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Larkwell Talent
Retained & embedded talent partners

Hiring, cut with
the same care
as the work itself.

Larkwell Talent is a boutique search and recruiting partnership for teams who treat hiring as a craft, not a transaction — retained search, embedded contract recruiting, and talent advisory built around how you actually grow.

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One partner, start to close — no hand-offs between sourcing and closing teams.
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Engagements sized to the role: a single retained search or a fully embedded seat.
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Built on ten years placing technical and leadership hires that stay.
What we do

Three ways to work together

Choose the model that fits the role — or blend them as your hiring needs shift through the year.

Retained Search

Dedicated, exclusive searches across technical, go-to-market, and operational functions — from senior individual contributor through C-suite leadership — with deep market mapping, a curated shortlist, and hands-on support through offer and close.

Senior & C-suite leadership

Embedded Recruiting

A contract recruiting partner inside your team for a quarter, a hiring push, or a new function — building your pipeline and process as if we were on staff.

Contract & project-based

Fractional Talent Advisory

Consulting on hiring strategy, interview design, compensation benchmarking, and org structure — for teams building a hiring function from scratch or fixing one that isn't working.

Strategy & consulting
How an engagement runs

Four steps, no surprises

The same disciplined process whether we're filling one role or standing up your whole recruiting function.

i.

Discovery

We learn the role, the team, and what "yes" actually looks like — not just the job description.

ii.

Sourcing

Targeted outreach and market mapping, weighted toward passive candidates who aren't on job boards.

iii.

Partnership

Weekly syncs, honest pipeline reporting, and interview support — you're never guessing where things stand.

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Placement

Offer negotiation, onboarding check-ins, and a retention guarantee on every direct-hire placement.

Talent work is precision work.
— Larkwell Talent, founding principle

Most recruiting relationships end at the offer letter. Ours doesn't. We think of every engagement as a long-cut gem — the value isn't in speed, it's in the angles you take the time to get right: understanding culture before sourcing candidates, vetting for fit as carefully as skill, and staying close enough after the hire to know it actually worked.

Larkwell Talent works with teams who'd rather hire once, well, than fill a seat quickly and start over in six months. Whether that's one retained search or an embedded recruiter for a whole growth quarter, the approach is the same: fewer clients, closer partnership, better outcomes.

Genevieve Garcia, founder of Larkwell Talent Let's talk hiring

Have a role, a quarter, or a hiring problem to solve?

Tell us what you're building and we'll tell you honestly whether — and how — we can help.