Survey & Scope
Calibrate the role, competencies, and story with structured intake workshops that uncover your real differentiators.
- Stakeholder alignment sessions
- Competency matrices & scorecards
- Employer value narrative
Our Method
Every search starts with a map, a compass, and a trusted rope team.
We embed with your product, engineering, and people leaders to translate growth targets into a disciplined hiring path.
Signal-Driven Search
Blend outbound research, embedded networks, and brand amplification to reach talent other firms miss.
- Diverse slate commitments
- Technical work sample alignment
- Transparent weekly analytics
Anchor & Elevate
Guide interviews, offers, and onboarding so new hires are ready to lead the climb from day one.
- Candidate experience orchestration
- Compensation & negotiation advisory
- Post-hire feedback loops
Solutions
Built for leaders building what’s next.
From seed-stage platform teams to global transformation initiatives, we tailor recruiting engagements that match your terrain.
Engineering leadership that scales culture and delivery.
Partner-led searches for CTO, VPE, CISO, and product executives with a track record of guiding complex organizations.
Spin up entire product, data, or platform squads in parallel.
Sprint-format pods that deliver full pipelines, interview support, and hiring enablement for urgent org builds.
Modernize hiring to attract mission-critical technologists.
Employer branding, assessment redesign, and compensation strategy powered by live market intelligence.
Fractional leaders who steady the climb.
Deploy experienced interim CTOs, transformation leads, and program directors to keep momentum while permanent searches run.
Featured Summit
From stalled platform rebuild to a 45-person engineering org.
An enterprise SaaS company needed to modernize its infrastructure while launching a new data product. We assembled a blended team of engineering leadership, platform specialists, and product managers across three continents.
- 45 hires
- across platform, data, and product
- 11 weeks
- to complete leadership search
- 26%
- reduction in time-to-offer
Partners
Teams we’ve helped reach their next ridge.
We advise venture-backed startups, global enterprises, and mission-led organizations tackling ambitious technical roadmaps.
“Ascent Placement Partners rebuilt our engineering leadership bench in a single quarter. They advised on assessment updates and coached our interviewers every step.”
VP Engineering, Enterprise SaaS
“The team produced a diverse slate for a niche security role in days, not weeks. Their market data kept our comp aligned without overextending.”
Head of Talent, Global Fintech
“They act like an embedded extension of our company—communicating daily, anticipating gaps, and never losing sight of candidate experience.”
CTO, Climate Tech Scaleup
Resources
Stay ahead of market shifts.
Insights tailored for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and talent leaders navigating competitive technical hiring.
Briefing · July 2025
Engineering compensation benchmarks across high-growth hubs.
Compare emerging bands for senior ICs and leaders across SF, Austin, NYC, and remote-first cohorts.
Download the reportPlaybook
Designing interviews that reveal problem-solving altitude.
Five practical frameworks to evaluate engineers for systems thinking, leadership, and collaboration.
Read the playbookTalent Pulse
How AI initiatives are reshaping org charts in 2025.
See how leading companies are structuring AI platform, enablement, and safety teams.
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Let’s Climb
Tell us about the roles, missions, and milestones ahead.
Share a roadmap or a single critical hire—our team will craft the search model, assemble the crew, and keep you informed every step of the ascent.