What got you here has stopped working. At your level, it does not start again on its own.

For Directors, Senior Directors, and VPs of Engineering. More than 80% of roles at your level are filled before anyone writes a job description. The Job Hackers Method gets you in front of the leaders who create them, while you are still employed and nobody knows you are looking.

Is this you?

✅ You have been at the same one or two companies for eight years or more.

✅ You are still employed. Nothing is on fire. You just watched an acquisition, a PE deal, or a reorg quietly close the path you were on.

✅ You have not seriously looked in a decade, and the market you remember is not the one that exists.

✅ Recruiters bring you roles a level below what you already do.

✅ You can walk a board through a platform migration, but you cannot explain in sixty seconds why the job should go to you instead of the other VP.

✅ You do not want a public search. Your team reads everything you post.

This is not for you if

❌ You are already in an active interview process. Finish it first, then come back if it does not land.

❌ You are an individual contributor looking for your next senior or staff engineer role. This is built for people who manage managers.

❌ You want a resume rewrite and a list of job postings.

❌ You are not willing to hold five to eight conversations a week with people who do not know you yet.

❌ You need to be employed inside 30 days. The method runs three to six months and it does not usually compress.

"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 - Geonexus

Our Target

The higher you go, the fewer jobs exist, and almost none of them get posted. Someone senior has a problem, thinks of a name, and the role gets shaped around that person. By the time it reaches a careers page the decision is usually made and you are competing to confirm it.

Everything that got you to Director assumed an open market. At your level that market is gone, and no amount of applying harder brings it back.

Our Approach

Four steps, run like a system you would ship. Build a value proposition from a real strengths assessment. Turn your record into scored Situation, Action, Result stories with the numbers attached. Map the advocates who already know your work and the leaders who own the roles you want. Then work it on a weekly cadence with tracking and accountability.

You get weekly group coaching with other engineering leaders running the same search, four private sessions, a Slack community, and six AI tools built specifically for this method. Your resume and LinkedIn get rebuilt along the way, but they are an output of the positioning work, not the point of it.

Our Results

More than 300 leaders have landed at Microsoft, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Amazon, and elsewhere. Most see a 20 to 50 percent jump in compensation. Some double it. Members average three to six months to placement against nine to twelve searching alone.

Named references available on request during your strategy call.

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 the came from:

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

"A big shoutout to Steve Thorne for introducing me to my manager. Although I knew Steve from my Intel days, it was this community that connected us back together."

Ramya Ramachandran - Senior Director, Product Management and Architecture

How We Can Help

Elite Career Coaching

The Job Hackers Method gives you a repeatable process to get in front of hiring managers, week after week. You get on-demand training, weekly group coaching calls, a private Slack community, an AI platform built around the method, and direct guidance from people who have sat on the hiring side of the table. Let's find out if it fits you.

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Free Training

This free training shows you the exact process hundreds of Operations, Sales, and Engineering leaders have used to market themselves straight to hiring managers, and land roles built around their strengths and true market value.

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Discover Your Career Potential

Let's have a sounding board conversation about your search. In one call we'll pinpoint what's working, what isn't, and the fastest path to the role you want in this market.

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What Our Clients Are Saying

Myburgh Truter

"I followed the process and landed a role that was never open to the public. I cannot recommend Ryan's service highly enough."

Andrea Tarhanich

"I landed a role in just 6 weeks after trying on my own for 1.5 years. I am extremely happy. I landed a job that I could not have ever imagined I would. Thank you"

Ram Krishnamurthi

"I saw results within a few days and landed 2 job offers at the same time. I doubled my income through this process. Although I looked, I did not find any other resources like this on the market."

Michael Green

"By building my Brand and Value Proposition, I had roles created for me. The tools through the program were very helpful. Ryan has a process that can be executed, not just theory. My family and I are very grateful."