Team

Heather Broome

Partner

heather@codepartners.co

510-501-2035

Education:

BA, University of California Berkeley

Heather has over 15 years of executive search experience focused exclusively on the Engineering function. She is a trusted expert in recruiting S/VP Engineering and CTO leaders to early-stage startups as well as large public companies.

Prior to returning to her own specialty practice, Heather was a Partner at a boutique executive search firm, leading their technology practice. She began her career at Korn/Ferry.

Heather earned her Bachelor Degree in Environmental Sciences from UC Berkeley, which she attended on a full gymnastics scholarship. She is also the Founder of divHERsity, an organization to advance women in engineering leadership roles. In her spare time, she’s a gym rat to offset her passion for great wine and her husband’s awesome cooking.

Praise

“When I decided to start a retained VPE search a couple weeks before Thanksgiving with the goal of hiring before the end of the year, I knew that was a big undertaking. And not only that – the profile was also very specific and required some very specific knowledge that’s not the easiest to find. I started contacting a couple firms I had worked with and was told it would take at least 4-6 months to land someone (if not more – given the time of the year, holidays, etc). That’s when I got introduced to Heather. Unlike other people, Heather was not intimidated by the aggressive goal. From the get go her experience, confidence and positive attitude gave me great hopes, so we quickly aligned on the details, built a very comprehensive search profile together and kicked off in around 2 weeks. A week later I already had several high profile candidates to look into, all potentially great fits for the position. Long story short, in a little over a month of work we had a stellar candidate with 25+ years of experience – and a slam-dunk fit for the position – closed and signed, ready to start after the New Year. Mind. Blowing. This speed and quality are unheard of! I strongly recommend Heather’s work and am looking forward to the next opportunity to work together!“ -VP Engineering at Tile

“Working with Heather was exceptionally good. Best recruiter we’ve ever worked with, by a big margin. 100% recommend.” –Fred Stevens Smith, Rainforest QA

“Heather seems to know everyone in the orbit of enterprise software development management. Her breadth of network and knowledge about our business and technology helped us focus on the right candidates. And Heather made both the selection and closing processes efficient and effective. We are very happy at Duetto with our experience with Heather.“ –Founding CTO at Duetto

Heather is hands down the best VPE recruiter I know! I refer all the VPE searches in our portfolio to her. VPE searches are her specialty so she’s extremely networked in that function, and gets a quick start. She’s closed extremely difficult VPE searches for us in a number of weeks. Our portfolio company CEOs have given consistently positive feedback on her. –Talent Partner, Bessemer Ventures

“HIRE HER quickly!

Heather is probably one of the best I’ve worked with. She was able to drum up a handful of great candidates within the first 2 weeks. She was able to get us to an offer stage with the first candidate only after 6 weeks into the process. Unfortunately, that offer didn’t work out. She was able to bring another candidate to the table and wrapped up the process with just a little over 90 days. Her ‘rolodex’ is impressive!” –Luan Lam, AppDynamics

I’ve known Heather for a while. She completed several searches at various companies I’ve worked with and — as someone with over 20 years recruiting and executive search experience myself, she’s an outstanding partner. Thorough, responsive, exceptional at helping clients figure out what it is in their profile they need, especially sometimes when we ourselves have a hard time articulating it. Heathers style is a tried and tested approach but in today’s search environment not something that all recruiters do. Heather works to really get to know the candidate. She’s build a very solid relationship with them. Almost personal, and extremely warm. Hard to do when your focus is often product or engineering executives who can be introverted and data driven. She gets them to talk to her and equips her client with authentic and honest insight into the candidate. Really important when evaluating cultural fit and closing a candidate. being presented”. –SVP People, Talent & Vibe at PagerDuty