Hiring and first-team design
The first ten hires decide the next ten years.
Founders hire titles when they should be hiring outcomes. I help you decide who you actually need next, write roles people want, run a process that filters properly, and close the person you want.
This is for you if
- ·You are about to make your first senior hire and cannot afford to get it wrong
- ·You are post-raise with headcount to deploy and no hiring system
- ·You have hired badly before and want a process, not luck
What we build together
- ·Org plan for the next 12 months mapped to milestones, not vanity structure
- ·Role scorecards: the outcomes each hire owns in their first 6 months
- ·Sourcing strategy and outreach that gets replies from people already employed
- ·Interview loop with work samples, structured scoring and reference questions that matter
- ·Compensation and equity bands that are competitive and survivable
- ·Onboarding plan so the hire is productive in weeks, not quarters
You walk away with
A team you designed on purpose, hired through a process you can repeat.
Why me
I built and led teams across three companies and multiple markets, from first hire to scale.
Other engagements
SEO and organic growth
Customers who find you without a media budget.
LLM and agentic AI builds
AI that does work, not AI that does demos.
Growth engineering
A funnel you can see, and an experiment loop that never stops.
Product and roadmap
Build the right thing next, and stop building the rest.
Backend and architecture
The stack decisions that are cheap now and expensive later.
Data and analytics
Decisions from numbers, not from the loudest voice in the room.