You are good at hiring the human. The gap is finding people who can actually do the thing at $150k+. That is the part we take off your plate. Short, direct, and ready to sign, because that is how you told us you buy.
Your business in your own words, so you can check we were listening before we ask you to sign anything.
JD Marketing Partners, trading as JD Plumbing Partners, does marketing for the trades: plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, tree service. About 40 remote FTEs, just shy of 400 partners, and roughly $80 million a year in paid search under management. One package, month to month, no percentage of media. Retention is strong because the incentives are honest.
You did not build an agency because you wanted to be marketers. You built a business, LTV over CAC, acquisition and sales model first. It has doubled every year for three years and the middle-management layer now has to be staffed out so you and Derek can step back from day-to-day PPC.
The PPC team is hub and spoke. Their customer is the Client Success Manager, not the partner. The new lead owns strategy and outcomes across the whole book, runs it through the existing team, and does not carry a book of accounts. Culturally: radical candor, direct, accountable, wants to win. Someone who goes inward when challenged will not work.
"We're really good at hiring the human. If you guys can bring the right technical candidates, that's where you're going to bridge the gap."
Jeremy Jackson, 5 October
"Any agency is only as valuable as its employees. Your people are everything."
Jeremy Jackson, 5 October
"You get hit, you hit back. Let's get energy into it. Let's go fix it."
Jeremy Jackson, 5 October
This is the brief we headhunt from. Anything wrong here, tell us on the onboarding call and we fix it before the first approach goes out.
Lead a four-person PPC team, two of them senior hands-on specialists with long trades lead-gen experience. Own performance. Use the team to deliver it. Take the middle-management layer off the founders. No personal book of accounts.
From four-truck shops to 100-truck operations. Disciplined spend: no PPC until a partner can reach 15 to 20 conversions in a rolling 30 days. Largely Google Ads. LSA is processitized in house and not a required skill.
What we sell them on. A business doubling every year, a middle-management layer being created for the first time, owner access to two founders who let the data drive, comp designed so nobody can out-offer them, and no agency theatre. That is a rare pitch for a PPC leader. It will land.
We are headhunters, not a recruitment agency. Your role will not be posted anywhere. We go and find the people who are employed, paid well and not looking.
Jeremy, Derek if he can make it, and our two recruiters. We build an outcome-focused scorecard: what this person delivers at 3, 6 and 12 months, and the five objectives that define success. Then a tailored job brief in your words, lightly sanitized.
52,000 SEO and paid media professionals in our private network, built over five years. Plus a targeted list of PPC leaders inside trades and home-services agencies and multi-location in-house teams, including the competitors you mentioned.
Industry-backed assessment across 10 to 12 PPC sub-topics, scored and recorded on video. Live account scenarios, not quiz questions. Nobody reaches you without clearing it.
Each candidate arrives with their scorecard, the interview recording, what they answered well and where they struggled, their portfolio and trophy case, and the quote that made us sit up. Move forward or reject in one click.
Your 30 to 40 minute conversation, 20 minutes with Derek, then the technical interview. We schedule around your calendars and keep candidates warm between stages.
We manage the offer, the notice period and the start. Then we hand over a 90-day roadmap built from the scorecard so the lead's first quarter is measured against what you actually hired them for.
You are fast movers and so are we. Move at pace is one of our core values. These are the targets we hold ourselves to when the client keeps pace with us.
Agreement signed, $2,500 activation paid. The team starts building the brief that day.
Scorecard, job brief, salary band and title confirmed. Headhunt goes live straight after.
Vetted candidates on your board with recordings and scorecards. Your 90-minute process begins.
95% of our roles are filled within 25 days. Fast feedback from your side is what keeps us on that number.
Exactly as discussed on the call. Both packages are below. Our recommendation is Gold: you are hiring a department head you have not been able to hire yourself, and a year of cover is worth the 5%. Your call.
Same terms per role, Silver or Gold, your choice each time. Send the brief when it is ready and we add it to the same agreement. Technical SEO is where we started, so it fits.
Fees are a percentage of first-year base salary. Full terms are in the agreement that accompanies this proposal.
You came to us on Matt Larson's recommendation. Here is what that recommendation is built on.
257 candidates sourced and assessed. Top 10 submitted, 3 to final. 70% of submissions reached interview against an industry average of 20 to 30%. They came back, and so did their PE portfolio.
For Chris Dreyer, who put it on record: "They have transformed our hiring process, allowing us to find and recruit the top 1% of talent."
The leading LSA agency in US legal, 50+ law firm clients, measured on signed cases. One placement in 23 days, then a multi-hire partnership.
Search For Hire combined the rigor of great search firms with access to an exceptional talent pool in our target vertical. This is a very rare combination.
Matt Larson, Head of Operations, HerringboneAfter three failed hires, these guys found us a rockstar. A great fit both technically and culturally.
Christine King, COO, StorIQFirstly, they do NOT spray and pray. They take a super methodical approach to first aligning on what the role needs.
Chirag Kulkarni, Founder, TACOThe agreement is in your inbox alongside this page. Sign it, pay the activation, and Daris books the onboarding call.