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People-First Systems
Every engagement centers on the employee experience, ensuring tools and processes support the humans doing the work.
Inside Trillium Hiring Services
Learn how our company operates and meet the leaders who deliver people-first systems for growing teams.
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People-first hiring systems for growing companies
Trillium Hiring Services is a boutique consultancy that builds the HR and talent infrastructure modern founders need. We help small businesses, mid-market teams, and venture-backed startups create compliant operations, repeatable hiring, and people programs that unlock sustainable growth.
Our team embeds directly with leadership to run day-to-day execution while installing the processes, data, and documentation that investors and employees expect. You get enterprise-grade support without the overhead of building an internal department before you are ready.
How Trillium Helps
Small Business HR
- HR Essentials Packages with transparent pricing for owners who need trusted guidance without corporate overhead.
- Compliance reviews, handbooks, and employee-relations support delivered as an embedded partner.
- Onboarding workflows and documentation that get new hires productive from day one.
- People operations dashboards that keep leadership aligned on hiring velocity and retention.
Venture & Growth Teams
- Fractional people leadership for startups from pre-Series A through Series B who need strategic build-out.
- Recruiter pods and sourcing systems that spin up quickly and integrate with existing hiring workflows.
- HR tech stack selection, implementation, and documentation ready for investor diligence.
- Founder coaching and reporting that keeps talent, finance, and operations leaders aligned.
What Clients Experience
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Compliance With Confidence
From handbooks to audits, we deliver airtight compliance frameworks that keep teams protected as they scale.
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Momentum for Founders
Trillium plugs into leadership quickly, creating practical playbooks that free founders to stay focused on revenue, product, and customers.
Leadership Team
Founder Amy Renhard partners with Vanessa Wolf and Ryan Bartell to deliver recruiting analytics, technical hiring, and people operations that scale with client growth.
Amy Renhard
Founder & CEO
Amy launched Trillium after more than a decade leading recruiting, HR compliance, and organizational development for high-growth companies. She translates that experience into calm execution for leaders who need strategic direction and reliable follow-through.
Before founding Trillium, she supported technical product organizations, climate-tech innovators, and small business operators who needed people systems that could scale alongside revenue. Today Amy pairs that expertise with a network of Trillium partners to deliver full-stack people operations.
- Designs and deploys end-to-end HR systems covering onboarding, compliance, payroll, and employee relations.
- Leads audits, policy creation, and compliance programs that keep founders protected during rapid change.
- Builds recruiting engines and talent acquisition programs for technical, product, and go-to-market teams.
- Supports leadership as an embedded HR partner during fundraising, restructuring, and scale-up milestones.
Vanessa Wolf
Partner
Vanessa Wolf brings a decade of HR and technical recruiting leadership to Trillium, partnering with founders to build equitable people programs and critical hiring roadmaps for high-growth teams.
She has supported climate tech, spatial computing, and sustainability organizations through roles with ecoATM Gazelle, Spatial, Microsoft vendor programs, and boutique search firms—standing up compliance-ready processes, interview design, and leadership pipelines that keep teams scaling responsibly.
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Ryan Bartell
Partner
Ryan Bartell is a hands-on recruiter, builder, and HR consultant. While starting his career supporting local small businesses and skilled trade organizations, he has since delivered 100+ technical and leadership hires while installing the systems and processes to keep pipelines predictable.
He has launched sourcing engines and ATS implementations at MicroByre, Saltwater Talent, ecoATM Gazelle, Moloco, Telos Health (surgical robotics), and Aralez Bio—supporting a team including Nobel Prize Laureate Frances Arnold—before helping Riviera Partners' Paragon practice scale engineering, data, and product teams. Outside client work he volunteers his time supporting adaptive sports programs in New Hampshire during the winter months.
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