FEMALE FOUNDER WEBINAR
The Hires That Change Everything: Building Team-Market Fit as an Early-Stage Founder
A Workshop with Rachel Grewal, Founder of Rachel Grewal Talent and The Female Founder Agency
(Session in English)
Most early-stage founders hire when it hurts. Someone leaves, a function breaks, the to-do list gets impossible, and suddenly there's a job description being written at speed. The problem is that reactive hiring at the wrong moment, or bringing in the wrong person for the stage you're actually at, is one of the most expensive mistakes a founder can make.
This session is about doing it differently.
Rachel Grewal has spent 15 years working in talent acquisition for startups and scale-ups, including time as Head of Talent at Forward Partners, one of the UK's leading early-stage VC funds, and as Global Head of Talent Acquisition at the Financial Times, where she scaled across seven teams across four continents. She now runs Rachel Grewal Talent and The Female Founder Agency, two consultancies built specifically to help female founders make the critical hires that unlock the next stage of growth. She brings the strategic lens of a Head of Talent to the moments that matter most - without the full-time hire.
What you'll take away from this session
What Team-Market Fit means and how to assess it before you make your next hire
How to build a hiring strategy around where your business is going, not just where it is right now
The questions to ask before you write a job description, and why most founders skip them
How to identify the critical hire that will unlock the next stage of your growth
What great hiring looks like at an early stage, and how to run a process that gets you there without a full-time Head of Talent
How to build a values-led, high-performing team without adding headcount for its own sake
We don't share the recording afterwards, so if you want to be in the room, you need to show up live. It’s the best way to ask questions and immerse yourself in the learning.
12pm UK time
1pm FR/DE time
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Exclusive Online Session for Female Founders
Who is this Online Session for?
This session is for founders who are thinking about their next hire and want to get it right. Not just right on paper, but right for where the business actually is and where it needs to go.
You might be about to make your first senior hire and feeling the weight of it.
You might have made a hire that didn't work out and want to understand why.
Or you might be at a stage where the team you started with isn't quite the team you need now, and you're not sure how to navigate that.
The concept of Team-Market Fit sits at the heart of this session. It's the idea that the right people for your business aren't just the most talented or the most experienced, they're the ones whose capabilities, behaviours and ways of working match the stage, the ambition and the trajectory of what you're building right now. Getting that alignment wrong costs far more than a bad hire.
Rachel works with early-stage founders and funds on exactly this. In this session, she's sharing the framework she uses, the questions founders should ask before posting a job description, and what intentional hiring looks like in practice.
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