{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"AI-First (Whatever That Means): Hiring Product & Engineering Leaders with Sean Lucq from SPMB","description":"Jim sits down with Sean Lucq (Partner at SPMB Executive Search) to talk about the art of hiring senior engineering and product leaders\u2014especially now that every job description on Earth has \u201cAI\u201d duct-taped to it. We get into why sticking with one great search firm beats \u201crandom recruiter roulette,\u201d why tech interviewing is tough (spoiler: engineers aren\u2019t always born interviewers), and the eternal tension between the two key roles - CTO (big brain science\/vision) and VP Engineering (keep the trains running, preferably on the tracks). Then it\u2019s on to the AI gold rush: what a normal Head of Engineering should actually be doing with AI (hint: practical stuff like code review, QA, automation), why \u201cHead of AI\u201d is usually a totally separate job, and why \u201c10 years of LLM experience\u201d belongs in the same bin as Web3 buzzword soup. We also cover who\u2019s moving jobs right now, why PE can feel like a saner bet than venture (less \u201cmoonshot,\u201d more \u201cactual exit\u201d), and what candidates must be able to explain: what you did, and how it moved the business\u2014numbers included. Plus: a few recruiting war stories, including the kind you can\u2019t make up and the kind that makes you grateful for a boring Tuesday. ","author_name":"Private Equity FunCast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.pefuncast.com","html":"