# Horizontal Talent

> Horizontal Talent is a privately held, minority-owned staffing and professional services business connecting employers with IT, marketing, creative and business strategy specialists. Its offerings span individual placements, managed teams, offshore delivery centers and outsourced projects, with 10 offices across the United States, India, Malaysia and Australia.

- **Founded:** 2003
- **Headquarters:** Saint Louis Park, United States
- **Founders:** Sabin Ephrem (Cofounder and CEO of parent company Horizontal), Jeremy Langevin (Cofounder and CEO, Horizontal Talent)
- **Products:** Talent solutions, Team solutions, Project solutions, Talent Board, Alex / VoiceAI
- **Notable:** ClearlyRated lists 2026 Best of Staffing Client and Talent awards, including five-year Gold recognition., Company reported a $20 million APAC operation in December 2025; currency and reporting period were not specified., NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise.

## Products & services

- **Talent solutions** — Contract, contract-to-hire and direct-hire recruitment across IT, marketing and creative, and business strategy.
- **Team solutions** — Build and scale teams or offshore delivery centers, with resource management and options for client control or eventual transfer of delivery-center operations.
- **Project solutions** — Outsourced project delivery covering project management, enterprise development, testing, infrastructure and cloud, SAP, and managed application services.
- **Talent Board** — Company-described AI-powered hiring platform; a public UX portfolio documents an earlier hiring-manager candidate-search experience.
- **Alex / VoiceAI** — AI-assisted early candidate conversations, preference gathering and network re-engagement, supporting human recruiters.
- **NewEra** — Career-intelligence and transition platform for workforce leaders, co-created with Direct Collective and Proof of Concept and launched with a small founding cohort.

## Achievements

- ClearlyRated lists 2026 Best of Staffing Client and Talent awards, including five-year Gold recognition.
- Company reported a $20 million APAC operation in December 2025; currency and reporting period were not specified.
- NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise.
- Company-published banking case study reports three to four additional RFP submissions per quarter after implementing AI-assisted drafting.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — NewEra launched August 28 with Direct Collective and Proof of Concept, offering AI-supported career profiles, curated opportunities, training and community for workforce leaders.
- **2026-07** — Published guidance on integrating AI into SAP BTP delivery with governance and repeatable operating models.
- **2026-05** — Explained expanded VoiceAI use for initial screening and reconnecting candidates in its existing network.
- **2026-03** — Published an unnamed banking client case study describing AI-assisted RFP drafting on Azure.
- **2026-02** — ClearlyRated lists 2026 Client and Talent Best of Staffing awards; the company also documented a six-person AI training with ModelMind.

## Links

- Website: https://www.horizontaltalent.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/horizontal-talent/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hztltalent
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaunchPointwithJeremyLangevin
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/horizontaltalent/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/horizontaltalent

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Last updated: 2026-10-16