Find the people who build the product.
Engineering, product, design and executive recruiting for early-stage and rapid-growth companies — connecting the right people with the roles that have been open too long.
Founding engineers to VPs of Engineering, sourced with context. No retainer to start.
Typical kickoff-to-hire: about two weeks. Clients from pre-seed to Series B, plus growth-stage and enterprise teams.
Relationship-first recruiting, with the rigor an executive search demands.
The best hire is not just qualified on paper. It's an engineer or leader who understands the problem — and a team that's ready to let them own it.
Find Your Talent brings structure to the search: a kickoff that gets at the real pain point, a candidate profile the whole hiring team agrees on, research-led outreach to people who actually fit, and a process that keeps interviews moving in days rather than weeks. We send the three people you'd want to hire, not thirty resumes.
Standard contingency terms on direct hires; a lower rate when you have multiple roles, and lower still with exclusivity. Contract and contract-to-hire engagements too. Details on a call.
Build a team that can carry the roadmap.
When a founding engineer or first product leader has been open for a month, every week costs you. A thoughtful search is how you stop the bleed without lowering the bar.
Name the real need
We get clear on what the role has to fix, why it's been hard to fill, the stack and stage, and what success looks like six months in — beyond the job description.
Meet the right people
Targeted, research-driven outreach and practical screening surface engineers and leaders with the right experience and the right motivation — already vetted against your bar.
Move with confidence
Scheduling, prep, feedback loops and offer strategy handled, so the process stays focused and human. Folks are usually in the seat within two weeks.
Engineering
Founding, senior and staff engineers; backend, full-stack, platform and infrastructure; ML and AI; embedded, flight software and mobile.
Engineering leadership
CTOs, VPs and Directors of Engineering, engineering managers and tech leads who can scale a team and still ship.
Product, design & executive
Product managers and heads of product, product designers, and C-level searches for companies building their first leadership bench.
Startups, scale-ups and enterprise teams.
From building a healthcare enterprise's technology team from the ground up — CTO, product managers, engineers — to founding engineers for seed-stage AI companies. Deep in voice and speech AI, healthtech, developer tools, robotics and aerospace software, fintech and consumer.
Recommendations from the engineers and leaders we've worked with.
Taken from Johnny's public LinkedIn recommendations. The through-line is the same one we hear from founders: transparent, available, and on your side even when a search doesn't end in an offer.
"Probably like you, I've had a lot of recruiters reach out in the past, but Johnny was definitely different. He took a lot of time to discover what I was interested in, was super transparent about what each of his clients was looking for, and actively followed up and stayed engaged, even when some of the hiring companies turned me down."
"Johnny listened to my career goals and software interests and recommended a small handful of well-fitting roles. The dynamic between Johnny and the hiring manager bespoke a solid relationship and the whole process felt much more transparent and down-to-earth than I could have expected. I highly recommend his services."
"Johnny is mindful of that ever-important human touch and dedicates extra effort to match relevancy of roles with talent. Definitely choose him if you're a company looking to scout top-notch talent fits; likewise, if you're an engineer looking to level up in your career."
"The process and methodology he uses helped me in the interviewing process. He was there to help in every question and every step of the hiring process. He was able to compile my best and valuable skills to fit perfectly with company needs. I really recommend Johnny as a recruiter."
"An excellent recruiter who is with you every step of the way. He makes himself always available to answer your questions. Even though we didn't come to a deal at the end, I really enjoyed working with him. Johnny cares about his client like a friend."
"We treat your search the way an executive search firm would — but for the founding engineer, not just the CTO."
Your next role should make sense for your whole career.
Tell us what you'd move for. We look beyond a title to understand the problems you want to work on, the team you'd thrive in, and the stage that fits — and we don't shop your profile around.
Most of the roles we fill are founding, senior and staff software positions and engineering leadership at funded startups in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, the Bay Area, New York and remote. We reach out when a role is a real fit and tell you everything we know about the team before you decide.
The whole picture
- Engineering rolesFounding and staff engineers, platform, ML and AI, embedded — the people who ship the product.
- Leadership rolesCTOs, VPs, engineering managers and heads of product who make every team stronger.
- Contract & contract-to-hireDefined-scope engagements with clear availability windows, monthly invoicing and a path to full-time.
- Long-term fitA thoughtful match for the work, the team, and the person behind the résumé.
Built by a recruiter who kept hearing the same thing.
Find Your Talent was founded in 2023 by Johnny Huynh after years of watching startups lose months — and good candidates — to searches run as a numbers game. FYT exists to run them properly: one recruiter who understands your stack and stage, a research-driven shortlist, and a relationship that outlasts the hire. Interns and new grads from UCI, UCLA, CSULA, UC Santa Barbara and CSUN have started their careers through our placements.
We build and use our own recruiting software, Angel ATS, which is how a small firm runs research, outreach and pipeline at a pace bigger agencies can't match.
Let's make the next hire — or the next move — a better one.
Tell us what you're building, who you're looking for, or where the gap is. Twenty minutes is enough to tell you whether we can help and what it would take. Either way, we're happy to be a resource.
- Emailjohnny@findyourtalent.io
- Cell(626) 456-3766
- Based inLos Angeles, California