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Not hiring sales? We got you!

While we specialize in sales, we also have experience running targeted searches in engineering, executive, marketing, product, design, and operations.

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Pay $0 until start. 90-day replacement guarantee.

  • Contingency for most seats. Retained only for rare leadership mandates.
  • Structured screens mapped to the role, not a recycled sales rubric.
  • Los Angeles based. We work with teams across the U.S. and Canada.

Practices we run

Practices

Searches we run outside sales

Need an engineer, marketer, PM, operator, or exec? We source people who have done that job, then put a shortlist on your calendar.

Engineering

Specialist engineers for plants, products, and hardware programs that cannot wait on a generalist desk.

  • Civil and structural
  • Mechanical and manufacturing
  • Electrical and aerospace

Startup executive search

Leadership seats next to the founder, where judgment and stage fit matter more than a polished resume.

  • Founder-adjacent operators
  • Functional heads
  • Early C-level mandates

Marketing

Growth and content hires who can ship campaigns, not only decks, for an early GTM motion.

  • Growth marketers
  • Content leads
  • Demand generation

Product and design

PMs and designers who can turn a messy backlog into a product founders will actually ship.

  • Product managers
  • UX / UI designers
  • Product designers

Operations

Operators who keep supply, inventory, and the business moving while the company is still small.

  • Supply chain
  • Buyers and planners
  • Logistics and biz ops

How we work

Source, screen, then put people on your calendar

Non-sales searches do not get a mock cold call. They get a screen that matches the work.

01

Source

We map the seat, then search networks and outbound for people who have done this work at a similar stage or industry, not just adjacent titles.

02

Structured screen

Each practice gets its own screen: technical depth for engineers, portfolio and product sense for design, operating cadence for ops and exec seats. We do not run mock cold calls on these searches.

03

Submit

You see a shortlist with notes on fit, risk, and why they are in the packet. Your calendar stays reserved for people who already passed that filter.

Sales seats still get the mock-call process. See how we hire founding AEs.

FAQs

Other searches, answered

What we fill besides sales, how screening works, fees, and where we work.

Besides founding AE and early sales, we run engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, aerospace, manufacturing), startup executive search, marketing (growth and content), product and design (PMs, UX/UI, product designers), and operations (supply chain, buyers and planners, logistics, biz ops).

Sales candidates still complete a structured pre-screen and a live mock cold call on your product. For non-sales seats we use role-specific screens: work samples, technical depth, operating history, and stage fit. We do not force a sales rubric onto engineers, designers, or operators.

Most seats, including many leadership hires, run contingency. You pay nothing until the candidate starts. Retained fits rare C-level or tightly confidential mandates. We will tell you which model the seat actually needs.

Placement fees are 20–33% of first-year base salary on your Order Form, with a 20% floor. No retainer on standard contingency searches. If the hire leaves for performance or fit within 90 days of start, we run a replacement search at no additional placement fee.

Vektor Talent is based in Los Angeles and places hires for teams across the U.S. and Canada.

Ready to open a seat outside sales?

There's still no fee until your hire starts. 90-day replacement if the hire leaves for performance or fit.

We keep a limited number of active searches open at a time.

Hiring sales instead? See founding AE searches.