SaaS sales recruitment · London & New York

SaaS sales hires.
That's all we do.

SDRs, Account Executives and sales leaders, placed by consultants who carried a quota before they carried a search.

01 · Brief

We don't need a briefing on your business model.

ARR, pipeline velocity, CAC/LTV, PLG versus sales-led. Every consultant already speaks it, so the first call is about the hire, not the vocabulary.

02 · Search

Fifteen years of a network that only sells software.

Proactive and reactive search across the UK, US and Europe. The people you want are rarely applying. They are in our phone.

03 · Shortlist

Three to five candidates. Not twenty CVs and hope.

Every name is benchmarked against your stage, culture and commercial need. The first AE for a Series A looks nothing like the enterprise seller you need at Series C.

04 · Interview

Briefed before. Debriefed after. Every round.

Candidates arrive prepared and leave heard. You get honest feedback in both directions, so nobody wastes a week finding out what a ten-minute call would have told them.

05 · Offer & onboard

Managed to signature. Supported after it.

Compensation benchmarks for both sides of the Atlantic, counter-offer handling and post-placement check-ins. The hire is done when they are hitting number.

Why h2

Hire the seller,
not the CV.

Keyword-matching a CV to a job description finds people who write well. It doesn't find people who close. h2 Recruit was founded in 2011 by two former software sales professionals who had been on the wrong end of that. We don't try to be the biggest agency. We aim to be the most respected SaaS sales and GTM recruiter in the market, the one founders, sales leaders and candidates come back to for a whole career.

  • SDR / BDR
  • Account Executive
  • Enterprise
  • Leadership
  • GTM

Live roles.

A sample of searches open this week across London, New York and Paris. Salaries shown are the real bands from the brief.

01

New York · Onsite · $125K–$175K base + equity

Product Marketing Manager

AI-native brand and retail intelligence platform, freshly seed-funded. First marketing hire.

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02

New York · Onsite · $140K–$190K OTE

Strategic Account Manager

Engagement lead for enterprise consumer brands on a single auditable data source.

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03

New York · Founding hire · $300K OTE + equity

Enterprise Account Executive

First enterprise seller. Own the motion from zero to repeatable.

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04

London · Private markets data

GTM Associate / SDR

One of the first go-to-market hires at a venture-backed intelligence platform selling to VC and PE.

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05

Paris · Hybrid · E-invoicing & tax SaaS

Commercial Account Executive

Global compliance-tech leader scaling its e-invoicing offer across France.

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06

London · Enterprise infrastructure scale-up

Partner Account Manager

Build and run the partner channel for an infrastructure business in hyper-growth.

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07

London · Hybrid · £90K–£110K base / £185K–£220K OTE

Founding Client Partner

AI performance marketing. Remote-first, first commercial hire.

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How we work

One consultant.
One search.
Start to signature.

No hand-offs between a "resourcer" and an "account manager". The person who took the brief is the person who calls you with the shortlist.

  1. 01

    Consultation, not a form

    A detailed conversation about stage, territory, comp structure and what "good" has looked like before. For candidates, the same depth on what you actually want next.

  2. 02

    Benchmark against the market

    We are placing these roles every week in London and New York, so the comp bands and expectations we give you are this quarter's, not last year's.

  3. 03

    A shortlist of three to five

    Every candidate interviewed by a former seller, prepped, and matched on stage and culture. Nobody sent "just to see".

  4. 04

    Offer, counter-offer, onboarding

    We manage the offer stage on both sides and stay in the loop after start date. Referral scheme: £250 per placement for successful candidate referrals.

"We benchmark against the market because we are the market."

Candidate outreach, running now

Your search, while you sleep.

Every open role feeds a personalised outreach sequence to matched sellers in our network. Replies land with the consultant, warm, before the first coffee. Below is a live-style replay of one night's run.

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    Try it

    Brief the role.
    Get a market read in seconds.

    Describe the seat in one line and we'll tell you the comp band, where the candidates are, and how long the shortlist takes. Then a human calls you.

    Answers are indicative. A consultant confirms every number.

    What we place

    Every seat on a SaaS revenue team. One recruiter.

    Free download · April 2026

    2026 SaaS Sales
    Salary Report.

    Account Executives, Senior AEs and founding GTM hires. UK, US and Europe. Base, OTE and equity bands, prepared from the searches we actually ran.

    About

    You see the hire.
    We see the quota behind it.

    h2 Recruit was founded in 2011 by Ian Harwood and Brian Hawkins. Both sold software before they recruited for it, and both understood that hiring great salespeople takes more than matching keywords. The New York office opened the same year, headed by Hamish Scott, on the back of UK clients who needed a specialist on the ground in North America.

    Every consultant on the team is a former sales professional. That is why we evaluate a candidate the way a sales leader would, and why clients and candidates keep coming back across an entire career.

    Ian HarwoodCo-founder · London
    Brian HawkinsCo-founder · London
    Hamish ScottSenior VP of Sales · New York

    Your next AE is already in our network.

    The first conversation is on us.

    Tell us the seat, the stage and the number. We'll tell you, honestly, what the market will give you for it.