{ "$schema": "https://schema.org", "site": { "name": "Hammelburger Head Hunting", "url": "https://hammelburger.com/", "founded": 2003, "founder": "Simon Hammelburger", "location": "Jerusalem, Israel", "languages": [ "English", "Hebrew" ], "phone": "+972 52 540 5204", "email": "simonmegayes@gmail.com", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hammelburger-1b0a3b/", "summary": "A technical search practice founded by Simon Hammelburger in 2003. Hard-to-find engineers and managers in Israel, reached purely by networking among passive candidates, and introduced only when the match is real. 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Hard-to-find engineers and managers reached purely by networking among passive candidates — and introduced only when the match is real.", "sections": [ { "heading": "A matchmaker, not an agency", "lead": "Our real skill is matchmaking: understanding what the company needs and what would actually move the engineer, then bringing them together when — and only when — there is a clear match.", "steps": [ { "number": "01", "title": "Listen to both sides", "passiveCandidate": "Understand what is missing in a person's current role and find a more meaningful match at the right time — as opposed to simply pushing an open role without understanding what they really want.", "company": "We get things quickly on the technical specifications and also learn from you the culture fit and personalities that will make that right candidate before we go out on the search. Your problem is not in sourcing the candidates, it's in reaching them — that's what we do much better than anyone else." }, { "number": "02", "title": "Define the exact person", "body": "Not a frontend developer — a frontend expert with a designer's eye who will fight for pixel-perfect. Not an embedded engineer — an embedded engineer who has already grown into architecting systems at scale. The brief is written to that level of precision, because that is the only way the search finds the right handful of people instead of a hundred near misses." }, { "number": "03", "title": "Call the people who aren't looking", "body": "Twenty years of network means the approach usually arrives with a mutual name attached, pitched peer to peer — engineers talking to engineers, not a recruiter reading a spec back." }, { "number": "04", "title": "Introduce, once", "body": "Both sides hear about each other at the same time. A short list you can actually read, each name explained — no pipeline to screen, no volume submissions." } ] }, { "heading": "Where we hunt", "lead": "Cross-sector by design. The common thread is difficulty — multidisciplinary roles where hardware, software, algorithms and infrastructure meet, plus the leadership above them." } ], "cta": { "heading": "Have a role nobody can fill?", "action": "Book a call with Simon", "href": "/contact" }, "testimonials": [ { "quote": "Simon was the only recruiter we worked with in the early days of VAST. He was able to find extremely talented people no one else had access to, but more importantly he was able to filter the exact profile we were interested in. I would highly recommend working with him to anyone trying to build a world class team.", "author": "Renen Hallak", "role": "CEO of VAST Data — Israel's most highly valued startup" }, { "quote": "Simon is like the Superman of talent acquisition.", "author": "Eyal Firstenberg", "role": "Ex-8200 serial entrepreneur, now CTO of Euno (funded by the Wiz founders)" } ] }, { "id": "companies", "url": "/companies", "title": "For companies — Hammelburger Head Hunting", "headline": "You don't have a sourcing problem. You have a reach problem.", "intro": "The engineer you actually need ignored four agencies and your talent acquisition team this year and will not read a fifth message — but will take a call from someone they already trust.", "propositions": [ { "title": "One point of contact", "body": "You brief Simon; you hear back from Simon. Nothing is handed to a researcher and nothing gets lost in between." }, { "title": "Peer-to-peer outreach", "body": "First contact is a technical conversation with your R&D leadership, not a recruitment pitch. It converts where messages do not." }, { "title": "Discretion by default", "body": "No advertising in any medium. Your search is never posted or syndicated — which matters for founding hires and replacements." }, { "title": "A readable short list", "body": "Few candidates, each explained: why them, what moves them, what it takes to close. You meet people instead of screening a pipeline." } ], "bestFit": [ "Founding and early engineering hires, where one wrong pick costs a year.", "Roles open for months, already through two agencies.", "Multidisciplinary profiles — hardware and software, algorithms and systems.", "Engineering leadership: VP R&D, team leads, first managers." ], "cta": { "action": "Brief Simon on a role", "href": "/contact" } }, { "id": "candidates", "url": "/candidates", "title": "For candidates — Hammelburger Head Hunting", "headline": "Happy where you are? Then this is a short call.", "intro": "Most people placed here were not looking. They took one relaxed conversation and understood that:", "points": [ "We have their long-term job interests in mind.", "We have unique opportunities with well-funded, quality small startups doing meaningful things.", "We hook them up directly with the CTO or equivalent for a technical call, so they can decide if the opportunity is suitable before investing time in meeting." ], "promises": [ { "title": "Your name stays here", "body": "Your CV goes nowhere without your explicit agreement, role by role. No database, no mass submissions, no surprises at work." }, { "title": "One role at a time", "body": "You will not hear about ten openings a quarter. You get a call when something genuinely fits — sometimes years apart." }, { "title": "The honest version", "body": "What the team is really like, why the last person left, where the funding stands. A match that breaks in six months helps nobody." } ], "cta": { "action": "Have a quiet conversation", "href": "/contact" } }, { "id": "track-record", "url": "/track-record", "title": "Track record — Hammelburger Head Hunting", "headline": "Searches other people had given up on", "note": "Clients are not named. Where a company is recognisable it is described rather than identified — the same discretion that applies to the searches.", "cases": [ { "number": "01", "role": "Founding engineers, data infrastructure", "meta": "Decacorn · Founded 2016", "body": "Two of the company's first five engineers — there are now many hundreds." }, { "number": "02", "role": "VP of SW", "meta": "IoT · Over $200M strategic backing", "body": "A disruptive IoT start-up with over $200M of strategic backing from a legendary Asian investment fund." }, { "number": "03", "role": "Two global technology companies", "meta": "Market capital in trillions", "body": "Kernel and C++ depth headhunted for two of the largest technology companies in the world." } ], "highlight": { "label": "Trusted by investors", "body": "Work arrives through founders, VCs and engineering leaders — including portfolio searches for two of Israel's better-known venture funds.", "note": "Names on request, in conversation." } }, { "id": "about", "url": "/about", "title": "About Simon Hammelburger — Hammelburger Head Hunting", "headline": "Simon Hammelburger", "paragraphs": [ "A lawyer by training, a father of three, a tennis player most mornings — and someone who genuinely cannot stop talking to people.", "Simon was born in Manchester, England, and made Aliyah in 2002. He founded Hammelburger Recruitment the following year and has been headhunting engineers and managers in Israel ever since — entirely through networking, without ever placing an advert.", "He is married to Mirna, a dentist from Uruguay, and they live in Jerusalem with their three children.", "The legal training shows in the detail. The rest is simpler: he likes people, remembers them, and stays in touch for years — which is why a call from Simon gets returned when other calls do not." ], "facts": [ { "label": "Based", "value": "Jerusalem, Israel" }, { "label": "Headhunting since", "value": "2003" }, { "label": "Languages", "value": "English, Hebrew" } ] }, { "id": "contact", "url": "/contact", "title": "Book a call — Hammelburger Head Hunting", "headline": "Book a call", "intro": "Hiring, or simply curious what is out there? The first conversation is short, informal and off the record.", "channels": [ { "type": "Phone", "value": "052 540 5204", "href": "tel:+972525405204", "note": "Simon, directly" }, { "type": "Email", "value": "simonmegayes@gmail.com", "href": "mailto:simonmegayes@gmail.com", "note": "A paragraph is plenty" }, { "type": "LinkedIn", "value": "Connect", "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hammelburger-1b0a3b/", "note": "Two decades of network, visible" } ] } ] }