[Recording] ScaleUp:CEO – How to build your first executive leadership team (and do it well)

As a founder, hiring an executive leadership team for the first time is daunting. They are the team you will collaborate with the closest, lean on the hardest, and rely on the most as you navigate the inevitable ups and downs of building a fast-growing startup.  

And creating the right strategy to recruit, compensate, and retain these key employees can make or break your company’s success.  

In this session, Insight Partners’ Talent Center of Excellence and our partners at Will Reed and Riviera Partners bring you lessons learned from working first-hand with hundreds of founders as they hired their leadership team. From your finding your executive go-to-market hires to your product and tech gurus, our speakers share their top tips.

Check out the key points we covered:

5:00 – What trends are founders seeing in the talent market for executive hiring?

10:21 – Why are founders seeing a convergence of the C-suite?

14:23 – What are the implications of hiring leadership on a part-time basis?

17:32 – What are the current hybrid work trends, and how do they impact hiring?

23:00 – At which stages of a company should founders consider making different senior hires?

34:16 – What does a strong profile for a startup’s first senior sales hire look like?

37:06 – What does a strong profile for a startup’s first senior marketing hire look like?

40:37 – What does a strong profile for a startup’s first CTO hire look like?

47:48 – What are the stages of hiring an executive leader, and how long does each step take?

53:35 – How can founders build a hiring funnel that prioritizes DE&I?

Meet the Panelists:

Eoin O’Toole
Managing Partner, Riviera Partners

Paige Robinson
Founder & CEO, Will Reed

Blake Lindgren (Moderator)
Senior Director, Insight Partners