Real questions from Israeli founders hiring in the U.S.
Specific answers, drawn from twenty years of executive search across the Israel-U.S. hiring gap, not general advice.
How Israeli Companies Build U.S. Leadership Teams
Compensation, culture fit and process are where Israeli founders get the first senior U.S. hire wrong. A practical guide to calibrating the role before the search starts.
The Finance Hire That’s Actually a Cross-Border Hire
Why a technically strong Finance hire, Controller, Director of Finance, or CFO, can still be the wrong one for an Israeli-founded company’s U.S. Finance function.
More Candidates Isn’t a Better Search.
Why sending more candidates isn’t the same as running a better search, and what it means when the filtering happens before you see a resume instead of after.
You Hired Them for the Judgment You Don’t Have. Then You Keep Overruling It.
You hire a U.S. executive for the judgment you don’t have, then find yourself quietly overruling it from Israel. What that says about which decisions you were actually ready to hand over.
The Five Thousand Dollars That Cost a Search
A candidate cleared every stage of a search and still walked, over a gap in the offer nobody thought would matter.
The Sentence I Had Been Waiting Twenty Years to Hear
After almost twenty years of explaining why a search requires payment upfront, one client stopped Edith before she could. What his single sentence actually meant.
Process Is the Input, Not the Decision
Process isn’t the problem. Treating process as a substitute for judgment is.
Is Your Israeli Startup Ready to Hire in the U.S.?
Readiness isn’t about budget or headcount. It’s whether a founder’s mindset has actually shifted before the first U.S. hire.
Israeli Founders in the U.S.: When to Stop Selling It Yourself
Understanding your product and being the right person to sell it in the U.S. are two different things. Here’s how to know which one you are.
What Is This Role Really Worth in the U.S.?
A guessed number doesn’t just risk losing a candidate. It signals you don’t understand the market you’re hiring in.
Seeing Your Resume Through American Eyes
The same accomplishment, told two different ways. Only one of them gets a callback from a U.S. recruiter.
The Six Ways Israeli Startups Get U.S. Hiring Wrong
Six mistakes I keep seeing in Israeli startups hiring in the U.S., and the one thing they all trace back to.
The First U.S. Sales Hire Isn’t a VP. It’s a Player-Coach.
A resume that looks like the answer is often the wrong hire. Why the first U.S. sales hire should be a player-coach, not a VP, and how to test for it.