The right hire is rocket fuel for your startup.
Specialized talent acquisition for high growth startups who need to scale fast. From your first hire to building a complete sales engine, we find the people that understand your product, stage, and industry and can drive meaningful growth.
Every successful startup understands
the impact of the right hire.
While the most ambitious startups understand how to achieve product-market fit and have solid early traction, high impact revenue growth can quickly stall despite strong positive market signals.
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Founders are often responsible for the product success, company growth, team leadership and sales simultaneously-creating gaps in consistently driving towards success in all categories. Hiring the right talent at the right time allows founders to focus on their passion and where they’re efforts are most effective. The strongest startups are driving forward in all categories by putting the right people in the right place at the right time.
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Founders demonstrate strong conversion rates when engaging with qualified prospects. The bottleneck becomes finding and getting in front of the right people consistently. Having more people with skin in the game, means more reach, larger pipelines and higher conversion rates.
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Startup growth and subsequent sales interactions follow different paths without a standard methodology. Companies who invest in, and focus on the right GTM strategies, scale faster and with more precision than those who stagnate from not knowing where to focus. The right talent can not only bring skills but can also bring the right sales structures and flywheels.
Our Approach
Scale Squared serves as your trusted talent partner, handling the entire process of identifying, vetting, and placing sales professionals who understand startup environments and can drive results from day one.
Strategic Role Definition
We work with you to define exactly what success looks like for your stage and market. Rather than generic job descriptions, we help you identify the specific experience level, skill set, and cultural attributes that will drive results in your environment.
Cultural Fit Assessment
Technical skills matter, but cultural add determines long-term success. We evaluate how candidates handle ambiguity, adapt to changing priorities, and thrive in resource-constrained environments - the realities of startup teams.
Targeted Sourcing & Vetting
Some sales hires bring valuable industry connections and market credibility that can accelerate growth in specific sectors. We're sensitive to when these relationships matter for your business and match candidates accordingly.
Strategic Partnership
Beyond placement, we serve as an ongoing resource for compensation structuring, performance expectations, and integration planning. Our goal is ensuring your sales hire becomes the foundation for sustainable revenue growth.
“Working with Scale Squared was exactly what our startup needed during a critical growth phase. The team took time to really understand our business, our culture, and our long-term vision before helping us define the exact position we needed.
The entire experience was seamless and collaborative. The candidate they ultimately placed with us has been a game-changer for our team – not just in terms of skills, but as someone who genuinely fits our culture and shares our entrepreneurial mindset.”
Patrick Tully, AISE