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.

Build your plan I am the candidate

Hiring a leader, or weighing your own next move? Both start here.

We keep learning and adapting, because standing still is not something we know how to do.

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

You are hiring a leader.

Founders, CPG brands, and the investors behind them. We build the workforce plan with you first, then run the search into it.

Build your plan For senior leaders

You are the one weighing a move.

Laid off, restless, or being courted. Two private ways to work with us, and nothing about you is posted or shared until you say yes.

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Who we serve

Start here

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 and your org chart does not. You are running fast categories with lean teams, under 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.

You are a senior leader, not a company. This part is for you.
Two private ways to work with us. Neither one posts anything, and no client sees your name until you say yes to a specific conversation.
Be found, quietly

The confidential bench

A private list of senior leaders we call first when a client hires for their seat. Tell us what you want next and where you would go. About four minutes, mostly buttons, and it stays between us.

Join the confidential bench
Get ready for the move

Career Advisory

One to one coaching for leaders with ten years in and executives with twenty, from the two people who have run the searches. You walk in knowing what the other side is thinking.

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What we do

The plan comes first. The search comes after.

For companies · Start here

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.

For companies

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 runs it from the first call to the close, with the whole network behind it.

We also work fractionally. Firms that need an extra set of hands plug us into their searches on demand, and we run those the same way we run our own.

For candidates

Career Advisory

Job search coaching for leaders with ten years in and executives with twenty, one to one, from two people who have sat on both sides of the table. 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, with a partner on it from start to close.

01AttractionMap the market and reach the ones who are not looking.
02QualificationSeparate the credential from the capability.
03RecruitingBuild the case and earn the conversation.
04SelectionStructured assessment, never a gut call.
05HiringOffer managed, so 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.
The 2026 Talent Report. What we are seeing right now.
It is free. Thirty years of recruiting between us, written down for the people hiring this year.
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Career Advisory

This one is for the candidate side. Job search coaching for leaders with ten years in and executives with twenty. Two tracks, both private and one to one, with the two people who have run the searches.

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Leaders · 10 years +
Career Crossroads

Stay or go, push for director, change function, or leave. This is the fork that decides your next decade, and it deserves a strategy instead of fear.
Executives · 20 years +
Career Ascent

Confidential and one on one, with Andres and Jami together. It is built for directors through the C suite and the board, for the high stakes transitions where you want two trusted people to think out loud with.

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.

Build your plan