Seven areas of technology, recruited by someone who has worked in this market for 25 years. Not a list of every industry going, because a firm that claims all of them is telling you it specialises in none.
Specialisms
CTO · VP Engineering · Head of Platform · Director of Engineering
CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Platform and the layer beneath them. The searches where the wrong hire is felt for years.
Leadership searches turn on judgement rather than a stack. The assessment is a conversation about decisions they have made and what they cost.
Staff and Principal Engineers · Backend · Frontend · Full Stack
Backend, frontend and full stack, from senior individual contributors to the staff and principal engineers who set direction.
The strongest engineers are employed, busy and not reading job boards. They answer a considered approach that shows you understand their work.
ML Engineering · Data Engineering · Analytics Leadership · MLOps
Machine learning, data engineering and analytics leadership, in a market where demand has outrun supply for years.
The area where demand most outruns supply, and where titles are least consistent between companies. Mapping matters more here than anywhere.
CISO · Security Architecture · Security Engineering · GRC
Security engineering, architecture and the CISO seat, where credentials are checkable and the shortlist is short.
Credentials are checkable and the qualified pool is small. That makes shortlists short and makes getting the approach right more important.
Platform Engineering · SRE · DevOps · Cloud Architecture
Platform, SRE and DevOps. The people who keep systems standing, who are rarely looking and rarely advertised to.
The people who keep systems standing are rarely advertised to and rarely looking, because the good ones are valued where they are.
Product Management · Product Design · Design Leadership
Product management and design leadership, where the judgement is harder to assess from a resume than from a conversation.
Harder to assess from a resume than almost any other function, which is exactly why a personal conversation decides the shortlist.
Salesforce · ERP · Integration · Enterprise Architecture
Salesforce, ERP and the platforms a business actually runs on, including the specialists nobody advertises for successfully.
Platform specialists whose skills are specific enough that a generic search returns hundreds of near-misses and none of the right people.
Not on the list?
These seven are where ERG works most often, not a boundary drawn in advance. If your role sits next to one of them, the honest answer takes one conversation.
And if it is genuinely outside what we can do well, you will be told that rather than sold a search.