Build the people side of your next stage.
Ignia is a people partner for startups and scale-ups. We build the structure behind how you grow a team: clear roles, an org that fits the plan, and the hiring to fill it, so the people side keeps pace with the company.
Built for the stage where teams double.
Fast-growing companies outgrow their people setup before almost anything else. The roles that carried the company this far were shaped for a smaller version of it, and they stop fitting before anyone names the problem. The org chart lags the headcount, and the hiring process that worked at 15 people starts costing you at 40.
Ignia was built for that stage. Growth gets easier when the people side is structured: roles people understand, an org designed for where you’re going, and hiring that keeps up. That’s what we build with you, and it holds as the company doubles.
Most engagements start with an assessment. Urgent searches start with a call.
Results
A boutique company hiring for a role they had never been able to fill in-house. We ran the search to a longlist strong enough to become a candidate pipeline for the future, not just one hire.
A 50-person company that grew organically and ended up with work duplicated across teams. We assessed the whole workforce and redesigned the structure so ownership was clear, processes ran leaner, and they got time back.
A consumer company starting operations in a new country with no employer brand in that market. We built how they show up to local talent, and how they find and hire the first team on the ground.
About
Ignia was founded by Natalia Amer, who has led talent acquisition and people work inside hypergrowth, scale-up, and pre-IPO companies, through the stages where teams double and everything gets tested.
Natalia leads and delivers engagements hands-on, and brings in senior recruiters and specialists from a hand-picked network when a search or a scale-up needs more capacity.
Oxford Executive MBA. Zurich, working across Europe.
What we do
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The fastest way to see why the right people aren’t coming through, and what to do about it. Most companies at this stage have no real hiring process yet, and the roles that matter stay open because the right people are hard to find, harder to attract, and slow to say yes. In two to three weeks we look at the roles you’re trying to fill, how you come across to the people you want, where those people actually are, and how hiring decisions get made. You get a written diagnosis and a plan for the next two quarters: how to reach the people you need, how to make the role worth saying yes to, and how to run it without building a big function. Fixed fee, agreed upfront. Most of our work starts here.
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For leadership and senior roles where the right person changes the company’s trajectory. We run a focused search, calibrated to your stage as much as the role, and support you through evaluation, offer, and close. Every search is led senior, start to finish.
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The structures that let a company double without losing what makes it work. Role clarity, org design, hiring and performance foundations, ways of working. Sized to your stage, and built to actually get used.
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A dedicated recruiter inside your team, on a flexible monthly basis. Full focus on your roles, working in your tools and under your employer brand. Capacity moves with your hiring, and there is no long-term commitment.