Screened for how they lead a team and run IT, not just years served.
Why STACK IT
Most agencies optimize for volume. We optimize for the one hire who’s right, vetted by people who understand the work.
We screen for how a candidate leads a team, makes calls under constraint, and balances uptime against budget, not just the size of their last title. No one reaches you without two of our recruiters signing off.
Fake profiles, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted answers are everywhere in tech hiring. We meet each candidate face-to-face on video and screen for AI patterns, so who you interview is who shows up.
A manager who leaves takes the team’s stability with them. We align trajectory, growth, and total comp so your hire stays and builds something that lasts.
Success-based and non-exclusive, no upfront fees, no retainers. We invoice on your hire’s first day, not before.
The payoff
Hiring well costs less than you think, and a strong hire changes far more than the work in front of them.
A team that runs on process.
Real management turns firefighting into a system.
Commitments that actually land.
A manager who plans, prioritizes, and holds the line.
Budget tied to outcomes.
Vendor and license discipline frees money for what matters.
Risk managed on purpose.
A leader who bakes compliance into how IT operates.
A team people want to stay on.
Good leadership retains the talent you already have.
How we screen
We screen for how IT managers actually think. Every shortlist is judged against the same five criteria that predict whether someone delivers in your codebase.
Builds, coaches, and retains a team, and has the hard conversations instead of avoiding them.
Keeps the lights on and the roadmap moving, balancing day-to-day uptime with the projects that move the business.
Owns the IT budget and vendor relationships, and can defend the spend in business terms.
Treats risk and compliance as part of running IT, not a box-ticking exercise bolted on later.
Translates between technical reality and executive priorities so IT is a partner, not a cost centre.
Proof it works
Discover what changed once the right hire joined our clients’ team.
A scaling SaaS company’s IT was pure firefighting, with no process and a burned-out team. The manager we placed introduced tiered support, automation, and a real roadmap, cutting ticket volume by 45% in two quarters while morale recovered.
Renegotiated vendor contracts and rationalized licensing for a fintech, taking $240K out of annual IT spend without cutting service.
Stood up the controls and documentation a healthcare provider’s IT had been missing, clearing the next audit with no findings.
Real technical screening, a calibrated shortlist in days, and candidates vetted for fit, not just resumes. Let’s start your search.
Specializations
Whatever your team runs on, we screen for the people who do the work right.
Building, coaching, and keeping a team people want to stay on.
Service, support, and systems that run on process, not heroics.
Risk and compliance treated as part of running IT.
The cost of waiting
An empty seat doesn’t delay work, it redistributes it. The longer the search drags, the more it costs.
Every week a role stays open, the cost lands on the team you already have.
Speed isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between a gap and a setback.
Time to fill this role
How you hire
Two models, one standard of quality. Bring on the IT managers you need the way that fits your timeline and budget.
Permanent
Best when you’re building the team for the long term.
Contract
Best when you need delivery capacity now, without adding headcount.
Not sure which fits? Compare permanent vs. contract
FAQ
The questions teams usually ask before starting a search with us.
We focus on operational ownership. We walk through environments a candidate has run and probe how they handled uptime, endpoint security, vendor relationships, and a real incident, then look at how they led the support and infrastructure teams under them. The test is reliability delivered, not tools listed.
An IT manager owns infrastructure, support, endpoint security, and vendors with a focus on uptime, while an engineering manager leads software development teams. We match to the one your organization actually needs.
Usually permanent, given the operational continuity and vendor relationships involved, though interim IT management can bridge a transition. We will advise based on your situation.
The range spans first-line managers through senior IT leaders, priced to the breadth of what they own. We benchmark against recent placements at the level you need.
Permanent hires are success-based: you pay only when someone starts, with no upfront fee, backed by our 90-day guarantee. Contract runs on a transparent hourly rate. We will walk you through the specifics on an intro call.
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