Fractional HR for Utah County companies
You're growing fast, and HR is still living in someone's spare hours. Maybe it's the office manager, the controller, or you. That works at 12 people. By 30 or 40, it starts to cost you: a hire that goes sideways, a policy nobody wrote down, a manager who has never had a hard conversation.
We help companies in Lehi, Provo, Orem, American Fork and across Utah County get senior HR without a full-time salary. We're DMD Fractional. Fractional HR and recruiting for growing companies.
What fractional HR means for a Utah County company
Fractional HR means you get an experienced HR leader for a set number of hours each week. We plug into your team, learn how you work, and build what you need. You don't pay for a full-time seat you can't fill yet, and you don't hand your people over to a call center.
Most of the companies we work with sit between 15 and 150 employees. They're big enough that HR problems are real, and small enough that a full HR department doesn't make sense yet.
What we build
- Hiring that works. Job posts people want to read, interview plans, scorecards and offer letters.
- Handbook and policies. A handbook your team will actually read, plus the policies you need as you grow.
- Onboarding. A first week that gets new hires productive and keeps them around.
- Pay and roles. Clear job levels and pay ranges so raises and promotions stop being guesswork.
- Manager support. Coaching for new managers on feedback, performance and tough conversations.
- Employee relations. A steady hand when something goes wrong, so it gets handled fairly and documented well.
- Compliance basics. We help you keep the core requirements for your size in order, and we tell you when it's time to bring in an employment attorney.
Start with a People Audit
Not sure where the gaps are? Most companies start with our $2,500 fixed-price People Audit. We review your hiring, handbook, pay, onboarding, records and manager practices, then walk you through a clear, ranked list of what to fix first. You get a plan you can act on, whether or not you keep working with us.
Want a quick read first? Take the free Utah HR Risk Check. It takes about five minutes and shows where you stand.
Flat-fee recruiting for Utah County roles
Hiring is often the first thing that breaks. Agency fees based on a percentage of salary add up fast when you're adding people every quarter. Our Flat-fee Search is $5,000 to $12,000 per role, set by the role, with no percentage of salary. See how it works on our recruiting page.
Who you'll work with
Our team has built HR from zero several times, inside companies large and small. Our team has worked at Tesla, Vivint, Openly, DISH and Young Living, so we know what good HR looks like at scale, and we know how to right-size it for a team of 40.
A few results from our team's past work:
- $1.5M saved in agency fees across 100+ in-house hires
- 150% employee satisfaction increase building HR from zero across a 13-brand ~200-employee portfolio
- Turnover cut from 40% to 10% in a 500-employee high-attrition org
When it's time to call
You probably need help if any of these sound familiar:
- You're about to hire more people this year than you have in total today.
- Your handbook is old, borrowed, or missing.
- Managers handle performance issues in very different ways, or not at all.
- You've had a departure that felt messier than it should have.
- Payroll, benefits and HR tasks are spread across three people who all have other jobs.
Work with our partners
We also work alongside the advisors you already trust, like accountants, benefits brokers and attorneys. If you're one of them and your clients need HR help, see our partners page.