David runs every Beacon search personally, focused on permanent engineering leadership and specialist hires.
Both run retained search for technical leadership roles. Here's the real difference in scale and search-team structure, factually, so you can pick the right fit.
Book a callRetained search, typical fees 25–33% of first-year compensation. Focused exclusively on technology leadership: CTO, CPO, VP of Engineering, and other senior technical and product roles, from Series A through pre-IPO and public companies. Offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Boston, and London, with a large multi-recruiter team structure.
Contingency and retained options, engineering only from IC through VP, so leadership searches and individual-contributor searches run through the same team and process. Every search run personally by founder David Berk, not handed to a junior associate. Documented healthcare AI and regulated-data search experience.
Riviera has real scale and a strong multi-office team for leadership search specifically. Where we differ is that every Beacon Devs search, leadership or IC, is run by the same person end to end — there's no handoff to a junior team member partway through.
David runs every Beacon search personally, focused on permanent engineering leadership and specialist hires.
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