Services
Three ways to engage, from owning the whole hire to supplying sourced candidates for a team that runs its own process.
Engagements
Service
One recruiter runs the search from the first conversation to the signed offer. That means intake with the hiring manager, defining what senior actually means for the role, sourcing, screening, coordinating interviews, and helping both sides through the offer and close.
Service
For teams that already run their own process but cannot get enough senior names in front of it. Candidates are found through manual research and search strings built with self-made tools, then read and qualified by a person before anyone gets a message.
Service
Narrow roles in semiconductor, construction-tech, healthcare technology and engineering leadership, where the talent pool is small and generalist agencies run out of names quickly. These need patience and subject fluency more than volume.
How a search runs
The same pattern holds across full-cycle and sourcing work. Sourcing engagements stop earlier.
Intake
A working conversation about the problem the hire solves, who they will work with, and what has already been tried.
Search
Search strings are generated and refined with self-built tools, then profiles are read one at a time to judge real fit.
Outreach
Each engineer gets a message that explains why this role and why now. Replies are handled personally.
Present
Candidates arrive with context on their experience, motivation and fit, so your interviews start further along.
Close
Support on both sides through interviews, offer conversations and the decision.
Questions
Engineering leaders, hiring managers, talent acquisition heads and founders who need to fill senior or principal roles that job postings and generalist agencies have not filled.
The focus is senior and principal-level engineering and technical roles. If you are unsure whether a role fits, send it and you will get an honest answer.
Michael builds his own tools for search-string generation and analytics. They speed up and sharpen the search. Judging candidates and talking to them stays with a person.
Michael is based in Austin, Texas. Reach out about your role and location and he will tell you plainly whether it is a fit.
Use the contact page to describe the role. You will get a personal reply to set up an intake conversation.
Next step
Send the role, the team and what has already been tried. I read every message and reply personally.