Our Services

We build sales teams and we fill sales roles.

Sales search and executive sales recruiting since 2023. We hunt the people already winning in your market, because the best person out there is almost never the best person that applied. Our network is deepest in building and home products, construction supply and distribution, and residential real estate.

How We Engage

Two ways to buy a sales hire

Sales Search

For the single hire

Chief revenue officer, VP of sales, national accounts director, commercial director, sales director, general manager, country manager, and the people who own a distributor, dealer or big-box relationship. We map the market rather than advertise the role, because the people worth hiring are working and exceeding their number. Difficulty is the assignment, not the exception. Calibration on what a true hunter looks like in the seat, then a market map you actually see, then a shortlist with our reasoning attached, then we help with the offer and the counteroffer. Run with your identity protected until you choose to reveal it.

  • ✓Hunted directly, never posted
  • ✓Client identity protected
  • ✓Exclusive, fully committed search
  • ✓Executive assessment & referencing

Building a Sales Team

For a population

Field sales, territory representatives and commission-only agents, hired against an agreed profile. A whole desk, a new region, or a commission-only force built from nothing.

  • ✓Contingency, paid on hire
  • ✓A first shortlist, usually within ten business days
  • ✓Market mapping

Construction, finance and insurance, IT and technology, healthcare and legal, contract staffing and augmentation, contract-to-hire, the AI and data science bench, and the design practice are still here, at Other Desks. Each of these has its own page, so you can go straight to the one you need.

Confidential Mandates

Discretion is a capability, not a courtesy

Some searches cannot be public: a build the market should not see coming, a replacement the team has not been told about, a move a competitor would love to know. We run confidential mandates as a discipline.

Confidential from the first call

We treat what you tell us as confidential before you tell us anything, and we say so up front rather than after.

Protected client identity

Candidates learn who you are when you decide they should.

Blind outreach done right

Compelling enough to move an executive who is winning where they are, revealing nothing.

Candidate discretion, both directions

The people we approach trust us with their careers, and that is why they answer.

What we are trusted with stays trusted, during the search and after it.

Replacing Someone Who Is Still In The Seat

A normal reason to call. An uncomfortable one to explain.

We run those searches without your name attached until the shortlist is real.

Every Engagement Includes

A complete, rigorous search

Who runs the search

Every search runs under AJ Marcoz's leadership, with a senior search partner on your role.

Time to shortlist

Your first shortlist, usually within 10 business days.

Off-limits

Your team is off-limits to our searches.

Mapping of the market that matters for the role

We map the market and identify every credible candidate we can reach, including the ones who would never answer a posting.

A hunt, start to finish

The people worth hiring are working and exceeding their number, so we go to them rather than wait for an application.

Hunters, named as such

We separate the people who open accounts from the people who hold them, and we tell you which one each name on the shortlist is.

Fit beyond the résumé

What is actually assessed: the manager and pace they work best under, travel, compensation structure, hunting versus account management, decision authority, territory maturity, and expectations on both sides.

Curated shortlist

Pre-interviewed candidates with our reasoning attached: a shortlist, never a stack.

Job description, compensation and offer support

We help with the job description, compensation and market studies, the offer and the counteroffer.

90-day replacement guarantee

Every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee.

Fees & Engagement

Aligned to your outcome

Hiring need
How we usually work
Senior, confidential or thin-market role
Exclusive retained or container search, with the commercial terms agreed before we start.
Repeatable field-sales hiring
Contingency, paid on hire.
Other well-defined roles
Contingency where it fits.

Most of our searches are contingent: you pay only when you hire. For senior or confidential roles, or when you want an exclusive search, we work on retainer. Every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee.

If you are weighing the models against each other, we wrote up the difference in retained, exclusive and contingency search.

The Guarantee

90-day replacement guarantee

Every placement carries a 90-day replacement guarantee.

Ready to fill a hard role?

Tell us about the seat. We'll come back with a market read and a plan, at no cost and no obligation.

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