Job Hackers Network

FOR DIRECTORS, SENIOR DIRECTORS, & VPs OF ENGINEERING

What got you here has stopped working

At the Director and VP level, the best opportunities rarely start with a job posting.

The Job Hackers Method™ gives senior engineering leaders a repeatable system to reach the decision-makers who create those opportunities—before the role is posted and before you need your next job.

Is this you?

You have built your career through strong performance and internal reputation, but you have not had to navigate the external market in years.
You are still employed. Nothing is on fire. But a reorg, acquisition, leadership change, or stalled path has made you think differently about what comes next.
The market you remember is not the one that exists today, and you are not sure how senior leader opportunities actually get filled.
Recruiters bring you roles that look more like what you were doing 5 years ago that what you should be doing next.
You can walk an executive team through a complex transformation, but it's hard to explain in 60 seconds why you are the right leader for a role.
You want to explore options without announcing to your company (or your network) that you are looking.

"I had been with the company about 15 years and things had become pretty predictable. I was not looking to make a move, but I had not tested myself in the market in a long time, and I knew I would be walking into a very different landscape."

—Sameera Perera, VP of Engineering at Geonexus

The Market Has Changed

The higher you go, the fewer roles exist. And many of the best opportunities never reach a public job board.

Senior leadership roles often begin with a business problem and a conversation. A leader needs someone who can solve it, trusted names surface, and the opportunity begins taking shape before a job description is ever posted.

The strategies that helped you reach Director were built for a more visible market. Your next opportunity requires a different approach.

A System, Not a Job Search

The Job Hackers Method™ turns your search into a repeatable process.

First, define the leadership value you bring to the market. Then build the evidence that proves it. Map the relationships that can create access to the opportunities you want. And to finish, run the process every week with a clear cadence, tracking, and accountability.

Your resume and LinkedIn profile become outputs of that work, not the strategy itself.

Documented Results

More than 300 engineering leaders have used the Job Hackers Method™ to land roles at leading technology companies like Microsoft, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Amazon.

Members typically start their new jobs within 3-6 months, compared to 9-12 searching on their own. Compensation increases typically range from 20-50 percent. Some members have doubled their compensation.

This method is designed to change the trajectory of your career.

You are not buying a course. You are buying a room.

Every member is listed, named, and reachable. When you need a warm introduction into a target company you are not starting from a cold search, you are starting from a peer who is already inside.

Where they came from:

Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Cisco, Oracle, Google, Qualcomm, NetApp, Walmart Global Tech, Workday, Salesforce, and roughly 200 more.

How We Can Help

Elite Career Coaching

The Job Hackers Method gives you a repeatable process to get in front of hiring leaders, week after week. On-demand training, weekly group coaching calls, four private sessions, a Slack community, six AI tools built around the method, and direct guidance from the person who designed the hiring systems you are trying to get through.

$6,500 once, access for life. No subscription, no renewal, no upsell. On a Director or VP salary a 20 to 50 percent increase returns that in the first weeks of the new role.

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Free Training

This free training shows you the exact process hundreds of engineering leaders have used to reach hiring leaders directly, and land roles built around their strengths and real market value rather than whatever was posted.

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Plan Your Next Move

45-minutes of partnered conversation about your specific, strategic job search process.

In one call we'll pinpoint what's working, what isn't, and the fastest path to the role you want in this market.

Best used before you are in process anywhere. If you are already at second round interviews somewhere, finish that first.

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What Our Clients Are Saying

Sameera Perera · VP of Engineering, Geonexus · moved from Director to VP

"I had been with the company about 15 years and things had become predictable. I was not looking to move, but I had not tested myself in the market in a long time and I knew I would be walking into a different landscape. I was approached for multiple roles and ended up choosing between two offers. The outcome was about a five times return on my investment with Ryan."

Manoj Bagul · Senior Director of Software Engineering, now VP of AI and Engineering

"I applied for three or four months and got nothing back from 99% of it. After 20 years in this industry you start to wonder what is wrong with you. The answer was that nothing was wrong with me. My approach was ten years out of date."

Akshata Naikar · Director of Engineering, QuartzBio - now Sr. Dir. of Product Innovation

"I faced my first-ever layoff and, out of desperation, started applying for Engineering Manager roles, essentially leveling down from my previous title. Ryan helped me recognize that underselling myself would not help and could hurt my long-term trajectory. I accepted an offer for Director of Engineering at QuartzBio."

Eric Ray · Senior Director of Engineering, DDN

"I just accepted an offer for Director of Engineering at DDN. It is about a 30 to 50% comp bump from my last role. I have always felt solid on the interview front, yet I am convinced the JHN instruction was invaluable: the deep research on the product and the interviewers, the per-person question prep, and the analysis that went into the stories and value proposition."

Chris Eide · Director of Engineering Ops, Nucleus Security

"People kept telling me two things. You just have to network. And you need to tell your story. But what exactly is that, and how do you do it? As engineering leaders we are a tad more literal. We are looking for guidance that points us in the right direction. This program gave me an actual process to network, how to think about it from a data and numbers perspective, and how to develop the story I needed to tell."

Raghu Harwadekar · Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft

"When Microsoft took over Activision they removed the overlapping positions and my whole team was covered over. I was sending applications everywhere and not getting responses. A lot of interviews are won or lost in the first three minutes, and that is where Ryan helped most: how to present my strengths and my value to an organization in those first three minutes."

This is not for you if

You are looking for your next senior, staff, or principal engineering role. The Job Hackers Method™ is built specifically for engineering leaders pursuing Director, Senior Director, and VP-level opportunities.
You want someone to rewrite your resume, send you job postings, or run your search for you.
You are not willing to consistently build new professional relationships and have 5-8 conversations a week.
You need a job within the next 30 days. The Job Hackers Method™ is deigned to build a leadership pipeline over 3-6 months, not manufacture an immediate offer.