Five searches, run after the call
Five OCI searches, with the numbers.
Ordered by how fast your team could run them. Play 01 is the Abilene search your TA directors described. We show companies and titles here; the names come back in the pull.
01
Data center leaders who've done a small-town site before, and moved for it.
Run it this weekOne pool, every new site
Oracle has posted 370 data center roles since Aug 1, from Abilene and Shackleford County, TX to Saline, MI, Port Washington, WI and Anthony, NM. Senior Director, Data Center Operations alone has been posted for Abilene, Saline and Anthony since August. The people who fit have done this before somewhere else, and the proof is in their job history: the town, the years, the move. 218 director-plus leaders in the US held a data center role in one of 53 small-market campus towns. 160 have moved states since, and 40 have Texas ties. The biggest groups work at Microsoft, AWS, Google, Meta, Vantage, QTS and Switch today.
How it runs
- Search the history, not the headline: data center titles at campus towns like Cheyenne, Boardman, Prineville, New Albany and Boydton.
person_search on past role title and location
- Keep the ones who moved for the work: a site role in one state, a home or current role in another.
experience.employment_details.location
- Sort for each site: Texas ties for Abilene, Michigan for Saline, New Mexico for Anthony.
education.schools.location
A changed location on a profile is easy to miss. A site role in Boardman followed by one in Texas isn't.
→ Search sheetPer siteNew site or req opens
Worked a small-town site, moved since · a sample of the 160Oct 20, 2026
The 53-town list covers small-market hyperscale campuses. Your team can add or drop any town. Names come back in the pull.
02
IC6 and IC7 engineers with nothing on their profile, found by their papers and code.
The hard ones
These are the seats that pay like a VP and leave the faintest trail. At AWS, Google, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, CoreWeave and eight more companies OCI hires against, we count 4,293 distinguished, fellow, senior principal and partner-level engineers. 1,252 have a Google Scholar or GitHub record joined to their profile. When we checked 200 of the Scholar ones, 57 had under 25 words on their profile and current role, and 112 had an h-index of 20 or more.
How it runs
- Pick the seat and the companies: distinguished, fellow and senior principal titles at the competitors you name.
person_search
- Read what they publish and build: research interests, papers and h-index, plus repos and languages.
research_profiles dev_platform_profiles
- Rank on the work, with a one-line why: "NVIDIA, distinguished engineer, AI networking and ML for systems, 94 papers."
Patents aren't a field we filter on today. Papers and code are, and for these seats they're often the clearest signal there is.
→ Shortlist with a whyPer searchNew req
Thin profile, deep record · from the 200 we checkedOct 20, 2026
Words counted across the profile summary and current role description. Names come back in the pull.
03
Power and cooling leaders, and the competitors you didn't know you had.
New territory
OCI now posts roles like Lead Principal Electrical Engineer for data centers and Senior Director, Power Systems Engineering. We found 205 senior power, cooling and mechanical leaders for data centers in the US. Only 32 work at Meta, AWS, Google, Microsoft or NVIDIA. Most of the rest sit at equipment makers like Schneider Electric, Vertiv, Johnson Controls and Trane, engineering firms like Jacobs and AECOM, and colos like Equinix and EdgeConneX. That list is the "where do I start" step, done from the data.
How it runs
- Describe the seat in plain words: data center power, cooling, thermal and MEP leadership.
person_search on current title
- Let the data name the competitors: count where those people work today, by company.
- Keep the new names on your competitor list, so they feed the next search and the weekly watch in play 05.
You don't need to know Vertiv's org chart to search it. The map tells you where to look first.
→ Competitor mapPer functionEach new search
Where 205 senior power and cooling leaders work · top employersOct 20, 2026
Counts are profiles in our index with a data center power, cooling, thermal or MEP title at lead level or above.
04
Corporate searches with a Nashville tie, ready before the kickoff.
Only Oracle can run this one
Oracle's headquarters is moving to Nashville, so corporate searches now carry a location question too. Take investor relations: 2,103 director-plus IR leaders in the US came up through banking or equity research, and 316 of them work in IR at tech companies today. Across all 2,103, 56 have Tennessee ties: they live there, worked there or studied there. That's the 25 profiles and the 25 target companies, in hand an hour before the kickoff instead of after hours of research.
How it runs
- Brief it in plain words: an IR seat today, banking or equity research before.
person_search on current and past roles
- Add the tie: a home, a past role or a school in Tennessee.
basic_profile.location education.schools
- Bring the target list too: where the pool works today, ranked, so the kickoff starts from companies, not guesses.
Finance isn't the hard search. The Nashville tie is what makes it Oracle's.
→ Kickoff packPer searchKickoff booked
IR at tech companies, from the sell side · a sample of the 316Oct 20, 2026
56 of the 2,103 have Tennessee ties. Names come back in the pull.
05
Watch the execs coming and going, and the people you've already found.
Runs every week
Tracking competitors over time is half the job. Since Jul 20 we count 31 VP-level and distinguished hires into your competitor set from outside, and 9 of them came from another company on the same list. A weekly watch sends those moves to the team, and flags it when someone on a past shortlist changes jobs, titles or cities.
How it runs
- Set the list once: your competitors, plus everyone on your recent shortlists.
watch_create
- It checks every week for new seats, title changes, moves and new cities.
- The moves arrive as a weekly digest by email or Slack, and later in your CRM.
You hear about the move the week it shows up, not when the next search starts.
→ Weekly digestWeeklyA seat changes
New seats at your competitor set since Jul 20 · from outsideOct 20, 2026
Internal promotions and advisory roles left out. Names come back in the watch.