Devin Hornick
How to Hire a Product Manager in 2026 Hiring a product manager in 2026 is not a job description problem, it is a judgment problem. The right PM sits between engineering, design, sales, and the CEO’s ambitions and somehow turns all of that noise into shipped product that moves a number. Budget 60 to 90 … Read more
Data Engineer vs Data Scientist: Roles, Skills & Hiring Differences A VP of Data at a mid-market SaaS company in Costa Mesa called us about eighteen months ago. She had one open headcount, board pressure to “do something with AI,” and a senior data scientist she’d hired six months earlier who was, in her words, … Read more
Workforce Analytics: Using Data to Drive Talent Decisions A head of HR at a 600-person manufacturer in Riverside called us last summer. She wanted to hire “a people analytics person.” Halfway through the intake call she paused and asked if we could help her figure out what she actually meant by that. Did she want … Read more
Most boards spend more time selecting a conference room AV system than they do structuring a CIO search. It shows. Get the hire wrong and you’re looking at $500,000 in wasted comp, six months of organizational momentum gone, and whatever trust your IT team had left in executive leadership completely evaporated. Get it right and … Read more
Many lists miss the mark on payroll by focusing only on software. Payroll is about more than payments, as the Small Business Administration notes; it involves efficiently managing your team and operations as you grow. The best small business payroll solutions include: Smart Hiring: Attracting the right talent. Efficient Payroll Systems: Simplifying processes. Scalable Operations: … Read more
Reshoring in 2026: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Coming Back to the US Reshoring brought 244,000 manufacturing jobs back to the US in 2024, according to the Reshoring Initiative’s 2024 Annual Report. That pushed the cumulative total past 2 million since 2010. The facilities are getting funded. The construction is happening. The part that keeps stalling … Read more
A cloud engineer career path covers five distinct levels, starting at roughly $95,000 for junior roles and reaching well past $200,000 at the principal level, though most of the guides floating around online stop at “senior” and pretend the rest doesn’t exist. Most people know the first two rungs. Almost nobody talks about what happens … Read more
How to Build a Software Development Team from Scratch Building a software development team from scratch means choosing the right roles, hiring sequence, and team model before writing a single job description. Companies that get this wrong burn $50,000 or more in failed hires and missed deadlines before correcting course. We had a client last … Read more
What Is IT Outsourcing? Models, Costs and When to Use It IT outsourcing is contracting an external provider to handle technology functions your organization either can’t or chooses not to staff internally. The global market crossed $639 billion in 2026. Roughly half of all outsourced IT projects underperform or fail outright, depending on whose survey … Read more
New Grad Job Market 2026: Why Smart Employers Are Hiring Anyway By one measure the 2026 entry-level job market is the bleakest in nearly four decades, with new workforce entrants making up 13.3% of all unemployed Americans last July before settling at 10.6% by February, a number that still exceeds anything recorded during the Great … Read more
