Ashley Alfred

Founder at Sage Recruiting | Executive and Technical Recruitment | Placing the senior engineers and leaders behind fast-growing software companies

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

I'm the Founder of Sage Recruiting, a boutique shop focused on helping software companies place top-tier executives and scale their leadership, senior product and engineering teams. Our mission is to provide ethical and diverse recruitment services and ensure honesty, transparency and mutual respect. I completed the Harvard CS50 and CS50W courses and can do basic coding - plus I'm a Claude Code enthusiast and vibe code apps on the regular. Check out my GitHub below to see some of my work! Check out our careers page for open jobs https://www.sagerecruiting.me/job-seekers/ and feel free to message me directly if you don't find what you're looking for. www.sagerecruiting.me [email protected] https://github.com/ashleyalfred

Experience

  • Investor & Advisor at AirRobe
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Investor in AIRE - building the consumer ownership graph for agentic commerce. AIRE maps what people own across brands, powering zero-friction resale, AI-driven personalization, and cross-network shopping intelligence. Live with 100+ merchant partners. Merchants see measurable commercial returns (20–65% AOV lift, 1.9x repeat purchase frequency). Backed by top fashion/tech investors from Stitchfix, LVMH, Google, OpenAI. Vogue Business Fashion Tech Startup to Watch 2025.

  • Founder of Sage Recruiting at Sage Recruiting
    Jul 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 1 mo

    Sage Recruiting is a boutique recruitment organization focused on Executive Search and building senior product and engineering teams from startup to scale-up mode - and beyond. Specialties: Leadership and Executive search (VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, VP of Product, Head of Product, CTO, CISO), Retained Search for rapidly scaling startups and high-tech software companies, Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, Director of Engineering, Product Manager, Product Design, Director of Product, Infrastructure, AI/ML, Data Science, SaaS, Cloud software, mobile developers, emerging technologies.

  • Technical Recruiter - Part Time Contract at CiRBA
    2013 - 2014 · 1 yr

    Helped Cirba with a major hiring initiative, bringing in a dozen new hires in a short period of time. This was a part-time role, 10 hours a week for a 3-month period.

  • Engagement Manager at 3 Degrees Creative Resourcing
    2012 - 2013 · 1 yr

    Recruitment and Client Management position focused on Digital interactive and software engineering positions.

  • Business Development Consultant at Hireglyphics Recruiting Corporation
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

    Technical Recruitment focused on sourcing software engineers using emerging technology for startups in the Toronto area. After 6-months, I was promoted to Account Manager and ran a 360 desk. Built-up a large client base and filled my own jobs. Exceeded revenue goals every month after probation.