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Littlemore Recruiting — Senior-Led Recruiting Firm in San Francisco

LittlemoreRecruiting · San Francisco

If you're serious about
the next hire
so are we.

Senior-led recruiting for startups and growth-stage companies. By people who've done it from both sides of the table.

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15+
Years placing talent
95%
Offer close rate
20+
Clients served
Every
Function filled

The difference

Most firms send volume.
Hope something sticks.
↓
We send the right person.
Most firms hand you off
to a junior recruiter.
↓
Senior-led from
brief to close.
We spent five years in-house at a Series E company,
and 10 years in agency life before that.

We know what a bad hire costs.
We carry that on every search.

01What We Do

Recruiting services
built around you.

We work with a small number of clients at a time. Every search gets our full attention not a coordinator, not a handoff, not a template.

Fractional Recruiter
Full-cycle search
for permanent roles.

We own sourcing, screening, interviews, reference checks, and offer negotiation end to end from day one.

Best for companies that need to fill a critical role and want someone who will own it end to end.

Embedded Recruiting
Your in-house recruiter,
without the headcount.

We slot into your team, work inside your ATS, align with your hiring managers, and move at your pace.

Best for companies scaling fast who need consistent capacity but aren't ready to build a TA function yet.

Project-Based Sourcing
Talent maps, pipelines,
and market intelligence.

Need a talent map, a pipeline built for future hiring, or a competitive landscape? We scope it, run it, hand it off.

Best for companies planning ahead or opening a new function.

Hiring Strategy
A strategic partner,
not just a vendor.

We help leadership teams define hiring plans, design interview processes, and make smarter workforce decisions.

Best for founders and people leaders who want a partner to help them scale.

02Track Record

Fifteen years.
Successfully hiring for every function.

Here is a sample of talent that we have placed across startups, design studios, health tech, fintech, and agencies.

Leadership & Executive
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • Chief of Staff to CEO
  • VP of FP&A
  • Head of Engineering
  • Head of DevOps
  • Head of HR
  • Head of Marketing
  • Head of Business Strategy
  • Sr. Creative Director
  • Director, Product Management
  • Director, Revenue
  • Director, Total Rewards
  • Director, UX Design
  • Director, IT
  • Director, Brand Strategy
  • Director, Corp Development
  • Director, Talent Development
Design, Engineering & Product
  • Software Engineer
  • Full Stack Developer
  • Frontend Engineer
  • iOS Developer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Firmware Engineer
  • Electrical Engineer
  • Mechanical Design Engineer
  • Manufacturing Engineer
  • Security Engineer
  • InfoSec Engineer
  • QA Engineer
  • Scrum Master
  • Product Designer
  • UX/UI Designer
  • Industrial Designer
  • Technical Project Manager
Marketing, GTM & Ops
  • Product Marketing Manager
  • Growth Marketing Manager
  • Lifecycle Marketing Manager
  • Content Marketing Manager
  • Brand Manager
  • CRM Manager
  • Paid Media Manager
  • Account Manager
  • Business Development Manager
  • GTM Enablement Manager
  • GTM Engineer
  • Sales Operations Analyst
  • General Counsel
  • Senior HRBP
  • Clinical Recruiter
  • Recruiting Manager
  • Compensation Analyst

