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Customer Acquisition and Retention Manager Recruiters

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.

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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 have placed acquisition and retention leaders across DTC, eCommerce, subscription, and consumer brands, from Manager to VP of Growth.

Why teams hire our customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters

Operators, not resume sorters

Our recruiters have placed growth and lifecycle leaders who carried a number. They evaluate the funnel skills, not just a tidy CV.

Acquisition and retention together

Acquisition without retention burns money. We find leaders who can move both, because the candidates we know have run the full lifecycle.

Senior search, end to end

The recruiter who scopes the role runs it, from the brief to the offer, with no junior handoff in the middle.

Why work with our customer acquisition and retention manager recruiters

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.

They have placed growth leaders

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.

The full funnel, not one channel

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.

A curated network, not a job board

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.

Senior attention the whole way

The recruiter you meet is the recruiter who runs the search, from the brief through the offer, with the whole collective behind them.

Start the search with a recruiter who knows growth

A scoping call with a senior recruiter, focused on the acquisition and retention leader your funnel actually needs.

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What an acquisition and retention search covers

We scope the search to your funnel, your stage, and the kind of growth leadership you need.

Role definition the real brief: the metrics, the team, and what success looks like in the first year.
Funnel fit whether your gap is acquisition, conversion, retention, or all three, and who fits it.
Market mapping the growth leaders who fit, including the ones who are not actively looking.
Outreach and assessment direct, discreet outreach, then evaluation of the growth track record.
Reference depth a real read on whether they moved the metrics and how they led, not a polite glance.
Shortlist and interviews a tight slate of qualified growth leaders, managed end to end.
Offer and close guidance through offer, negotiation, and start so the hire actually lands.

How We Compare

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
Cost structure	Scoped to the search	Large retained fee	Salary plus opportunity cost
Senior attention	The whole way	Front-loaded at pitch	Split across many roles

Frequently asked questions

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.