Technology leadership search

Executive and senior technology hires across engineering, product, data, AI and platform, with leaders who understand value creation, speed to impact and execution.

Advisory before execution

Most hiring failures start with the wrong brief. We work upfront to define role scope, success measures and team context so the search reflects the commercial and cultural reality of the business.

Hiring partnerships that scale

For organisations building capability at pace or navigating change, we partner closely to build teams quickly and properly, improving hire quality, reducing repeat hiring and accelerating time to impact.

What we do

Executive search

CIO, CTO, CDO and CPO appointments that set direction, operating model and pace.

Capability Build

Technology and product strategy, enterprise and domain architecture leadership that connects the plan to execution.

Interim & Contract

Technology and product strategy, enterprise and domain architecture leadership that connects the plan to execution.

Transformation & Value Creation

Technology and product strategy, enterprise and domain architecture leadership that connects the plan to execution.

The Founders

Founder & Technology Leadership Search Partner

Jake Rose

Jake leads executive search for technology leadership roles across private equity, ASX-listed and high-growth technology businesses.

Jake partners with investors, boards and CEOs on critical technology leadership hires and the organisational decisions that sit around them.

He built and scaled one of Sydney’s leading technology search practices from scratch, delivering C-suite and senior leadership appointments across private equity, ASX-listed and high-growth technology businesses.

His work spans CIO, CTO, CDO and Chief Product & Technology Officer searches, as well as the leadership teams that sit underneath them. This experience across infrastructure, cloud, data, AI and product environments allows him to advise clients on how technology organisations should be structured, sequenced and built for performance.

Jake works most closely with organisations navigating transformation, platform modernisation, AI adoption and product-led growth, where leadership quality directly affects execution and commercial outcomes.

Recent work includes executive hires and leadership builds across national retailers, SaaS platforms, fintech businesses and industrial services groups.

✅ CIO, CTO, CDO and CPO appointments
✅ Technology leadership succession and capability build
✅ Org design and hire sequencing
✅ Technology leadership for transformation and value creation

Founder & Product and Engineering Search Partner

Marie Higgins

Marie is a market leader in software engineering and product hiring, known for building high-performing and genuinely diverse technology teams.

Marie is a market leader in software engineering and product hiring, known for building high-performing and genuinely diverse technology teams.

Her deep community networks provide access to talent pools that traditional search cannot reach, significantly improving both capability and gender diversity outcomes for clients.

Marie partners closely with technology leaders to build modern engineering and product environments that improve delivery, innovation and long-term performance.

✅ Engineering and product leadership
✅ High-performance software capability
✅ Product organisations and scale environments
✅ Gender diversity in technical teams

Founder & Data, AI and Platform Search Partner

Lewis Heeks

Lewis is recognised as one of the leading data and AI recruiters in the Australian market.

Lewis is recognised as one of the leading data and AI recruiters in the Australian market.

He builds data organisations that create real operating leverage, from executive leadership through to platform and engineering teams.

His work enables businesses to move from data strategy to commercial impact.

✅ Chief Data & AI Officers
✅ Data platform and engineering capability
✅ AI teams for scale and transformation

Who we work with

Investors & private equity

Technology leadership and capability aligned to the investment thesis, from diligence through to exit readiness.

CEOs & boards

De-risking transformation through the right leadership, structure and hiring decisions.

Technology leaders

Building high-performing product, data, platform and enterprise environments that deliver.

Our model

Most firms work in one layer of the organisation.
We work from the leadership through to the delivery capability.
That end-to-end view allows us to advise on structure, sequencing and hiring decisions with a clear commercial lens.

Why clients bring us in

We’re proven operators in this market

Deep networks, repeat outcomes, and a track record across the full technology organisation, from leadership to delivery capability.

We bridge hiring and commercial outcomes

Every brief is built around the result the role needs to deliver, not a generic skillset.

We become an extension of your brand

On high-pressure hires, representation matters. We protect your reputation and deliver like it’s our name on the line.

We start with the real problem

We embed early, meet stakeholders, pressure-test the scope and bring options you may not have considered, including when the right answer is a different role or sequence.

Performance and culture go together

We build environments where people stay and perform, with a strong track record improving gender diversity in technical teams and accessing talent pools others cannot reach.

Hiring decisions compound. Getting them right early changes everything.

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Insights

Perspectives on technology hiring, transformation and value creation.
Technology due diligence and post-merger integration
AI as operating leverage
Product as a growth engine
Org design for scale
Building high-performance and diverse engineering teams