Find the Best Sales, Marketing, CX, and RevOps Talent for Your Startup

We combine deep market knowledge, an extensive network, and a personalized recruitment process to match you with top revenue talent who can both execute and strategize - often within weeks.

Trusted by Hundreds of Early-to-Growth Stage SaaS companies

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95%

Of clients return for multiple hires

94%

Retention rate after 12 months

FOR STARTUPS

Hire Leaders and Individual Contributors Who Drive Revenue Growth

Hitting ambitious growth targets requires having the right people. That's why we help startups hire across the entire revenue function, from leaders to individual contributors. Work with us for:

GTM Recruiting

Connect with high-performing sales talent, marketing managers, and customer success experts who drive business growth and help you achieve sales quotas.

Executive Recruiting

Find sales executives, marketing leaders, ond other senior executives with the vision and experience to guide your team through critical stages of growth.

RevOps Recruiting

Hire sales engineers, revenue operations leaders, and other strategic roles to optimize your sales strategy and boost customer satisfaction.

FOR CANDIDATES

Find Your Next Job at a Fast-Growth Startup

Looking to make your next move in SaaS sales or revenue leadership? We work with top software and tech companies to match you with roles that align with your skills, experience, and goals.

Top-Tier Roles

Access software sales jobs, senior executive roles, and other revenue roles with innovative companies in New York, San Francisco, Austin, and beyond.

Personalized Support

From resume tips to interview prep, our specialized recruiters guide you through every step of the process.

Industry Expertise

Gain insights into market trends, job salaries, and the skills needed for today's high-growth and emerging SaaS startups.

HOW IT WORKS

A Hands-on Recruiting Process for Success

We help you identify the right fit for your needs—whether that's a strategic leader or a high-performing individual contributor. From understanding your unique goals to finalizing offers, we partner with you every step of the way to deliver impactful hires.

Within 24 hours

Discovery & Strategy:
Work directly with a specialized recruiter to capture your ideal candidate profile, culture, and goals for one or multiple critical roles.

Sourcing Top Talent:
Access a curated list of active and passive candidates, from Sales Directors to Marketing Managers, to validate fit.

Within 48 hours

Week 1-2

Thorough Screening:
Get qualified candidates rigorously evaluated for technical skills, cultural fit, and readiness to thrive in a dynamic team environment.

Collaborative Hiring Process:
Stay informed via Slack, WhatsApp, or email as we coordinate interviews, gather feedback, and track pipeline activity.

Week 2-3

Post-Hire

Check-In:
Receive actionable insights to refine future growth plans, compensation strategies, and the entire recruitment process for future hires.

We are a team of human-centered recruiters, innovators, and SaaS experts passionate about helping startups scale with the right people.

Why Early-to-Growth Stage Startups Trust Captivate Talent

Startup-Focused Expertise

We only recruit for revenue talent at early-to-growth stage SaaS startups, giving us an edge to identify top talent with relevant skills to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Results-Driven Recruitment

Our hires have helped startups to achieve key revenue goals, proving our ability to align exceptional candidates with each crucial phase of growth.

High-Touch Process

We assess role needs, culture fit, and candidate versatility, handling everything from job description to final offer for a seamless experience.

Human-Centered Approach

We don’t just fill roles—we invest in your success by delivering data-driven recruiting insights and recruitment strategies to help you refine your talent strategy as you expand.

Success Stories

See how we’ve helped early-stage SaaS companies build high-performing GTM teams. From individual contributors to leadership placements, our individualized approach delivers results that move the needle on revenue and impact.

"We chose to work with Captivate Talent for one of our top 3 hires as a company in 2020. We needed an amazing US RVP to lead Paddle's growth in the Americas.

From first conversation until today, Captivate Talent has been a very strong partner. Great local expertise, great communications to candidates and client, super responsive."
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Jimmy Fitzgerald
President and COO
"Captivate Talent has always done a great job with providing candidates that exactly fit what I’m looking for from resume, background, etc.

They never provide me with a bunch of unqualified candidates to sort through. It’s always specific and targeted."
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Brian Iredell
Head of US Enterprise Sales
"Captivate Talent took a huge burden off our shoulders during our US expansion.

They filled our new office with superb talent but provided much more. They advised us on everything US-set up related from payroll to legal to office locations to restaurants, and much more."
James Isilay
James Isilay
CEO and Founder
"Captivate Talent communicated seamlessly with us throughout the hiring process. With their help in reviewing candidate profiles and discussing pros and cons, we found the perfect fit for our needs.

