You set the goals.
We engineer the hiring.
Contingency search, embedded recruiter, executive search or talent operations: you choose how we work together. Every search follows the same method, with clear commitments on both sides.
You hand over the search and keep control of every decision.
Senior tech recruiters who know your market, read your stack and frame the process with you.
When an open role is holding back your roadmap, your time is the scarcest resource. Six steps take the search from the first brief to the first months of your new hire, with a few clear decisions on your side.
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Frame the search
With your hiring manager, we agree on the scope, the five weighted criteria of the Scoring Grid, the salary range, the interview stages and, where it helps, the hiring plan.
Your partOne working session with your hiring manager.
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Map the market
We map where the profiles sit, in France, in the US or both, and share early what the market says about level, pay, notice periods and what makes candidates say yes.
Your partConfirm the target profile and the salary range.
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Interview the candidates
A senior tech recruiter takes each candidate through their own work, the stack, the architecture and their decisions, and closes with the same five questions.
Your partYour engineers keep building.
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Share written evidence
Within five business days, the first profiles arrive, each with written evidence on the Scoring Grid, open questions and gaps, prepared with AI and signed off by a senior recruiter.
Your partChoose who to meet.
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Run your interviews
We brief your interviewers on the Scoring Grid and on inclusive interview rules, align the stages and collect feedback after each step, so decisions move quickly.
Your partYour interviews, with feedback within 48 hours.
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Close and follow through
We check the offer against the market, handle the negotiation and stay in touch through the notice and trial period, covered by our three-month replacement guarantee.
Your partThe final decision, which stays yours.
A retrospective, the way engineering teams run them.
At the end of each search, we review it with you: what the Scoring Grid predicted well, which interview stages added value, and what candidates said about your process. The next search starts from there, back at step 01, with everything we learned.
- The Scoring Grid of the role
- Market notes on pay and availability
- Interview guides for your team
- Candidate feedback on your process
Technical teams we help build
We don't recruit generalists. Every search is led by someone who knows the difference between a platform engineer and an SRE.
Software Development
Backend, frontend, full-stack and mobile engineers
Product engineering and internal tooling, at every seniority level from junior to staff/principal. Legacy systems and greenfield builds, monoliths and microservices, statically and dynamically typed stacks, on small teams and large engineering organizations alike.
Data & AI
Data engineers, ML engineers, AI engineers and analytics specialists
Data engineers who move and shape the data everything else depends on, ML engineers who take models to production, and the newer AI engineer profile assembling systems on top of foundation models rather than training from scratch. Covers established MLOps practice and the emerging LLMOps discipline: prompt versioning, retrieval, and evaluation.
Cloud & Cybersecurity
Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE and security engineers
Cloud, DevOps, SRE, and security treated as one hiring line rather than separate ones, since these roles increasingly overlap in practice. Covers design, delivery, reliability, and defense, including the shift toward platform engineering and internal developer platforms.
IT Consulting & ERP
Functional and technical consultants for enterprise systems
Covers both system configuration and the business process it supports, from functional consulting to integration architecture and delivery, across the leading ERP platforms rather than SAP alone.
C-Level & VP Tech
Executive technology leadership
Searches where the stakes go beyond a single hire: the person sets technical direction for the organization and represents engineering to the board and to investors. Increasingly includes AI-specific mandates, distinct in scope from a traditional CTO or VP Engineering search.
Build your team in France with recruiters who know the market from the inside.
France has deep engineering talent and a fast-growing AI scene. Senior profiles are in high demand, so every hire needs a clear story and a realistic plan.
Senior engineers have choices
In Paris, your offer is compared with big tech, scaleups and well-funded AI startups. The best candidates move for a clear project, a strong team and a product they believe in.
The notice period sets the date
Senior profiles often have a three-month notice period. We build your hiring plan around the real start date and stay close to candidates until their first day.
An offer is more than a salary
Offers combine a fixed salary, a bonus and sometimes equity. Candidates also weigh remote work, the team and the product, so we share market benchmarks early to help your offer land.
What changes in France
- ContractThe permanent contract, the CDI, is the standard for senior tech roles, and most candidates expect it.
- Trial periodUp to four months for managers and engineers, renewable once when the contract allows it. Our replacement guarantee covers the first three months.
- Pay and timeSalary is discussed as an annual gross amount, sometimes over thirteen months. Senior roles often work on a yearly day count with extra days off.
- Non-competeValid only with a payment to the employee, so we check each candidate's situation before the first interview.
- LanguageTech teams work in English day to day, and many candidates prefer to discuss their offer in French. We run every search in both.
General information to plan your search. Your legal or payroll adviser confirms the rules for your company.
