Building founding teams for tech start-ups
Partnering with founders of seed and early-stage tech start-ups on critical foundational hires.
About Beacon Talent
Beacon Talent is a founder-led recruitment agency offering a highly personalised approach to permanent hiring for early-stage and growing tech start-ups. Drawing on extensive experience across executive search and in-house environments, the focus is simple: close partnerships and hires that last.
We manage the entire permanent recruitment process for technical and non‑technical roles: from refining your brief and understanding your culture, to sourcing, interviewing, coordination and offer negotiation.
Meet the founder
I’m Tamsin, a recruiter with over 10 years of experience hiring for technology start-ups.
I began my career in executive search before moving in-house, where I partnered directly with founders and leadership teams. Most recently, I led talent acquisition for a high-growth AI unicorn.
Beacon Talent exists because too much recruitment is transactional. I work with a carefully chosen number of companies at a time, acting as an extension of your team and representing your brand with care and credibility to the best talent in the market. I take the time to understand your business and what success looks like beyond a job description, building high-trust partnerships that lead to impactful hires.
Our approach
Founder-led
At Beacon Talent, the person you brief is the person doing the work. Every search is led end-to-end by me, from sourcing and vetting to representing your brand in the market. This removes noise, misalignment, and handovers, ensuring founders and hiring teams work with a single, deeply invested partner.
In-house talent DNA
Beacon Talent operates with an in-house mindset, not a vendor mentality. With years of experience sitting inside tech companies, the approach mirrors how strong Talent Leads think: people-first, commercially aware, and deeply conscious of how a single hire impacts a company’s trajectory.
Quality over quantity
CV overload is not a value add. Beacon Talent delivers highly calibrated shortlists, built around individuals who genuinely fit the role, the company, and the stage of growth. Each candidate is presented with clear, critical insight (strengths, risks, and context), saving hours of screening while improving long-term hiring outcomes.
FAQs
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Beacon Talent offers a full-cycle, end-to-end, impact-driven recruitment service. Tailored hiring strategies that reflect each company’s stage of growth, and future plans. This includes understanding your business and culture, refining role requirements, sourcing and shortlisting candidates, coordinating interviews, and negotiating offers. Each stage is designed to be collaborative and consultative, ensuring alignment between the company and the candidates.
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Permanent recruitment for early-stage and scaling tech companies and start-ups, including SaaS, AI, and tech businesses. Roles range from senior individual contributors to executive and leadership hires, across both technical and non-technical teams.
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Beacon Talent operates on a success-based model. Fees are only paid upon successful placement, with a strong emphasis on making the right hire.
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Beacon Talent operates on a global basis, with a particular focus on the UK, EMEA, and North America.
Testimonials
‘‘Tamsin is super smart, customer-centric, and always delivers. She has a rare ability to understand context instantly and build effortless relationships. Everyone who interacts with her respects her ability; she is an absolute superstar.’’
Mark Hornsey, Chief Operating Officer at Tractable
‘‘Tamsin has extreme ownership and bias to action, coupled with empathy and genuine care about doing the right thing and generating impact for the business.
I would work with her over and over again.’’
Gio Lotti, VP People at TechWolf
