Comprehensive hiring guides, talent acquisition strategies, and workforce planning resources for employers — covering everything from sourcing and screening to offer negotiation and onboarding across IT, engineering, and finance roles.
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A product manager owns what gets built and why; a program manager owns whether a set of connected projects actually lands across teams that do not report to them. Hire the product manager when the open question is which bet to make. Hire the program manager when … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 A data architect decides how data should be modeled, stored, and governed across the whole company, while a data engineer builds and runs the pipelines that move it. One produces decisions other people build against. The other produces code that runs at 4 a.m. and pages somebody when … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Program managers earn $118,000 to $155,000 base at mid-level in 2026 and $150,000 to $195,000 at senior, while technical program managers at scaled tech companies clear $240,000 in total compensation. Those bands come from reconciling eight public trackers against reqs our desks actually closed. Take the trackers … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Build in-house when your NetSuite instance changes most weeks and somebody has to answer on Tuesday morning. Bring in a consultant when the work is project-shaped, deep, and finite. Nearly every company treats this as a budget question. It is a cadence question. The budget falls out of … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 IAM engineers earn $115,000 to $155,000 base at mid-level in 2026 and $150,000 to $200,000 at senior, with identity architects clearing $240,000. Those bands come from reconciling six public sources against searches our desks actually closed. The public sources, taken at face value, put the national average … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Boomerang employees are workers who leave a company and later return, and by March 2025 they made up 35 percent of all new hires in ADP’s payroll data, the highest share since 2018. Most articles on the subject treat that as a feel-good story about loyalty. It … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 Hiring AI engineers in 2026 means competing for a national pool of roughly 40,300 computer and information research scientists, so build the plan around an eighteen-month productive window instead of a four-year tenure. That reframe changes what you screen for, what you pay for, and what you … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 A head of analytics is the person who decides what your company’s numbers mean, then defends those definitions to finance, product, and the board. Pay in 2026 runs from roughly $168,000 to $294,000 depending on which tracker you ask. Whether the hire works has almost nothing to … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Partner, KORE1 KORE1 is the top product management recruiting firm in 2026, with a 17-day average time-to-hire, a 4.7 Glassdoor rating across 219 reviews, and documented AI-augmented sourcing. Redfish Technology (5.64) and Riviera Partners (5.65) follow for PM discipline specialists and CPO-level executive search, respectively. Rankings use the 7-factor Placement Authority Score, … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A NetSuite functional consultant decides what the system should do and configures it natively. A technical consultant writes the SuiteScript and integrations for whatever configuration cannot reach. One owns the process. One owns the code. Sounds academic. It is not. Post the wrong req and it costs … Read more
