How I Help
Executive & Founding Team Search
End-to-end retained search for founders hiring their most important early leaders and individual contributors — from role definition through close.
Founder Advisory & Coaching
Targeted guidance on people strategy, early hiring decisions, compensation, and navigating immediate team challenges.
Fractional Talent Leadership
Hands-on, longer-term support to design recruiting systems, execute priority hires, and build scalable hiring operations.
My Story
Matt Harris | Principal
I bring a combination of 18 years in-house talent leadership and retained search experience, focused on early-stage and high-growth startups (Angel → Series A).
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10+ years of in-house talent leadership plus 8 years of agency/retained search experience.
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First in-house talent leader at three startups, including Second Measure (scaled team 6 → 70+, acquired by Bloomberg) and Turnstile (First Round–backed, first employee).
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Hired 150+ employees across executive leadership, product, engineering, revenue, people, marketing, finance, and design - focusing on company efficiency and candidate experience.
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Prior retained-search clients and completed hires include: Superhuman (founding engineers), Spring Health (first Chief Medical Officer), and Second Measure (first GTM lead).
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Passionate about building strong, inclusive cultures; across my last two in-house roles, earned 8× Built In Best Places to Work awards and a Forbes Best Startup Employer award.
Testimonials
(nice things that nice people have said about me)
Mike Babineau
Co-Founder and CEO
Turnstile & Second Measure
“Matt is a top-notch recruiter. Since 2014, I've worked with him as a candidate, colleague, and client:
1) He sourced and recruited me to join The Factory
2) He helped me hire teammates while at The Factory
3) He helped me grow the team at my startups, Second Measure and Turnstile
I've worked with many recruiters and actively sought Matt out after starting my company. The reason is simple and something I know first-hand: candidate experience. He helps companies craft hiring process that is not only effective, but a great experience for their candidates. I would not hesitate to recommend him to other founders or hiring managers.”
April Koh
CEO & Co-Founder
Spring Health
Matt is the epitome of a perfect executive recruiter. Extremely warm, human-centered, but impeccably organized and process-driven. He went deep on our company in order to accurately represent the team, company, mission, and role to top tier candidates. Even post-engagement, Matt has helped me out so many times... Thank you, Matt! You were a major part of the Spring Health founding story.
Jeffrey Sefa-Boakye
Head of Customer Success
Second Measure
Matt is the best Talent person that I have ever worked with. His thoughtful approach to candidate outreach, interviewing, and hiring is a large part of what built Second Measure's culture. Over the years, he helped me scale my team to meet the demands of our company's growth and provided me with his honest feedback whenever I overlooked anything. I've lost count of the number of emails we received from candidates who didn't make the final cut, thanking us for the thoughtful and prompt engagement throughout the hiring process. Interviewing is tough for candidates but Matt makes people feel like it's worth the effort. Hire him asap if you are looking for a world class person and teammate.