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iii. Operator-led search

Crew.

We hire the team that takes the motion forward — from BDR to CRO. Every search led by a partner who has carried the bag. Operator support available through landing for leadership placements.

$190K median AE OTE
× 5.7 months to ramp
$90K paid before quota
Why search has to hold

Roughly $90K paid to a sales hire before they close their first deal — and average annual sales turnover sits at 35%. The wrong hire is the most expensive line item on the org chart.

Source · Bridge Group 2024 SaaS AE Compensation Report · Bridge Group / SalesHQ 2025 · industry turnover benchmarks
What Crew is

Search, run by people who have run the function.

When the diagnosis says you need a permanent leader — or when a Command engagement reveals the right time for one — we run the search.

We run sales and revenue search at every level. The captains: CRO, CCO, VP Sales, Head of Growth. The lieutenants: senior account executives, sales engineers, customer success leaders, RevOps. The crew that takes a function from new to working: BDR teams, CS orgs, full-function builds.

Every Crew engagement is led by a senior partner who has carried the bag. Every candidate is operator-vetted — meaning we've actually done the job we're hiring for, and we know what good looks like. For leadership placements, operator support through landing can be added or bundled into the engagement: coaching for the placed leader, transition support for the founder, joint sessions through the hardest stretch.

It's the part most search firms don't do. We do, when it's called for.

A hire alone doesn't hold. The motion holds.

Roles we run

If the role moves the topline, we run it.

From the BDR who books the first meeting to the CRO who owns the number — sales and revenue talent at every level the leap requires.

Chief Revenue Officer

CRO

The full commercial owner. Sales, marketing alignment, customer success, RevOps. Most often a founder's first sales leadership hire. The captain.

$5M–$30M ARR Retained · 90 days

Chief Commercial Officer

CCO

Strategic commercial owner with deeper involvement in pricing, packaging, partnerships. For companies where commercial strategy is as much the job as commercial execution.

$10M–$50M ARR Retained · 90 days

VP Sales

VPS

The sales-only leader. Right when marketing and CS already have leadership, or when the founder isn't ready to hand off the full revenue function.

$2M–$15M ARR Retained · 75 days

Head of Growth

HoG

The cross-functional growth owner — typically pulling marketing, RevOps, and product growth together. For companies where the GTM motion needs an integrator more than a sales leader.

$5M–$25M ARR Retained · 75 days

Senior Account Executives

AE

Quota-carrying enterprise and mid-market sellers. The first three sales hires after a VP Sales is in seat — sourced and vetted by operators who know the difference.

Quota-carrying Engaged · 30 days

Sales Engineers

SE

The technical specialists who close the deals AEs can't close alone. Critical for complex products, technical buyers, and any motion where the demo is the deciding moment.

Per AE pod Engaged · 30 days

Customer Success Leadership

CSL

The leader who owns retention and expansion. For SaaS and recurring-revenue businesses where the second year matters more than the first.

Director, VP, CCO Retained · 75 days

RevOps Leadership

RevOps

The operator who turns a forecast into a system. Pipeline hygiene, comp plan execution, sales analytics. The role most companies hire too late.

Director, VP Retained · 60 days

Outbound BDR Teams

BDR Build

Build the outbound function from scratch. Hire 3–6 BDRs, build the playbook, set comp and quotas, run the first 90 days of ramp.

Net-new motion Managed · 120 days

Full-function Builds

From scratch

Build the entire commercial function from zero — the leader, the AEs, the SDRs, the CS team. For founder-led companies who've been carrying revenue alone and need a working organization, fast.

Multi-role Phased · 6–9 months

Most firms move on after the placement. We stay through the part where the hire has to land.

How Crew connects

The third pillar. Often, but not always, the last.

Crew is the engagement many founders find us through. It's not always where we end up.

Crew alone
A team that already knows the role and the spec — and the system around it is working. We run the search, operator-led. Operator support through landing available if the integration is the risk.
Course → Crew
A founder thinks they need a CRO. We diagnose. The diagnosis confirms it, and the hiring scorecard we built during Course goes straight into the search. More on Course →
Command → Crew
After six to nine months in the seat, we know exactly who needs to come in next. The handoff is seamless because we're handing them a working motion. More on Command →
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Build the crew.

A short note about the role, the moment, and what you've already tried. We'll come back with whether we're the right firm to run it, and how we'd run it if we are.

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