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ISG, International Service Group — USA
Growth sector

Technology

Technology, SaaS and digital-asset companies are rebuilding their leadership benches — and the top of the org chart moves first.

The market

Why this sector, and why now.

HQ migration
When a headquarters relocates, its leadership comes and the staff largely stay behind.
Leadership first
A relocating headquarters moves its leadership. The staff largely stay behind.
Passive market
The engineering and security leaders worth hiring are employed, and not looking.
Roles we place

Leadership mandates, not vacancies.

Indicative US first-year compensation, 2026. Ranges vary with company stage, scope and equity.
RoleTypical first-year compensationScope
Chief Technology Officer$300,000 to $450,000Scale-up through enterprise
Chief Information Security Officer$250,000 to $400,000Regulated and enterprise
VP Engineering$250,000 to $350,000Product-led organizations
Chief Product Officer$250,000 to $380,000SaaS, platform
VP Revenue / Sales$250,000 to $350,000Enterprise SaaS
Our view

A relocating headquarters is a leadership vacuum.

When a technology company relocates or expands into a new market, the founders and the C-suite come. Almost nobody else does. Within a year the business needs a local senior bench — engineering, security, revenue, finance — and it has no local network to build one from. That is the moment we are built for.

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