Programs · Engineering Management
Hiring Senior Engineers Without Burning Months
A hiring operating system for technical co-founders who keep losing senior candidates at offer stage and cannot diagnose why.
- Duration
- 4 weeks · 12 hours live
- Format
- Cohort
- Stage fit
- Series A
- Leadership focus
- Hiring
- Programme fee
- ₩1,450,000 (KRW) — full programme, no hidden fees
The brief
What this program is, in plain language.
Most early-stage CTOs lose senior candidates not at the technical screen but in the messy week between final round and signed offer. This program rebuilds your funnel from sourcing to closing, with templates and rehearsed scripts you can hand to a recruiter the day the cohort ends.
What is included
- Sourcing message templates that survived three quarters of A/B testing
- A two-stage technical evaluation that respects senior candidates
- Closing call playbook with three branching scenarios
- Scorecard rubric calibrated by external hiring panels
- Private review of one live job description and one rejection note
Outcomes you can defend
- A working senior hiring funnel deployed before week four
- A measured offer-to-acceptance rate baseline
- Two reusable closing scripts in your own voice
Frequently asked, honestly answered
Can a non-CTO co-founder take this program?
Yes, provided you are the person actually running senior hiring. The templates assume one decision-maker.
Will this work for remote-first roles?
The closing call playbook has a remote-first branch tested across Seoul, Tokyo, and Berlin teams.
Limitations to know upfront
We do not cover compensation benchmarking or visa logistics in any depth. Bring your own data on those.
From the cohort floor
The closing call branching tree was the only thing that helped me actually understand why we lost the staff backend hire in March. Tae-woo Kang · Founding Engineer · Brillstack · survey
Light on theory, heavy on rehearsal. I left the cohort with a sourcing message that had never failed in our follow-up trial. Yumi · Co-founder
I almost dropped out in week two because the funnel diagnosis felt brutal. By week four I had two senior offers signed; I would take it again. Iseul Han · CTO · Lattenote