Sales Executive Search

    Sales Executive Search for Critical Revenue Leadership Hires.

    HireDNA helps growing B2B companies recruit and evaluate VP Sales, CRO, and senior GTM leaders through retained search, targeted headhunting, and sales-specific leadership assessment.

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    500+Candidates Placed
    20Years of Experience
    83%First-Year Retention
    Why Sales Leadership Hires Are Different

    The wrong sales leader impacts the entire revenue organization.

    A senior sales leader shapes revenue strategy, hiring, forecasting, coaching, and accountability, the performance of the entire organization runs through this one hire.

    A strong resume and recognizable company names aren't enough. You need to understand how a candidate has actually led, what environments they've succeeded in, and whether their leadership style fits what your business needs next.

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    Roles We Recruit

    Sales and revenue leadership at the VP and C-suite level.

    Chief Revenue Officer

    CRO · REVENUE EXECUTION · GTM OWNERSHIP

    Chief Sales Officer

    HEAD OF GLOBAL SALES · REVENUE LEADERSHIP

    Vice President of Sales

    VP SALES · SVP SALES · REGIONAL VP

    Head of Sales

    FOUNDING SALES LEADER · GROWTH-STAGE LEADERSHIP

    Commercial Leadership

    VP ENTERPRISE SALES · VP STRATEGIC ACCOUNTS · VP BIZ DEV

    Customer & Revenue Leadership

    VP CUSTOMER SUCCESS · CCO · REVENUE OPERATIONS

    Our Executive Search Approach

    A retained search built around the role, not the resume.

    Every search begins by defining what success looks like in your environment, then building a targeted market strategy around it.

    01 CALIBRATE

    Align on the role before we look at a single name.

    The business, growth stage, revenue motion, leadership mandate, and outcomes the executive is expected to deliver.

    02 MAP & ENGAGE

    Go direct to the market, not just who's looking.

    We identify the companies and leadership backgrounds most likely to produce the right candidate, and engage passive executives directly.

    03 EVALUATE

    Assess leadership, not just titles.

    Leadership experience, commercial performance, and career history, with an optional OMG Sales Leadership Assessment for objective, sales-specific data.

    04 PRESENT

    A curated slate, with the reasoning behind it.

    Career history, leadership approach, and specific areas to explore in interviews, for every candidate we bring you.

    05 CLOSE & ONBOARD

    We stay through the first ninety days.

    Interview support, offer strategy, and onboarding, so the hire actually lands.

    Sales Leadership Assessment

    Go beyond experience and executive presence.

    Executive interviews reveal presence, not performance. Where useful, we add the OMG Sales Leadership Assessment for objective, sales-specific data on every finalist, evaluated against the Will to Lead, Sales DNA, and tactical leadership competencies the role actually requires, alongside our own judgment, never in place of it.

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    SALES PERCENTILE
    RecommendedIDEAL RAMP-UP SKILLS
    MEETS OMG CRITERIA YES
    MEETS ROLE CRITERIA YES
    88WILL TO LEAD
    Desire
    91 · Target 60
    Commitment
    84 · Target 60
    Outlook
    100 · Target 75
    82SALES DNA
    Doesn't Need Approval
    83 · Target 83
    Stays in the Moment
    100 · Target 67
    Supportive Beliefs
    92 · Target 84
    69TACTICAL
    Sales Leadership
    82 · Target 65
    Coaching
    76 · Target 65
    Accountability
    59 · Target 65
    What We Evaluate

    The leadership context behind the resume.

    A title tells you very little. We dig into the business context behind it.

    Revenue
    Motion & Market
    Company Stage
    Career History
    Revenue Performance
    What changed under their leadership, and the context behind the results.
    Sales Motion
    Enterprise, mid-market, transactional, channel, or complex multi-stakeholder sales.
    Company Stage
    Founder-led, growth-stage, PE-backed, or established environments.
    Career History & Motivation
    Why they've made previous moves, and what they're actually looking for next.
    Team Leadership
    Team size, org structure, hiring responsibility, coaching, and performance management.
    Market & Buyer
    Who they sold to, and the complexity of the buying environment.
    Growth Experience
    Building teams, entering new markets, restructuring, and scaling revenue.
    Leadership Capability
    Strategic thinking, accountability, and decision-making under pressure.
    Why HireDNA

    Experienced sales perspective. Executive recruiting judgment.

    01

    Sales & GTM Expertise

    Our background spans B2B sales and GTM talent, giving us genuine understanding of what these leaders are hired to do.

    02

    Operator Led

    You work directly with an executive who has built, managed, and led GTM teams—from calibration through hire.

    03

    Targeted Executive Search

    We identify and engage executives most relevant to your business, not broad candidate volume.

    04

    Sales-Specific Assessment

    The OMG Sales Leadership Assessment adds objective data on Sales DNA and executive readiness.

    05

    Honest Market Feedback

    If compensation is off or the profile is unrealistic, we tell you early.

    06

    Technology-Enabled. Human-Led.

    Data and assessments support the work. Experience and judgment drive the decisions.

    Recent Placements

    Searches closed, not just candidates submitted.

    A sample of recent executive and senior sales leadership searches.

    SERIES B · HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT SAAS

    Chief Revenue Officer

    63 Days
    Launch to Offer

    A confidential search to replace a founding sales leader as the company scaled past its first $10M in ARR. National search, three finalists presented.

    DIGITAL PUBLISHING SAAS

    Vice President of Sales

    37 Days
    Launch to Offer

    The company's first dedicated VP Sales hire, brought in to build a repeatable enterprise motion from the ground up. Fully passive candidate.

    RISK MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL CRIME SAAS

    VP, Commercial Sales

    26 Days
    Launch to Offer

    A fast-moving search for a highly specialized buyer, compliance and fraud-detection leaders at banks and financial institutions.

    FAQ

    Common questions about sales executive search.

    What roles does HireDNA recruit at the executive level?

    HireDNA recruits VP Sales, CRO, CSO, Head of Sales, and other senior revenue leadership roles across B2B companies.

    How is retained executive search different from contingent recruiting?

    Retained search dedicates focused capacity to one search at a time, with full market mapping and engagement of passive candidates, rather than working reactively off inbound applicants.

    How do you evaluate VP Sales and CRO candidates?

    We evaluate revenue performance and context, sales motion experience, team leadership, and company-stage fit, optionally paired with the OMG Sales Leadership Assessment.

    Do you recruit passive sales executives?

    Yes. Most strong executive candidates aren't actively job searching, so direct engagement of passive leaders is a core part of every retained search.

    Make your next revenue leadership hire the last one you need to make.

    Let’s define the role, map the market, and find the leader who’s actually right for it.

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