[DandyDev]

Not many companies hire CTOs through regular channels, and it’s likely you’ll be seen as overqualified for lower rank jobs.

I think you can basically do 2 things: try to get into contact with executive head hunters or make it very clear on your resume and LinkedIn that despite your tenure as CTO you’re very much open to EM or IC engineering roles.

[jmye]

Would second this. I also just dropped the C*O title from my resume in certain cases where I thought it would look worse.

The outreach I’ve gotten for similar positions was always outside-in.

[aarvi]

Thanks for your response. I am in touch with the big names like Korn Ferry etc. But are there other individual names you can recommend?