Digitalization Without the Drama: How Indian SMBs Can Hire Their First Engineering Leaders
Mid-market and regional businesses are under pressure to digitalize, but often lack the employer brand to attract experienced technology leaders. Here's a practical approach.
By Srikrishnan Ananthanarayanan, Founder at Adviti
For many regional and mid-market enterprises in India, digitalization initiatives stall not for lack of budget, but for lack of someone internally who can credibly lead the effort.
Hiring an experienced technology leader into an organization without an established engineering culture is a different challenge than hiring into a tech-native company: the role requires as much organizational change management as technical skill.
The candidates best suited to this are often professionals who have led digital transformation within larger, more traditional organizations and are looking for a role with broader scope and ownership.
Framing the opportunity around impact and autonomy, rather than competing purely on compensation with tech-sector benchmarks, has proven to be the more effective pitch for this profile.
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