Roles we hunt
The roles business needs right now. For each one: what it really is, what we clarify before the search and how we check candidates.
Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
Chief AI Officer is the executive accountable for what AI delivers: either AI in the product or AI in the company's processes. These are two different jobs.
AI leadershipAI Transformation Lead
AI Transformation Lead is the leader who rebuilds a company's processes and teams around AI and carries the change from pilot to everyday use.
Executive leadershipCEO
CEO is the top executive of a company: owns strategy, capital and the leadership team, and answers to the board of directors and shareholders.
Executive leadershipCOO
COO is the second person in a company, in charge of operations: turns the CEO's strategy into processes, teams, metrics and day-to-day execution.
Executive leadershipCTO / VP Engineering
CTO / VP Engineering is the head of engineering: owns technology decisions, the engineering team and product delivery as the company grows.
Executive leadershipCIO
CIO is the executive in charge of a company's internal IT: infrastructure, corporate applications, employee IT support, the IT budget and vendors.
Executive leadershipCISO
CISO is the executive in charge of a company's information security: owns security strategy, risk management, regulatory requirements and the security team.
Executive leadershipCTPO
CTPO is an executive who owns both product and technology: one roadmap, one team and one person at the leadership table instead of two.
Executive leadershipChief Architect
Chief Architect is a senior engineering leader who owns the architecture of the whole product: key technical decisions, standards, the platform and tech debt.
Executive leadershipCPO
CPO is the company's top product executive: sets the product strategy, builds the product team and owns how the product drives revenue.
Executive leadershipCDO (Chief Data Officer)
CDO is the Chief Data Officer, the executive who turns company data into a managed asset: data platform, analytics, data quality and access rules.
Executive leadershipCBDO (Chief Business Development Officer)
CBDO is an executive who builds new revenue streams for the company through strategic partnerships, entry into new markets and large deals.
Executive leadershipCFO
CFO is the executive in charge of a company's money: planning, reporting, cash flow, tax and raising capital from investors and banks.
Executive leadershipCLO (Chief Legal Officer)
CLO is the head of the legal function on the executive team, responsible for deals, regulation, protecting the company and compliance in all its markets.
Executive leadershipCMO
CMO is the company's top marketing executive: owns positioning, brand, demand and the marketing team, and is measured on pipeline and revenue.
Executive leadershipGR Director (Government Relations)
GR Director is a leader responsible for the company's working dialogue with regulators, government bodies and industry associations on product rules.
AI, data & engineeringForward-Deployed Engineer
Forward-Deployed Engineer is an engineer who, after the deal is signed, writes and ships code in the customer's infrastructure and makes the product work there.
AI, data & engineeringAI Infrastructure / Inference Engineer
AI Infrastructure / Inference Engineer is an engineer who makes models in production respond fast and cost little: serving, GPUs.
AI, data & engineeringAI / LLM Engineer
AI / LLM Engineer is an engineer who builds products on existing LLMs: connects models and RAG, measures answer quality and cost, and ships it to production.
AI, data & engineeringComputer Vision Engineer
Computer Vision Engineer is an engineer who builds models that recognise images and video and makes them work on real cameras and devices.
AI, data & engineeringML Engineer
ML Engineer is an engineer who takes machine learning models to production and is responsible for their quality, speed and running cost.
AI, data & engineeringMLOps / LLMOps Engineer
MLOps / LLMOps Engineer is an engineer who builds the platform for models in production: deployment, versions, quality monitoring and cost control.
AI, data & engineeringNLP Engineer
NLP Engineer is an engineer who trains and fine-tunes language models for a product task when an off-the-shelf LLM falls short on accuracy, speed or privacy.
AI, data & engineeringNeural Network Optimization Engineer
Neural Network Optimization Engineer is an engineer who makes models smaller and faster without losing quality: quantization, distillation, kernels, compilers.
AI, data & engineeringVoice AI Engineer
Voice AI Engineer is an engineer who builds voice AI products: speech recognition, speech synthesis and voice agents that respond without noticeable delay.
AI, data & engineeringData Analyst
Data Analyst is an analyst who collects and processes data from different sources and turns it into reports, dashboards and answers to business questions.
AI, data & engineeringData Engineer
Data Engineer is an engineer who builds the data pipelines and warehouses that analytics, ML models and the product itself rely on.
AI, data & engineeringData Scientist
Data Scientist is a specialist who turns business questions into data problems and answers them with statistics, experiments and models.
AI, data & engineeringHead of Analytics
Head of Analytics is the leader of a company's analytics: manages teams of analysts and makes sure the business makes its decisions on data.
AI, data & engineeringProduct Analyst
Product Analyst is an analyst who uses metrics and experiments to show the product team what users actually do and which product changes work.
AI, data & engineeringQuantitative Researcher
Quantitative Researcher is a researcher who finds patterns in market data and turns them into trading strategies and risk models.
