This search was one of nine inside a single six-month embedded recruiting engagement with a pre-IPO defense technology company building radar systems for force protection and airspace security missions. See the full engagement: They Had More Contracted Work Than Their Team Could Execute.
Part of the nine-role embedded engagement covering the client’s EE and RF division over six months.
Why the Search Was Difficult
RF design leadership is scarce: candidates need both people-management experience and hands-on RF design credibility, a combination few profiles carry at once.
Competing defense, space, and commercial technology employers were drawing from the same narrow pool of RF design leaders.
How ALAC Ran the Search
ALAC’s talent map of roughly 200 senior and principal-level RF and EE engineers surfaced RF design leaders with direct radar and RF hardware experience.
Structured candidate briefs let the hiring manager compare leadership style and technical depth side by side before any interview.
Because ALAC was embedded across all nine roles, this search ran in parallel with the other eight rather than waiting in a queue.
Result
Senior Manager, RF Design filled in under 45 days.
Business Impact
Installed a dedicated RF design leader inside the group the Senior Director had been running personally, freeing him to focus on the broader division instead of day-to-day RF design management.
9 roles
Filled across the embedded engagement
6 months
Engagement duration
Under 45 days
Every placement completed
100%
Submitted candidates advanced to interview
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