Senior recruiting for Toronto scale-ups, Bay Street, and operator businesses.
Toronto anchors Canada's largest tech scene and the country's deepest finance and consumer-brand bench. We place senior leaders across engineering, finance, sales, marketing, operations, and executive search — King West to Bay Street, MaRS to the Waterfront.
The Toronto market, honestly.
Toronto's senior talent market has deepened dramatically over the last decade. On the tech side, Vector Institute, a surge of U.S.-backed AI startups, and the continued concentration of fintech has built a deep engineering and ML bench. Beyond tech, Bay Street remains one of North America's strongest financial-services and asset-management hubs, and Toronto is home to the country's deepest pool of consumer-brand, CPG, retail, and media leadership. The senior bar is high across every function; salary bands still trail the U.S. by 15–25%. Our calibration for Toronto searches acknowledges that reality explicitly.
What you need to know about hiring here.
- GTA coverage — downtown Toronto, Mississauga, Markham, Oakville
- AI research networks (Vector alumni, University of Toronto, Google Brain Toronto diaspora)
- Fintech depth: Wealthsimple, RBC Ventures, Float, Koho, Shopify (Ottawa-adjacent)
- Enterprise SaaS: 1Password, Ada, Jobber, FreshBooks, Top Hat
- Bay Street financial services + asset management bench (Big 5 banks, RBC, TD, CIBC, BMO, Scotia alumni)
- Consumer brand, CPG, retail, and media leadership pool
- Insurance leadership (Manulife, Sun Life, Canada Life) across Toronto-Waterloo corridor
- Remote-first U.S. scale-up satellites: Vercel, Clerk, Linear, Figma alumni networks
Top senior roles in Toronto.
- Senior ML / Research Engineer
- Senior Backend / Full-stack Engineer
- Staff Engineer
- VP Engineering / CTO
- CFO / VP Finance (fintech, SaaS, consumer)
- VP Sales / CRO
- CMO / VP Marketing (consumer + B2B)
- General Counsel
- COO / VP Operations
Real salary bands.
- Senior Software Engineer
- CAD $130K–$195K + equity
- Staff Engineer
- CAD $230K–$370K + equity
- Senior ML Engineer
- CAD $150K–$260K + equity
- VP Engineering / CTO
- CAD $320K–$700K + meaningful equity
- CFO
- CAD $280K–$520K + equity
- VP Sales / CRO
- CAD $280K–$520K OTE + equity
- CMO
- CAD $240K–$440K + equity
Toronto hiring — questions we hear.
We work with Series A–D scale-ups in fintech, AI, SaaS, and health-tech. We also support U.S.-headquartered companies hiring remote Torontonians who prefer to work for American employers. Client rosters are confidential until public.
Yes. We treat the Toronto-Waterloo-Ottawa corridor as one Canadian market and source across it by default unless the role is strictly Toronto-on-site.