficient recruitment engine.

How Can We Help You Succeed?

Select the areas you want to focus on, then share your details so we can create a plan together.

Attract and retain great people

Strengthen my leadership team

Build or scale my sales function

Hire developers, product, or tech talent

Reduce hiring costs and agency spend

Improve team engagement and culture

Train and develop my team

Fix poor hiring processes or compliance risks

Launch or grow my marketing function

Prepare for investment, exit, or acquisition

Expand overseas

Build a scalable finance or operations function


Meet The Team

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