Sales & Sales Leadership Recruitment

Most recruiters find resumes.
We find revenue.

Specialized search for the revenue engine, backed by a pre-vetted bench your team can draw from. Every hire is assessed like an operator, then coached through the first 90 days so they perform.

$3B+
Client revenue supported
$6B+
In client exits
OMG
Sales roles assessed
90 days
Onboarding coach on every hire
2-day
Sales refresher bootcamp included
What we recruit

Sellers, go-to-market people and sales leaders.

Three practices, each with its own roles and its own color. The color follows the candidate onto the Bench.

Sell

Sellers

  • BDR and SDR
  • Account executive
  • Account manager
  • Managers who carry a number

Replaced until the hire works out.

GTM

Go-to-market

  • Sales enablement
  • AI and GTM automation
  • Sales operations
  • Revenue operations

Replaced until the hire works out.

Lead

Leaders

  • Sales manager
  • VP of Sales
  • CRO

Replaced until the hire works out.

The cost of getting it wrong

A wrong sales hire is one of the most expensive mistakes a company makes.

Most teams hire the way everyone hires. Post a role, read resumes, run interviews, and choose whoever interviews best. Interviewing well is not the same as performing in a quota-carrying role.

20×
A failed sales hire can cost up to 20 times base salary, counting burned leads, lost deals, reputation, and the management time spent on someone who should not have been hired. Revenue Bench was built to solve an expensive problem.
Why we assess and coach

Out of every 100 first-year sales hires

33%fail in year one

Each dot is one hire. Coral marks a hire that fails in the first year.

Why Revenue Bench

Five reasons the hire works.

We do one thing: place revenue talent and make sure it lands. Every part of the model is built to remove the risk of the hire.

01

A 90-day onboarding coach

Every placement includes a dedicated coach who meets the new hire weekly and the hiring manager weekly for the first 90 days. Onboarding is where hires are won or lost. We do not hand off and hope.

02

Assessment first

Selection runs on Objective Management Group. OMG reports predictive validity in the 95 percent range, its accuracy metric, and nearly 2.4 million salespeople assessed since 1990, based on its 2023 figure. We measure will to sell, sales DNA, and whether someone can execute inside your process, before you make an offer.

03

A bench, not a job board

We recruit top revenue talent continuously and keep them on a pre-vetted bench. You get people who are assessed and matched to your selling environment, without building your own pipeline.

04

Sharpened on arrival

Every hire arrives trained. Reps get a two-day sales skills refresher, leaders get a leadership refresher, powered by Performance Edge and Sandler. They start aligned to a method.

05

A replacement guarantee

If the hire does not work out inside the window, we keep replacing until one does, at no additional fee. The window is 90 days from the start date for sellers and GTM roles, and 6 to 12 months for leaders. We are paid to be right, and we stand behind it.

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Built by operators

The same people who install sales systems and assess sales talent now staff them. No pure-play recruiter can say that. Meet the founders below.

The nine pillars

Talent is the core pillar of any revenue engine.

Carlos Garrido's Scaling Sales Blueprint shows how any sales organization has revenue supported by nine dimensions of the revenue engine. All pillars depend on the talent that the organization can attract, onboard, and develop, which is why Revenue Bench puts talent at the center of any strategy.

Revenue
ICP
Org Design
Demand Generation
Sales Leadership
Talentwho we hire and how they are onboarded
Sales System
Enablement
RevOps
Tech
Strategic foundation
Execution engine
Performance infrastructure
Pillar names from the Performance Edge Scaling Sales Blueprint.
The Revenue Bench

Access a real bench, not a job board.

Most companies start every search from zero. Our clients start from a bench of revenue talent we have already sourced, assessed, and vetted. When you need a role filled, the shortlist already exists.

Request access to the bench →
Profiles shown are representative of current bench talent.
The First 90

We don't hand off and hope.

Every placement comes with a dedicated onboarding coach for the first 90 days. One weekly call with the new hire. One weekly call with the hiring manager. The result is a faster ramp, fewer early exits, and far less onboarding load on your team.

Weekly with the hire Weekly with the manager Aligned to your process
Weeks
1 to 2
Role clarity, expectations, and manager alignment. The hire knows exactly what good looks like from day one.
Weeks
3 to 6
Method, pipeline build, and CRM discipline. We reinforce the system the hire was trained on before they started.
Weeks
7 to 13
Deal execution, quota ramp, and independence. By day 90 the hire is performing in the role, not still settling in.
How it works

Find revenue, not resumes.

STEP 01

Define the role

We map the role to your actual selling environment, buyer, and sales motion before anyone writes a job description.

STEP 02

Source

We start from the bench and run targeted search to fill the gaps, so the shortlist comes fast.

STEP 03

Assess

Candidates for selling and sales-leadership roles are assessed with OMG, and every candidate clears an operator screen. We test for fit with your process before you meet them.

STEP 04

Present

You see a focused shortlist of people we would hire ourselves.

STEP 05

Place & train

The hire arrives with a two-day skills or leadership refresher, aligned to a method from day one.

STEP 06

Coach 90 days

A dedicated coach works with the hire and the manager weekly until the hire is fully performing.

