About
Brady and Evan spent the better part of a decade inside some of the most demanding technical hiring environments in the industry — not as observers, but as the people responsible for making them work. Voyager is what they built when they decided to do it differently.
The Origin
Most recruiting fails are predictable. Leveling ambiguity. Comp bands that lag reality by two quarters. Interview processes that stretch long enough for strong candidates to accept something else. These aren't talent scarcity problems — they're calibration problems.
Brady and Evan spent years watching this pattern play out from the inside — at companies like Twitter, Amazon, Block, and Xinova — and building the systems that prevented it. They ran high-volume hiring years. They scaled recruiting orgs from the ground up. They hired the founding technical teams for startups that went on to raise Series A and beyond.
What they found is that the gap between a good search and a failed one is almost never about candidate quality. It's about what happens before any candidates are introduced. Voyager exists to move that alignment work to the front of every engagement — and to decline the searches where it can't be achieved.
The Team
Two different paths through the industry. The same conclusion about what makes technical hiring actually work.
Brady's career is defined by high-stakes technical hiring at scale. He led recruiting at Twitter, Block, and Amazon during periods of intense growth — the kind of environments where a bad hire or a stalled search has real consequences on product velocity and engineering org health.
He built the systems. He ran the high-volume years. He knows what a well-calibrated search looks like — and exactly what breaks when the alignment work gets skipped. That operator-level experience is what he brings to every Voyager engagement.
Brady has also done the agency work — placing Senior and Staff engineers at Series C and beyond, navigating the high-bar, slow-process, lots-of-stakeholders complexity that defines late-stage technical searches. Brady knows how to move them without sacrificing quality.
Evan knows what it means to build fast without breaking things. He helped grow a startup from 30 to 120 people in a single year — the kind of velocity that exposes every weakness in a recruiting process instantly. You either get calibration right, or the org pays for it for years.
At Twitter, he led recruiting across mission-critical teams: Health Engineering, Product Foundation, and Product Management. These weren't backfills. They were architectural decisions dressed as hiring decisions, and Evan treated them that way.
On the agency side, Evan has guided multiple startups from Seed Stage through Series A by hiring their founding technical teams — the first engineers who shape the architecture, culture, and trajectory of the company. Getting those hires right requires a different kind of judgment. Evan has made them many times over.
Prior Experience
These are the companies where Brady and Evan built, scaled, and stress-tested the hiring judgment they now bring to Voyager.
What We Believe
These aren't values statements. They're operational conclusions drawn from years of watching searches succeed and fail.
01
Calibration is the job.
Sourcing is table stakes. Any agency can find candidates. The real work is the alignment conversation — leveling, comp, scope, velocity — that determines whether a strong engineer actually converts. That's where we spend our attention.
02
Selectivity protects everyone.
We turn down more searches than we accept. That's not a capacity constraint — it's how we protect the signal integrity of our candidate network and the quality of every introduction we make. A "maybe" search produces "maybe" results.
03
Operator judgment can't be systematized away.
We've seen what happens when recruiting gets reduced to a pipeline dashboard. The nuance disappears. The judgment calls don't get made. We stay small by design so that every search gets the attention it takes to get right.
The calibration call is 30 minutes. We'll be straight with you about whether the search is one we can help with — and if it isn't, we'll tell you that on the call.