Riviera Partners – Creating Better Recruitment Matches and Experiences through Expertise and Technology

Executive recruitment is an industry that has undergone a major transformation with the advent of AI. Executive recruitment firms revolutionized the recruiting process by employing a mix of innovative and time-tested approaches, including AI powered technology. This new approach led to simplified, more efficient and effective executive recruiting processes which in turn led to accelerated access to top talent. Most executive recruiter firms work for a specific company or for a consulting company. They often look for candidates that have the right skills, experience and education requirements. Executive recruiters are usually educated in business degrees, such as business administration, finance, accounting and marketing. They may also have a graduate degree in human resources or management. The executive recruitment firms have extensive experience in placing candidates and working with clients. They know your industry and the position that you need to fill. The executive recruitment firms have a network of potential candidates and they are always getting new people to contact. They can tap into a much larger pool of candidates than any single company can.

Riviera Partners is one such global executive recruiting firm specializing in Engineering, Product and Design leadership. They understand that hiring the right technology leadership is the difference between success and failure for any company. Product development leaders – engineering, product, and design – are the most critical executive hires a company will make. Exceptional product development executives possess a rare combination of leadership experience and demonstrated technical achievement, making them difficult to find and even harder to evaluate. Riviera’s exclusive focus on technology talent means they bring decades of collective domain experience, tens of thousands of executive relationships, and the accumulated data of hundreds of thousands of interactions with technology leaders to bear for their clients on every search.

Factors that Make Riviera Partners the Stand Alone Executive Recruiting Firm

Specialists in Recruiting Best Employees: Riviera understands that hiring the right technology leadership is the difference between success and failure for any company. Product development leaders – engineering, product, and design – are the most critical executive hires a company will make. Exceptional product development executives possess a rare combination of leadership experience and demonstrated technical achievement, making them difficult to find and even harder to evaluate. Riviera’s exclusive focus on technology talent means they bring decades of collective domain experience, tens of thousands of executive relationships, and the accumulated data of hundreds of thousands of interactions with technology leaders to bear for their clients on every search.

Tech-Enabled Delivery: The company uses state-of-the-art, proprietary technology to manage the recruiting process. Riviera search professionals use state-of-the-art, proprietary technology to manage the delivery of every client engagement. Their software provides full transparency at every stage of the search process and facilitates collaboration between all stakeholders – recruiters, clients, board members and investors – to drive each search to success. They have trained their machine learning algorithms against decades of technology recruiting experience to amplify each of their recruiters’ effectiveness. Their recommendation system picks up on the explicit and implicit signals throughout each search to help their clients understand what they really need and the recruiters to find it quickly.

Results Driven: Riviera's passion, exclusive focus on technology leadership, unmatched domain expertise, unparalleled relationship network, combined with their reliance on data-driven insights and artificial intelligence to optimize your search, means that when you work with Riviera, you know you’ll make a great hire. They are relentlessly focused on their clients' success. Riviera delivers results – the most sought-after, proven executive leadership in engineering, product and design and they do it with the most experienced tech-driven team in the industry.

Incredible Team: For the last decade, Riviera has its hand in building the hottest startups and well-known tech companies around. They believe everyone deserves to have a job they love, so they are building a next-generation recruiting platform that matches job hunters with companies meeting their exact career needs and objectives. It’s designed to bring brilliant minds together in order to solve difficult challenges. They are well on their way to delivering the most interesting career management software in existence and they need talented people like you on their team.

The Formidable Leader

Will Hunsinger is the Chief Executive Officer of Riviera Partners. Prior to taking on this role he was part of the Riviera team for two years, serving as chief operating officer before his elevation to chief executive officer. During that time, Will  helped drive significant expansion of Riviera’s executive search practice as well as launching R[2] (R Squared), Riviera’s marketplace for software engineering talent that combines data science, machine learning and recruiter curation to match the finest talent to the most innovative companies.

Mr. Hunsinger has spent his entire career in the technology industry as a consultant, advisor, entrepreneur, executive and investor. Prior to Riviera, he was digital practice operating director for private equity fund TPG Growth. He also held roles as chairman, CEO and co-founders of SportStream (acquired by Facebook); president and CEO of Vulcan-backed Evri; and served as entrepreneur in residence for Seattle-based, consumer-focused venture capital firm Maveron. He previously held senior positions at Gap Inc., Overture (acquired by Yahoo!) and Accenture.

"We’ve helped transformative companies flourish in a continually evolving technology marketplace. This is done through the successful recruitment of executives and engineers."