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Our performance marketing recruiters place senior paid acquisition leaders from a network they have built over years, not a generic resume pile.
Our performance marketing recruiters place senior paid acquisition leaders from a network they have built over years, not a generic resume pile
Our performance marketing recruiters have run paid acquisition themselves. They evaluate the channels and the numbers, not just a tidy CV.
An early-stage growth lead is not a scaled paid media director. We match candidates to your stage, your channels, and your targets.
The recruiter who scopes the role runs it, from the brief to the offer, with no junior handoff in the middle.
Paid acquisition hires fail when a recruiter screens for keywords instead of capability. The right leader for one channel mix is the wrong leader for another. Our performance marketing recruiters reduce that risk because they have done the work and know what good looks like.
Our recruiters come from inside performance marketing, with operating backgrounds across paid search, paid social, and the full media mix. They read a candidate the way a hiring leader would, not the way a keyword filter does.
Recruiters who screen for a single platform miss the leaders who can run the whole mix. We assess across paid search, paid social, measurement, and budget judgment.
The strongest paid acquisition 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.
We scope the search to your stage, your channels, and the kind of paid acquisition leadership you need.
| Feature | Chameleon Collective | Retained search firm | In-house recruiter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who runs the search | A senior performance marketing recruiter | A partner sells, a junior runs it | A generalist with many reqs |
| Match basis | Capability and channel fit | A title and a database | Existing reach |
| Read on the candidate | Did they move ROAS and CPA | 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 |
Common questions for teams hiring with performance marketing recruiters.
We scope the search to the role and the stage 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.
Paid search, paid social, and full-funnel performance leadership, from Manager through Director. Our recruiters match the candidate to the channel mix and stage that drive your business.
Through relationships. The strongest performance leaders are rarely on a job board, so our recruiters reach them directly through a network built over years.
At many firms a partner sells and a junior runs the search. With us the senior recruiter who scopes the role is the one who runs it, and they come from inside performance marketing rather than from a database.
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 performance track record and references so you know whether a candidate moved ROAS, CPA, and LTV, 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 performance marketing recruiters running your search.
If you need senior paid acquisition leadership now, our consulting practice places interim performance marketing leaders while the permanent search runs.
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Start with a scoping call. You will get a clear read on the market for your role and a plan to reach the right paid acquisition leaders.
Our performance marketing recruiters have placed paid acquisition leaders across DTC, eCommerce, B2B, SaaS, and consumer brands, from Manager to Director.
A scoping call with our performance marketing recruiters, focused on the performance marketing leader your stage actually needs.
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