# Jim McCoy

> Jim McCoy is the CEO of Atlas HXM, the company that pioneered the direct Employer of Record model for hiring across 160-plus countries. He took the top job in December 2023 after 14 years at ManpowerGroup, where he scaled the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing business into 56 countries and managed a quarter-million placements a year. He builds for scale while obsessing over the local user experience, borrows ideas from B2C playbooks for a B2B world, and frames the work as democratizing access to economic opportunity.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Atlas HXM
- **Organizations:** Atlas HXM, ManpowerGroup, Northwestern University
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Economics and Political Science, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Scaled the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing business into 56 countries, Managed over 250,000 client placements annually at ManpowerGroup, Oversaw the 350 largest client engagements in North America for ManpowerGroup

## Career timeline

- **pre-2023** — Spent 14 years at ManpowerGroup, building and leading the largest recruitment process outsourcing provider by revenue across 56 countries
- **pre-2023** — Led Enterprise Sales for ManpowerGroup in North America, responsible for the region's 350 largest client engagements
- **2023** — Appointed CEO of Atlas HXM on December 19, succeeding founder Rick Hammell, who remains chairman and majority shareholder
- **2025** — Atlas HXM named GPA EOR Organization of the Year under his leadership

## Achievements

- Scaled the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing business into 56 countries
- Managed over 250,000 client placements annually at ManpowerGroup
- Oversaw the 350 largest client engagements in North America for ManpowerGroup
- Appointed CEO of Atlas HXM, the pioneer of the direct Employer of Record model
- Led Atlas HXM as it won the 2025 GPA EOR Organization of the Year award

## Latest updates

- **2023-12** — Named CEO of Atlas HXM, succeeding founder Rick Hammell
- **2025-01** — Atlas HXM recognized as GPA EOR Organization of the Year under his leadership

## Links

- Website: https://atlashxm.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfmccoy

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/jim-mccoy
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-06-04