gdR BUILDINGLEADERS

Executive search and recruiting for tech companies.

Retained executive search for C-suite, VP and director roles, and value-based search for senior, staff and principal individual contributors. Every search has a dedicated engagement team and our talent platform behind it, so one firm can find your next leader and the people who’ll build alongside them.

Executive leadership

C-SUITE · VP · SITE LEAD

CEOs, CTOs, CPOs, CISOs and other C-suite roles, plus the VPs and site leads who build and run entire functions.

Senior leadership

DIRECTOR · HEAD OF

Directors and heads of engineering, product, data, design and go-to-market who scale teams and turn strategy into execution.

Individual contributors

PRINCIPAL · STAFF · SENIOR · IC

The people who build and ship across engineering, ML and AI, data, product, design and go-to-market, with particular depth at the staff and principal level.

One team on every search

The same three people, from first conversation to signed offer.

EXECUTIVE SPONSOR

Bruce Dorland

Involved in every engagement, keeping the search aligned with your priorities, the market and compensation, and making sure feedback moves quickly in both directions.

SEARCH LEAD

A specialist in your function

A senior recruiter who knows your domain and runs the search day to day: engaging candidates, assessing fit and managing the process.

RESEARCH LEAD

A view of the whole market

Uses our talent platform to map the market and build the target list, including the people who aren’t looking.

01
Calibrate
Align on the role and what great looks like.
02
Map the market
Engage the strongest people, active or not.
03
Assess & present
A focused shortlist, with full visibility.
04
Close
Support through offer and start date.

Areas of expertise

CEO & GM
Engineering & Systems
AI & Data
Product & Design
Security
Go-to-market
People
Services & FDE

People who trust us

Tammy Connelly
VP Talent, Index Exchange
Ben Mabey
CTO, Recursion
Daniella DeGrace
CEO & Co-Founder, Procedureflow
Karl Martin
CTO, Integrate.ai
Ashria Gobrin
CHRO, Miovision
Mark Schaaf
CTO, ex-Instacart
Angela Hountalas
CPO, Apply Digital
Jean-Michel Lemieux
CTO, ex-Shopify
Alik Sokolov
CEO & Co-Founder, Sibli
Stephani Martin
SVP People, Affinity
Geoff Kerr
CTO, EQ Bank
Tom Case
Head of Recruiting, ex-Cerebras

Ready to build what’s next?

Tell us about the role or the team you’re building, and we’ll set up a discovery call. Reach out to either of us.

Bruce DorlandManaging Director & Co-founderbruced@gdrtalent.com →Anna MattaVice President, Strategy & Growthanna@gdrtalent.com →