Fractional Hiring

The senior leader your business needs, without the time or cost of a full-time, permanent hire

Bring a proven fractional or interim leader into your team from our network; a fractional CTO, CMO, CFO, or a revenue, partnerships or customer-success lead on a part-time or project basis, matched to your growth phase.

The expertise of a senior exec, at the commitment and cost that fit where you are.

650+ Companies Served

You need seniority and relevant experience you can trust in your business now. We’ll find it for you.

Companies engage Think & Grow for Fractional Hiring because…

They need senior leadership immediately, but a permanent hire is too much cost and takes too long to secure
A leadership seat is empty and they need an experienced interim to hold it while they search
A specific push, like a transformation, market launch, or partner motion that needs an experienced leader to run it for a defined window
They need a rare specialist skill (RevOps, partnerships, AI, product) they can’t justify full-time or permanently
They want to prove out a role before committing to a permanent hire
They’re scaling fast and need to flex leadership capacity up (or down) as the business shifts
Think & Grow ensured we got the right skill sets and culture fit. We’re very happy with the work they did and the approach they took.
Michael Allara
Michael Allara
Co-Founder & CPO at Cluey Learning
They listen carefully and live up to their image in working hard to deliver outcomes that result from a great partnership.
Sonia Flynn
Sonia Flynn
COO at Hireup
Think & Grow are well positioned given their extensive international networks and recruitment expertise. They delivered high-quality candidates to a very specific brief and, ultimately, high-calibre executives.
Dr Peter Cronin
Dr Peter Cronin
Founder of Prospection
Think & Grow tailors their approach to the company’s needs. They provided us with high quality candidates who had skills in the industries we were looking for.
Keira Lewis
Keira Lewis
GM at Vudoo
About service

What is Fractional Hiring?

Fractional Hiring places an experienced leader into your business part-time, interim or for a project. For example, a fractional CTO, CMO, CFO, or a revenue, partnerships or customer-success lead. They integrate fast and deliver from day one.

The difference is the calibre and the fit. These aren’t bench contractors or executives we don’t know. They’re proven operators that we’ve worked with and trust, matched to your stage, culture and goals. Fractional Hiring sits inside our full Growth Stack, so a fractional leader can plug straight into the strategy, market entry or org they’re there to drive.

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What you get with Fractional Hiring

You get senior expertise and hands-on leadership without the cost, lead time or long-term commitment of a permanent hire, and you can flex it up or down as your needs change. You’ll gain access to our network of proven fractional and interim leaders, matched to your needs and integrated into your team. Common ways they plug in:

Fractional CTO / CPTO
Fractional CMO
Fractional CFO
Fractional CRO / sales leadership
Fractional partnerships or customer-success lead
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Project & transformation leadership
Specialist expertise (RevOps, AI, product)
A bridge to a permanent hire
Our Work 

Case studies

Two fractional leaders to kickstart a partner motion

Rebuilding its partner-led growth for a US and UK/EU expansion, Safe Software needed senior hands to run it now. We placed an experienced fractional Partnerships Leader and a fractional Customer Success Leader to stand up the motion.

A fractional sales team to drive new-logo growth

Kudosity needed commercial experience without building a permanent sales org overnight. We placed a fractional sales team to open the pipeline and win new logos for senior selling capacity, scaled to the moment.

Fractional marketing leadership

Jade Software needed senior marketing leadership without a permanent hire. We placed a fractional marketing lead to run the function and give the team direction.

Why Think & Grow

Our team hasn’t just studied growth, they’ve done it.

The leaders we put forward and place come from our network of trusted and experienced operators who’ve built and scaled companies themselves. We match them to your stage and culture, and they add value from week one.

And because Fractional Hiring sits inside our full Growth Stack, a fractional leader doesn’t work in isolation; they can draw on our Market Intelligence, GTM plans and wider network, or to hand over cleanly to a permanent hire through Executive Search when the time comes.

Jonathan Jeffries (JJ)

Spent 20 years helping scale companies globally. Designed the Global Passport Program for AWS, now in over 26 cities worldwide. Clients in AWS, Etsy, Snowflake, Stripe, Harrison.ai, Fireworks.ai, Dropbox, GoCardless, Peloton, and Spotify.

Jonathan Jeffries (JJ)
Founder & CEO
Vicky Klonaridis

With 20+ years placing senior leaders into tech companies and raising the bar on hiring practice, Vicky is one of the longest-standing employees at Think & Grow.

Vicky Klonaridis
Partner
Robert Jeffries

Spent over 20 years scaling technology companies, including as a Co-Founder & Director.

Robert Jeffries
Growth Partner, UK Director
Christophe Hovette

Spent 12+ years in recruitment and executive search, headhunting Chief Product, Technology, People and Finance officers across scale-ups.

Christophe Hovette
Head of Delivery (Search)
Simon Robinson

Helped build companies like Groupon from an early stage, now scaling technology companies through GTM, hiring, and digital transformation.

Simon Robinson
Growth Partner & Operator
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Four pathways, one team

Your Growth Centre of Gravity

Fractional Hiring is one of the services inside the People pathway. Customers often pair
this service with: 

Executive Search for when the role should become a permanent hire
Capability Review to work out which role you actually need first.
AI Diagnostic Workshop to pinpoint where AI can accelerate the function your
fractional leader is running.

Programs

A defined entry point

Facilitated workshops for a structured, high-value engagement about your business

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Growth Services

Support for expansion and scaling

GTM and market intelligence for ambitious companies scaling into new markets and phases.

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People Services

Design your org for its next phase

Executive Search, Capability Review, and Organisational Design for scaling companies.

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AI Services

Level up operational infrastructure

AI and digital transformation that’s grounded in commercial context, not just technical delivery.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Fractional hiring is bringing an experienced leader into your business on a part-time, interim or project basis — a fractional CTO, CMO, CFO or specialist — so you get senior expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. You scale the engagement to your needs.

Fractional and interim leaders across the C-suite and functions — CTO/CPTO, CMO, CFO, CRO and sales leadership, partnerships, customer success and RevOps — plus specialist experts (AI, product) and interim cover for a vacant seat. All drawn from our operator network.

Executive Search places a permanent leader through a retained search. Fractional Hiring gives you a proven leader now, part-time or interim, with no long search or long-term commitment, and when the role should become permanent, we can run the search, often with the fractional leader shaping the brief.

Fractional Hiring fills a leadership seat or function in your org, flexibly. Embedded Operators (part of our Growth Services) is our own team embedding to execute a specific growth initiative — a market launch, a GTM motion — rather than holding a role. Many clients use both.

Fast, because we draw from an existing network rather than running a search from scratch, a fractional leader can often be in place in a fraction of the time a permanent hire takes.

As long as the need lasts, a few days a week, a fixed project, or an interim stint, scoped up front, and easy to extend, scale down, or convert to a permanent hire.

Book a call. We’ll talk through the gap you’re filling and match the right fractional leader to it.

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