Managing Director, IT Staffing
Job Description
Managing Director / VP of IT Staffing
Austin, Texas (On-site Leadership Required)
Are you a technology staffing leader ready to build something larger than your own desk?
Our client is seeking an accomplished Managing Director / VP of Technology to lead and grow its Austin-based Technical Services division. This executive will oversee both sales and recruiting while driving operational excellence, market expansion, and long-term organizational growth.
This role is ideal for a high-performing staffing sales leader who has successfully coached teams, built client relationships, and wants the opportunity to shape strategy while developing future leaders.
What You Will Do:
- Lead, coach, and develop the Austin Technology sales and recruiting organization.
- Drive accountability through KPIs, forecasting, production standards, and operating cadence.
- Build a high-performance culture focused on growth, collaboration, and execution.
- Support strategic business development and executive-level client relationships during the organization's continued expansion.
- Partner closely with recruiting leadership to maximize delivery quality and client satisfaction.
- Expand relationships with CIOs, CTOs, IT executives, and procurement leaders throughout the Austin market.
- Participate as a member of the executive leadership team, helping shape business strategy and future investments.
- Build the infrastructure, processes, and leadership bench necessary to support continued regional expansion.
What We're Looking For:
- Proven success leading technology staffing sales organizations.
- Strong sales background with credibility coaching and developing producers.
- Experience leading both sales and recruiting teams.
- Demonstrated ability to scale staffing operations through leadership, process improvement, and talent development.
- Executive presence with the ability to influence clients, internal stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Strong business acumen and experience managing forecasts, pipelines, and operational performance.
- Desire to build an organization rather than simply manage a personal book of business.
- Must reside in the Austin market.
Requirements:
- Technology staffing leadership experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success growing staffing revenue through sales leadership.
- Experience hiring, coaching, and developing staffing professionals.
- Strong client development and executive relationship management skills.
- Excellent communication and organizational leadership abilities.
- Staffing industry leadership experience required.
- Technology staffing experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.
What You Get
- Executive-level compensation package (base plus performance incentives).
- Opportunity to lead one of Texas' fastest-growing technology staffing businesses.
- Executive leadership team visibility and direct partnership with the CEO.
- Access to exclusive State of Texas and municipal staffing contracts.
- Significant cross-selling opportunities across multiple staffing verticals.
- Long-term career path with potential progression into broader executive leadership, including CRO-level opportunities.
- The opportunity to build, scale, and leave a lasting impact on a growing technology staffing organization.
Job Number 8046
Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
