Hitch Compass
AI-Driven CISO Hiring
The Most Expensive Hire is the One You Haven’t Made
Leaving the CISO seat vacant isn’t just a hiring challenge—it’s potentially an existential business risk. Every day without a security leader compounds exposure, drains executive bandwidth, and slows strategic progress. Yet these risks often remain opaque, making it difficult for boards and executives to fully grasp the urgency.
For CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, GCs, CIOs — and the Board — a vacant CISO seat isn’t just a staffing issue. It’s a quantifiable increase in financial exposure every day it remains open.
Hiring your next CISO?
Hitch Compass delivers an exclusive, vetted shortlist of top security leaders - FAST
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High-Visibility, High-Impact Leadership
Hiring a CISO is one of the most challenging, high-stakes decisions a company can make. The right leader safeguards the business, aligns security with strategy, and builds trust. Leadership excellence isn’t optional—it’s critical.
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Ignite the Search. Skip the Delay
For companies running CISO searches internally—or without deep security leadership expertise—Hitch Compass delivers the network and know-how to accelerate results. It’s the ideal solution for organizations that want a strong start without committing to a full retained search.
How Hitch Compass Works
We combine advanced AI search with deep domain knowledge.
Intake to Impact (ITI): We align your team on priorities and success criteria before sourcing begins.
Curated CISO Candidate List: Within 1–2 business days post-ITI session(s), we deliver a list of 25 pre-vetted candidate listing for your team to target.
Enablement: Your team can use the list to pattern match and expand outreach.
No-Risk Guarantee: If you don’t see immediate, actionable value in our shortlist, you don’t pay a dime.
Optional Retained Search Credit: Apply your fee toward a fully retained search if needed.
Pricing and Guarantee
💰 Flat Rate: $15,000
✅ 25 Pre-Vetted CISO Candidate Listing Delivered in 1–2 Business Days
📌 CISO & Security Role Alignment
📌 Internal Talent Team Enablement
📌 Retained Search Credit if Needed
💯 Pay Only If You're Satisfied
ROI Analysis
The Business Case for Hitch Compass
💰 Every Day the CISO role is open increases your company’s financial risk exposure
Hitch Partners has developed a Security Leader Vacancy Risk Calculator (SLVR) by combining industry data and risk modeling algorithms to estimate the potential dollar impact of operating without a security leader.
The Hitch Partners SLVR Calculator estimates the financial risk exposure your company takes on each day the CISO seat remains vacant — expressed as a daily cost-equivalent to make the risk visible and actionable.
💰 Avoid Wasting Valuable Time & Corporate Resources
🤝 We understand that internal recruiting can stretch teams and don’t speak security — leading to delays, misalignment, and lost time (potentially 2 to 3 months or more) which is NOT an effective use of your company’s scare resources
👥 Hiring the wrong CISO will be detrimental to your company’s health
Hitch Partners knows what high quality CISOs look like and we’ll help you mitigate the risk by avoiding a mis-hire for this key role.
⬇️ Follow the link below to calculate your company’s risk exposure.
What’s Your Risk Tolerance?
Why Hitch Compass Works
Hitch Compass is powered by the same domain expertise that’s made Hitch Partners the go-to search firm for security leadership.
🚀 10+ Years Focused on Security Hiring: We’ve placed 100+ CISOs, Deputy CISOs, and Security Leaders across all industries.
🧠 We Know What Great Looks Like: Our team understands the nuances internal teams may miss—credibility, leadership, and technical depth.
🎯 Real-Time, Vetted Results: We pair AI / ML algorithms with Hitch Partners curation to filter out noise and deliver real, pre-vetted leaders for your team to target.
🤝 Trusted by the Best: We’re the firm security leaders trust when stakes are high and urgency to fill the role.
Early Access to What’s Next
By joining the Hitch Compass beta, you gain exclusive early access to a new platform developed by the same team that organizations trust for their most critical security leadership hires. Hitch Compass combines proven executive search experience with AI-driven efficiency—giving you a faster, smarter way to build high-performing security teams.
HitchBase: The Engine Behind Hitch Compass
HitchBase® is the power source behind Hitch Compass—our proprietary platform that delivers faster, smarter, and more precise security leadership hiring.
At its core is the finest collection of curated security leadership talent on the planet:
🌍 ~14,000 security leaders across North America, Europe, and APAC
🧠 40+ data points per profile, including career trajectory, industry experience, and technical depth
⏳ 10+ years in the making, built through trusted relationships and targeted executive searches
⚙️ Analytics + ML-enabled, helping us quickly identify ideal matches for any security leadership need
We don’t just manage a database—we have deep knowledge of the full picture. HitchBase® allows us to surface the right talent with speed and precision. As part of Hitch Compass, we’re now passing this advantage along to you—for a fraction of what a full search would cost.
FAQs
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They can—but you’ll be inundated with unqualified applicants. Hitch Ignite Compass eliminates wasted time by delivering 25 best-fit CISO candidates within a few business days. Hitch will save your company at least one full month of recruiting time.
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Hitch has developed a Machine Learning-powered matching system which searches thousands of pre-scored security leaders in Hitch’s proprietary database to evaluate real-world expertise, leadership potential, and industry alignment. By factoring in specific job requirements, our system ensures precise matches tailored to your organization's unique needs.
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Your Hitch Ignite Compass investment applies toward a retained search. No wasted budget.
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Within just 1-2 business days of our ITI and CISO strategy sessions.
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Hitch values ML for its efficiency in research, but our expertise ensures a targeted approach. That’s why we validate the list before sending it to you.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
—Albert Einstein
