Chris Hunter
COO, Colorifix
SAGANA TALENT
SAGANA TALENT works hand in hand with inspiring, fast-growing businesses to build healthy organizations through great people, inclusive practices, and high-performing cultures. With our clients across the globe, we transform workplaces into platforms for human growth and connection. Our decades of experience in impact investing gives us a unique perspective on how to build successful companies and we are committed to creating great places to work where people feel valued and thrive.
We believe that with the right team and culture, nothing can stand in the way of entrepreneurs solving the world’s most complex and important problems.
OUR SERVICES
Recruiting Solutions
We help impact companies to source and hire exceptional talent, even for specialized or hard-to-fill positions, by providing unmatched access to pools of inclusive, talented, global candidates. We specialize in finding people committed to impact and who specifically thrive in fast-paced, venture-backed companies.
People practices
Fast-growing companies are at risk of losing what’s special about their culture. We design and implement the most important people practices that fast-growing companies need to build and scale healthy cultures: values and operating principles; talent planning; recruiting; onboarding; performance and development; and compensation.
Diversity & Inclusion Expertise
Research shows that diverse teams residing in an inclusive culture produce better results. Diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into all our work – from reducing unconscious bias in recruiting to ensuring pay equity in compensation. We also offer D&I workshops and assessments of current practices to optimize equity and inclusion.
People practices are the pathway to scaling your culture
We have seen hundreds of venture-backed companies try to scale. The ones that have succeeded have intentionally paid attention to people and culture – as much as product-market fit and fundraising. These companies strategically invested in the core people practices that allow their culture to scale as they add more and more people to the team. Six core people practices play a role in enabling you to scale your culture as you grow your business.
We’re driven by helping our clients build healthy organizations through great people, inclusive practices, and high-performing cultures. Some of our work includes:
Full-Stack Engineer
The ideal candidate was a Full Stack Engineer with both front and back-end experience, a rare combination in the industry, and leadership skills to develop a team of software engineers.
Investment director
You can find the hard skills easily for this position, but we needed someone who was driven by impact and who had an entrepreneur mindset to help build out this new fund.
Chief Human Resources Officer
We needed the perfect combo of mission-driven business partner, entrepreneur, and HR director with technical skills to build team and organization.
Vision, mission, & operating principles
Unified GrainPro's geographically-disbursed 180+ employees – from Washington DC to Manila to Mexico City to Nairobi – around their mission to improve the lives of smallholder farming families, through a series of creative and efficient employee engagement activities over 4 months.
Foundational support
Supported Phase Change Solution's interim CHRO in developing tools and processes for all 6 people practices, including: compensation bands for 15 different positions; interview questions and systems for better recruiting; onboarding materials; and operating principles – all in service of building a healthy culture for the company's rapidly-growing 45-person team.
Organizational design
Analyzed and re-designed the organizational structure, wrote job specifications including KPIs and skill requirements, and advised on overall HR practices for an impact investing fund based in Singapore and investing in Southeast Asia.
Strategic hiring and talent planning
Built talent hiring plans for two Cartier Women's Initiative Award alumni winners – one in Pakistan and one in Shanghai – as well as developed job descriptions, interviewing techniques and sourcing strategies – through a series of focused workshops, templates and tools.
We’re always on the lookout for great people. Explore the roles we’re recruiting for.
What others say about working with us
“I have been working with Sagana for almost 2 years in our recruitment efforts. Given the nature of our business, we need niche talent in order to fulfill critical positions in our team. It is quite challenging to find talent across so many diverse roles for our team, however, it was clear they had taken the time and made the effort to thoroughly understand not only the roles but also our company culture Sagana was able to help us identify candidates who are perfect fits in terms of experience and culture.”
“Sagana gets that ESG must be core to a company's hiring plans, culture, mission and vision. At GrainPro Inc. we have been delighted by their ability to help us shape our culture and hire the right people for that culture.“
Jim Sherblom
Vice Chairman, GrainPro
"Our work with Sagana Talent has been a game changer. Collaborating with Sagana has been like expanding our HR capabilities exponentially. Their work has ranged from basic "building blocks" of good HR practice (interviewing practices, compensation, performance) to strategic HR initiatives like developing the behaviors that truly reflect who we are as a company. Their impact on our company has been amazing and so appreciated as we grow our brand and expand our product lines that are good for both people and our planet. ”
Govi V. Rao
CEO, Phase Change Solutions
Sagana Talent understands our business environment and us – making them a trusted strategic partner. We’re a small but mighty team and really need to leverage our talent in the most impactful way, and they helped us redesign our team’s structure to do this. We continue to work with them in building stronger talent practices that help us better deliver our impact as fund managers in SSEA.
Micaela Ratini,
Insitor Partners
“I have been working with Sagana for almost 2 years in our recruitment efforts. Given the nature of our business, we need niche talent in order to fulfill critical positions in our team. It is quite challenging to find talent across so many diverse roles for our team, however, it was clear they had taken the time and made the effort to thoroughly understand not only the roles but also our company culture Sagana was able to help us identify candidates who are perfect fits in terms of experience and culture.”
Chris Hunter
COO, Colorifix
“Sagana gets that ESG must be core to a company's hiring plans, culture, mission and vision. At GrainPro Inc. we have been delighted by their ability to help us shape our culture and hire the right people for that culture.“
Jim Sherblom
Vice Chairman, GrainPro
"Our work with Sagana Talent has been a game changer. Collaborating with Sagana has been like expanding our HR capabilities exponentially. Their work has ranged from basic "building blocks" of good HR practice (interviewing practices, compensation, performance) to strategic HR initiatives like developing the behaviors that truly reflect who we are as a company. Their impact on our company has been amazing and so appreciated as we grow our brand and expand our product lines that are good for both people and our planet. ”
Govi V. Rao
CEO, Phase Change Solutions
Sagana Talent understands our business environment and us – making them a trusted strategic partner. We’re a small but mighty team and really need to leverage our talent in the most impactful way, and they helped us redesign our team’s structure to do this. We continue to work with them in building stronger talent practices that help us better deliver our impact as fund managers in SSEA.
Micaela Ratini,
Insitor Partners