Hiring in the Age of AI
GILD Curated Circuit in Austin, TX
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 6:00–8:30 PM
Presented in partnership with Tecla
Scale your teams and build AI-enabled organizations with top nearshore talent trusted by Austin’s fastest-growing companies.
This is a free, invitation-only event.
Food and drinks are provided, courtesy of Tecla.
About the Event
AI is fundamentally reshaping how work gets done — and, as a result, what companies should actually be hiring for.
As automation, copilots, and AI-enabled systems take on more execution, CEOs and founders are being forced to revisit foundational questions:
Which roles still create leverage?
Which skills compound with AI and which are being commoditized?
What does “great performance” even mean in an AI-enabled engineering organization?
To ground the discussion in real-world operator experience, the evening will feature Gino Ferrand.
Gino is the Founder and CEO of Tecla, an Austin-based Inc. 5000 company helping tech companies build world-class AI, data, and engineering teams across the Americas. He has worked with over 500 companies to combine top-tier Latin American talent with U.S. time zone collaboration.
This evening brings together a small, curated group of CEOs, founders, and senior engineering leaders for an off-the-record conversation about how hiring is evolving in 2026. The focus is not recruiting tactics, but workforce strategy: job design, role consolidation, performance expectations, and long-term org structure decisions that cannot be undone later.
This event follows The Curated Circuit, GILD’s signature format designed to create candid peer exchange around real decisions leaders are already making inside their companies.
Evening Agenda
6:00–6:30 PM
Arrival & mingling
Food and drinks available throughout the evening
6:30–6:45 PM
GILD welcome + brief sponsor introduction
6:45–7:00 PM
Short framing discussion
How AI is reshaping engineering work, leverage, and hiring decisions
7:00–8:00 PM
Curated breakout discussions
3 rounds
~15–20 minutes per round
Small peer tables with rotation between rounds
8:05–8:30 PM
Open mingling
Continue conversations and build peer relationships
Breakout Prompts (All Tables)
All tables discuss the same prompt during each round.
1. As AI absorbs more execution inside your engineering organization, which roles or skills are becoming less critical and which are becoming disproportionately more valuable to the business?
2. How are you redefining job design, performance expectations, and career paths for engineers in AI-enabled teams, and where have traditional hiring or evaluation models already failed?
3. Over the next 12–18 months, how are you deciding when to hire engineers, when to redesign roles, and when to let AI absorb work, and what are the strategic risks if those decisions are wrong?
Who This Is For
This dinner is curated for senior leaders who directly shape hiring and team structure in engineering-led companies, including:
CEOs and founders
Presidents and COOs who own organizational performance
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, or Heads of Engineering only if they own hiring strategy and org design, not just execution
Attendance is intentionally limited to keep the room CEO-level, candid, and high-signal.
Privacy & Experience Standard
Chatham House Rules apply.
Discussion stays private. This is what unlocks candor.
Expect an intimate, thoughtful environment with elevated food and drinks throughout the evening.