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The Revenue Leader
Your Engine Has Been
Waiting For.
The right CRO, VP of Sales, or GTM operator doesn’t just fill a seat — they institutionalise your entire revenue system. We find them in under two weeks. No retainer. You pay only when they perform.
✓ Placed in under 2 weeks — not months
✓ No retainer — zero risk until they’re hired
✓ Exclusively B2B tech, SaaS & software companies
✓ Leaders who can run and scale the revenue system
The Revenue Execution System — Solution 04
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Revenue-Gap Diagnostic
Identify the Gap
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Tech Sales Mastery Program
Strengthen the Skill
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Sales Execution Coaching
Drive Execution
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Revenue Leadership Search
Elevate Leadership
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Structured Sales Growth · Revenue Execution System
Step 01
Revenue-Gap
Diagnostic
Step 02
Tech Sales Mastery
Program
Step 03
Sales Execution
Coaching
Program Structure
You've Built the System.
Now It Needs the
Right Leader to Run It.
Training is done. Coaching is in place. The playbook exists. But without the right revenue leader at the top, execution leaks — because great systems still need great operators.
Most B2B tech companies either promote the wrong person internally or pay a generalist recruitment firm a steep upfront retainer to find someone who doesn’t understand how to scale a SaaS sales org. Both are expensive mistakes.
The Cost of Getting It Wrong
$2M+
Estimated cost of a mis-hired CRO or VP Sales — including lost pipeline, team churn, and time-to-rehire
Typical retainer firm fee
TALSMART upfront fee
Industry avg. time to place
TALSMART time to place
$40–80K upfront
$0
60–90 days
Under 2 weeks
Three Costly Patterns We Fix
Promoting the Wrong Rep
Your best individual contributor rarely makes the best leader. Promoting on gut feel costs you a great rep and creates a failing manager.
Paying Retainer Before Results
Traditional search firms charge $40–80K before they've shown you a single candidate — regardless of outcome. That's misaligned incentives by design.
Hiring a Generalist for a Specialist Role
Scaling a B2B SaaS sales team is fundamentally different from consumer, hardware, or services sales. A generalist hire won't understand the motion.
Why TALSMART Search
Not Your Typical
Executive Search Firm
Traditional search firms are built around retainers, timelines, and generic talent pools. We’re built around results — specifically for B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership.
Traditional Search Firms
Korn Ferry · Spencer Stuart · Heidrick & Struggles
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Upfront retainer: $40–80K before work begins
You pay regardless of outcome
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60–90 day average time to placement
Your pipeline keeps leaking while you wait
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Generalist across all industries and roles
No deep expertise in B2B SaaS sales leadership
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Deliver CVs — you do the real assessment work
Heavy coordination burden falls back on your team
05
No guarantee the leader can run your system
Plug-and-pray — then hope for the best
TALSMART Revenue Leadership Search
Built for B2B Tech. Aligned on Performance.
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Zero retainer — you pay only when they perform
100% aligned with your outcome, not your timeline
02
Under 2 weeks from brief to shortlist
Active candidates, pre-vetted, ready to move
03
Exclusively B2B tech, SaaS & software companies
We only place people we'd bet our reputation on
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We assess, screen, and shortlist — not just source
You interview 3–5 pre-qualified, mission-ready leaders
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Leaders who can institutionalise the revenue system
Not just fill the role — run and scale the entire engine
Revenue Leadership Roles
We Place the Leaders Who
Scale B2B Tech Revenue
Every role we fill is a revenue-critical position in a B2B tech or SaaS company. We don’t place marketing managers or HR leads — we place the people who own the number.
C-Suite
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
The architect of the entire revenue engine. Owns sales, success, and often marketing alignment. We place CROs who have scaled tech companies from $5M to $50M+ ARR.
VP Level
VP of Sales
Runs the sales org day-to-day. Sets quota, builds team, owns pipeline. We place VPs who know how to execute a structured sales motion — not just manage headcount.
GTM Leadership
Head of GTM / GTM Operator
For companies building or rebuilding their go-to-market motion. Operators who have been in the trenches scaling outbound, PLG, or enterprise sales models from scratch.
Revenue Operations
VP / Head of Revenue Operations
The systems thinker behind the revenue engine. CRM architecture, forecasting, compensation design, and sales enablement infrastructure built to scale.
Enterprise Sales
Director / Head of Enterprise Sales
Experienced leaders who know how to navigate complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise deals. Proven in 6–18 month sales cycles with procurement and legal involvement.
Regional Leadership
Regional VP / Country Sales Director
For companies expanding into new markets. Leaders who have opened EMEA, APAC, or AMER territories and built regional teams from ground zero to quota-attaining.
How It Works
From Brief to Placed Leader
in Under Two Weeks
No lengthy onboarding. No retainer negotiations. Just a focused, fast search process built around your specific revenue leadership need.
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Step 01
Submit Brief
You tell us the role, the stage, the team size, and what a great hire looks like. Takes 15 minutes. We take it from there.
Identify & Headhunt
We don’t post jobs. We headhunt — reaching out to passive, top-performing leaders already excelling in similar roles at comparable tech companies.
Vet & Shortlist
Every candidate goes through a structured assessment against your brief. You receive 3–5 pre-qualified leaders — not a pile of CVs to sift through.
You Interview & Decide
You run final interviews with a curated shortlist. We facilitate, advise on offer strategy, and handle the closing process with the chosen candidate.
Placed & Supported
Leader joins. You pay. We provide a 90-day onboarding support period to ensure the placement sticks and the revenue system runs smoothly.
