Senior Engineering Hiring, Executed With Precision.
CMO Talent Solutions is a boutique talent advisory built by former Big Tech and Fortune 50 hiring leaders. We partner with engineering organizations to hire senior and leadership-level software engineers with speed, discipline, and confidence by addressing the full hiring system, not just candidate flow.
For roles where hiring outcomes directly affect product delivery, technical direction, and business performance.
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Who We Partner With
We work directly with engineering leaders responsible for execution and outcomes.
Chief Technology Officers
Vice Presidents of Engineering
Heads and Directors of Engineering
Founders and Co-Founders at growth-stage technology companies
What We Do
CMO Talent Solutions is a boutique talent advisory and executive search firm focused exclusively on senior and leadership-level hiring across the technology organization.
We support permanent, business-critical roles where delays or misalignment introduce meaningful execution risk.
Our work most often includes:
Senior Software Engineers
Staff and Principal Engineers
Senior Engineering Managers
Directors and technical leaders
We also engage on adjacent senior roles across product, platform, infrastructure, data, AI, machine learning, DevOps, and SRE when they materially impact delivery.
Why Senior Hiring Fails
Senior hiring rarely fails due to lack of effort.
It fails due to lack of structure.
Interview processes grow unfocused.
Signal becomes diluted across too many conversations.
Candidates are mis-leveled late in the process.
Offers unravel under competitive pressure.
The cost is not just time.
It is missed delivery commitments, overextended teams, and diminished confidence in hiring decisions.
Senior hiring is not a sourcing challenge.
It is a systems challenge.
Our Approach
We bring rigor, alignment, and execution discipline to senior hiring from first conversation through offer close.
Role and Scope Definition
We work with engineering leadership to establish clarity around scope, seniority, ownership, and technical depth before a search begins. This ensures alignment and prevents wasted cycles later.
Executive-Grade Sourcing and Recruiting
We proactively engage senior engineers and leaders who already operate at the required level. These are experienced professionals who evaluate opportunities selectively, not resume volume from open job postings and through our extensive network.
Signal-Driven Interview Design
Interview loops are structured to assess distinct competencies at each stage. This creates clearer signal, reduces fatigue, and accelerates decision-making without lowering the bar.
Compensation and Leveling Alignment
We advise early using real-time market intelligence to prevent late-stage recalibration and offer instability.
Disciplined Offer Strategy and Close
We support competitive positioning, stakeholder alignment, and final negotiations so offers are accepted and start dates are met.
Why CMO Talent Solutions
Most recruiting agencies optimize for throughput.
Most internal teams are constrained by bandwidth.
We bring senior hiring judgment earned inside Big Tech and Fortune 50 environments directly into our clients’ processes without adding operational complexity.
Our experience includes:
Senior and leadership-level engineering hiring in highly competitive markets
Regular negotiation and close of $1.2M–$1.5M+ total compensation offers
Approximately 90% offer acceptance on senior and leadership roles
Sourcing, interview calibration, stakeholder alignment, and offer execution operate as a single, coordinated system.
That coordination is what produces consistent outcomes.
Outcomes Our Clients Care About
Senior roles filled with confidence, not urgency
Reduced interview churn and leadership time investment
Clearer decisions earlier in the process
Fewer late-stage offer failures
Product delivery timelines protected
Representative Engagements
Protecting a Product Milestone
A Fortune 50 engineering organization faced delivery risk due to a long-open senior infrastructure role. After recalibrating scope, restructuring interviews, and proactively sourcing at the correct level, the role was filled without delay and delivery commitments were met.
Closing a Competitive Seven-Figure Offer
For a senior engineering hire evaluating multiple opportunities, early compensation alignment and disciplined close strategy resulted in a $1.2M+ total compensation offer accepted without renegotiation.
Restoring Hiring Confidence
A growth-stage engineering team experienced repeated false starts on senior hires. By shifting to proactive pipeline development and clearer seniority definition, time-to-fill decreased and leadership regained confidence in hiring outcomes.