We've built HR inside Utah's fastest-growing tech companies — from first hire to exit. We embed as your fractional people team so you can scale without the overhead, the blind spots, or the legal exposure.
Getting the right people and HR systems in place at the right time for your business.
Strategic people leadership on a part-time basis — the kind that comes from someone who's actually scaled and exited a company. Ideal for Series A and B companies that need a seat at the table, not a consultant on the sideline.
Let's Talk PricingEverything a 10–50 person company needs to stop running HR out of a Google Drive folder. Employee handbook, policies, compliance baseline, offer letter templates, and a performance framework — delivered as a one-time project that often converts to a retainer.
Let's Talk PricingOngoing HR support without the overhead of a full fractional CPO. Employee relations, recruiting coordination, manager coaching, HR compliance — handled on a monthly basis so nothing falls through the cracks as you scale.
Let's Talk PricingInvestors and acquirers look at your people before they sign. We clean up HR liabilities, document your culture, and make sure your people ops can survive diligence. This is The People Club's most differentiated offering — and the one no generalist firm can credibly deliver.
Let's Talk PricingCompeting for talent against equity-backed companies requires a real comp strategy — not a gut feeling and a Glassdoor search. We build the comp bands, leveling framework, and equity philosophy that lets you recruit and retain with confidence.
Let's Talk PricingPromoting your best individual contributor doesn't automatically make them a good manager. We build the training, coaching, and leadership pathways that turn strong performers into people leaders — before the cracks show up in retention and engagement.
Let's Talk PricingThe difference matters when you're scaling fast and can't afford to learn from someone else's playbook.
Thien led Jolt as President through its acquisition by Digi International for $145.5M. When you hire The People Club, you're getting someone who's sat at the board table, managed investors, and taken a company all the way through exit. That changes the conversation entirely.
We've built HR from scratch at Utah tech companies ranging from 1 to 500 employees. We know what seed-stage HR looks like vs. Series B HR. We know what breaks when you go from 20 to 80 people fast — because we've lived it, more than once.
Culture Builders Summit drew 1,300+ registrants. People People Party is embedded in Utah Tech Week. Our team has chaired Utah SHRM and spoken at the HR Technology Conference. These are trust assets built over years — not a marketing campaign we spun up last quarter.
With experience at Google, SanDisk, Awardco, and Utah's fastest-growing tech startups, we bring the rigor of enterprise HR thinking and the urgency of startup execution. We don't need onboarding time — we understand your world on day one.
PEO brokerage, recruiting referrals, and HR tech partnerships layered on top of fractional services means we have incentives aligned with your long-term success — not just the hours we bill. We help you build the right stack, not just the most expensive one.
“We embed as your people team — not your vendor.”
Start a conversationWe've each built HR from the inside — at companies scaling through the same inflection points you're navigating right now.
Thien served as President of Jolt and led the company through its $145.5M acquisition by Digi International — giving him a lens on people ops that very few HR leaders carry. He holds a SHRM-SCP and an MHR, and has spent his career building HR inside Utah's fastest-growing tech companies. He knows what the board is looking for before you're even in the room.
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Cassidy built HR at Google and SanDisk before bringing that enterprise rigor to high-growth Utah startups including Pura and Peek.com. She organized the Culture Builders Summit — 1,300+ registrants — and co-leads People People Party, one of Utah's most active HR communities. She also chaired Utah SHRM and has spoken at the HR Technology Conference. She's the reason founders in Utah trust us before they've even had a call.
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Brixton comes from Awardco, where he developed deep expertise in employee recognition, retention, and the mechanics of building cultures that stick. He co-leads People People Party and brings a practitioner's eye to employee experience design — the kind that goes beyond a Slack channel and a free lunch. If you're trying to build a place people actually want to stay, Brixton is who you call.
Connect on LinkedInDay one or employee 500 — every company hits people problems it wasn't built to solve alone. That's where we come in.
Utah-based tech startups at any stage — from the first hire to a full-scale organization. Whether you're writing your first offer letter or untangling comp bands at 400 employees, we've done it before and we'll do it with you.
Companies gearing up for a fundraise or acquisition, teams that just closed a round and need people infrastructure built fast, and any founder-led company — in Utah or beyond — who needs a real operator in their corner, not a generic HR vendor.
Signs You're Ready
"The CEO is still handling all the HR."
"We just hit 30 employees and things feel different."
"We're raising in 6 months and investors will ask about people."
"We just had our first HR complaint and don't know what to do."
"We need a management layer but have no playbook."
"Our hiring is broken and we're losing candidates."
We start with a free 45-minute People Ops Audit — a structured diagnostic of where your people ops stands today and what you actually need.
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