Expert in niche of Product commercialisation and Product development executive search. Going beyond what typical large firms can do because of the way I operate in the largest markets of Europe and the United States.
How can we help?
About
Who we are: Productwise provides retained search and advisory services to VC and PE backed startups and scale ups. We recruit executive, senior leadership, and senior technical talent through a human-centered approach combined with rigorous due diligence, enabling our clients to scale at speed and sustainably. With 14+ years in the sector and a proven long-term track record, we are a trusted associate to many ventures in their journey from pre-revenue to successful exit.
Our clients: We collaborate with the seed to public companies in several software areas, such as Fintech, HealthTech, SaaS, enterprise and consumer software, Entertainment, Security, CleanTech, Open Source and many more.
How we work: on retained basis.
Who you’ll work with
Expertise: Alex is the owner and director in Productwise, which she established in 2016. She has been recruiting for the product and engineering positions for over 10 years in Europe and the US and advising companies on how to structure their teams to become top performers.
Experience: Before founding Productwise, Alex started her career with a turnaround cases in healthcare, manufacturing and FoodTech companies after the 2008 financial crisis. She then joined Rocket Internet to build a FinTech p2p lending platform, later sold to a PE fund. In the coming years she worked across b2b and b2c seed to Series B startups as a Product Lead, before joining BCG in London to work on enterprise software for larger clients of BCG across the suite of products. In these years she had built product and engineering teams from 0-1 to 1-10. She then joined Nomu VC as the only female partner, working on DD for tech startups and value creation playbook for portfolio companies.
Education: Alex earned her Bachelor of Science from Rotterdam University in the Netherlands and received her Executive Master in Law and Business from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.
Alex works directly on all projects she takes, being the direct contact for C-suite, investors and talent. This, together with her background tends to offer best guidance to C-level executives and results in appropriate market representation of your company as well as time to shortlist of 14-28 days with subsequent hire within 3 weeks.
Our advantages
We are small and nimble, enabling us to dedicate 100% of attention to your search. You won’t deal with associates or analysts, there is just 1 point of contact for you and talent. This means undiluted quality of results, representation, and speed.
Network
We continuously grow our network of product and engineering leaders, now reaching over 20,000+ individuals vetted over years across North America and EMEA markets in early, growth, PE backed and public companies.
Focus and functional expertise
Product commercialisation and Product development roles is our bread and butter, background, and a continued area of focus. That is all we do. I work directly with talent, hiring team and investors and manage process end to end, from briefing to reference interviews.
Process and Methodology
Search results are already seen in 14-28 days, thanks to our sprint based process, multi-point reach outs, and continuous market mapping for our niche. We implement the Scorecard methodology utilised by Google, Bain, Blackstone and leading companies to vet individuals.
Our Services
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Classic retained search. Best for priority roles that require special attention, diligence, representation, confidentiality or adhere to strict timelines.
Our zone of genius are product commercialisation and product development roles.
We work on all niche roles accelerating the product performance in domains of Product Marketing, Product Growth, Customer Success, Community, Developer Relations, Data, Sales Engineering, and Design.
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On a retained basis, we help you find the best talent across functions, geographies, and levels (mid-senior to the executive level of roles). While our relationships let us work exclusively with the best, our rigorous assessment processes ensure that we shortlist only people who will fit perfectly into your organization.
No surprises are ensured with a fixed fee retained search, allowing us to focus on the candidate journey with no bias.
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Lending CEOs a hand in building their organization and establishing a solid talent market presence. I can step in on a part time or full time basis. This engagement is custom to each team based on their needs and priorities.
Example: past projects
Executive
Chief Product Officer
Chief Technology Officer
SVP Product
SVP Engineering
VP Engineering
VP Product
Head of Product
Head of Engineering
Head of Success
Head of Data
Head of Product Marketing
Head of Community
Head of Developer Relations
Director of Engineering
Product Director
Head of Design
Head of Research
Staff & Senior
Lead Data Scientist
Lead ML Engineer
ML Engineer
Senior ML Engineer
Staff Engineer
Software Engineering Manager
Senior Staff Engineer
Principal Engineer
Senior Embedded Systems Engineer
Senior Sales Applications Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Systems Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Reliability Engineer
Senior Product Engineers
Technical Product Manager
Engineering Manager