The No-Risk Guarantee
You pay nothing upfront. No retainer. No commitment fee. You only pay our placement fee once the leader has been hired and started — and if they don't work out within 90 days, we re-search at no additional cost.
Placement Results
Revenue Leaders We've Placed.
Results That Speak.
These aren’t theoretical outcomes. These are real placements at B2B tech companies where the right leader changed everything.
VP of Enterprise Sales · Placed in 11 days
Needed a VP who could restructure a fragmented enterprise sales team and introduce a structured qualification process. We placed a candidate with 14 years of enterprise SaaS sales leadership — hired, onboarded, and reshaping the pipeline within 30 days.
+41%
Revenue per rep within first 6 months post-placement
Time to place: 11 days
Chief Revenue Officer · Placed in 9 days
A Series B SaaS company needed a CRO who understood enterprise sales motion and could build structured operating cadences from scratch. We placed a CRO who had previously scaled two tech companies through $50M+ ARR — no retainer, zero upfront risk.
34%
Faster deal cycles in the first complete sales quarter
Time to place: 9 days
Regional VP EMEA Sales · Placed in 10 days
Required a GTM operator who could open new markets across EMEA and build a regional team from zero. The placed leader had scaled EMEA sales orgs at two enterprise software firms and moved fast — first hires made in week three of joining.
28%
Pipeline growth within the first 90 days of placement
Time to place: 10 days
The Search Team
Search Experts Who've
Lived the Role They're Hiring For
Our search team is made up of former revenue leaders who have held the roles they now place — which means they know exactly what great looks like and can spot it fast.
John
Senior Sales Execution Coach
John brings over 20 years of enterprise IT sales experience, having led high-performing teams across EMEA for global technology firms. As a TALSMART execution coach, his focus is deal-level intervention — joining pipeline reviews, rehearsing discovery sessions, and rebuilding qualification discipline in the context of live, high-stakes B2B tech deals. He has coached more than 150 IT sales professionals across 12 countries.
Rajiv
SaaS & Cloud Sales Coach
Rajiv spent 18 years building and scaling sales teams in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East before moving into coaching. His deep expertise in SaaS and cloud sales motions makes him the go-to coach for teams navigating complex multi-stakeholder deals in high-growth markets. His coaching focuses on qualification frameworks, solution selling, and the specific execution gaps that kill SaaS deals in enterprise accounts.
Paul
Enterprise Negotiation Coach
Paul is a revenue transformation specialist with 15+ years leading B2B technology sales across financial services and professional services verticals. As a TALSMART coach, he specialises in the execution gaps that emerge in the back half of enterprise deals — commercial negotiation, multi-threading, and closing discipline. His coaching has shortened average deal cycles by 34% across multiple engagements.
Mick
Pipeline & Prospecting Coach
Mick spent 17 years as both a top-performing individual contributor and sales leader in SaaS and telecoms before becoming a TALSMART coach. His coaching style is direct, deal-specific, and built around one principle: fix the one or two things that are costing your reps the most. His clients consistently describe his sessions as the most practical, highest-ROI coaching they have ever received — because he works in their deals, not around them.
What Founders & CEOs Say
The Right Leader Changed
Everything
“We’d wasted six months with a traditional search firm — paid the retainer, got a pile of CVs, hired the wrong person. TALSMART placed our CRO in nine days. Zero upfront cost. He’s been with us two years and we’ve grown revenue by 60%. I wish we’d found them earlier.”
David M.
CEO, B2B SaaS Platform · Series B
“What makes TALSMART different is that they actually understand what a VP of Sales in a B2B tech company needs to do. They didn’t send us generalists — they sent us someone who had already done the exact job we needed done. The whole process took eleven days. Remarkable.”
Sarah R.
Founder & CEO, Enterprise Software Company
Start Your Search
Submit Your
Search Brief
Tell us what revenue leadership role you need filled. We’ll review your brief and come back to you within 24 hours with a clear plan and timeline — at no cost and no commitment.
✓ First shortlist delivered within 2 weeks of brief sign-off
✓ Zero retainer — no payment until your leader is hired
✓ Exclusively B2B tech & SaaS revenue leadership roles
✓ 90-day replacement guarantee if the placement doesn’t stick
✓ Your dedicated search partner, not a job board
Revenue Leadership Search Brief
15-minute brief. 2-week shortlist. Zero upfront risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything You Need to Know
About Revenue Leadership Search
Every gap identified in your diagnostic maps directly to a solution in the Revenue Execution System. The diagnostic tells you where revenue is leaking — the system closes it, stage by stage.
How is TALSMART different from Korn Ferry or other executive search firms?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
What roles do you specialise in placing?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
How do you actually place someone in under 2 weeks?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
What does "you pay only when they perform" mean exactly?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
What happens if the placed leader doesn't work out?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
Do you work with early-stage startups or only established companies?
Traditional executive search firms charge an upfront retainer of $40,000–$80,000 before they’ve shown you a single candidate. They’re generalist — they place roles across every industry and function. We are the opposite: zero upfront retainer, exclusively B2B tech and SaaS revenue leadership roles, and a 2-week shortlist guarantee. You pay only when the leader has been hired and started.
The Final Piece
Your Revenue System Is Built.
Now Install the Leader to Run It.
Stop waiting for the right leader to appear on LinkedIn. Stop paying retainers before you’ve seen a single qualified candidate. Submit your search brief and let TALSMART find your revenue leader — in under two weeks, at zero upfront risk.