Current mandates.
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Active Mandates
Chief Technology & Product Officer
Full ownership of Product and Engineering through a live merger at a well-funded B2B SaaS platform in international logistics and supply chain. Define the AI strategy across the combined platform, lead a significant engineering organisation across NL and offshore, report directly to the CEO with full board and investor exposure. The bar is high: prior CTPO or dual CTO+CPO seat in B2B SaaS (done, not in progress), post-merger technical integration shipped, deep domain in logistics, freight, or supply chain, AI to production at scale, PE board fluency. Window is short.
Apply now - short windowSales Engineer, Government & Defence
Sales Engineer for a well-funded cyber company selling hands-on operational capability to sensitive government customers. Owns the technical narrative in front of demanding buyers, partners closely with Account Executives. Native Dutch and fluent English non-negotiable. Cyber-native company background (startup or scaleup, not generalist IT vendor). R&D, security research, or applied engineering pedigree who moved customer-facing has an edge. Top-of-market compensation. Process is active and parallel candidates are still being considered.
Parallel candidates still consideredHardware Design Engineer (FPGA / VHDL)
Hardware design role at an established Dutch industrial-measurement firm building precision inspection systems for global heavy-industry customers. Circuit design and FPGA architecture work (Artix 7, VHDL, Simulink) alongside electronics, software, and mechanical engineering teams. Background in non-destructive testing - eddy current, machine vision, ultrasound - an advantage. EN required, NL a plus. Open to junior candidates with strong fundamentals and a long-term mindset.
Apply or enquireHead of European Expansion
Scaling European commercial footprint for a growth-stage cyber-intelligence firm serving national security customers. Intelligence-community fluency essential; executive track record selling to governments preferred.
Apply or enquireDirector of Government Business Development
Owning EU and NATO-adjacent public sector capture for a mission-critical platform. Established network across Dutch MoD, NCTV, Europol, and EU defence agencies non-negotiable. Final shortlist forming.
Apply now - short windowPrincipal Security Researcher
Senior individual contributor role at a dual-use cyber company with Israeli origins and a European base. Published CVEs, advanced exploitation track record, or signals-intelligence technical pedigree.
Apply or enquireVP Sales, EMEA Public Sector
Leading European public sector revenue for a threat intelligence platform already deployed by allied governments. Candidates must bring direct relationships with senior buyers across EU defence, intelligence, and law enforcement.
Apply or enquireSenior Product Manager, National Security Platform
Driving roadmap for a platform deployed by government customers across Europe and allied jurisdictions. Background bridging intelligence tradecraft and commercial product development.
Parallel candidates still consideredVP Engineering, Payments Platform
Series C European payments scaleup serving merchants across the EU. Inheriting an engineering organisation of ~60 and a transactional platform with meaningful daily volume. Looking for someone who has scaled fintech engineering through hypergrowth with hands-on architecture credibility intact. Dutch-market exposure and PSD2 fluency preferred.
Apply or enquireStaff Machine Learning Engineer
European applied-AI company shipping LLM-backed product into regulated industries. Looking for a Staff IC who has taken models from notebook to production at meaningful scale - latency, evals, fine-tuning, deployment, the unglamorous parts. Strong preference for candidates who have owned an ML system end-to-end, not just modelling.
Apply or enquireLead Photonics Engineer
Tier-one semiconductor equipment supplier expanding photonics capability in the Brainport region. Deep optics, integrated photonics, or laser-systems background required. Industrial R&D pedigree preferred over pure academic. Permanent on-site presence in the Eindhoven area; relocation supported for the right candidate.
Apply or enquireHead of Cloud Security
Late-stage Benelux scaleup looking for an owner of cloud security across a multi-region AWS estate. Reports to CISO. Hands-on technical leadership: threat modelling, IAM at scale, detection engineering, plus the political fluency to land controls without breaking velocity. Operational scars matter; certifications do not.
Apply now - short windowRecently Placed
A selection of recent searches we closed. Names withheld out of respect for our clients and the candidates who joined them.
Chief Information Security Officer
Director of Engineering
Head of Threat Research
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
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