C-Suite Recruitment & Executive Leadership Search

Explore the biggest SaaS executive search challenges and how Oakstone International overcomes them to deliver high-impact GTM and leadership hires.

Learn how to craft a compelling, high-impact LinkedIn presence that showcases your story, strengths and commercial achievements. Ideal for SaaS sales, CS, marketing and GTM professionals looking to increase visibility and credibility.

In our latest blog, we explore why confidential hiring is so often essential in SaaS, how the process works, and why choosing the right executive search partner is a critical part of the journey.

For decades, tech has been a male-dominated space, due to cultural stereotypes, educational imbalances, recruitment practices and a lack of female role models.

At Oakstone International, we’ve seen this shift first-hand. Over the last year, we’ve made measurable progress in helping our clients create more gender-diverse teams.

If you're struggling to understand why great candidates drop out halfway through interviews or go cold just as you're ready to make an offer, the issue probably isn't your talent pool; it's your hiring process.

Discover how SaaS hiring managers can reduce time-to-hire without sacrificing candidate quality. Learn the proven tactics from Oakstone International’s GTM recruitment experts.

Discover 8 reasons why marketing drives revenue growth in B2B SaaS GTM strategies. Learn how positioning, ABM, and data-driven tactics fuel success.

Understand SaaS sales compensation structures, from base salary and quotas to retention metrics and accelerators. Explore key components, common pitfalls, and trends shaping high-performing SaaS sales teams.

Discover why presales is critical in SaaS. Learn how sales engineering boosts win rates, shortens cycles, and drives customer success.

Deepfakes and fake job applications are slowing down recruitment. What’s the answer? People-driven Recruitment Partners.

Artificial intelligence contributes to everything from content creation to customer service, so it's no surprise that it has also made its way into the job application process. While this has opened doors for efficiency and innovation, it has also brought a growing challenge for companies looking to scale. Fake job applications, AI-written CVs, and even deepfake interviewees are now a common occurrence.

Hiring the right people at the right time requires more than just filling roles; it demands alignment with the company’s long-term goals. A clear strategy helps you identify future talent needs and growth plans and stay competitive in attracting top performers.

Leaner teams, higher output, and a hiring landscape where making the right hire isn't just important, it's business critical. Leaner teams, higher output, and a hiring landscape where making the right hire isn't just important, it's business critical.

While companies worldwide are striving to find the perfect balance between hybrid, remote, and in-office models, there is no clear winner when it comes to productivity. According to McKinsey, all working models, whether fully remote, hybrid, or in-person, report similar levels of engagement, intent to stay, and overall satisfaction. The key lies not in rigid policies but in companies' practices to foster connectivity, innovation, and growth.

The SaaS sector is one of the most competitive industries for attracting and retaining top sales talent. With countless companies competing for the same high performers, differentiating your company and making it the preferred choice is critical. Here’s how to effectively position your SaaS company to sales candidates and secure the best talent for your team.

The last 4 years have been a rollercoaster from hiring surges to mass redundancies, remote working to return to office and back again. The unpredictable talent trends in sectors such as technology have proven challenging for everyone in the industry to navigate.

Making sense of current talent trends can help us predict future trends, including desirable skills, ways to attract talent and ways to boost retention.

LinkedIn recently published the findings of their 2024 Global Talent Trends. The data comes from LinkedIn's Economic Graph, the LinkedIn Executive Confidence Index survey, and the global community of more than 1 billion members on the LinkedIn platform. 

Every leader aims to build a team that consistently delivers exceptional results, especially in highly competitive sectors like SaaS and sales. However, balancing diverse talents within the team can be challenging. High-performing individuals, or "A-players," often carry the heaviest load, innovating, problem-solving, and setting the standard for success.

If your internal acquisition team are expected to find your ideal candidate through advertising the job alone, they are set up to fail. And if your company is working with a recruiter who advertises the job and boasts about having 3000 applications, you are most likely wasting time and, therefore, money.

At Oakstone, we've honed our approach to finding high-performing leaders and creating results-driven teams for our clients. Our success is built on our people and experience, and we maximise effectiveness to deliver exceptional results for both candidates and companies.

This guide will walk you through the process, from understanding the need for an external CEO to making the final hiring decision.

Businesses often turn to recruiters to save time and money on talent acquisition, however, a specialist recruiter offers even more significant advantages for sectors with unique skill requirements, such as technology, SaaS and FinTech.

Talent acquisition is a crucial component in driving organisational success. However, the traditional methods of advertising job roles, while providing broad exposure, often result in an influx of unqualified candidates. This inefficiency can be particularly detrimental when hiring for executive-level positions, where the stakes are higher, and the need for the right fit is critical.

While AI enhances efficiency and decision-making, it can also impact the candidate experience in ways that might not align with your company's values and goals.

Start up advice from Fractional CRO and Sales Leader Nick Bareham, Ex VP of Sales at Cyara Perry Gale and Advisor at One Peak Partner Investors Martin Moran.

The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry's success hinges on more than just cutting-edge technology; it relies on the ability to build high-performing go-to-market teams that drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction.

It's not only AI companies which are expanding on the new technologies. Data shows that countless organisations are building out an AI-skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Guest contributions from Dr. Andrea Isoni, Guillaume Laport and Paul Rayner.

Companies constantly seek innovative solutions to streamline operations and cut costs without compromising productivity. In 2023, we witnessed drastic cost-cutting in the form of global redundancies. However, we are now seeing different strategies being increasingly adopted.

Fractional CROs have emerged as critical players in navigating companies through crucial growth phases.

Oakstone International are witnessing an unprecedented surge in demand for fractional CROs, marking a notable shift in how companies approach revenue generation and strategic decision-making. This surge is a direct response to the increased demand from companies seeking the unique advantages fractional CROs bring to the table and a broader shift towards a fractional way of working.

It is not a secret that executive leadership and talent are needed to spearhead companies’ growth and innovation. Organisations often turn to a specialised breed of professionals known as executive headhunters, recruiters or consultants in this pursuit.

These high-ranking executives are at the helm of strategic decision-making, and finding the right individuals to fill these roles is essential.

The executive search process to fill these roles is specialised to ensure the right individual is hired, minimising organisational costs and disruption.

This article will delve into retained executive search and its benefits. We will explore what retained executive search entails, its unique approach, the access it provides to hidden talent, its comprehensive process, and why the fees associated with it are often worth the investment.