Senior recruiting in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Dallas-Fort Worth concentrates Fortune 500 corporate headquarters, enterprise technology, and financial-services infrastructure. We place senior executives, corporate finance leaders, and engineering specialists across the metroplex.
The Dallas market, honestly.
DFW's senior market is materially different from Austin. It is Fortune 500 HQ country (AT&T, American Airlines, Exxon, Toyota North America, Southwest Airlines, McKesson), which produces a specific kind of senior leader: strong on scale, P&L ownership, compliance, and long-tenure executive track records. On the tech side, DFW is less startup-heavy but deeper in enterprise engineering, financial services infrastructure, and corporate technology (JPMorgan, Capital One, Citi, State Farm). For employers hiring executive, corporate finance, or enterprise roles, DFW is often a materially better market than Austin.
What you need to know about hiring here.
- Fortune 500 HQ concentration (AT&T, Exxon, American Airlines, Toyota NA, Southwest, McKesson)
- Deep corporate finance / controller / CFO executive bench
- Enterprise SaaS and financial services tech concentration
- Large-scale corporate IT ladders (senior engineers with 10+ years of production experience)
- UT Dallas, SMU, TCU senior alumni networks across engineering, finance, and business
- Growing AI startup presence
Top senior roles in Dallas.
- Corporate CFO / VP Finance / Controller
- COO / VP Operations (enterprise)
- Senior Backend / Platform Engineer
- Senior Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer
- Senior Security Engineer
- VP Sales (enterprise B2B)
- General Counsel
- Senior Data Engineer
Real salary bands.
- Senior Backend Engineer
- USD $160K–$230K
- Senior Security Engineer
- USD $180K–$290K
- Corporate CFO / VP Finance
- USD $320K–$700K + equity
- VP Sales (enterprise)
- USD $320K–$620K OTE + equity
- General Counsel
- USD $350K–$680K
- Engineering Manager
- USD $200K–$340K
Dallas hiring — questions we hear.
Some do, some don't. The filter is temperament, not technical capability — enterprise-trained engineers can thrive in scale-ups, but the interview process needs to test for comfort with ambiguity, not just systems depth. We screen explicitly for this.