CLIENT RESULTS
300 leaders. Here are the ones who sound like you.
Real names, real titles, real numbers. Start with the group you belong to.
5.0
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
31 GOOGLE REVIEWS - EVERY ONE FIVE STARS
Not curated by us. Read all 31 on Google, including the ones we did not choose.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Ryan offers a highly effective job search coaching program built on tested, proven practices. His framework equips R&D leaders to define their unique value proposition and execute a comprehensive networking strategy."
Lakhmi Mahadevan - Google Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"If you're on the fence about the Job Hackers Network, just do it. It made a massive difference in helping me land my job. Ryan is the real deal, his strategy actually works."
Davebo Rodrigues - Google Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Ryan will teach you so many things you absolutely need to know if you're looking to have the position you deserve at your current company or a new one."
Ryan Benton - Google Review
Directors and VPs of Engineering
Senior engineering leaders who ran the method while employed, while nobody at work knew they were looking.
"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 My approach was ten years out of date."
Manoj Bagul - VP of AI and Engineering
"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. I was approached for multiple roles and ended up choosing beween two offers."
Sameera Perera - VP of Engineering - Geonexus
"The information on how to sell oneself was a lifesaver. Anybody considering this program, get it, do it top to bottom."
Walter Torres - Director of Software Engineering
"I was getting mostly lateral roles as opposed to one level up. I learned not to undersell myself and to promote myself more, which helped me get in front of people higher up in the hierarchy."
Naveen Pentakota - Director of Data Science - Kite Pharma
"I had been up for staff engineer for many previous promotion cycles and not getting it. I came out of a background of work hard, give good results, get rewarded for it. So, I would just sit back and wait. That was not working"
Dave Dixon - Staff Software Engineer - Intuit Credit Karma
THE MEMBER SLACK
Wins nobody sat down to film.
Last updated: 20 Aug 2026
20 AUG 2026
"Update on the role I mentioned two weeks ago on the coaching call, the one I had been rejected for. They called me back. I did another round last Thursday. I got the offer today, and they moved the level from Senior Manager to Director. Still a little stunned. Two weeks ago, this was a closed door."
Director of Engineering - AWS - OCI
20 AUG 2026
"I have started at the new job and it is everything I had hoped for. CTO / VP Engineering, bootstrapped startup, I am probably employee number 8. Fascinating problem space. Great people. Utterly no complaints at this point. I am already in the process of bringing in new people from my network."
CTO / VP of Engineering
13 AUG 2026
"We sold the company in an asset sale. Three days into my employment with the acquirer, I was told sorry, we do not have budget for you. Now that does not seem like a win. But during the process I had started a relationship with another CEO. After a bit of negotiation we arrived at a package I was very pleased with. My title is SVP, Head of Engineering."
SVP, Head of Engineering
2 JUL 2026
"This was a very different search than any I had done in the past. Thank you for the feedback, the tools, the mindset shift in how to approach the search and networking in general. I have accepted a job at a publicly traded health company as Director of Platform Evolution."
Director of Platform Evolution
15 APR 2026
"I am thrilled to share that I have accepted an Engineering Manager role at Apple in their CoreOS platform team, and I am joining next week. Huge shoutout to this wonderful community supporting me through my job search. The learnings from this program will stay with me forever."
Engineering Manager - Apple
28 JAN 2026
"This was instrumental in enabling me to connect with the ICA who then vouched for me and connected me to the hiring manager before the role was even posted. I accomplished infinitely more in the past two and a half months with JHN than I did on my own in the months prior to joining."
VP of Engineering
14 OCT 2025
"I accepted an offer to join a seed stage AI startup as SVP of Engineering. I am more excited about this role than any other role I have pursued in the past. Thank you Ryan for helping with interview prep and helping me negotiate a 30% increase in equity comp for this offer."
SVP of Engineering
25 SEP 2025
"I reached out to an IER inside, their CRO and President, with a custom message. He added me to the top of the interview list for the Director position. Important fact: the talent team mentioned the CRO recommended my profile so strongly they thought we had worked together, when I had only interacted with him on LinkedIn."
