Beyond the ScriptSM
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Founding & early GTM hires

How Mackenzie runs a search.

Someone just quit. Or you're carrying sales yourself. Or the board is pressuring you to scale. The script says throw it to five agencies, let them fight it out, and hope for the best.

Do this instead.

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01 · The search, day by day
Day 28 · The report card

Yours, either way.

Whether we continue or part, you keep everything:

  • The metrics
  • The messaging we used
  • A dossier of every objection we faced
  • My recommendations
  • A plan to run it in-house, or an introduction to someone better suited

After 14 years, I know plenty of recruiters.

02 · Your recruiter

Before I recruited salespeople, I was one.

Mackenzie Mee-Lee · Co-founder & Head of Recruiting

I closed million dollar quotas as an individual contributor.

I hit 115% of a $3.6M plan as Director of Sales, North America.

I hired, trained, and led sales teams as Sales Director, then VP of Sales.

I've spent 14 years placing GTM talent across hundreds of startups.

Most recruiters have never carried a number. That's the difference in every conversation with your candidates.

UdemyOptimizelySurveyMonkeySamsaraVercelMuleSoftGemLendingClub

A sample of the companies I've worked with across 14 years in GTM recruiting, most of them during my decade at TheLions.

03 · The whole bet

20 business days. Either way, you're not guessing.

Real numbers, every week

No guessing, no wondering. The reports land on schedule.

Under 3 hours of your time

The kickoff, one check-in, the week-four review. Everything else arrives in your inbox.

Internal-recruiter-level dedication

I take three searches max at a time, so I can't afford for this to fail either.

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04 · Included, and nowhere else
Included with every placement

Ninety days of fallout protection.

Every firm offers a replacement guarantee. So do I. This is insurance on top. For your new hire's first ninety days, our head of training is on call, smoothing bumps and intercepting problems before they spiral.

Miya Dias · Co-founder & Head of Training

She trained the trainers at Winning by Design.

Meta · Amazon · Uber · Slack · and more

Sales teams she's trained.

05 · Pricing · two models, no mystery
Scaling hire

20% of first-year base.

For established roles you're scaling up.

Founding hire

An upfront fee, which rolls into 20% on hire.

For brand-new roles.

Book 30 minutes with me.

Bring the role you're stuck on. If I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you. You'll know inside five minutes, and you'll walk with a clear read on your search no matter what.

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