Ace Leadership Interviews in 2026: What's Changed

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

Thu, Apr 30, 2026

8:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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Breakthrough Job Search for the Tech Industry

Sherveen Mashayekhi

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Thu, Apr 30, 2026

8:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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Breakthrough Job Search for the Tech Industry

Sherveen Mashayekhi

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What you'll learn

Prove you can build and lead an AI-native team

Leaders are now evaluated on whether they can upskill, restructure, and hire for AI readiness. Show them you're ready.

Demonstrate cross-functional range that today's orgs demand

Do-more-with-less + AI proliferation means all leaders must show fluency across product, (some) eng, GTM, and finance.

Win startup leadership loops with financial + GTM literacy

Even if you're an eng or product leader, startups want proof you think about margins, CAC, and go-to-market. Let's prep.

Why this topic matters

Leadership hiring has shifted hard in 2026. Boards and founders aren't just asking "can you manage?" They're asking "can you rebuild this org for AI, operate cross-functionally with a leaner team, and talk business outcomes?" The bar for Director, VP, and C-level candidates now includes AI-readiness, financial fluency, and GTM awareness regardless of function. Let's make sure you clear it.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO of Free Agency. Helping people reach the height of their ambition.

Sherveen brings unique insight from all sides of the hiring equation, having built AI-powered recruiting technology and led product development at major startups like Toptal and Stella.

For a majority of his career, he's also been uniquely focused on the candidate side of the equation. He previously founded JobHero, a job search tracker with 100k+ enthusiastic users, and is now the founder and CEO of Free Agency.

Through Free Agency (backed by prominent investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, Kygo), he now helps job seekers navigate the modern hiring landscape to land top of market roles. Since 2019, clients of Free Agency have won over $400M in job offers and landed at top companies like OpenAI, Amazon, American Express, Stripe, YouTube, Netflix, and hundreds more.

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