Job Hackers Network

FOR DIRECTORS, SENIOR DIRECTORS, & VPs OF ENGINEERING

What got you here has stopped working

At the Director and VP level, the best opportunities rarely start with a job posting.

The Job Hackers Method™ gives senior engineering leaders a repeatable system to reach the decision-makers who create those opportunities—before the role is posted and before you need your next job.

Is this you?

You have built your career through strong performance and internal reputation, but you have not had to navigate the external market in years.
You are still employed. Nothing is on fire. But a reorg, acquisition, leadership change, or stalled path has made you think differently about what comes next.
The market you remember is not the one that exists today, and you are not sure how senior leader opportunities actually get filled.
Recruiters bring you roles that look more like what you were doing 5 years ago than what you should be doing next.
You can walk an executive team through a complex transformation, but it's hard to explain in 60 seconds why you are the right leader for a role.
You want to explore options without announcing to your company (or your network) that you are looking.

"I had been with the company about 15 years and things had become pretty predictable. I was not looking to make a move, but I had not tested myself in the market in a long time, and I knew I would be walking into a very different landscape."

—Sameera Perera, VP of Engineering at Geonexus

The Market Has Changed

The higher you go, the fewer roles exist. And many of the best opportunities never reach a public job board.

Senior leadership roles often begin with a business problem and a conversation. A leader needs someone who can solve it, trusted names surface, and the opportunity begins taking shape before a job description is ever posted.

The strategies that helped you reach Director were built for a more visible market. Your next opportunity requires a different approach.

A System, Not a Job Search

The Job Hackers Method™ turns your search into a repeatable process.

First, define the leadership value you bring to the market. Then build the evidence that proves it. Map the relationships that can create access to the opportunities you want. And to finish, run the process every week with a clear cadence, tracking, and accountability.

Your resume and LinkedIn profile become outputs of that work, not the strategy itself.

Documented Results

More than 300 engineering leaders have used the Job Hackers Method™ to land roles at leading technology companies like Microsoft, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Amazon.

Members typically start their new jobs within 3-6 months, compared to 9-12 searching on their own. Compensation increases typically range from 20-50 percent. Some members have doubled their compensation.

This method is designed to change the trajectory of your career.

You are not buying a course. You are buying access to the room.

The Job Hackers Method™ brings together hundreds of senior engineering leaders building their next move together. Members share opportunities, make introductions, compare notes, pressure-test decisions, and celebrate wins.

This isn't a community you join and forget about. It is part of how the method works.

Who is in the room?

A network built across 200+ tech companies

When a company becomes a target, you don't always have to start with a cold search. Someone in the network may have worked there, know someone there, or be able to tell you how the organization actually works.

Choose Your Next Step

The Job Hackers Method™

A structured system to build your next leadership opportunity before you need it.

The Method was built by Ryan Stoltzfus, a former corporate HR leader who spent years hiring and coaching leaders, advising hiring managers, and sitting at the table where senior-level hiring decisions were made.

The program includes on-demand training, weekly group coaching, four private coaching sessions, six AI tools built specifically around the Method, and lifetime access to the Job Hackers Network and Slack community.

$6,500 once. Access for life.

No subscription. No renewal. No upsell.

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Not ready for coaching?

Start here

See how the Job Hackers Method™ works before deciding whether the full program is right for you.

This free training walks through the process engineering leaders use to position their value, reach hiring leaders directly, and create opportunities beyond the roles posted on job boards.

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The Job Hackers Method™ is not the right fit if...

You are pursuing senior, staff, or principal IC roles. The Method was created specifically for engineering leaders looking at Director, Senior Director, and VP-level opportunities.
You want someone to rewrite your resume, send you job postings, or run your search for you.
You are not prepared to consistently build new professional relationships and have 5-8 conversations a week.
You need a job within the next 30 days. The Method is deigned to build a leadership pipeline over 3-6 months, not manufacture an immediate offer.

What Our Clients Are Saying

Manoj Bagul

Senior Director of Software Engineering, now VP of AI and Engineering

"I applied for three or four months and got nothing back from 99% of it. After 20 years in this industry you start to wonder what is wrong with you. The answer was that nothing was wrong with me. My approach was ten years out of date."

Chris Eide

Director of Engineering Ops at Nucleus Security

"People kept telling me two things. You just have to network. And you need to tell your story. But what exactly is that, and how do you do it? As engineering leaders we are a tad more literal. We are looking for guidance that points us in the right direction. This program gave me an actual process to network, how to think about it from a data and numbers perspective, and how to develop the story I needed to tell."

Eric Ray

Senior Director of Engineering at DDN

"I just accepted an offer for Director of Engineering at DDN. It is about a 30 to 50% comp bump from my last role. I have always felt solid on the interview front, yet I am convinced the JHN instruction was invaluable: the deep research on the product and the interviewers, the per-person question prep, and the analysis that went into the stories and value proposition."

Akshata Naikar

Director of Engineering at QuartzBio, now Senior Director of Product Innovation

"I faced my first-ever layoff and, out of desperation, started applying for Engineering Manager roles, essentially leveling down from my previous title. Ryan helped me recognize that underselling myself would not help and could hurt my long-term trajectory. I accepted an offer for Director of Engineering at QuartzBio."