Senior hiring and retention
Offers the best people say yes to.
And the case that gets them approved. Live market evidence for senior hires and retention packages, built to hold up in front of your board.
Advisor to executives, founders and boards on the senior packages that set the market in frontier AI and big tech.
- senior negotiations in the past 12 months
- 200+
- engagements
- 5,000+
- years advising on senior offers
- 15
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Live market intelligence from senior offers at frontier AI labs, hyperscalers, public tech and finance.
Who I work with
Your strongest candidates walk in knowing the market. Now you will too.
- People leaders A sparring partner beside your comp consultant.They bring the data and the governance. I bring what the candidate across the table is considering.
- Advisory and search firms Drop me into the deals that matter.When a placement or a client offer reaches the hard part, I join for the negotiation and the close, on your timeline and under your lead.
- Founders and CEOs Win the people you can't afford to lose.Offers that win senior talent without breaking your cap table, your bands or the team you already have.
- Investors and platform teams One advisor for your portfolio's hardest hires.Offer reviews, office hours and founder education, backed by a live read of the market.
When someone I know is negotiating an offer that matters, I send them to Jacob.
Lenny Rachitsky | Lenny’s PodcastWhat I bring
Surveys tell you what the market paid last year. I tell you what it will take to close this person now, and how to structure it so they stay.
Live market read
What senior candidates are accepting, countering and walking away from, six to twelve months before it reaches a survey.
The candidate's lens
How an offer lands with the person reading it, and where they will push.
Deal craft
Structure, sequencing and language that close the hire without damaging the relationship.
My discussions with Jacob have been a game changer for myself and how I think of recruiting other executive talent.
Aman Naimat | Founder and CEO, Regrello
One negotiation, one client.
- I never advise a company and a candidate on the same negotiation.
- Every engagement starts with a conflict check against my active work.
- What you share stays confidential. What I bring you is pattern-level market intelligence, never another client's details.
- I work alongside your compensation consultant, counsel and recruiter, not in place of them.
Bring me into a deal
Confidential by design. Conflict-checked before every engagement.
