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For CTOs

Build the engineering team that scales with you.

The technical leaders you hire now will determine whether your architecture holds, your team grows, and your product keeps pace. Force finds the engineering talent you can't afford to get wrong.

What CTOs typically search for
VP / Head of EngineeringMost common
Engineering ManagerSeries A–B
Head of Data / AIPost-seed
Staff / Principal EngineerIC leadership
Head of Platform / InfraScaling ops
The problem

Technical excellence doesn't scale on its own.

The gap between a strong individual contributor and someone who can lead, multiply, and protect quality at scale is enormous. These are the moments CTOs bring Force in.

01

You need someone who's been at this scale before

Going from 10 to 50 engineers, or 50 to 200, requires a different kind of leader. The instincts that made someone brilliant at one stage can become the bottleneck at the next. Finding people who've already navigated that inflection is the hard part.

02

Technical depth is easy to fake in interviews

A candidate can talk architecture fluently and still lack the judgment to make the right calls under pressure. Assessing real depth — not surface fluency — requires people who've done the job themselves.

03

A weak hire fractures the team from the inside

Senior engineers notice immediately when the person above them isn't good enough. The best ones start looking elsewhere. A poor hire at the leadership level doesn't just underperform — it triggers the departures you can least afford.

How Force solves it

Technical judgment built into the process.

Force brings domain experts into every engineering search — senior operators who have led engineering teams at scale and know what separates good from genuinely great.

Market mapped in 72 hours

Force identifies the full landscape of relevant candidates — including those who are not actively looking — before the first outreach is sent. You see the whole market, not just who's available.

Technical depth assessed, not assumed

Every candidate is evaluated for real technical judgment by people who have operated at the same level. Surface-level fluency doesn't pass. You get candidates who have genuinely earned the role.

Leadership signal, not just technical skill

Force scores candidates on both technical depth and leadership trajectory. Can they hire well? Do they make teams better? Have they navigated the hard moments? These signals are part of every assessment.

A guarantee behind every placement

If a Force placement doesn't work out in the first year, we run the search again. You already carry enough technical risk — the search partner shouldn't add to it.

What you get

Fewer interviews. Better hires.

Force filters hard before you see anyone. The shortlist is short by design — every person on it is worth your time.

72h

Market map delivered

Full landscape of relevant candidates in your domain, delivered within three days of briefing.

4–6w

First shortlist to offer

Force compresses the search timeline significantly without cutting corners on technical depth or assessment quality.

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From a client

'Force operates at a different level in every way. It gets the job done.'

Tim Rutten, CMO at Backbase

12-Month Replacement Guarantee on every search

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