What is fractional HR?
Fractional HR is experienced people-operations support delivered on demand - building the hiring, onboarding, performance, and policy systems a growing business needs, without a full-time HR hire. Instead of an HR manager on payroll or a generic payroll-outsourcing service, you get the actual frameworks built: hiring scorecards, onboarding playbooks, performance review structures, and compliant HR policy. Velakova delivers these as project-based work, scoped to what your team needs now.
The people systems your business is missing.
Hiring & Recruitment Systems
Hiring scorecards, interview frameworks, role definitions, and recruitment process design so you hire the right people consistently.
Onboarding & Development
Onboarding playbooks, training program design, and staff development plans that get new hires productive fast and keep them.
Performance & Policy
Performance review frameworks, compensation and benefits review, HR policy development, and compliance so your team runs on structure, not improvisation.
How this relates to Fractional COO
HR and people operations are part of a full Fractional COO scope, which also covers finance, operations, and strategic leadership. This page focuses on people operations specifically.
Learn more about Fractional COO Services →For broader operational leadership across finance, ops, and strategy, see Fractional COO Services. For people operations specifically, start here.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between fractional HR and a payroll service?
Payroll services process pay. Fractional HR builds the people systems - hiring, onboarding, performance, and policy - that reduce turnover and bring structure to how your team is run.
Is this a retainer or project-based?
Project-based. Scoped to the specific HR systems your business needs, delivered as concrete frameworks and documents.
Do you handle hiring itself, or just the systems?
We build the systems - scorecards, interview frameworks, role definitions - so your hiring is consistent and repeatable. The frameworks make your own hiring faster and better.
How does this relate to Fractional COO?
HR is part of full COO scope. This page focuses on people operations specifically. For broader operational leadership across finance, ops, and strategy, see Fractional COO Services.