Three kinds of companies
- French companies growing their R&D and product teams
- International groups with R&D centers in France
- US companies opening an engineering hub in France
- Paris
- Lyon
- Grenoble
- Toulouse
- Sophia Antipolis
- Nantes
- Lille
- Rennes
- Bordeaux
- Remote
You can hire through a French entity or start with an employer of record. We plan the search and the offer around your setup.
Hire in the US with recruiters who keep pace with the market.
The US market moves fast. Strong engineers receive several offers and decide within days, so speed and a clear story matter as much as the package.
Top talent moves quickly
Top engineers often accept an offer within weeks of starting to look. We agree a short interview process with you before sourcing starts, so your team can decide in time.
Short notice, short window
Notice is usually two weeks, so a hire can start soon after the offer is signed. The real challenge is to go from first interview to offer before another company does.
Every offer is a full package
Candidates compare base salary, bonus and equity side by side. We help you position your package against the market and explain your equity in simple terms.
What changes in the US
- EmploymentMost jobs are at will, so either side can end the contract with short notice, and the first months work as a test on both sides.
- EquityStock options or shares often vest over four years, and candidates compare the full value of each offer.
- BenefitsHealth insurance comes through the employer and weighs heavily in the choice, along with paid time off.
- Pay transparencySeveral states, including California, New York, Colorado and Washington, require a salary range in the job ad.
- Work permitsSome candidates need a visa to work in the US, so we confirm each person's status at the first call.
General information to plan your search. Your legal or payroll adviser confirms the rules for your company.
Three kinds of companies
- US companies scaling their engineering and product teams
- European companies opening their first US office
- French companies hiring their first engineers in the US
- San Francisco Bay Area
- New York
- Seattle
- Boston
- Austin
- Los Angeles
- Remote
We give US candidates a clear story about a brand they are discovering, and organize the search around your team's time zone.
Choose the engagement model that fits your team.
Every model follows the same method and the same commitments on both sides. The difference lies in how much of your hiring we take on, and for which roles.
Contingency Search
One role matters, and you want the right person in it.
You have one or a few key roles to fill, from engineers to staff and principal level, and you want a specialist to reach the candidates your job ads will miss. You pay the fee when your new hire joins.
A senior tech recruiter runs your search from the intake to the signed offer. Together we agree on the Scoring Grid for the role, then we map the market, approach candidates directly, interview them on real cases and present a short list with a written report on each profile. We recommend working on an exclusive basis, so candidates hear one clear story about your company.
- A short list of candidates assessed against the Scoring Grid
- A written report on every candidate you meet
- A fee paid when your new hire joins
- Close follow-up until the first day
Embedded Recruiter
Your hiring needs more hands than your team has today.
Your engineering team is growing fast and hiring has become the bottleneck. You need a senior recruiter right away, with the option to scale up or down as your needs change, while keeping a high technical bar.
A senior tech recruiter joins your hiring team and becomes your single point of contact. Working with your hiring managers in your own tools, they run each search from the role brief to the signed offer: market mapping, outreach, interviews against the Scoring Grid and offer support. The search strategy adapts as the market responds, and every decision follows the same method.
- A recruiter who knows your stack, your teams and the way you work
- A weekly update on every open role
- Hiring managers who spend their time on interviews and decisions
- The same hiring standards on every search, as your team grows
Executive Search
One hire will shape your technical direction for years.
For leadership, principal and highly specialized technical roles, where the person you hire has a direct effect on your product, your teams and your business results.
We start with your business context, your technical environment and what the role must achieve over time. We map the market, approach the leaders who fit in full confidence, and calibrate the search with your decision-makers at each stage, so every recommendation rests on evidence.
- A map of the market for the role
- A focused short list, each profile assessed against the Scoring Grid
- A written report on every candidate you meet
- Follow-up through the first three months in the role
Talent Operations
You are building your hiring function, often before your first recruiter joins.
You are a growing tech company with a small Talent Acquisition team, or none yet, and each manager runs interviews in their own way. You are about to hire faster after a funding round, open a new site or build your first team in another country, and you want shared standards and a process that keeps working as the company grows.
We work with your founders and engineering leaders, and with your HR or Talent Acquisition team when you have one, to set up the process behind every future hire: the hiring plan, the interview stages, the Scoring Grid for each role and the decision rules. We help you choose and set up the right hiring tools, train your managers to run structured and inclusive interviews, with the questions to ask and the topics to leave aside, and prepare your hiring in France or the US. When the time comes, we help you hire your first in-house recruiter, and we review the process with you after each hire.
- A hiring plan built around your roadmap
- Interview stages and a Scoring Grid for each role
- Managers trained to run structured, inclusive interviews
- Simple measures to see where each search slows down
- Hiring tools chosen and set up for your size
- A clear plan for your first in-house recruiter
After a first call, we send you a written proposal for your roles, with the fee, the timeline and what is included. Every search comes with a three-month replacement guarantee.