The results

Built by operators who have done it before.

Revenue Bench was founded by two principals who have worked alongside each other for years building sales teams. Between them they bring decades of growing revenue and building the teams that deliver it.

$12M
Net-new revenue over nine months after rebuilding a nine-rep sales team at a manufacturer.
200%
Growth in net-new sales over three months for a two-seller furniture brand under a new sales motion.
120% / 119%
Year-one and year-two growth for an enterprise software team built to a system.
~95%
OMG reports predictive validity in the 95 percent range, its accuracy metric.
72%
Of recommended hires reach the top half of the team within 12 months.
9% / 33%
First-year turnover: recommended hires versus not recommended.
2.4M
Salespeople assessed by OMG since 1990, its 2023 figure.
Replacement guarantee
If a hire does not work out inside the window, we keep replacing until a hire works out, at no additional fee. There is no limit on re-runs and no refund: the remedy is the search. The window runs from the hire's start date, 90 days for sellers and GTM roles and 6 to 12 months for sales leaders. We can put our name on the hire because every selling and sales-leadership candidate is assessed before the offer. We win when the hire works.
Every engagement result above was delivered through Performance Edge, Carlos Garrido's sales-effectiveness practice, before Revenue Bench was founded. The attribution ledger gives each result its period and its limits. Assessment figures: Objective Management Group.
Who we serve

Operators who have a system and need the people to run it.

The founder scaling past founder-led sales

You have hired before and watched reps underperform while you ended up back in every deal. You need talent assessed the way a seasoned operator would, not by a generalist on a job board.

The revenue leader under pressure to perform

You are the VP of Sales or CRO with a number and a timeline. You need a partner who understands your pipeline mechanics and hires against them.

The PE-backed operator scaling fast

You are adding revenue capacity quickly without sacrificing quality. You need a recruiter who understands portfolio dynamics and hiring under velocity pressure.

The company mid-transformation

You are installing a sales methodology and need talent that matches the system you are building. We time the search to the work.

Revenue Bench fits operators who are serious about the outcome, with a defined sales process or the intent to install one. We decline engagements where there is no defined sales process and no plan to build one, where hiring begins before the role is understood, or where selection rests on the lowest fee. You can hold us to the same agency evaluation scorecard we publish.

The Founders

Built by operators, not recruiters.

Revenue Bench was founded by two people with complementary expertise. One builds the sales systems. One finds and develops the talent to run them.

Carlos Garrido
Carlos Garrido
Co-Founder · Sales Systems & Performance

An investment banker and growth advisor for more than 30 years. His work has supported over $3 billion in client revenue and more than $6 billion in client exits.

Founder of Performance Edge and owner of the Sandler Miami practice. A Sandler-certified practitioner and a Vistage Chair in Miami, he works across the full revenue system, from methodology to the operating cadence that makes a team perform.

$3B+
Revenue
supported
$6B+
Client
exits
12+
Years in
practice
Steve Swanston
Steve Swanston
Co-Founder · GTM Architect & Exit Executive

A three-time exit executive. Over a 30-year career, he has built revenue teams inside PE-backed SaaS, fintech, and technology companies that exited for more than $500 million.

Founder of Swanston Growth Advisors, a Certified Partner of Objective Management Group. He brings a science-based lens to talent evaluation that runs through every search.

3×
Exit
executive
$500M+
Exit value behind
teams he built
30+
Years building
teams
For candidates

Get on the bench.

We place revenue professionals into vetted, system-led teams, and we set you up to win. Get assessed, get a sales or leadership refresher before you start, and get coached through your first 90 days. The offer is the start of it. The coaching through your first 90 days is what makes it hold.

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Frequently asked

Straight answers, before you ask.

What does Revenue Bench do?

Revenue Bench is a specialized recruitment firm for the revenue engine: sellers, sales leaders, enablement, and RevOps. We maintain a pre-vetted bench of talent, assess candidates for selling and sales-leadership roles with Objective Management Group, place and train the hire, then coach them through the first 90 days so they perform.

How is Revenue Bench different from other sales recruiters?

Most recruiters stop at the resume and the interview. Revenue Bench candidates for selling and sales-leadership roles are assessed with OMG before you meet them. Every placement arrives with a training refresher, gets a dedicated onboarding coach for 90 days, and is backed by a replacement guarantee.

What is the replacement guarantee?

If a hire leaves or is not performing inside the guarantee window, we run the search again at no additional fee, and we keep replacing until a hire works out. The window is 90 days from the start date for sellers and GTM roles, and 6 to 12 months for sales leaders. We can stand behind the hire because the candidate was assessed before the offer, and the onboarding coach works with them through the first 90 days.

What roles does Revenue Bench place?

The full revenue engine: SDRs and BDRs, account executives, sales managers, VPs of Sales and CROs, sales enablement, RevOps, and go-to-market roles, for high-growth and private-equity-backed companies.

Let's talk

Find your next revenue hire.

Tell us about the role, or tell us you want on the bench. We will come back to you quickly. Every conversation starts with what good looks like in the role.

Goes straight to the founders. We reply within one business day.