Jarrad Skeen
Founder and CEO
Executive Leadership & Advisory
Jarrad Skeen
Founder and CEO
Executive Leadership & Advisory
Bio
Over the past 25 years, Jarrad has dedicated his career to executive search and specialised talent acquisition, founding affix in 2015 to create a thoughtful alternative to traditional recruitment approaches.
Jarrad works directly with founders, executive leaders, investors and their portfolio companies to build effective leadership teams during critical growth phases. His expertise centres on connecting organisations with C-suite talent, as well as board members and advisors who bring the right mix of experience and perspective to navigate complex business challenges.
At affix, Jarrad leads a team that provides executive search, specialised recruitment, and advisory services with a partnership mindset. This includes helping ANZ companies enter the North American market by connecting them with leadership talent to support their expansion.
Outside work, you might find Jarrad cheering for the Bombers, coaching his kids’ sports teams, or grilling on his Big Green Egg. His next challenge? Learning to surf without his kids laughing at him.
Not only did affix go out of their way to understand our engineering and company culture – they became a part of it.
It’s hard to imagine us reaching the growth and diversity outcomes that we did without affix’s willingness and ability to be agile, creative, and to learn with us along the way.
Tom Broerse
99designs by Vista, Director of Engineering
affix will find you the right person. We chose to partner with them due to their specialisation in the digital space. Their services came highly recommended.
affix made me feel listened to. They respected my time and understood my desire to find the right culture fit; which can be hard to do, on top of the specialised skills we’re seeking.
Richenda Vermeulen
Ntergrity, Founder + CEO
Working with affix has been a great experience! They truly got to know our company and culture, and took the time to really understand the requirements, resulting in a great pipeline of talent.
I would recommend affix because, more than any other agency I’ve worked with, they genuinely feel like part of your team.
Bee Hepburn
Roller, Chief People Officer
If you’re considering working with affix, do it. We’re not a tech business, so we would not have been able to attract top talent in this field without affix’s help.
affix really wanted to understand our team culture, which gave me confidence they would help us to find a great fit. They helped shape and define the new role, and came to the table with loads of ideas and suggestions!
Elizabeth Howells
The Commons, COO
We’ve worked with affix for more than 7 years, and it now feels like we are all family. affix recruited talent across our whole tech team and they are performing brilliantly!
affix have never let us down. They’ve always found us great people and their startup-friendly cost structure has allowed us to concentrate on running our business, ultimately helping Fillr to flourish.
Chad Stephens
Fillr, Co-Founder
I would definitely work with affix again.
They appointed me and helped us recruit critical leaders within our business.
Blake Hutchison
Flippa, CEO
affix have always felt like an extension of our own business and have always provided great results. They really get to know your business and people needs.
When you team up with affix, you get a strong partnership connecting you to talent that’s a great cultural and technical fit. This leads to better results when building teams.
Rick Coenen
Starbucks, CIO
