About Wizhire
Wizhire is a boutique technical recruiting firm based in Bogotá, Colombia. We place Senior, Staff, and Principal engineers and technical leaders at Series A, B, and C startups — primarily connecting Latin American talent with US-based and European companies hiring remote.

The firm was founded by David Rincon. Every search is run by David and his team. Clients work directly with the person doing the work, not a junior sourcing layer that escalates to a partner on decision calls.

What We're Built For:
Most technical recruiting operates as a volume game: source broadly, send many, let the client filter. The output is dozens of unvetted resumes and weeks of interview loops to find two people who are actually qualified.

Wizhire is built around the opposite premise. The bottleneck in senior technical hiring is not finding people who exist. It's being able to evaluate them accurately and compress the decision cycle without sacrificing quality.

Our methodology is built on three things:

Signal extraction over volume. We source from a 50,000+ engineer network of passive candidates, not job boards. Before sourcing begins, we run a structured Hiring Manager Intake that defines the real role — not the job description. Most job descriptions are a wish list. The intake session defines what the person will actually own, what decisions they will make, and what signals in a candidate predict success in that specific context.

Structured evaluation. Every candidate shortlisted by Wizhire is screened by a Staff-level engineer in the same discipline. We use published leveling rubrics and hiring scorecards that define what Senior, Staff, and Principal mean in terms of scope of ownership, architectural judgment, and decision-making authority — not years of experience. These frameworks exist for all 14 disciplines we cover.

Decision compression. The output of the above is a shortlist of 3–5 candidates with structured scorecards — not 15 resumes. Clients spend their time making the final decision, not doing the filtering work themselves.

David Rincon
David is the founder and CEO of Wizhire. He is based in Bogotá, Colombia, and holds an MSc in International Business from IÉSEG School of Management (Ranked 23rd among MSc in Business programs worldwide) and a BSc in International Business Administration from Universidad de La Sabana.

He has recruited for engineering organizations including Uber, Withings, and several Series A and B startups across the US and Europe, consistently in senior technical roles where candidate depth and evaluation accuracy matter most.

What Clients Say
Adam Kolinoski, Principal Technical Recruiter at Uber: "David came into an unknown space and mastered his sourcing efforts to give us a strong pipeline that gave us the ability to hire strong people. It was never a volume game like it is for most who just throw shit at the wall and hope it sticks. David brought in quality talent in tough-to-fill roles which allowed me to build our org into what it is today."

Camila Vargas, Co-Founder & CPO at TurboAI: "David has been a core partner in helping us build our team. He operates with a level of responsiveness that's rare. When something is urgent, he's there. In a startup environment where speed matters, that reliability has been critical."

Lucas Guarneri, Head of Product Design at Withings: "David has helped me grow the design team I manage at Withings. He is very professional, a real time-saver, and has high energy. He understands my team's hiring criteria from the get-go and is able to reduce time spent on hiring logistics by automating and systemizing review stages."

Huy Dallemagne, Head of Product Management at Withings: "Working with David at Withings was a real pleasure and a privilege. His approach to recruitment is thorough, focusing on understanding both our team's needs and the potential in each candidate. This thoughtful process has led us to bring on board some truly fitting talents."

Bruno Marques, Principal Data & Software Engineer at Activision: "David supported me during my transition from one gaming company to another, and he made the entire process feel smooth from start to finish. He was always available, incredibly responsive, and genuinely thoughtful in the way he approached everything. He shared helpful insights, made sure I was well prepared for each step, and kept communication clear the whole time. It never felt transactional, he truly cared about making sure it was the right move for me. I’d strongly recommend him to anyone looking for a recruiter who’s professional, supportive, and easy to work with."

By the Numbers

• 14 technical disciplines covered

• 50,000+ engineers in the sourcing network

• 5 business days from intake to first shortlist

• 6 countries in Latin America with primary network coverage (Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile)

• IC2–IC7 leveling coverage, plus full management track through CTO

Contact
David Rincon, Founder & CEO david@wizhirellc.com +57 315 000 5301 (WhatsApp) linkedin.com/in/rinconinc
We prefer direct contact with CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and technical founders.