03Where We're Proven

Focus on Industries We Know Deeply

AI Startups Health Tech Fintech B2B SaaS Design & Creative Medical Devices
THE RIGHT CANDIDATE THE RIGHT MOMENT The hire.
Startups in motion.
We've recruited through hypergrowth, pivots, reorgs, and funding rounds. We know how to move when the ground is shifting and how to keep candidates warm when your process needs to pause.
Passive talent.
Most of the best candidates aren't applying. They're heads-down at their current job, not refreshing job boards. We find them, build a relationship, and bring them to you. That's where the best hires come from.
Complex roles.
Niche titles, cross-functional scope, founder-adjacent positions the ones that are hard to write a job description for and harder to fill. Chief of Staff to CEO, Head of Business Strategy, Director of Corporate Development. These aren't plug-and-play roles. They need judgment.
Inclusive hiring.
We ran 20 concurrent requisitions at Included Health and closed 95% of offers while building diverse, high-performing teams. Inclusive practices aren't a checkbox for us they're built into how we source, screen, and sell a role to a candidate.
Visa navigation.
H-1B, O-1, J-1, TN we've worked alongside immigration counsel and know how to flag issues early so they don't blow up an offer at the finish line.
Clients we've worked with
Included Health SoundHound.ai AliveCor Branch Ammunition Fuseproject IDEO Rally Health PopSugar Swell Investing Wolff Olins Native PCH LimeLab Tempur-Sealy 215 McCann Burq.ai InsightHealth.ai VBP Orange Rollstack.ai Included Health AliveCor Branch Ammunition Fuseproject IDEO Rally Health PopSugar Swell Investing Wolff Olins Native PCH LimeLab Tempur-Sealy 215 McCann Burq InsightHealth.ai VBP Orange Polyera

04The Process

01
Brief

We start with a real conversation. Not a form. We want to know the role, the team, the moment your company is in, and what "right" actually means beyond the job description. We're naturally curious, we'll ask the questions that go deeper, because that's where the real requirements live. This takes about an hour. It saves weeks.

02
Market Map

We map the landscape. Who's out there, where they are, which companies they're coming from, and who's worth pursuing. You'll see our thinking before we start outreach.

03
Candidate Sourcing

We go directly to the people who aren't looking. Every candidate we approach has been assessed against the brief before we make contact. We represent your brand as ambassadors for your company, treating every candidate and every interaction with respect, transparency, and follow-through. No ghosting.

04
Screen & Shortlist

You get a curated shortlist, not a stack of resumes. Every submission comes with context: who this person is, why they fit, what we noticed, and anything worth knowing before you meet them. If we're not confident it's worth your time, we don't send it.

05
Interview Support

We help structure the process, align your panel, and keep momentum. Slow processes lose great candidates to faster-moving companies. We push where it matters and manage the candidate experience throughout.

06
Offer & Close

Offer negotiation, candidate prep, counter management. Most searches fall apart here. We've seen it happen and we know how to prevent it. We stay close to both sides through the finish line.

05Our Story

Personal. · Thoughtful. · Built around relationships.
Melissa Little
Melissa Little Founder · Littlemore Recruiting

Littlemore was founded in 2010 by Melissa Little with a simple belief: recruiting should be personal, thoughtful, and built around relationships, not volume.

With 15+ years of experience working both in-house and agency-side, we bring the perspective of having built teams from both sides of the table. We know what hiring managers need, what great candidates respond to, and how to run a search from first conversation through close.

Our experience has also built deep networks across startups, technology, design, AI, fintech, healthcare, and GTM.

Today, we combine that experience with a new generation of AI tools that make recruiting faster, smarter, and more targeted. Technology gives us more leverage, but relationships and judgment still drive the work.

15+
Years placing talent
95%
Offer close rate
20+
Clients served
Senior-led
High-touch
Tech-enabled

Join Our Talent Network

Join our talent network.
We'll reach out when there's a fit.

We work with companies that hire great people. If you're open to the right opportunity, send us your resume and we'll be in touch when there's a genuine match worth talking about.

We reach out only when there's a real fit. No spam.
Your details are never shared without asking you first.
We place across engineering, design, product, GTM, finance, legal, and leadership.

Send your resume to

recruiting@littlemorerecruiting.com

Include your LinkedIn, a brief note on what you're looking for, and attach your resume or share a link. We read every one.

Let's Work Together

The right hire
changes everything.

We work with companies that treat hiring like it matters. If that's you, we should talk.

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15+Years placing talent
95%Offer close rate
20+Clients served
SFSan Francisco based
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