Our Why
We’re ultra-passionate about helping companies scale
through smarter hiring that delivers better results.
The leaders and teams you hire don’t just fill roles. They shape culture, accelerate growth, and determine whether your business can deliver on its vision.
Having led recruiting inside high-growth companies, we saw firsthand how the right hires can transform a business. Scaling fast doesn’t have to mean compromising on quality or treating hiring as a transaction, it can be an opportunity to build stronger teams and lasting talent advantage.
We founded TalentScale to make that vision real: bringing together decades of experience, best practices, and lessons learned to create the firm we always wished we’d had as talent leaders.
A true partner that treats every engagement as mission-critical, blends structure with agility, and invests in outcomes with the same intensity as the clients we serve.
Our Approach
Whether it’s a single critical hire or an entire team build-out, we go deep on every engagement, limit the work we take on, and take personal accountability for results that last well beyond the hire.
We bring together:
Partnership – strategic guidance and best practices drawn from decades of hands-on recruiting leadership
Precision – a research-driven, AI-enhanced sourcing process that pinpoints the right talent
Agility – a proven, efficient, scalable recruiting model that keeps your staffing objectives on track
Our promise is simple: We help you secure the best talent who will make the biggest impact on your business, and we’ll own that outcome with you.
Who We Are
Global Talent Leadership
Built for High-Growth Teams
Founded by seasoned talent leaders who built and scaled in-house teams at Red Hat, Wayfair, athenahealth, Vistaprint, and Sapient. We bring an operator’s mindset to every engagement, blending strategy, execution, and hands-on partnership.
Kevin Murray
Co-Founder
Kevin has held senior global talent acquisition leadership roles at Wayfair, Red Hat, athenahealth, and Vistaprint, where he built and scaled recruiting teams that supported rapid growth across the U.S., Europe, and India. His expertise spans executive search, global recruiting operations, and guiding recruiting and leadership teams on talent strategy and driving hiring results.
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Business Growth: TA leadership roles scaling Wayfair from 500 employees to 7,000, $500M in revenue to $5B, and successful IPO; and Vistaprint from 500 to 3,500+ employees and $1B revenue.
Global Delivery: Led Red Hat Americas TA to 1,600+ hires across NA/LATAM; rebuilt athenahealth TA to ~2,000 annual hires across U.S./India.
Process at Scale: Directed Red Hat global TA operations driving systems, process, and recruiter enablement for 150+ person team.
Don Farr
Don has held senior talent acquisition leadership roles at Red Hat, Vistaprint and Sapient, where he built recruiting functions spanning early-talent through executive hiring and delivered results at global scale. His expertise includes executive search, team build-outs, and advising company leadership teams and boards on talent strategy.
Co-Founder
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Global Head of TA at Red Hat: Led a team that scaled the business from 8,000 to 20,000 employees across 45+ countries in six years.
Executive Search Leader: Personally filled 300+ senior roles across functions and regions, including the Americas, APAC, and EMEA.
Deep TA Expertise: From global and local sourcing strategies to executive compensation and talent assessment
Who We Are
Global Talent Leadership
Built for High-Growth Teams
Founded by seasoned talent leaders who built and scaled in-house teams at Red Hat, Wayfair, athenahealth, Vistaprint, and Sapient. We bring an operator’s mindset to every engagement, blending strategy, execution, and hands-on partnership.
Kevin Murray
Co-Founder
Kevin has held senior global talent acquisition leadership roles at Wayfair, Red Hat, athenahealth, and Vistaprint, where he built and scaled recruiting teams that supported rapid growth across the U.S., Europe, and India. His expertise spans executive search, global recruiting operations, and guiding recruiting and leadership teams on talent strategy and driving hiring results.
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Business Growth: TA leadership roles scaling Wayfair from 500 employees to 7,000, $500M in revenue to $5B, and successful IPO; and Vistaprint from 500 to 3,500+ employees and $1B revenue.
Global Delivery: Led Red Hat Americas TA to 1,600+ hires across NA/LATAM; rebuilt athenahealth TA to ~2,000 annual hires across U.S./India.
Process at Scale: Directed Red Hat global TA operations driving systems, process, and recruiter enablement for 150+ person team.
Don Farr
Co-Founder
Don has held senior talent acquisition leadership roles at Red Hat, Vistaprint and Sapient, where he built recruiting functions spanning early-talent through executive hiring and delivered results at global scale. His expertise includes executive search, team build-outs, and advising company leadership teams and boards on talent strategy.
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Global Head of TA at Red Hat: Led a team that scaled the business from 8,000 to 20,000 employees across 45+ countries in six years.
Executive Search Leader: Personally filled 300+ senior roles across functions and regions, including the Americas, APAC, and EMEA.
Deep TA Expertise: From global and local sourcing strategies to executive compensation and talent assessment