We find the Chief of Staff or Founder's Associate who sits between your vision and your execution — and makes both work.
Are you a Chief of Staff or Founder's Associate yourself - or would like to become one?
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Most recruiting support is either too slow, too expensive, or too generic.
We work differently - understanding your specific context and focused on the roles that matter most at your stage of growth.
Find out more about our general recruiting support options.
🤔 Not sure which one you need?
That's exactly what our first conversation is for.
Plus: check out our article on exactly this question.
Pricing consists of a set-up fee at project start and a fixed success fee upon placement. In general, you can assume a total cost of 5,000 to 15,000 Euro per position. We share exact fees after our initial call as they depend on your context and the positions you are seeking to fill.
Two pricing options (depending on your preference):
a) Hourly-based engagement - between 100 and 180 Euro per hour depending on project size, complexity and involved team members. Scope and guidelines on monthly amount of hours aligned upfront and continuous reporting on used hours in a shared document - no surprises. Flexible contract with monthly cancellation option.
b) Fixed package pricing (the exact price will depend on the elements from the list above you wish to include and your context)
"We worked with Julia to improve our recruiting and performance processes. She has been spot on with our needs and has made a huge impact in a short space of time. Julia brings an extreme amount of relevant experience and was able to communicate this very well.
We therefore decided to book her for trainings for the whole organisation as well, which was also super successful. I think every single person was able to learn something from her."
"Julia came on board to build our initial HR setup. As HR is a broad field it was a big challenge when she joined but she exceeded my expectations when it comes to setting priorities and executing together with the team. She is a pragmatic strategist and goes beyond what is asked of her. I would recommend any growth organization to work with her!"
"Julia Reis is a very experienced, hands-on consultant who easily adapts to new topics and structures. She helped us achieve 100% growth annually for the last two years.
We are particularly impressed by her high degree of integrity, ingenuity in problem-solving, and passion for training us.
Julia is very trustworthy and I strongly recommend her services, especially for part-time or temporary needs."
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"We’ve worked with Julia Reis Consulting multiple times now, and each collaboration has been exceptionally efficient, professional and reliable. The recruiting process was handled with great professionalism. Julia and Charlotte were always quick to respond and supported proactively. I would happily work with them again and highly recommend their services!”
"We worked with Julia Reis and her team at a time when we needed to professionalize our existing structures. To this end, we benefited greatly from their extensive experience in the field of employer branding and their ability to set up all necessary structures. Especially in the definition and implementation of a recruiting process and the selection of the right tools, we arrived at a functioning solution without any detours."
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Both roles support founders directly, but they differ in seniority, scope and the kind of leverage they create.
A Founder's Associate is typically an early-career generalist who takes tasks off the founders' plate and keeps things moving. They thrive in high-ambiguity environments, handling everything from research and hiring coordination to meeting prep and internal ops. It's a high-velocity, execution-heavy role — and a great launchpad for a career in operations or strategy.
A Chief of Staff is a more senior, strategic partner who amplifies leadership impact at the organisational level. Rather than executing individual tasks, they translate vision into action, drive cross-functional alignment, run OKR cycles and own strategic initiatives. They are deeply trusted by the founder and leadership team, often operating behind the scenes to clear noise and keep priorities on track.
Put simply: a Founder's Associate helps you scale yourself — a Chief of Staff helps you scale the company.
Most companies bring on a Founder's Associate at pre-Seed to Series A stage, and transition to a Chief of Staff as complexity grows and the founder's bandwidth becomes a strategic bottleneck rather than an operational one.
👉 Find out more about the differences between a Chief of Staff and Founder's Associate.
We help you determine which role fits your organisation best in our initial call and if needed a pre-search deep-dive session.
We mostly work with tech-driven companies between 5 and 300 employees — typically at a growth or reorganisation stage where hiring is business-critical but internal People & Culture capacity is limited. This includes start-ups, scale-ups, company builders and VCs but also forward-thinking SMEs.
Due to our team's earlier professional background, we also regularly support nonprofit organisations in their hiring.
Geographically speaking we are focused on Germany and Austria when it comes to hiring.
Our average time-to-hire is 6–10 weeks. We run a tight, transparent process — so you always know where things stand, and strong candidates don't drop off because of slow feedback loops. In most cases, you will be able to interview your first potential candidates within 10 to 20 days of kicking-off your search with us.
But honestly, the time-to-hire not only depends on us and the candidate market but also on your responsiveness and collaboration style. When it all matches, we've have also been able to hire in under four weeks in selected cases.
After an initial deep-dive profile briefing, we handle everything from job postings and candidate outreach to screening and interview coordination. You'll receive a shortlist of pre-vetted candidates with written assessments, and we support you through the final interviews and offer stage.
If you book our Full Package (see above) we can also support you in pre-search role design, setting up your overall assessment process and onboarding after your hire has started.
A few things. We bring our consultant mindset to recruiting — every search starts with a detailed briefing session in which we aim to fully understand your context and the required role profile as well as aligning on all other relevant aspects of our collaboration. We then move fast without cutting corners (average time-to-hire: 6–10 weeks). But: we always prioritise candidate quality over sheer speed.
And because we've spent years working inside and with organisations and leadership teams as fractional Chiefs of Staff, we understand these entrepreneurial roles at a depth most recruiters don't.
We treat every search as if it were our own hire — which also means having honest discussions about the right candidate with you, even if this might lead to extra work for us.
We include a 90-day onboarding check-in to catch issues early. If the placement doesn't work out within a defined period, we offer a replacement search — specifics are shared during our initial conversation.
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll listen, ask a few direct questions and give you an honest view of how we can help.
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