Dedicated HR Support
Access a dedicated team that extends your internal capacity with strategic guidance, employee relations support, policy development, performance management, compliance expertise, and operational HR services.
Konnect delivers strategic, people-centered HR support for Seattle organizations navigating growth, compliance, and employee experience. From day-to-day guidance to executive-level people strategy, our dedicated experts help create stronger systems, clearer policies, and more engaged teams. With insight across technology, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and more, we make HR practical, scalable, and human.

Practical HR expertise, intelligent tools, and learning resources built to support growing organizations.
Access a dedicated team that extends your internal capacity with strategic guidance, employee relations support, policy development, performance management, compliance expertise, and operational HR services.
Give employees and leaders instant, expert-built answers to policy and benefits questions while automating routine tasks and connecting users to personalized HR support when needed.
Build capability through a centralized learning system with assigned paths, on-demand content, progress tracking, reporting, certifications, and leadership or compliance-focused development.
Konnect brings executive-level perspective to the HR challenges that matter most: building reliable processes, navigating employment obligations, developing leaders, and helping employees thrive. Seattle businesses can pair strategic guidance with responsive day-to-day support, without losing the human connection. Our scalable Center of Excellence model brings together specialists who help organizations improve engagement, retention, compliance, and confidence as their workforce evolves.

Executive insight and scalable support for the people challenges behind business growth.
Benefit from leadership shaped by 25+ years of CHRO and VP-level HR experience.
Apply cross-sector HR knowledge across Seattle’s technology, healthcare, hospitality, retail, and service organizations.
Access support designed to serve both growing small businesses and complex enterprise environments.
Keep people at the center while improving processes, accountability, engagement, and retention across your workforce.
Experienced HR leaders focused on practical, people-first solutions.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jamie Viramontes is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Konnect, bringing more than 25 years of human resources leadership experience to the organizations he serves. Beginning his career in recruiting, Jamie rose through the ranks to hold CHRO roles at Forever 21 and UCI Health, and served as VP of HR at Chipotle, with additional experience at JPMorgan Chase & Co. His career spans multiple industries, including food & beverage, finance, hospitality, healthcare, entertainment, retail, and technology. Jamie is known for building cultures of engagement and driving improved retention rates for the organizations he supports. He holds an undergraduate degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and an Executive MBA from the University of California, Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business. Jamie founded Konnect to bring executive-level HR expertise to businesses of every size, combining strategic insight with a genuine commitment to people-centered solutions.
An HR consultant helps organizations solve people, process, and compliance challenges. Support can include employee relations, policy and handbook development, performance management, recruiting guidance, workforce planning, leadership development, and employment-practice support. Konnect combines strategic counsel with operational help, so leaders can address immediate workforce needs while building systems that support sustainable growth and stronger employee engagement.
Connect with experienced HR leaders to discuss your organization’s priorities.
Seasoned executive HR leadership experience
Specialist-led, scalable HR support model
Experience across diverse business sectors
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