Christian & Timbers runs partner-led retained searches for engineering leadership at venture-backed and public technology companies.
Book a ConsultationA strong CTO compounds: better architecture attracts better engineers, and better engineers ship faster. Our partners have spent two decades learning which engineering leaders create momentum and which merely maintain systems. Every candidate is benchmarked against operators who have already scaled through your stage.
product and technology leadership searches completed by our partners across four decades of market cycles
of clients rate the placed leader as raising the bar for the whole engineering organization one year in
companies returned to us for a second or third senior technology hire after the first placement
A CTO search firm earns its fee in judgment, not volume. We map the engineering leaders behind the products you admire, assess them against your architecture and stage, and present a shortlist within weeks. The same discipline applies whether you want to hire a CTO for a Series B startup or run a VP Engineering search at a public company.
Recent mandates cover Chief Technology Officer, VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, and platform and infrastructure leadership across both AI-native and enterprise software companies.
A VP of Engineering recruiter working on contingency sends resumes; a retained partner takes ownership of the outcome. We interview for evidence: teams built and kept, systems rebuilt under load, roadmaps defended and delivered. Titles alone tell us little.
800+ technology placements. 82% of our CTOs launched AI products within a year. Yours is next.
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