Technical and Executive Recruiters in North America

Executive and Technical Search Consulting

For 13 years, Sage has focused exclusively on technical and executive search for Product and Engineering teams at high-growth startups and scale-ups across North America. Every recruiter trains under our in-house tech advisor, many with their own Computer Science or Software Engineering background. We cap each recruiter at 2-3 active searches, so your search gets real attention and your brand gets treated as our own. Result: a 100% fill rate on every retained search.

How We Find Top-Talent:

Kickoff & Market Mapping

Since we work exclusively on your search, we map the market upfront: who's out there, and where the right profiles sit. That means our kickoff call comes with informed questions about your business, culture, and goals, not a blank slate.

Screening & Technical Interview

We pre-screen every candidate to understand their motivations, then run a video-recorded technical interview exploring real scenarios and problem-solving. You review the thought process and communication style on your own time, saving your team hours.

Full Visibility, Every Step

You get full CRM access to see who we're reaching out to, screening, and submitting. Weekly reporting keeps progress visible on both sides, so we can recalibrate sourcing immediately if the brief shifts, leading to fewer, more qualified candidates.

Consultative Through Every Stage

We stay hands-on through the entire interview process, shaping structure and scheduling, and checking in with candidates and your team while feedback is fresh. That consistent contact builds real trust, meaning fewer declines and more long-term hires.

We help employers solve real hiring challenges

Sage is the best agency I've worked with, hands down. We chose a retained search for the consultative approach, and it paid off. They did extensive market research to understand where the talent is, brought us into their ATS so we could see in real time who they were talking to, and gave us insights on compensation. They took the time to understand our architecture and team dynamics before sourcing, and focused on making sure we were properly represented in the market, from our job descriptions to how we gave candidate feedback. Since it was retained, our search stayed a priority the whole way through, not competing with a dozen other open roles. Within a few months, Ashley and her team helped us land five strong hires at the senior and staff level, including two staff engineering roles we'd struggled to fill for over a year. If you're hiring for technical roles and want a team that treats your search like their own, I definitely recommend Sage!

Alex Peats-Bond, CTO at Senpilot

If you're not leveraging Ashley Alfred for recruiting tech talent, I don't know WHAT you are doing! Ashley pretty much built our founding team at Earthly and previously found us a key hires at ShiftLeft. She can find some really amazing talent in US and Canada. I had gone through tons of recruiters before Ashley, and nobody comes even close!

Vlad A Ionescu, Founder at ShiftLeft & Earthly Technologies

Ashley is hands down one of the best recruiters I've worked with. All the candidates she sent were pre-screened to ensure a great fit, both culturally and skill-wise, and her recommendations have always earned my full confidence. She's highly professional, openly discusses candidates with potential gaps, and is candid with feedback that's helped us improve our own recruitment process. Overall, she's extremely pleasant to work with, with a degree of professionalism that's hard to match. I cannot recommend her and Sage's services enough as a recruitment agency.

Herman Ho, VP of Engineering at Neutronpay

I truly enjoyed working with Ashley, Chad and the Sage team. The candidates they presented matched our needs perfectly. As we continue to grow our team in GTA / Ontario, I will absolutely reach out to Sage first. I’ve worked with many recruiting agencies in the past and Sage Recruiting is the best! If you need to find that diamond in the rough within the tech sector, I highly recommend using Sage.

Glen Gagnon, VP Operations at Slate Technologies

I had an excellent experience with Sage Recruiting for our software hiring needs. Nicole was fantastic to work with. The pre-vetted candidates she provided were of top-notch quality. The candidate we ultimately chose has been a fantastic addition to our team. The time saved in the hiring process has proven to be invaluable, making the cost well worth it for our small business. I highly recommend Sage Recruiting!

CJ Baker, Co-Founder at Cultivated Code

We engaged Ashley at Invisor when our previous recruiting partner couldn't provide a steady stream of quality candidates. She stepped up and quickly brought us strong candidates, and from there we never looked back. Ashley does a great job of clarifying the role with the hiring manager, sourcing the right fit, and staying on top of details through onboarding. As a non-technical person, she even took a programming course so she could screen candidates more thoroughly. I strongly recommend her to any company looking for a top-quality recruiting partner with quick, reliable results.

John Healy, Vice President of Engineering at Invisor Financial

It's very easy to recommend Ashley for technical recruiting needs. Her service is unique in that she maintains a focus exclusively on filling Product & Engineering positions. After understanding the technical aspects of a recent search, she took the time to learn what was special about our culture so she could find candidates who truly fit. She recorded short video segments with her top candidates, which let us review finalists efficiently and gather internal opinions before the final hire. Ashley is clearly committed to delivering successful matches, and I heartily endorse her services.

Joe Oswald, President at Jonas Club

We worked with Sage Recruiting to staff our initial engineering team and they did a phenomenal job. Ashley and her team dive into the technical expertise of candidates much more deeply than other recruiters, running the selection process carefully to produce a very high quality pipeline. They handle initial screening even for complex, hard-to-source skill sets, saving an enormous amount of time otherwise spent on off-the-mark interviews. Working with Ashley is an absolute delight; she's witty, quick, driven, and communicates effectively throughout the whole process.

Ciro Greco, Co-founder & CEO at Bauplan

From start to finish, Sage Recruiting exceeded our expectations. Ashley and her team were knowledgeable, highly responsive, and dedicated to finding the right fit for our organization, taking the time to understand our needs, requirements, and culture. We had an outstanding experience with Ashley and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for top-notch recruitment services!

Tyler Stark, Managing Partner at Moyers & Stark

Ashley and her team are absolutely amazing to work with. They took the time to understand our business, strategy, and culture to ensure the candidates they sent our way would exceed our expectations. We've been blown away by the talent Sage has sent us and, more importantly, got exactly what we needed after hiring. I'll absolutely be working with Ashley and her team at Sage for years to come. Thank you, Ashley, for being an extension of our team; we can't wait for the next set of talent you send our way!

Aly Dhalla, Founder of Finaeo

We really enjoyed working with the team at Sage. They were very proactive in communication, responsive to our feedback, and took the time to really listen to what we were looking for in candidates. We really appreciate the thorough screening interviews, which helped us narrow down candidates very effectively. Thank you!

Saara Virani, JD, Chief Operating Officer at Structura Biotechnology

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