Director of Engineering
2 SEP 2025
"After days of back and forth negotiations, I just signed an offer as Director of Data Engineering. I spent the first few weeks focusing my positioning: not Director of Software Engineering or Engineering Manager, but specifically Director of Data Engineering. That is where my core strengths lie."
Director of Data Engineering
1 JUL 2025
"I have two verbal offers, both for VP level engineering leadership. The one I am most interested in was never posted. It is a new position they are opening for me through a referral. I love the state of clarity from which I can pull when talking to hiring managers and company leaders about my strengths."
Engineering Leader
3 APR 2025
"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 recognise that underselling myself could hurt my long term trajectory. I have accepted an offer for the Director of Engineering position."
Director of Engineering
Recognise yourself in any of those? Let's talk.
Forty-five minutes, all strategy executed by your peers but customized to your situation. We'll map it out directly. You leave with a plan whether or not we work together.
Best used before you are in process anywhere. If you are already at second round somewhere, finish that first.
Book a Job Search Strategy CallTechnical sales and solutions leaders
Solutions engineering, pre-sales, and strategic accounts. Same method, different playbook.
"There were three offers on the table. We were able to dissect each offer individually, come up with a game plan for each of them, and understand things that could benefit me but also things that could harm me. Not every offer was equal."
Steve Thorne - Head of Technical Sales
"I got three or four different offers for the next job, and I got to take the one that I was most comfortable with. Did it save me six months of hassle? Probably saved me six months of hassle. My time is worth a decent amount of money."
Keith McClellan - Head of Solutions Engineering
"I started as an intern 25 years ago and I was very loyal. When I reached the point where my career was not going where I wanted it to go, it was pretty scary. Ryan gave me the confidence that there was a world outside of Intel where I would be valued."
Patrick Cassleman - Sr. Director Global Strategic Accounts - Qualcomm
"I was previously functioning as a director but they kept me at the senior manager level and would not promote. I found a new opportunity that skip-levelled me from senior manager to senior director, and that will more than double my total compensation."
Joni Lipkowitz - Pre-Sales Sr. AI Director
"It was a nerve wracking 24 to 48 hours waiting for their response. But I am so glad I did it and did not just jump and sign, because I ended up getting a signing bonus, and it was actually $15,000 more than what I even asked for."
Ted Marena - Sr. Director Business Development & Marketing
"It hit on every metric I was looking for. I landed my job almost precisely three months after I started. From an ROI perspective, it is easily 20x."
Ted Marena - Sr. Director Business Development & Marketing
THE MEMBER SLACK
The same method, carrying a number.
Last updated: 20 Aug 2026
13 AUG 2026
"I accepted a full time role as Sr. Principal Customer Program Manager. 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."
Sr. Principal Customer Program Manager
20 APRIL 2026
"I am excited to share that I am joining a software startup tomorrow as the VP of Value Engineering. I concluded my work at my previous company today and will hit the ground running with the new firm tomorrow."
VP of Value Engineering
25 FEB 2026
"I got the job through someone who was both an ICA and IER. The role is 70% pre-sales and 30% delivery. I will be leading centers of excellence for AI, Software Engineering, and Pre-Sales Engineering. Four direct reports with 50 staff rolling up to me directly, 100 additional dotted-line."
Director of Digital Transformation
18 AUG 2025
"I landed an offer with my new company and I start as Chief Commercial Officer on September 2nd. My hits with recruiters really ramped up when I expanded the job titles in my LinkedIn open to work settings. Be sure to include your dream job titles, not just your existing title."
Chief Commercial Officer
24 MAR 2025
"After many interviews, labs, and presentations I was made an offer and accepted a LATAM Sales Engineering job at LevelBlue. This was through an ICA who I worked with before. It was very reassuring going through the process knowing that I was doing the right things, no second guessing myself."
Sales Engineering, LATAM
1 NOV 2024
"I am glad to report that I have just received a promotion, two months after starting with my new company. Putting your lessons on internal activities and cultivating my own brand to good use."
Technical Sales Director
25 JUL 2024
"I have gotten, and accepted, an offer from the company that I started speaking with on May 31. I start Monday. So much of JHN played into landing this role. I cannot thank Ryan and everyone that contributed enough."
