Leslie Aguirre
Leslie embeds with startups and small to mid-sized companies at the moment when hiring has picked up speed, but the structure behind it has not been built yet: no applicant tracking system, no consistent offer workflow, and job descriptions written from scratch every time a role opens. She builds the front half of the employee lifecycle the right way, handling candidate sourcing, interview coordination, job descriptions, an ATS the team will actually use, offer letters, warm onboarding, and the compliance foundation underneath it all. At an 80-person Series A earth intelligence company, she put that structure in place fast enough to give leadership and the internal team their time back; at a growing snack brand doubling from 10 to 20 employees, she led a full Rippling rollout so team members could easily elect their own benefits online instead of filling out paper forms by hand. While many growing companies rush past compliance just to fill a seat, Leslie makes sure the hiring process is both legally sound and genuinely welcoming, so every new hire gets the same great first week.
What Leslie Does Best
- Building HR from scratch for startups: When a young company starts hiring before HR processes exist, she puts in a clear offer workflow, welcoming onboarding and orientation, and essential compliance practices so a new team member's first week never depends on how busy the founder happens to be.
- Practical HR structure for growing teams: For established businesses running without dedicated HR leadership, she takes the time to learn how the team actually operates, identifies what is working and what is causing friction, and rebuilds broken workflows into simple, reliable systems.
- Compliant, people-first hiring practices: She brings structure and legal compliance to the front of the employee lifecycle, where setting up fair, consistent hiring practices early prevents costly turnover and compliance headaches down the road.
Recent Engagements
- 80-person Series A earth intelligence platform, global workforce • Total HR • 1 year, ongoing: Scaling rapidly across multiple countries, the company needed recruiting support, onboarding structure, and organized HR systems right away. Leslie stepped in to run candidate sourcing and interview coordination, wrote clear job descriptions, launched an ATS on a tight timeline, built onboarding and offboarding workflows, and ran employee engagement surveys. Leadership and managers got hours of their week back, and she is now consolidating their U.S. and international HR platforms into one unified system.
- Startup snack brand, grew from 10 to 20 employees • Total HR • 8 months: As headcount doubled, the founder wanted HR to feel modern and accessible rather than bogged down in paperwork. Leslie managed payroll, streamlined benefits administration and open enrollment, completed a full Rippling HRIS implementation, and standardized I-9 and compliance workflows. Employees can now update their own profiles and elect benefits digitally in minutes, giving the team a smooth, self-service HR experience.
Experience
- HR Coordinator • Multi-Office Legal Services Firm: Led ADP HRIS implementation, employee onboarding and offboarding, day-to-day HR administration, and employee relations support.
- HR Specialist • National Staffing and Healthcare Recruiting Agency: Managed payroll processing, benefits administration, onboarding and offboarding, employee engagement surveys, and company culture events.
- HR Specialist • Renewable and Solar Energy Company: Oversaw employee onboarding and core HR operations, including a company-wide ADP implementation.
- HR Liaison • Public University Healthcare and Nursing College: Served as the dedicated HR partner connecting the college's faculty and staff with central HR, managing onboarding, timekeeping, PTO, and leave administration after earning an internal promotion.
Education
- M.A., Higher Education: Educational Leadership and Student Personnel, University of Central Florida • 2017
- B.A., Speech Sciences and Disorders, University of Central Florida • 2010
Outside Work
Leslie lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and loves spending her free time outdoors on trail walks, at the beach, exploring her neighborhood, or strength training at the gym. She cooks by taste rather than following a strict recipe, and her favorite kitchen hobby is ordering a great dish at a restaurant, figuring out the flavor profile, and recreating it at home.
Meet the rest of the team
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Beau Graves
Ryan Hutchins
Ryan founded Peak Business Valuation, a national firm that delivers 1,100+ business valuations and 150+ equipment appraisals a year. He works with business owners who are buying, selling, or growing — and need to know what they actually have. His focus is quality, accuracy, and making sure the number means something.
Jason Parr
Jason has spent 30 years going deeper into one discipline while most firms go broader. He joined Peisner Johnson in 1996 and built his career there learning every service line, working through every kind of situation, and eventually becoming President and CEO. The Sales Tax People has completed 35,000+ projects for companies ranging from regional mid-market businesses to large multinationals. His clients are CFOs, controllers, and the accountants who serve them, usually calling when the exposure has already been building quietly for months. He'd rather you call before that point.
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You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.
You've Got the Vision.
We've Got the Fractional
Team to Build It.
A fractional CFO who knows your numbers. A fractional CMO driving your pipeline. An HR leader building your people systems. Sales tax specialists keeping you compliant. Valuation experts ready when you need them. All embedded. All executing. All backed by Ampleo Intelligence, our AI platform.