People ATX · Austin, TX

Talent Strategy & Retained Executive Search

You're hiring for a job that won't exist in 18 months. People ATX builds the workforce plan with you, decides what AI carries and what your people own, and designs a team that can flex instead of snap. When the plan says hire, we run the search too.

We keep learning, adapting, and pivoting. Stagnant is not an option.

A notebook and coffee on the table before a conversation at People ATX
Every note reaches a partner.No queue. No pitch. A conversation.
We build the plan, with you. Photo: David Kristianto

Who we serve

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Founders & CEOs

You feel the cost of a wrong senior hire and the fear of building the wrong team for where AI is taking the work. We build the plan with you first, then hire into it, so you are staffing the work that is coming instead of the role that is leaving.

CPG & fast-moving brands

Your shelf moves fast. Your org chart does not. Fast categories, lean teams, and real pressure to do more with AI without losing the human craft that makes the brand. We design the work so your people and your AI each do what they are good at.

VC & PE partners

You cannot scale a portfolio on job descriptions written for 2019. You set talent strategy across many companies and feel the AI versus headcount tension on every board. We plan the work before the headcount, company by company.

What we do

The plan comes first. The search comes after.

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Workforce planning, through an AI lens

We map what AI should carry and what your people should own, on purpose, together. Then we design roles that stretch instead of snap, and name the capability that is not on your org chart yet.

And when the tools roll out, we run the adoption. Most rollouts fail in adoption, not installation. We redesign the work and make sure it sticks.

Retained executive search

When the plan says hire, we run the search. CEO, COO, CFO, CTO, CMO, CPO, and the VP hires that build and run your functions. One partner, full network, start to close.

Also available fractionally. Firms that need an extra set of hands plug us into their searches on demand, run with the same rigor we run our own.

People ATX Academy

For candidates, from first job to the C suite. Four tracks built by two people who have sat on both sides of the table, so you know what the other side is thinking before you walk in.

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How the search runs

Once the plan says hire, this is how we fill the chair. Partner led, start to close.

01AttractionMap the market. Reach the ones who are not looking.
02QualificationSeparate the credential from the capability.
03RecruitingBuild the case. Earn the conversation.
04SelectionStructured assessment. No gut calls.
05HiringOffer managed. Both sides walk in clear-eyed.
06OnboardingA 90 day landing plan, built before day one.
07GuaranteeIf the leader leaves inside 90 days, we run the search again at no cost.
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Let's build your plan.

AI did not make people matter less. It made judgment, trust, and the ability to read a room worth more. Tell us what you are building. We will design the team that can flex, and hire into it, with you. You reach a partner, not a queue.