Rainmakers
About
Rainmakers runs a sales recruiting platform and talent marketplace that matches employers with pre-vetted sales professionals. Employers can hire in three ways: post jobs for free on its sales job board, search curated salespeople through self-serve access, or hand a search to its experts for full-cycle recruiting. Salespeople create a profile that shows their track record, and the company says the platform is free for them and hides their information from current and previous employers. Rainmakers says it specializes in inside sales, outside sales and sales leadership roles, from SDRs to chief revenue officers, across software, technology and medical technology companies. Founded in 2016, it was acquired in 2022 by Hirewell, a talent solutions company, and also serves as Hirewell's candidate presentation platform.
Roles recruited for
- Inside sales: SDRs, BDRs, inside and full-cycle SMB account executives, inside account managers, sales engineers and sales operations
- Outside sales: enterprise and strategic account executives, key and territory account managers, field sales reps and channel or partnership reps
- Sales leadership: CROs, VPs and directors of sales, SDR and BDR managers, heads of revenue operations and sales enablement leaders
- Verticals: software (SaaS), technology hardware, and medical and MedTech companies
TopCloserR Perspective
What we’d expect selling here to look like
Rainmakers sells sales hiring services to employers, from a free job post and self-serve access to its candidate pool up to full-cycle recruiting, while salespeople join for free. The model implies a two-sided marketplace sale in which the team must keep both sides active: winning employers with open sales roles and then moving the larger searches to its full-cycle recruiting service, which the site says is powered by Hirewell.
What it builds, by career stage
- Breaking in
- For SDRs, BDRs and those aiming for a first SDR role, the business implies reaching founders, sales leaders and talent teams who are hiring salespeople, which builds a deep understanding of how sales teams are built and what employers look for.
- Building
- For account executives, account managers, recruiters and those working toward those titles, it implies selling a hiring outcome to employers, moving them from a free job post or self-serve access toward a full recruiting search.
- Leading
- For sales managers, directors and heads of sales, it implies running a team that sells to other sales leaders, balancing self-serve marketplace growth with the larger full-cycle recruiting engagements.
Where it can take you
The experience travels to agency and in-house recruiting roles, business development at staffing and RPO firms, and account executive roles at HR technology and job marketplace companies. It also suits moves into talent acquisition for sales teams.
Questions worth asking
Considering a sales role at Rainmakers? Ask these in your interview.
- How do employers usually move from a free job post or self-serve access to a full recruiting search?
- How do Rainmakers and Hirewell split the work on a full-cycle sales search?
- How does the team keep the candidate side of the marketplace active as well as the employer side?
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