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Our customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters place senior growth and lifecycle leaders from a network they have built over years, not a resume pile.
Our customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters place senior growth and lifecycle leaders from a network they have built over years, not a resume pile
Our recruiters have placed growth and lifecycle leaders who carried a number. They evaluate the funnel skills, not just a tidy CV.
Acquisition without retention burns money. We find leaders who can move both, because the candidates we know have run the full lifecycle.
The recruiter who scopes the role runs it, from the brief to the offer, with no junior handoff in the middle.
A growth leader who only knows paid acquisition will buy you expensive customers who churn. The role you actually need owns the whole lifecycle. Our customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters find leaders who move acquisition, conversion, and retention together.
Our recruiters have made direct placements of acquisition and retention leaders at DTC, subscription, and eCommerce brands. They know what a strong operator looks like in the metrics, not just the resume.
Customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters who only screen for paid media miss the leaders who can also fix onboarding, lifecycle, and LTV. We assess the whole funnel.
The strongest growth leaders are rarely applying. Our recruiters reach them through relationships built over years, which is how a discreet search finds people an ad never would.
The recruiter you meet is the recruiter who runs the search, from the brief through the offer, with the whole collective behind them.
A scoping call with a senior recruiter, focused on the acquisition and retention leader your funnel actually needs.
We scope the search to your funnel, your stage, and the kind of growth leadership you need.
| Feature | Chameleon Collective | Retained search firm | In-house recruiter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the search | A senior growth recruiter | A partner sells, a junior runs it | A generalist with many reqs |
| Match basis | The whole funnel | A title and a database | Existing reach |
| Read on the candidate | Did they move the metrics | Often resume-led | Depends on the recruiter |
| Time to shortlist | Weeks | A long retained timeline | Competing with other roles |
Common questions for teams hiring an acquisition and retention leader.
We scope the search to the role and the funnel rather than a fixed retained package, so you see the cost and the plan before the search starts. The recruiter who scopes the role is the one who runs it.
Yes, and we look for both in one leader. Acquisition without retention burns money, so our recruiters find operators who can move the whole lifecycle, from first touch to repeat purchase.
Yes. We place growth and lifecycle leadership from Manager through Director and VP of Growth. The same recruiters and network apply, scaled to the level of the role.
Through relationships. The strongest growth operators are rarely on a job board, so our recruiters reach them directly through a network built over years.
A focused search usually reaches a strong shortlist within weeks, with the full process running longer through interviews and close. We give you a timeline against your specific role.
Yes. We go deep on the growth track record and references so you know whether a candidate moved acquisition and retention, not just what their title was.
Directly. Chameleon Collective is a senior-only collective, so there is no account-management layer between you and the recruiter running your search.
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