The quality of candidates they provided positively influenced our decision-making process."
Will Norton Founder and CEO at SimplyAgree
Will Norton
Founder and CEO
"The Captivate Talent team placed me in my current role and now I am so lucky I get to continue working with them to find new talent to expand my team!

They have been wonderful across initial hiring and checking in, to bringing me fantastic candidates to join my team and aligning experience thoughtfully."
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Meredith Silver
First US B2B Sales Leader

FAQs

Find answers to the most common questions about our recruitment strategy and services.

Is Captivate Talent only an executive search firm or do you also hire for individual contributors?

Captivate Talent helps SaaS companies hire both individual contributors and executive leaders for their revenue teams.

We built two teams in our company that work together and match how revenue teams are built.

Our Executive team helps hire leadership roles like Chief Revenue Officer, VP of Sales, and other revenue leader roles.

Our Go-to-Market team helps to hire IC roles like sales reps, marketing managers, CSMs, and RevOps specialists.

We know that exact titles for a role can change during the hiring process. Having both teams allows us to keep momentum if a search changes.

Does Captivate focus more on sales talent?

We aren't just sales headhunters. We can help you build out your full revenue team. That includes any hires in Marketing, Customer Success, or Revenue Operations.

Check out our success stories to see success stories where we've helped startups hire for multiple roles across sales, marketing, CX, and RevOps.

For sales hiring can Captivate help me find a sales leader in addition to front line sales roles?

Absolutely! We've run plenty of searches where we start by hiring a sales executive and then hire the rest of the sales team.

Here's a case study where we helped Paddle expand to the US starting with a VP of Sales and then helped them hire Account Executives and SDRs: Paddle Case Study

Can Captivate help me build out a business development team from scratch?

Definitely! Here's a case study where we helped a startup called Dandi make their first two business development hires: Dandi Case Study

P.S. Both of these candidates were diverse hires as well :)

Why should I work with Captivate over other SaaS sales recruiters?

SaaS companies pick us over other recruiting firms for a few big reasons:

1. We’re dedicated to startups and revenue talent
All of our resources, recruiters, and talent is targeted to startups and revenue talent. We attend relevant conferences and events to those people/companies. We’re able to give more consultative advice to more specialized searches vs general recruiting knowledge.

2. We see the US and Canada SaaS revenue space as our primary and only market
It’s not a secondary market or secondary revenue stream. We only focus on that market so we are specialized on searches for startups and revenue talent.

You won’t see big logos on our website because we work with every company equally. Be wary of recruiting agencies that pitch otherwise. When it’s your startup vs a much bigger startup, whose call do you think is going to be picked up first?

3. We have completed multiple searches to help startups find revenue leaders and grow out their revenue team
The proof is here!

4. We approach recruiting with a human touch
We prefer to use human searches because humans are still key to making key hires, especially if you are a founder looking to build your revenue team.

5. We don’t work off the partner or researcher model
We have experienced executive recruiters who do the search end to end from intake calls to candidate screens and delivery. Roles are not being passed on to team members you may not talk to.

Any other questions about this? Just ask here!

What is Captivate’s recruiting process like? Is it primarily LinkedIn outreach?

To find talent, we tap into LinkedIn, our extensive network of over 10k candidates we’ve talked to, and events in the SaaS space.

In terms of our process, we start with a kick-off call to help us understand the roles you need to hire for so we can identify the best recruiter from our team to work with you.

Then we set up a call to dive into your story, the company story, and the role so we can best identify the right talent.

Once we understand your hires, we can present candidates who not only can do the job, but align with your culture and values.
We’ll also work with you to extend the offer and be there until it’s accepted.

You can find more information on our process here!

What are some key things I should look for in a SaaS recruitment agency?

A few things you should be looking for in a SaaS recruitment agency:

- An agency that’s based in the same timezone as the candidates you are looking for—candidates want to speak at times that are convenient to them

- A recruiting agency that has plenty of experience hiring the same roles you’re looking to hire—the cost of bad hire can make or break SaaS startups at this stage

- An agency that shift to your shifting needs—that’s why we have an executive recruiting team and a go-to-market team

Does Captivate Talent only hire for US-based companies?

Nope! We have helped many software companies outside of the US expand into the US.

Check out this case study we did with Babbel to help them build out their US revenue team.

In terms of where we place talent, we only hire for US or Canada-based roles.

Even though we can’t help you hire sales, marketing or CX talent outside of the US, we have plenty of recommendations for recruiting partners that can.

Still have questions?

We're here to help!

Work with Captivate Talent

We'll match you with top revenue talent that can execute and strategize.