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Synthesia: Strategic Hiring
Brett Taylor hired as director of engineering to lead West Coast team from new Seattle office. Former 17-year AWS veteran. Company actively recruiting AI video engineers for product, infrastructure and systems roles.
Source: GeekWire
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening technology executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: This lands while the Talent Market Index reads 105.9 (Hot) — down 2.3 versus the prior month — and Americas signal share is rising (+2.4pts).
Synthesia: 2 signals in the last 90 days — above the Technology median of 1 across 211 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 3 tracked across 62 days.
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Case study
US Sales Lead - first full-time hire in the United States, spearheading US market entry
Traffio
Our work · 2019
VP Sales (US) / CEO
Multiple (Longtail UX, Genbook)
Americas · Technology/SaaS · founder-transition · international-expansion
Our work · 2020
Chief Technology Officer
Splitit
Americas · Fintech · payments · fintech
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