Lions & Tigers

What Lions & Tigers does

Lions & Tigers is a privately held professional workforce and staffing solutions company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, founded in 2015. The firm curates a collective of marketing, communications, operations, and change management specialists and deploys them into client organizations across full-time, fractional, project-based, and sprint-style engagements. Its self-identified workforce is 80% women, and the firm anchors its delivery model on a proprietary trademarked framework called the Highest & Best Use Operating System™. Core offerings include Full-time & Fractional staffing, Individuals & Teams deployment, and Time & Outcome Based project work, supported by content resources such as the Hybrid Workplace Playbook.

The business model is services-led rather than product-led: revenue is generated through custom, quote-based engagements ranging from one-month sprints to multi-year contracts, with billing on annual subscription or outcome-based terms. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales via the firm's website and a 'Talk to Us' consultative motion, with no third-party channels, resellers, or marketplace listings. Target buyers span enterprise organizations (the primary segment) and mid-market companies, with named reference customers concentrated in technology (Microsoft, GitHub, Minecraft, Xbox), aerospace (Alaska Airlines), and education (ADA Academy). Pricing is bespoke and not publicly disclosed.

Operationally, Lions & Tigers operates as a small firm (11-50 employees) running a distributed collective model. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no M&A history, no parent company, and no AI/ML technology stack in evidence. Differentiation rests on its curated talent pool, its trademarked methodology, and its human-centered positioning rather than on proprietary software, data assets, or scale economies.

Name

Lions & Tigers

Legal name

LIONS & TIGERS

Website

https://lions-tigers.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lions & Tigers is a Bellevue-based private professional staffing firm that places marketing, communications, operations, and change management specialists into enterprise and mid-market clients via full-time, fractional, and project-based engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Staffing & Workforce Solutions

NAICS

Human Resources Consulting Services (541612), Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Help Supply Services (7363), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Management & Leadership Advisory (Succession, Performance, Culture) (BPACAJAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Career, Purpose & Executive Wellbeing Coaching (EDABANAI)

Keywords

• Professional staffing services
• Workforce solutions
• Marketing talent placement
• Change management consulting
• Fractional executive services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bellevue

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Talent Placement Services: Placement of skilled marketing, comms, operations, and change specialists into client organizations. Services include full-time, fractional, and project-based engagements.
2. Project-Based Engagements: Time-bound sprints on key deliverables and projects, tapping a collective of subject matter experts to achieve real results. Engagement models include one-month sprints to year-long engagements.
3. Fractional Talent Services: Part-time talent solutions where specialists work alongside client teams, rounding out existing capabilities without adding to client P&L.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Lions & Tigers is a professional staffing and workforce solutions partner that places highly skilled marketing, communications, operations, and change management specialists into client organizations. Engagements are offered through flexible models — full-time and fractional placements, individual contributor or full team deployments, and time-bound outcome-based project sprints — supported by the proprietary Highest & Best Use Operating System™ methodology.

Product overview

Lions & Tigers is a professional workforce and staffing solutions company offering a portfolio of interconnected talent engagement services. The core offerings include Full-time & Fractional staffing (providing talent for flexible engagements), Individuals & Teams (scaling talent from one person to entire teams), and Time & Outcome Based project work (sprint-based deliverables). Supporting these core services are the Hybrid Workplace Playbook (a thought leadership resource on workforce innovation) and the proprietary Highest & Best Use Operating System™ (a methodology for maximizing human potential aligned to business outcomes). The company positions itself as a partner for building blended, human-centered teams combining full-time employees and independent talent.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Full-time & Fractional Staffing solution providing marketing, communications, operations, and change management talent who work full-time or part-time, available for one-month sprints to year-long engagements, designed to round out client teams while respecting client P&L.
• Individuals & Teams Talent solution spanning from individual contributors to executives, designed to close business gaps and up-level client teams — whether for one person or an entire team.
• Time & Outcome Based Project-based engagement model working in time-bound sprints on key deliverables and projects, tapping a collective of subject matter experts to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Highest & Best Use Operating System™ Proprietary operating system that maximizes human potential aligned to business outcomes while guarding against burnout and exclusion, used by Lions & Tigers to design client engagements.
• Hybrid Workplace Playbook Playbook for leaders thinking about workforce innovation and needing a system for change, covering workforce strategies and best practices for the hybrid workplace.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Catalant (Expert): Enterprise platform for accessing independent consultants and experts for project-based and fractional work. Directly comparable to Lions & Tigers in fractional expert engagement models serving enterprise buyers.
• Toptal: Curated marketplace for top freelance talent across marketing, design, and business functions. Directly comparable to Lions & Tigers as a vetted fractional/expert talent platform serving enterprise and mid-market buyers.
• Business Talent Group (BTG): On-demand talent platform placing independent consultants and executives into enterprise project and fractional roles. Closely mirrors Lions & Tigers' fractional, outcome-based engagement model in marketing, comms, and operations.
• Aquent: Specialized staffing and services firm focused on marketing, creative, and digital talent. Highly comparable to Lions & Tigers in its focus on marketing/comms talent placement for enterprise buyers.
• 1840 & Company: Fractional and remote staffing firm placing vetted professionals into marketing, sales, operations, and customer success roles. Directly comparable to Lions & Tigers in the fractional, P&L-friendly talent engagement model.

Broad incumbents

• Upwork: Largest open marketplace for independent professionals including marketing and operations talent. A broad incumbent competing for the same client budget Lions & Tigers targets, though with a less curated, lower-touch model.
• Robert Half: Established global staffing and consulting firm with deep marketing, communications, and change management practices. A broad incumbent that competes for the same enterprise marketing/comms talent engagements Lions & Tigers serves.

Emerging players

• The Mom Project: Talent marketplace and community focused on women in the workforce, offering freelance and full-time placements. Comparable to Lions & Tigers' women-led, mission-driven brand and its enterprise flexible-talent offering.
• Chief: Private membership community and network for senior women executives. Comparable as a community-driven, women-focused brand that intersects Lions & Tigers' 80% women workforce positioning and its fractional executive offering.

Regional players

• Glints: Talent platform and staffing firm headquartered in Southeast Asia connecting professionals with employers. Relevant as a regional peer operating a comparable talent marketplace model with similar engagement flexibility, though focused on APAC rather than the US market Lions & Tigers primarily serves.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lionstigersco
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@lionstigersco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lionsandtigers
• Instagraminstagram.com/lionstigersco
• Facebookfacebook.com/lionsandtigersco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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