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Top 25 C-suite recruitment firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 175 c-suite recruitment firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,367 professional contacts across them, including 567 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (762 companies); San Francisco has 175.
This list covers c-suite recruitment 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 recruitment firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 “Do you need to hire exceptional talent?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovations is a leading West Coast Recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Buyside recruiting expertise from Associate through Partner level” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nosal Partners is now NGS Global.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GROUPE INSEARCH, INC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VIEW our OPEN JOBS at: BURKE + CO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ormsby Park is a national retained executive search firm focused exclusively on the financial officer market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Loring Group is a retained executive search firm led by former industry executives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aperture is a go-to-market focused executive search firm practicing leadership hiring as a craft-where trust is built through deep understanding and every search is an act of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Watanabe Schwartz specializes in the representation of law firm partners and practice groups seeking new affiliations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BaseTalent is a boutique firm singularly focused on providing best in class Talent Acquisition solutions.” 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 recruitment 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 recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of c-suite recruitment 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 recruitment 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 recruitment 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 175 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 recruitment 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 recruitment 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 recruitment 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 recruitment 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, 567 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 recruitment firms by metro in the United States
- C-suite recruitment firms in New York762
- C-suite recruitment firms in Chicago257
- C-suite recruitment firms in Los Angeles226
- C-suite recruitment firms in Atlanta208
- C-suite recruitment firms in Dallas175
- C-suite recruitment firms in Houston172
- C-suite recruitment firms in Austin134
- C-suite recruitment firms in Boston121
- C-suite recruitment firms in Miami106
- C-suite recruitment firms in Denver98
- C-suite recruitment firms in San Diego88
- C-suite recruitment firms in Charlotte87
- C-suite recruitment firms in Tampa84
- C-suite recruitment firms in Washington73
- C-suite recruitment firms in Phoenix64
- C-suite recruitment firms in Seattle62
- C-suite recruitment firms in Minneapolis59
- C-suite recruitment firms in Orlando52
- C-suite recruitment firms in Philadelphia51
- C-suite recruitment firms in Irvine50
- C-suite recruitment firms in Nashville49
- C-suite recruitment firms in New York City48
- C-suite recruitment firms in Scottsdale47
- C-suite recruitment firms in Cleveland40
- C-suite recruitment firms in Pittsburgh40
- C-suite recruitment firms in Boca Raton39
- C-suite recruitment firms in Raleigh39
- C-suite recruitment firms in Columbus37
- C-suite recruitment firms in Cincinnati35
- C-suite recruitment firms in Wilmington32
- C-suite recruitment firms in Portland31
- C-suite recruitment firms in Fort Lauderdale29
- C-suite recruitment firms in Indianapolis29
- C-suite recruitment firms in Plano28
- C-suite recruitment firms in Sarasota28
- C-suite recruitment firms in Las Vegas26
- C-suite recruitment firms in Omaha25
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 recruitment 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 recruitment firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 175 c-suite recruitment 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 recruitment firms?
New York leads the United States with 762 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (257) and Los Angeles (226). San Francisco has 175.
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 567 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 175 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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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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