The Stack. The Driver. | Optimal Tech Partners
Agentic sourcing systems. The world's best recruiters. We are recruiters first, not engineers who picked up recruiting on the side. We place senior engineers and engineering leaders, plus the critical early hires around them in GTM, account executives, marketing, analytics, and especially recruiting, at US venture-backed startups. Try your first search free: you pay only when we place. Founded by Kyler Frisbee, 2x winner of Google Tech Staffing's Best Partner Award. 540+ placements, over $165M deployed in cash and equity, 91% offer close rate, first interview-ready candidates within 72 hours, drawing on a network of 100,000+ engineers.
Contact: kyler@optimal.tech | https://optimal.tech
The Stack. The Driver.
The car is the stack: the most elite machine in sourcing. It surfaces the right engineers in hours, not weeks, reads the whole field, and ranks signal over noise. The driver is the recruiter: the most elite drivers in recruiting. The machine surfaces the field; people win the race. Every part of the work that demands elite judgment, relationships, persuasion, and negotiation lives with the driver, not the stack.
- Agentic sourcing systems
- World-class recruiters
- Candidate you hire usually in a slate within five to ten days, average time to close under four weeks
- Outcomes that matter: 540+ placements, over $165M deployed in cash and equity, 91% offer acceptance
The driver's network: 100,000+ engineers
100,000+ engineers and growing with every search, sourced, indexed, and enriched in our own database, deepened by an active LinkedIn relationship network built over fifteen years. So we never start from zero. Every search begins inside this network, with the early conversations already behind us and candidates often in mind the day you open the role. And it compounds: every search teaches us who replies and what moves them, so you inherit years of relationships and tuning, with warmer introductions and faster slates than any firm starting cold.
Companies represented: Google, Google DeepMind, SpaceX, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon, NVIDIA, Databricks, Stripe, Airbnb, Netflix, Unity, Riot Games, Rivian, and hundreds of venture-backed startups.
Investors backing the companies we staff: Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, SoftBank, Index Ventures, and others.
Track record
540+ placements. Over $165M deployed in cash and equity. 91% offer acceptance rate. First interview-ready candidates within 72 hours. The candidate you hire is usually in a slate within five to ten days. Average time to close: under four weeks.
Leadership
Led by Kyler Frisbee, Founder and Managing Partner. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/techgentleman
Testimonials
Kyler really helped us discover and bring on board some very strong hires for our critical growing team. He was great with our candidates, internally with our engineering teams, and was consistently accountable in following through.
Kyler approaches recruiting with a wonderful focus on ensuring candidates have a strong, positive experience throughout the process.
Kyler is an energetic and dedicated recruiting partner. I've enjoyed working with him to help my team grow and find the right people to help us be successful.
Kyler is the best recruiter I have met, been placed by, and worked with. He is genuinely interested in the outcome for the candidates and business.
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For hiring inquiries: kyler@optimal.tech | https://optimal.tech/hire
For engineers and partnerships: partners@optimal.tech