Technical Sales Director
29 MAY 2024
"Offer delivered after a three week wait. Talked to my insiders and got info on what was negotiable and how much room there was. Talked to Ryan and made a great game plan to go get it. I have manifested my dream job in about 3 months start to finish with this program."
Sr. Director Global Strategic Accounts
Senior leaders across other functions
Operations, program management, product management, and communications leaders who ran the same method.
"You are not spending time with career coaches who might also be trying to help people very early in their career. Ryan understands where we are in our careers, and what companies are thinking in making hiring decisions at the senior manager, director, VP and above level."
Sunjit Bir - Chief of Digital Transformation
"I spent about 15 years at my former company climbing the corporate ladder. Not only did I receive a 25% increase in total compensation, I found a remote role that better fit the work life balance I was looking for. It is not the easy button. It is the blueprint."
Erin Irby - Sr. Director, Global Pricing Strategy
"The job that I landed was not posted on any job portal. In fact, it was not even posted internally with the company I have now started working for."
Myburgh Truter - Director of Strategic Chains
"Job searching is incredibly lonely. One thing I benefited greatly from was having the other individuals in the program to talk through it with. Just those sessions where you understand that other people are in the same place of frustration you are."
Jaimee Dahl - Sr. Program Director
"I am 60 years old, I am a first generation immigrant, and my English is limited. I still got the job as a PR director. So if it worked with me, it will work with you."
Yegor Kuznetsov - Director of PR & Content
"I was earning X at Capgemini. I got to 2X at AWS, and now I am at 2.5X of what Capgemini was. That is a one time investment, lifetime availability."
Ram Krishnamurthi - Sr. Director of Operations - Amazon - Genpact
"One of the biggest values you bring is speed of return. It would have taken me the four months I had been painfully working through, and probably could have been done in a matter of a few weeks if I had the material beforehand."
Cameron Jensen- Quality Program Manager - HP
"I had been seriously looking for another job for close to a year and a half. You are adding somebody else to your team, and that was what I was missing. We worked together for a couple of months and I landed a job I could not have ever imagined."
Anrea Tarhanich - Director of Operations
"He helped me get near my financial goals and gave me the confidence to secure twice the salary I had been making in my previous job, in a different sector."
Will Sturgeon - Director of Communications
"In the last two instances, I actually had them create positions. At the end of one interview the senior VP said the only con he could come up with was that I had not already started."
Michael Green - Sr. Director Digital Transformation
"The point at which we crossed paths was the lowest point of my career. I was at rock bottom. I ended up about 10% better in compensation, and a lot better in perks, benefits and lifestyle."
Kyle Maurer - Director of Operations
THE MEMBER SLACK
And others who ran it.
Last updated: Oct 2025
8 OCT 2025
"I have accepted an offer for a Product Program Manager role focused on driving adoption of AI platforms and services on OCI. A huge thank you to Ryan for his comprehensive coaching program and targeted guidance. In his own words, I have made a purposeful choice."
Product Program Manager
22 JUN 2025
"I want to thank Ryan and the Job Hackers process for having my stories clearly defined and ready to engage. I feel like any question that comes my way, I am able to handle it."
Technical Program Manager
24 MAY 2025
"I have accepted a new role as Director of Communications at Public Health Solutions. To those still navigating one of the toughest job markets: keep showing up, keep refining your story, keep believing. The right opportunity will meet you at the intersection of preparation and purpose."
Director of Communications
15 MAY 2025
"I joined this program about 6 weeks ago and it is the foundational piece I was missing in my 7 months of unemployment. I did not fill out an application for this role. I did not fight with the ATS. I networked with ICAs and IERs and this role was written for me by the CEO."
Director of Project Innovation
12 SEP 2024
"I received and accepted an offer that is about 30% better than a recent job that I had accepted, as a Principal Technical Product Manager. The value proposition and stories prepared through this program really helped me to land this role."
Principal Technical Product Manager
You have read what happened to them. Your turn.
Forty-five minutes, all strategy executed by your peers but customized to your situation. We'll map it out directly. You leave with a plan whether or not we work together.
Best used before you are in process anywhere. If you are already at second round somewhere, finish that first.
Book a Job Search Strategy Call