AI, data & engineeringAgentic AI Engineer
Agentic AI Engineer is an engineer who builds LLM agents: systems that carry out multi-step tasks on their own and work reliably in production.
AI, data & engineeringCrawling Engineer
Crawling Engineer is an engineer who builds systems that collect web data at scale: crawlers, parsers and ways around anti-bot protection.
AI, data & engineeringEvals Engineer
Evals Engineer is an engineer who builds the quality evaluation system for AI models and decides whether a model or prompt change can ship to production.
AI, data & engineeringAI / GPU Infrastructure Lead
AI / GPU Infrastructure Lead is the leader accountable for GPU clusters, networking, storage, the operations team and the economics of a GPU hour.
AI, data & engineeringDevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer is an engineer who builds the infrastructure and delivery processes that get code to production quickly and reliably.
AI, data & engineeringDevSecOps Engineer
DevSecOps Engineer is an engineer who builds security checks into how code is developed and delivered, from the repository to production.
AI, data & engineeringInformation Security Analyst
Information Security Analyst is a specialist who monitors threats, investigates incidents and finds vulnerabilities in company systems before attackers do.
AI, data & engineeringNetwork Security Developer
Network Security Developer is a developer who builds network security products: firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN and traffic analysis, close to the networking stack.
AI, data & engineeringBlockchain Engineer
Blockchain Engineer is a developer who writes smart contracts, blockchain protocols and the infrastructure around them, where a code bug costs real money.
Hybrid builders & productFounding Engineer
Founding Engineer is one of a startup's first engineers, who builds the first version of the product with the founders and sets the engineering culture.
AI, data & engineeringQA Engineer
QA Engineer is an engineer who owns product quality: decides what and how to test, finds bugs before users do and helps decide whether a release is ready.
AI, data & engineeringSDET (Software Development Engineer in Test)
SDET is a developer whose product is the testing system: test automation frameworks, CI/CD test runs and test environments that help the team release faster.
Hybrid builders & productField Application Engineer
Field Application Engineer is an engineer who helps customers build your chip, module or hardware platform into their product and take it to production.
Hybrid builders & productProduct Engineer
Product Engineer is a developer who owns the result for the user: finds the problem, ships the solution and checks it against a metric.
Hybrid builders & productSolutions Engineer
Solutions Engineer is an engineer on the sales team who learns the customer's problem, runs demos, designs the solution and takes the pilot to a deal.
Hybrid builders & productContent Engineer
Content Engineer is a specialist at the meeting point of content and code who builds a content production system using data, automation and AI.
Hybrid builders & productDesign Engineer
Design Engineer is an engineer between design and frontend who designs the interface in code and takes it to production: interactions, motion and design system.
Hybrid builders & productDevRel (Developer Relations)
DevRel is a specialist who builds a company's relationship with developers: helps them adopt the product, grows the community and brings feedback to the team.
Hybrid builders & productGTM Engineer
GTM Engineer is an engineer who builds automated sales and marketing systems: customer data, enrichment, scoring, lead routing and outreach.
Hybrid builders & productGrowth Lead
Growth Lead is the leader of a cross-functional growth team who grows a product's key metric through experiments across the whole funnel.
Hybrid builders & productAI Product Manager
AI Product Manager is a product manager who turns what models can do into AI features of the product and decides which model errors are acceptable.
Hybrid builders & productProduct Manager
Product Manager is a manager who decides what the team builds and in what order, and makes sure the product moves user and business metrics.
Hybrid builders & productTechnical Product Manager
Technical Product Manager is a Product Manager for a technical product: an API, platform, infrastructure or devtools, whose users are developers and engineers.
AI, data & engineeringPlatform Engineer
Platform Engineer is an engineer who builds the internal platform: ready-made paths that let engineering teams create, ship and run services on their own.
AI, data & engineeringSRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
SRE is an engineer who owns the reliability of services in production: sets SLOs, runs incident reviews and automates operations with code.
AI, data & engineeringStaff Engineer
Staff Engineer is an engineer one level above Senior who leads technical decisions across several teams without managing people.
AI, data & engineeringEngineering Manager
Engineering Manager is the leader of an engineering team, responsible for people, hiring and steady delivery, sharing technical decisions with a Tech Lead.
HR & recruitingHRBP (HR Business Partner)
HRBP is an HR specialist assigned to a specific department or product who helps its leaders solve business problems through decisions about people.
HR & recruitingHRD (HR Director)
HRD is the head of the HR function, responsible for the company's people: org structure, hiring, development, compensation, culture and HR processes.
HR & recruitingHead of Recruitment (HoR)
Head of Recruitment is the leader of hiring in a company: builds the recruiting team, processes and metrics so hiring is predictable in time and quality.
HR & recruitingIT Recruiter
IT Recruiter is a recruiter who runs full-cycle hiring of technical specialists: from the brief with the hiring manager and sourcing to an accepted offer.