186
Mapped
52
Approached
4
Shortlisted
12
Weeks to appointment
Practice
Technology
Partner
Jonas Lindqvist
Year
2024
Situation
A fast-growing payments platform had outgrown its founding CTO, who wanted to return to architecture. The company needed a leader who could scale an engineering organisation from 120 to 300 people without losing speed.
Approach
Our technical conversations were led by a former engineering director on our team. We approached candidates who had scaled engineering through a similar stage, most of them with no public profile.
Result
The appointed CTO joined from a European fintech of similar size. The founding CTO stayed on as chief architect.
Outcome
Appointed in week twelve. Engineering attrition halved in the first year.