Hire·Science
Reg. finance & life sciences · fractional expertise
The expert layer for regulated industries

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HireScience connects finance and life sciences companies with fractional subject matter experts for their highest-stakes decisions. Full-time overhead, gone. Specialized judgment, secured.

+68% Growth in fractional C-suite demand, ’23–’24
110k Professionals signaling fractional work, up from 2k in ’22
1 in 4 U.S. businesses now using fractional senior talent
Field notes — the 1099 structural shift

Why the top two tiers of talent went fractional.

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The fractional executive layer is now structural.

Senior leaders in finance and life sciences increasingly operate as fractional resources. Demand for fractional CFOs, CMOs, and CTOs grew 68% from 2023 to 2024, and the most adaptable organizations are designing around capabilities — asking not “who do we hire full-time?” but “what expertise do we need, and how do we access it?”

Vendux / “10 Statistics That Prove Fractional Work Is the Future”; McKinsey & Company, The State of Organizations 2023 (via ACG Strategic Insights).
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Regulatory and technical gaps drive the demand.

Finance and life sciences face acute shortages in specialized expertise — regulatory navigation, clinical development, compliance architecture. These roles are too niche for traditional recruitment and too costly full-time. Intensified enforcement and shifting agency leadership are pushing urgent, expert-only demand.

Ropes & Gray LLP, 2026 Life Sciences Regulatory Outlook; KPMG, Regulation & Compliance: Life Sciences.
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The talent supply has inverted.

Historically the best senior experts went full-time. Now they choose fractional work to own their brand, diversify income, and control terms. LinkedIn profiles citing fractional roles rose from 2,000 in 2022 to 110,000 in early 2024 — a 5,400% jump. Companies now compete for access to the best, not the other way around.

Vendux / “10 Statistics That Prove Fractional Work Is the Future”; The Times (2025), LinkedIn fractional-leadership analysis.
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