Hire a Head of Engineering
The leader who turns your scrappy team into a scaling machine.
The Head of Engineering search is broken
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Hiring a Head of Engineering is one of the highest-stakes searches a startup can run. This person will own your technical roadmap, hiring pipeline, and engineering culture. A bad fit at this level sets the entire team back by quarters.
Executive recruiters charge 25-30% of first-year salary and still take 4-6 months. Most of that time is spent on candidates who look right on paper but have never operated at your stage. A VP from a 500-person company is not the same as someone who can lead a team of 8.
The best heads of engineering are almost never on the market. They're promoted internally or poached through warm networks. If you don't have those networks, you're fishing in the wrong pond.
How Superposition finds your engineering leader
Stage-aware matching
We understand the difference between leading 8 engineers and leading 80. Our agent matches candidates to your actual stage, not your aspirational org chart.
18,000+ candidate deep dives
Like our ESAI search that reviewed 18,410 candidates to surface 28 curated matches — and resulted in a signed CTO offer in 8 weeks.
Culture-first sourcing
We don't just match on skills. Our voice intake captures your values, working style, and what kind of leader your team actually needs.
No percentage fees
Flat-rate pricing at $500/agent/month. No percentage of salary, no hidden costs.
“Superposition sourced my CTO from start to finish with no human in the loop, and it really did find our needle in the haystack.”
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Find your Head of Engineering.
Stop paying executive recruiter fees. Get curated candidates in weeks.