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Flexible Workforce · 03 · Direct Hire

Surgical talent acquisition using multifaceted sourcing strategies.

Our recruiting team brings technical background, enabling deeper evaluation and stronger long-term alignment. Technical and corporate roles — placed against operational fit, not keyword match.

Scoped · Sourced · Vetted · Placed Everything Counts.
The discipline

Direct hire is where the cost of a wrong placement compounds for years.

We hire the way we wish every search would be run — surgically, deliberately, by any means necessary.

The permanent hire that doesn’t work out costs more than every other workforce decision combined. Lost productivity. Replacement cost. Cultural impact. Opportunity cost while the seat sits empty again. And yet most direct hire processes are run the same way they were run twenty years ago — job board posting, generic applicant filtering, three interview loops, and a hire that hopes to be right.

We hire differently. Our recruiters have technical backgrounds, which means they can evaluate architecture depth, operational fit, and cultural alignment from first conversation. We hunt, post, network, and activate our bench — by any means necessary to surface the right operator. In-house technical vetting means every candidate submitted is a candidate we’d hire ourselves.

Talent guarantees, pricing transparency, and VMS integration without long-term contracts. Direct hire done the way leadership teams actually need it run.

What we deliver

Six direct hire disciplines — built for operational fit, not role fill.

01

Executive & Leadership Placement

CTO, CIO, VP, and director-level placements. Executive search run by recruiters who understand the technical context the role will operate in.

02

Technical Architecture Placement

Solution architects, principal engineers, cloud architects, security architects, storage architects, and other senior technical roles requiring architectural depth.

03

By Any Means Necessary Sourcing

Hunt. Post. Network. Activate the bench. The method is whatever surfaces the right practitioner — the match is what matters.

04

In-House Technical Vetting

Every candidate evaluated technically before submission. Architecture experience, operational depth, and cultural fit assessed by recruiters who can tell the difference.

05

Candidate Experience

Candidates are treated like peers, not applicants. Transparent process, fast feedback, and respectful decline when there isn’t a fit. Talent remembers how you treat them.

06

Talent Guarantees

Talent guarantees, pricing transparency, and VMS integration — without long-term contract lock-in. Structured accountability for the placement outcome.

Vintage ship’s compass — targeted placement
Direct hire where it matters

Targeted search. Placement that holds.

Direct-hire searches driven by operational context and relationship — hunt, post, network, bench. By any means necessary to find the right practitioner for the work that needs owning.

How we engage

Scope. Source. Vet. Place with guarantee.

Phase 01

Scoped

Role defined beyond the job description. Technical environment, team dynamics, cultural context, and success criteria understood before sourcing begins.

Phase 02

Sourced

Hunt. Post. Network. Activate the bench. By any means necessary to surface the right operator — because the match matters more than the method.

Phase 03

Vetted

Technical, operational, and cultural evaluation. Every candidate submitted is a candidate we’d hire ourselves. No keyword-match-only submissions.

Phase 04

Placed

Offer structured. Negotiation supported. Onboarding coordinated. Talent guarantee in place. We stay engaged through the placement’s first 90 days.

Quality candidates. Not applicants.

Most direct hire processes submit the first five resumes that clear a keyword filter. We submit only candidates we’d hire ourselves — which means fewer submissions, better fits, and less of the hiring manager’s time spent on candidates who shouldn’t have made it to the interview stage.

Talent guarantees, pricing transparency, and VMS-without-lock-in are structural commitments — not sales talk.

100%
In-house technical vetting before submission
Talent
Guarantees on every direct hire placement
0
Long-term VMS contract lock-in required
90-day
Post-placement engagement before we step back
Related capabilities

Direct hire is one path — we build the others alongside it.

Start a Direct Hire Search

Bring us the role that the open market hasn’t surfaced.

A 30-minute consultation with a senior talent practitioner. We’ll walk through the role, the success criteria, and how we’d hunt for the right operator.

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