About Me

Helping Tech Leaders Hire Elite Global Engineers & Developers - Not Just Applicants

I am a talent advisor, former CHRO, and Director of HR & Operations for a tech consultancy. With 20+ years of deep expertise in global tech talent pipelining, organizational design, and performance improvement for knowledge workers, I have a proven track record of building and optimising high-performing tech teams.

My hands-on experience in global tech talent acquisition and executive search, coupled with my strategic role in managing talent for major corporates, gives me a realistic perspective on the evolving tech skills landscape and the effect that AI is having on Tech resourcing.

A seasoned presenter and writer, I have presented globally on strategic talent management. I share invaluable insights on my experience with my clients and my candidates on what I've learned talking to various levels of tech talent in South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Mauritius, and Europe on what the impact of AI is having on the future of tech talent and engineering roles worldwide.

The world’s best engineers, AI researchers, and cloud architects aren’t scrolling job boards. They’re building, innovating, and ignoring generic outreach. Yet most companies rely on fragmented processes: HR teams juggling compliance, hiring managers begging for urgency, and recruiters missing critical tech nuance. The result? You lose top-tier talent to FAANG or fast-moving startups.

I partner with tech leaders and HR teams to fix this.

As a strategic advisor for global tech recruitment, I help you:

• Win passive tech talent (85% of whom aren’t job-seeking) by crafting hyper-personalized hooks.
• Bypass HR-recruiter-manager triangulation that dilutes role context, team culture, and technical nuance.
• Navigate remote / hybrid expectations, equity packages, and visa complexities for seamless global hiring.
• Hyper-targeted talent mapping.
• Competitive intelligence (how does your offer stack up in Berlin, Bangalore, or Austin?).
  
  Why this works for tech:
• I decode what truly motivates high-skill engineers (autonomy? bleeding-edge stacks? impact?).
• I replace bureaucratic handoffs with direct hiring manager-recruiter collaboration to accelerate offers.
• I help HR shift from "process police" to talent enablers focused on retention and candidate experience.

Why Recruit with me:

Marisa Ievers has spent her career building high-performance teams in complex, multinational and high-growth environments. She has scaled a consultancy by 300%, spun out a corporate function into an international business, and advised board-level executives on talent strategy. She combines recruitment expertise with operational insight, ensuring every search supports your commercial goals. She provides access to a global network of more than 14,500 senior professionals, surfacing the hybrid talent profiles ventures need and she works as a long-term partner, defining roles against your stage of growth and staying engaged with you.