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Top 25 C-suite recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 249 c-suite recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,160 professional contacts across them, including 743 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (952 companies); San Francisco has 249.
This list covers c-suite recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest c-suite recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Riviera Partners is a global executive recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Engineering, Product and Design leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Trium Group is a management consulting and executive coaching firm that helps organizations solve their most complex strategic, operational, cultural, and leadership…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Do you need to hire exceptional talent?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SPMB is the #1 executive search firm serving the technology market and one of the largest independent retained search firms in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We build world-class executive and technical teams for companies catalyzing a decarbonized economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today's economic climate requires talented professionals to drive and support critical business decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diligente Technologies follows a streamlined screening process that enables us to target the right individuals from the very beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Placing talent in Sales, Marketing, Product and Engineering, Andiamo!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2013 with a vision to demystify the recruiting process, vHire is a Silicon Valley initiative committed to transform the customary recruiting practice into an innovative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Cole Group is the world's top sales and marketing search firm, serving clients like OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable, Clay, Kalshi, Vercel, Lambda, Vanta, Cribl, Figma, Doordash…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maven Recruiting Group specializes in recruiting Executive Assistants, administrative, operations, and Human Resources professionals to the Bay Area’s most prominent Executives…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovations is a leading West Coast Recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Raya is an advisory & recruiting boutique firm focused on AI, engineering, product, and marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We work with YC and a16z founders on the hires that matter most: the ones where getting it wrong costs months of runway.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rich Talent Group partners with today’s most innovative companies-from high-growth to Fortune 500-to build transformative leadership teams and Board of Directors that help change…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Growth by Design Talent partners with venture backed technology companies to build exceptional talent strategies and recruiting functions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recruiting Excellence in the San Francisco Bay Area for 50 Years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PeopleConnect is a full-service executive search firm specializing in the high tech, clean tech, and scientific industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Buyside recruiting expertise from Associate through Partner level” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hunter SF brings over three decades of combined experience to recruiting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you struggling to find great restaurant managers and chefs?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nosal Partners is now NGS Global.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We recruit and support leaders who strengthen nonprofits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1969 Pathways Personnel uses its strong nation wide network of legal and corporate professionals built from our stable and continuous presence in the employment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: c-suite recruiting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names c-suite recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of c-suite recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name c-suite recruiting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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C-suite recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 249 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among c-suite recruiting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “c-suite recruiting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names c-suite recruiting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among c-suite recruiting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 743 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
C-suite recruiting firms by metro in the United States
- C-suite recruiting firms in New York952
- C-suite recruiting firms in Chicago371
- C-suite recruiting firms in Atlanta316
- C-suite recruiting firms in Houston304
- C-suite recruiting firms in Los Angeles300
- C-suite recruiting firms in Dallas280
- C-suite recruiting firms in Austin215
- C-suite recruiting firms in Boston169
- C-suite recruiting firms in Denver154
- C-suite recruiting firms in Miami154
- C-suite recruiting firms in San Diego137
- C-suite recruiting firms in Charlotte136
- C-suite recruiting firms in Tampa119
- C-suite recruiting firms in Phoenix116
- C-suite recruiting firms in Washington101
- C-suite recruiting firms in Orlando100
- C-suite recruiting firms in Minneapolis99
- C-suite recruiting firms in Seattle92
- C-suite recruiting firms in Philadelphia82
- C-suite recruiting firms in Nashville76
- C-suite recruiting firms in Irvine74
- C-suite recruiting firms in Scottsdale69
- C-suite recruiting firms in Wilmington64
- C-suite recruiting firms in Sheridan59
- C-suite recruiting firms in Cleveland58
- C-suite recruiting firms in Cincinnati57
- C-suite recruiting firms in Pittsburgh57
- C-suite recruiting firms in Plano56
- C-suite recruiting firms in Boca Raton55
- C-suite recruiting firms in Columbus55
- C-suite recruiting firms in New York City54
- C-suite recruiting firms in Indianapolis53
- C-suite recruiting firms in Raleigh51
- C-suite recruiting firms in Portland49
- C-suite recruiting firms in Las Vegas48
- C-suite recruiting firms in Fort Lauderdale47
- C-suite recruiting firms in Jacksonville47
- C-suite recruiting firms in San Jose44
- C-suite recruiting firms in Greenville43
- C-suite recruiting firms in San Antonio43
- C-suite recruiting firms in Omaha42
- C-suite recruiting firms in Sarasota40
- C-suite recruiting firms in Alpharetta38
- C-suite recruiting firms in Arlington37
- C-suite recruiting firms in Rochester36
- C-suite recruiting firms in Newport Beach34
- C-suite recruiting firms in St. Louis34
- C-suite recruiting firms in Overland Park33
- C-suite recruiting firms in Salt Lake City33
- C-suite recruiting firms in Frisco32
- C-suite recruiting firms in Milwaukee32
- C-suite recruiting firms in Kansas City31
- C-suite recruiting firms in Richmond31
- C-suite recruiting firms in Baltimore30
- C-suite recruiting firms in Columbia30
- C-suite recruiting firms in Fort Worth29
- C-suite recruiting firms in Sacramento27
- C-suite recruiting firms in Naples26
- C-suite recruiting firms in Remote26
- C-suite recruiting firms in Stamford25
- C-suite recruiting firms in Troy25
- C-suite recruiting firms in Tulsa25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names c-suite recruiting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many c-suite recruiting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 249 c-suite recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Riviera Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most c-suite recruiting firms?
New York leads the United States with 952 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (371) and Atlanta (316). San Francisco has 249.
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 743 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 249 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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