Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
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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.
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.
Recruitment and Client Management position focused on Digital interactive and software engineering positions.
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.