Hire Proven Tech Sales Leaders in Under 2 Weeks.
No Retainer & Pay Only When They Perform.
Most executive recruiters charge $40–80K before showing you a single candidate. TALSMART uses an AI-powered search process to place your CRO, VP of Sales, or GTM leader in under two weeks. No retainer. You pay our search fee only when your leader starts performing.
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One Bad Leadership Hire Can Set You Back Years.
Lost pipeline, team churn, and the full cost of re-hiring and re-onboarding after a mis-hire. One wrong call at the top sets your entire revenue org back by 12 to 18 months.
No quota owner means no pipeline accountability. Deals stall, reps lose direction, and revenue drifts. The average vacancy stretches 90 to 120 days. That untouched opportunity is often the bigger loss.
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 struggling manager with a fractured team beneath them.
Paying $40–80K Before Seeing a Single Candidate?
Traditional executive search firms charge a retainer before they have lifted a finger. You carry all the risk, they carry none, and the incentive to find the right person evaporates the moment the cheque clears.
Hiring a Generalist for a Specialist Role?
Scaling B2B SaaS revenue is fundamentally different from consumer, hardware, or services sales. A generalist hire from a traditional search firm will not understand the motion, and your pipeline will show that within 90 days.
Built for B2B Tech. You Pay Only When They Perform.
No retainer. No commitment fees. We earn our search fee only when your revenue leader is in the role and performing.
- ✓ Performance-based fee, zero retainerNo upfront payment. No commitment fee. You pay our search fee only when your leader starts performing in the role.
- ✓ AI-powered search delivers a shortlist in under 2 weeksTraditional firms spend 1 to 2 months manually reaching out to candidates one by one. We reach out to a minimum of 2,000 candidates per position and put the 3 to 5 best in front of you after a rigorous 3-stage filter and assessment.
- ✓ Exclusively B2B tech and SaaSEvery leader we place has scaled a revenue org you would recognise. No generalists, no guesswork.
- ✓ We assess, you don't sift CVsYou receive 3 to 5 pre-qualified, mission-ready leaders. Not a pile of profiles to sift through.
- ✓ 90-day replacement guaranteeIf the placement doesn't work out in 90 days, we re-search at no additional cost.
Three Layers of Vetting Before You Speak to a Single Candidate.
AI sourcing. Proprietary skill assessment. Expert coach interviews. Every shortlist earns its place and we fund the entire process ourselves before you pay a dollar.
AI-Powered Sourcing
We scan thousands of passive leaders excelling in roles just like yours right now.
- Finds leaders other firms never surface
- Filters by role, stage, and ARR range
- Passive candidates, not job-board browsers
- Shortlist ready in days, not months
- 4x more precise than traditional search
Revenue-Gap Analysis
Maps each candidate's skill from Prospecting to Closing, built for B2B tech sellers only.
- Maps gaps at every sales stage
- Catches what CVs and references miss
- Built only for B2B tech sellers
- Stops closers placed in builder roles
- Sets a day-one performance baseline
Coach Interviews
Former Google and IBM leaders verify culture alignment and business stage fit.
- Coaches who have held the exact role
- Assesses leadership style and culture
- Tests fit for your growth stage
- Surfaces red flags references miss
- Removes gut-feel bias from hiring
We Have Skin in the Game.
We fund AI tools, assessments, and coach interviews upfront from our own pocket. You pay our search fee only when your leader is performing in the role.
They Hire Everyone. We Hire Only Sales Leaders in Tech.
Generalist search firms lack the specialisation to truly understand what great revenue leadership looks like in a B2B tech company. We are built for exactly this and nothing else.
| Korn Ferry · Spencer Stuart · Heidrick and Others | TALSMART · Sales and Revenue Search, B2B Tech Only | |
|---|---|---|
| Role specialisation | All functions: HR, finance, ops, marketing, and more | Exclusively sales and revenue leadership in tech. Nothing else. |
| Industry expertise | Generalist across every industry and sector | B2B tech and SaaS exclusively. We know the motion inside out. |
| Search approach | Manual, relationship-based network sourcing | AI-powered precision targeting backed by decades of domain expertise |
| Upfront fee | $40 to $80K retainer before a single candidate is shown | $0 retainer. You pay only when your leader performs. |
| Time to shortlist | 60 to 90 days average, pipeline stalls while you wait | Under 2 weeks from brief sign-off, every time |
| Candidate quality | Manual outreach, 1 to 2 months to build a candidate list with no quality filter | We reach out to 2,000+ candidates per role and deliver the 3 to 5 best after a 3-stage filter and assessment |
| Track record | Broad placements with no deep revenue leadership expertise | Decades placing sales leaders at Fortune firms including Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Google |
| Placement guarantee | No replacement guarantee once the retainer is paid | 90-day replacement guarantee. If it doesn't stick, we re-search at no cost. |
Our specialisation is our moat. When you need a revenue leader in B2B tech, you need the firm that has placed hundreds of them, not one that does it occasionally between hiring a CFO and a Head of HR.
Brief to Placed Leader in Under Two Weeks.
Submit Brief
Tell us the role, team size, and what great looks like. 15 minutes. We take it from there.
We Headhunt
We don't post jobs. We reach out to top performers already excelling in roles just like yours.
Vet and Shortlist
Every candidate is assessed against your brief. You get 3 to 5 qualified leaders, fully ready.
You Interview
Run final interviews with a curated shortlist. We advise on offer strategy and handle the close.
Placed and Supported
Leader joins, you pay. We support a 90-day onboarding period to make sure it sticks.
Find a proven revenue leader in under 2 weeks.
No retainers or upfront fees. Just a vetted shortlist tailored to your brief and payment only after performance starts.
Submit Your Search Brief →Submit Your Search Brief
15-minute brief. 2-week shortlist. Zero upfront risk.
Real Leaders. Real Revenue. Real Speed.
"We had wasted six months with a traditional search firm, paid the retainer, got a pile of CVs, and hired the wrong person. TALSMART placed our CRO in nine days. Zero upfront cost. He has been with us two years and we have grown revenue by 60%."
"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."