A CTO search is rarely only about technical depth. The role sits between the CEO, the product and the engineering organisation, and the right person has to translate the company's ambitions into architecture, delivery and a team that can scale.
We search for Chief Technology Officers, VPs of Engineering and other senior technology and engineering leaders: at scale-ups, AI-native companies, PE backed software and established companies in transformation.
Our CTO network
For more than two decades, we have recruited senior developers, architects, technology specialists and engineering leaders for companies including Microsoft, Saxo Bank and Public.com. Many of the people we first met as exceptional technical specialists have since moved into senior technology leadership positions.
That history matters.
Our network is not built simply around people who are CTOs today. It reaches deeper into the technology community: across the engineers, architects and technology leaders who have built their careers, moved between companies and, over time, taken on responsibility for technology, product and transformation.
We also understand the technology behind the title.
Our work with technology companies and technology-heavy organisations has given us a strong technical understanding of the environments in which CTOs operate. We understand the difference between a technology leader who can run an engineering organisation and one who can connect technology to strategy, product, growth and the wider business.
Today, we combine that experience with AI.
We have developed Talentplay, our own AI-native career and search platform, to help us understand talent at a much deeper level: from career history and technical background to leadership experience, trajectory and relevance to a specific search.
And we have a long reference list of CTO and technology leadership searches behind us.
So when we search for a CTO, we are not starting with a title. We are starting with the technology community, the people who know it from the inside, and a long-standing understanding of how exceptional technology leaders develop.
That is what makes our CTO search different.
The same search discipline we use on every assignment. Four steps.
We build a detailed understanding of the need, the culture and the candidate criteria together with you before the search begins.
Consultants and researchers work side by side. On every longlist we aim for 50 % candidates we already know and 50 % new profiles.
The network is activated so we reach the profiles who are not looking. The dialogue is led by the consultant who knows the role.
Presentation, assessment and follow-up. We follow up after the hire.
SaaS · CTO
The immediate need was a CTO. Our assessment was that Tjekvik needed a technology leader working closely with the CEO, able to build the technology foundation required for international growth. The relationship continued with a CFO search.
Read the caseAI-native · CTO
A Danish AI-native company that built an AI chatbot before ChatGPT reached the market. GlobeSearch recruited a CTO to professionalise the product and strengthen technical leadership.
See AI searchAI in energy · CTO
A Danish AI company forecasting output from renewable energy sources. GlobeSearch recruited a CTO to professionalise the technical platform and create a more coherent architecture.
See AI searchGlobeSearch is based in Copenhagen and recruits across Denmark. The strongest technology leaders are rarely looking, and reaching them depends on a network built over time and on confidential conversations.
Copenhagen is also where international companies build engineering teams. When Public.com chose Copenhagen as the engineering base behind its US ambitions, GlobeSearch built the Development Center alongside the CTO.