Discuss your rolesWhat you can count on, and what we need from you.
Every successful search rests on commitments on both sides, agreed with you before it starts.
What you can expect from us
On every engagement
- First shortlist delivered5 business days
- Your decision passed on to the candidate, with feedback24 hours
- Pipeline and progress reportWeekly
- Answer to any new request or question24 hours
- Replacement if a new hire leaves3 monthsCovered
- Confidentiality throughout every searchAlways
- Your teams stay off-limits for our searchesDuring and after
Conditions for success
What we need from you to keep our commitments
- One clearly identified decision-maker for each search
- An honest view from your hiring managers on the real context of the role, including its challenges and the team dynamics
- Hiring managers available for interviews and calibration sessions within 5 business days
- Feedback within 48 to 72 hours, specific enough for candidates to understand the decision
- One Scoring Grid agreed before the interviews begin
- The same evaluation criteria from the start to the end of the search
- Early access to the salary range for the role
Clear commitments on both sides are what make hiring predictable.
Questions founders and tech leaders ask us.
Answers to the questions that come up in our first calls.
We bring together three things you rarely find in one firm: a close knowledge of the tech market in France and the US, where we have built R&D and product teams for fifteen years; the technical depth to read a stack, an architecture and a level; and the ability to frame your hiring process with you, from the hiring plan to the interview rules.
AI helps us move faster at each step, and every decision stays with a recruiter. You get the rigor of an in-house tech recruiting team with the reach of a specialist firm, and you keep every decision.
Our recruiters have spent years hiring for R&D and product teams, so they speak your language: stacks, architecture, levels and scope. At intake, we agree with you on a Scoring Grid that lists the skills the role really needs.
In our interviews, we go deep on real cases: a system the candidate built, the architecture choices behind it, the trade-offs, what went wrong and what they would change. For senior and leadership roles, we also look at how they make decisions, grow people and work with product. With the candidate’s agreement, we speak with people who worked with them.
Any technical test stays with your team, later in the process. You receive a short written report for each candidate, built on the same Scoring Grid, so you can compare profiles on facts.
AI is part of our hiring system, at each step where it saves time or brings consistency. We use it to map the market and spot relevant profiles, to review each profile against your Scoring Grid, to prepare structured interview guides and to write clear reports after each interview.
Every assessment and every recommendation is made by a recruiter who has met the candidate. Candidate data is handled in line with the GDPR, and your confidential information stays within our team.
Inclusion starts with the process. Every candidate is assessed against the same Scoring Grid, on the skills and experience the role really needs, so decisions rest on facts. We write job ads in neutral language, open each search to different paths, such as coding schools or career changers, and work to build diverse shortlists.
In France and in the US, the law protects candidates on criteria such as age, origin, gender, pregnancy, family situation or health. We brief your interviewers on the questions to ask and the topics to leave aside, and every candidate gets a clear answer and useful feedback, whatever the outcome.
You receive the first profiles within five business days of the intake. Each candidate has been approached, interviewed and assessed against your Scoring Grid, and comes with a short report on their background, their motivation, their expectations and the points to explore in your interviews.
We prefer a short list of strong profiles to a long list of CVs, so your team spends its time on the right people. After the first interviews, we adjust the search with you based on your feedback, and new candidates keep coming until the role is filled.
Yes, and as early as the intake. We compare your offer, your titles, your remote policy and your interview process with what we see in our current searches in France and the US.
If something is likely to slow the search or cost you a candidate, we tell you clearly, with data and with options. Good news or bad news, you get the full picture, so you can decide fast.
Yes. For a leadership role, or to replace someone still in post, we describe the role to candidates in general terms and share your company name only with the people who confirm their interest and agree to keep it private.
Every person who works on the search follows the same rules, and you decide who learns about it and when.
We recommend it, because it works better for everyone. Candidates hear one clear story about your company, the market is approached once and in a consistent way, and we can commit more time and more people to your search.
When several agencies work on the same role, the same engineers often get three calls about one job, and the image of your company suffers. With one partner, you also get one point of contact and one clear view of the search. The choice stays yours, and we are happy to discuss it at intake.
Your teams stay off-limits for our searches, during our collaboration and for a period after it, set in our contract. This applies to every recruiter who works with us, because during a search you open your doors to us: your managers, your roadmap, your people.
Our fee depends on the engagement model you choose. After a first call, we send you a written proposal for your roles, with the fee, the timeline and what is included.
For a Contingency Search, you pay the fee when your new hire joins. An Embedded Recruiter is billed each month, for as long as you need the extra capacity. An Executive Search starts with a first payment at launch, and Talent Operations is priced as a project, based on the scope we agree together.
Every search includes a three-month replacement guarantee. If the new hire leaves within three months, we run the search again, included in our fee, under the terms set in our contract.
Another question? We are happy to answer it.
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