SENIOR AND LEADERSHIP HIRING
Hire the person others will build around
The right technical leader improves more than delivery. They strengthen decisions, raise standards, develop people, and give the entire team greater confidence in what it can accomplish.
The mandate matters more than the title.
Not every consequential hire needs to be called executive search. We define the influence, authority, and operating range the business actually needs—then find the person equipped for that work.
TECHNICAL INFLUENCE
Tech Leads and Staff-level engineers who improve architecture, standards, and execution without relying on formal authority.
PEOPLE LEADERSHIP
Engineering Managers who develop talent, create clarity, strengthen delivery, and build healthy, accountable teams.
FUNCTIONAL DIRECTION
Heads and Directors who align teams with business priorities and help the organization scale through its next stage.
Define what leadership must make possible.
Before searching, we turn the need behind the title into a clear mandate. Four questions give the search its centre of gravity.
WHY NOW?
The business moment, the gap, and what becomes possible with the right person in place.
WHAT MUST CHANGE?
The decisions, systems, delivery patterns, or team conditions this person must improve.
HOW MUST THEY LEAD?
The required balance of technical depth, people leadership, influence, and formal authority.
WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?
What must be meaningfully different after 90 days, six months, and one year?
Look past the title. Find the evidence underneath.
We assess candidates against the mandate—not a generic leadership scorecard. What matters is how they think, how they lead, and what became better because they were there.
Decisions
How they evaluate trade-offs, create clarity with incomplete information, and make consequential technical, organizational, and people decisions.
Influence
How they raise standards, develop talent, establish accountability, and make the people around them more effective.
Range
How they connect technical detail to organizational priorities and communicate with executives, managers, and individual contributors.
Motivation
Why this company, mandate, and moment are compelling—and whether the candidate is ready to apply their capabilities here.
18 senior and leadership hires at StackAdapt.
More than five years of helping StackAdapt hire people who lead teams, raise standards, and influence engineering beyond their individual contributions.
7 People Managers
2 Tech Leads
10 Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineers
Working closely with StackAdapt gave Plus10 a deep understanding of the company’s engineering culture, technical direction, and the kind of leadership its next stage required. That context allowed us to identify people with the right balance of technical judgment, organizational influence, and people leadership—and apply that understanding consistently across searches.
A consequential hire deserve a clear mandate
Find the leader your next stage requires.
Tell us what is changing, where stronger leadership is needed, and what the right person must make possible. We will help you define the search and determine how we can support it.
