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Current searches
Selected technology leadership and team searches we are running across Australia. Every search is founder-led and handled in confidence.
5 live searches
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Retained search
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Head of Technology
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Contract opportunity
Enterprise Architect
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Contract opportunity
Identity Architect
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Retained search
Remote, Australia
Chief Technology and Product Officer
Salary dependent on experience View role
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Retained search
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Lead DevOps Engineer
$170-200k + super View role
Recently closed searches
A sample of searches we have recently closed. We keep the specifics light to protect the people and companies involved.
Placed Adelaide Regional AI Lead Placed a Regional AI Lead into a technology consultancy, to lead applied AI delivery for clients across the region.
The mandate was to lead applied AI engagements regionally, advise clients on where AI genuinely helps and where it is oversold, and build the delivery capability behind the work.
Founder-led search across the applied AI and cloud consulting market in Adelaide, run end to end from longlist through shortlist to offer.
Innova Search completed this Regional AI Lead search in Adelaide, led by Lewis Heeks. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Head of Data Governance & AI Placed a Head of Data Governance and AI to own data governance and the governance of AI use across a large Australian organisation.
The mandate brought data governance and AI governance under one owner: the standards, the stewardship model, and the policy around how data and AI get used across the organisation.
Founder-led search across the data governance and AI governance market in Sydney, run end to end from longlist through shortlist to offer.
Innova Search completed this Head of Data Governance & AI search in Sydney, led by Lewis Heeks. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Senior Software Engineer Build agentic AI features in production on a cloud-first backend, with AI-assisted engineering built into how the team works.
The mandate was to build agentic AI capabilities into a live product estate and carry them from first idea through to production, as a backend and cloud engineering role rather than a research one.
Exclusive, founder-led search across the backend and applied AI engineering market in Sydney.
Innova Search completed this Senior Software Engineer search in Sydney. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Senior Software Engineer – AI Build agentic AI features in production on a cloud-first backend, with AI-assisted engineering built into how the team works.
The mandate was to build agentic AI capabilities into a live product estate and carry them from first idea through to production, as a backend and cloud engineering role rather than a research one.
Exclusive, founder-led search across the backend and applied AI engineering market in Sydney.
Innova Search completed this Senior Software Engineer (AI) search in Sydney. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Melbourne Female appointment Director of AI Engineering Placed a Director of AI Engineering to own the applied AI build inside a growing technology function, across agentic systems, data pipelines and the production architecture beneath them.
The mandate was hands-on ownership of applied AI in production, covering agent design, the data pipelines feeding it, the architecture underneath and the engineering standards around it.
Founder-led search, mapped against the applied AI and machine learning engineering market and run end to end from longlist through shortlist to offer.
Innova Search completed this Director of AI Engineering search in Melbourne, led by Marie Higgins. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Principal Solutions Engineer Placed a Principal Solutions Engineer into a scaling B2B software business, in a role sitting across the commercial conversation and the technical build.
A hybrid commercial and technical mandate: lead solution design in front of customers, and carry the technical credibility to stand behind what is being sold.
Founder-led search across the pre-sales and solutions engineering market in Sydney.
Innova Search completed this Principal Solutions Engineer search in Sydney, led by Marie Higgins. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Female appointment Head of Engineering Placed a senior female engineering leader to run a 60-strong engineering function through a pressured period of consolidation and delivery reform.
The mandate was to take ownership of a large engineering group at a difficult moment, consolidate a sprawling application estate, and lift delivery discipline across the teams.
Founder-led exclusive search, mapped against the engineering leadership market and run end to end from longlist through shortlist to offer.
Innova Search completed this Head of Engineering search in Sydney, led by Marie Higgins. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Melbourne Chief Technology Officer Placed the first Chief Technology Officer into a high growth professional services business, to build the technology and security function from the ground up.
A greenfield technology leadership mandate: stand up technology and security from nothing, and lead both through fast growth and the integration work that came with it.
Retained, founder-led executive search, mapped against the CTO market and run end to end from longlist through shortlist to offer.
Innova Search completed this Chief Technology Officer search in Melbourne, led by Jake Rose. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney AI Product Lead Placed an AI Product Lead to take applied AI from prototype into production use, owning the product decisions about where AI earns its place.
Own the build and rollout of applied AI products end to end, from prototype through to production, and decide where AI genuinely improves the product.
Founder-led search across the AI product management market in Sydney.
Innova Search completed this AI Product Lead search in Sydney, led by Lewis Heeks and Marie Higgins. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
Placed Sydney Director of Technology (M&A) Placed a Director of Technology to lead technology due diligence across M&A transactions, assessing what an acquisition target is worth technically before the deal closes.
Assess technology, architecture and delivery risk on acquisition targets, and advise the deal team on value, cost and the integration work that follows completion.
Founder-led search across the technology due diligence and M&A advisory market in Sydney, the work private capital buyers rely on before committing.
Innova Search completed this Director of Technology (M&A) search in Sydney, led by Jake Rose and Marie Higgins. Innova Search is a technology executive search firm working with private equity backed, ASX listed and high growth businesses across Australia.
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