Searching for your next career adventure …

Hitch Partners is a retained executive/leadership search firm which means companies hire us to fill a specific high-profile or high-impact role.

Our strength lies in helping companies find the best leaders for their organization, and while doing so, we may also help you to uncover your next career adventure. Therefore, we will want to know as much about you as possible – what you like, what you don’t like, and what you can do, what you can’t do - so that we know who to call when the time arrives.

You have decided it’s time for your next career adventure; now what?

Here are some helpful tips on how to efficiently and effectively partner with us


Connecting With Our Team

The ideal way to connect with us is through someone in our shared network, so if you can, identify someone we both know and ask them to send us a warm introduction.

If we don’t have any shared connections, please send us a personalized message through email or LinkedIn.

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Articulating Ideas for Your Next Adventure

We suggest you formulate specifics on your ideal scenario for your next role. Things such as::

  • Ideal role

  • Target industries

  • Ideal company size

  • Ideal company stage – startup, late-stage startup, mature

  • Locations you are open to considering

  • Your top 10-20 targeted companies

  • Compensation requirements – take a look at our Compensation Survey

Your Target Companies

The advantage to providing us with your target companies is that we may have a contact at one of them, and the Hitch team would happily make a goodwill introduction even if we are not specifically working on a search for that company.

These introductions benefit us all - it helps you in your journey and helps keep us top of mind the next time that company considers partnering with a search firm to help them fill a key role.

Resumes & LinkedIn Profiles

Here are a few insights on the information we focus on when we read resumes and LinkedIn profiles:

Crafting a resume is a bit like making a movie trailer; your goal is to get your audience interested and eager to see more.

The objective of your resume is to help your audience understand the WHAT and the WHY of your accomplishments; resumes should not include the HOW (covered during the interviews).

We typically don’t read the fluffy stuff at the beginning of resumes (special skills, personality profiles, etc.). Our interest lies in the meat (or “impossible burger” for all you vegans) section of the resume titled “Professional Experience,” this area should clearly outline the WHERE, WHEN, WHAT, and WHY.

Resumes don’t necessarily need to be limited to 1 or 2 pages; however, we suggest that you ensure the information you include is meaningful, particularly as it relates to the roles you are interested in pursuing.

The following is a suggested format for each of your tenures:

Company XYZ (Start date – End date)

Consider providing a brief description of the company if it’s not well known

  • Responsibilities (Example): I was hired by Michael Scott (add the person's title) to lead the cybersecurity team and protect the company's data by collaborating with IT and business teams to develop and implement security strategies.

  • Accomplishments (Examples):

    • Built the security team from a local team of 5 to a global team of 50 to address the evolving security risks

    • Elevated our security posture through the implementation of proactive security measures that reduced our cybersecurity incidents by 80%

    • Developed a training program that increased employee awareness of cybersecurity threats by 80% resulting in fewer internal incidents

    • Achieved the following compliance certifications: ISO 27001, PCI, SOC2 Type II, GDPR

  • Implemented a security program that resulted in zero loss of data & no embarrassing mentions on CNN/CNBC Squawk Box & WSJ.

The Security Industry is ever-changing.

Let Hitch help keep you up-to-date.


Proofpoint : 2023 Voice of the CISO Report

In the annual Proofpoint publication, Lucia Milica Stacy explores the global insights into the challenges, expectations and priorities of CISOs in today’s market

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Hot Off the Press: A CISO’s Guide to Legal Risks and Liabilities

A handbook by the Team8 CISO Village, in collaboration with SINET, on what CISOs need to know before a chat with the General Counsel.

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Mitigating the Risks in Era of Heightened Liability for CISOs

In Bloomberg Law publication, Alston & Bird attorneys highlight how chief information security officers have become targets in civil and criminal cases involving data breaches. They provide practical recommendations to prepare for and mitigate these litigation risks.

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Former Google VP Believes Cyber Security Is a C-Suite Responsibility

Recently, Sebastian Thurn, former VP of Google and chairman/co-founder of Udacity shared his beliefs that the entire c-suite should be responsible for cyber security with the folks at Venture Beat.

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CEO, CIO, or CFO: Who Does Your CISO Report To?

In the Security Intelligence publication, Josh Nadeau dives into the advantages and disadvantages of the various reporting structures for the modern-day CISO.

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“True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.”

~ Daniel Kahneman

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