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Top 25 Contingency recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 74 contingency recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 974 professional contacts across them, including 151 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers contingency 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 14, 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 contingency recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spectra360 was named amongst the nation’s fastest-growing talent management agencies in 2018 by Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Job Shop listens to both clients and candidates with equal care, ensuring thoughtful, custom placements that truly fit.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “80Twenty exists to find and place exceptional growth talent, advancing the ambitions of our company partners and the dreams of the talent we champion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today's economic climate requires talented professionals to drive and support critical business decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovations is a leading West Coast Recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Ascend Talent Solutions, 34 YEARS OF RECRUITING, FRONTLINE AND SALES MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE IS BROUGHT TO YOUR TALENT AND CAREER SEARCH.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At The Hire Standard, we blend the art of adaptability with the science of strategy to connect top performing talent with the companies where they can thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bold new companies are developing innovative business models, creating cultures and building brands that change the way we live, eat, play and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Monroe Personnel Service LLC has set a standard for staffing assistance excellence in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hiring, Optimized.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TechConnexion is an end-to-end, collaborative, boutique recruiting firm supporting organizations from stealth startups to public, Fortune 500 names.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The new workforce is anything but traditional… so why use the traditional search firm?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide temporary or permanent employees to companies in the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BullsEye Hires approach to staffing is what sets us apart in the recruiting industry; we don't look at people as commodities, we look at them as stakeholders who will have an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Twenty80, where we specialize in connecting top-tier talent with forward-thinking organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve partnered with stellar executives and top investors to help them find, recruit and land top talent for over 18 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Patch & Associates is an executive search and recruiting firm which specializes in public relations, corporate communications and marketing search, including digital marketing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are San Francisco-based 'headhunters' specializing in executive searches often requiring relocation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Upscale Recruiting, we believe business is about creation-about building not just companies, but legacies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 20 years of experience as an executive recruiter, I specialize in building marketing teams for startups and mid-sized B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pac Heights Partners is a recruitment firm that specializes in building world-class engineering teams for VC-backed startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delivering a consistency in actions, values, principles, expectations and outcome".” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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: contingency 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 contingency recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of contingency recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name contingency 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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Contingency recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 14, 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 74 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 contingency 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 “contingency 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 contingency 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 contingency 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, 151 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 14, 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.
Contingency recruiting firms by metro in the United States
- Contingency recruiting firms in New York278
- Contingency recruiting firms in Houston181
- Contingency recruiting firms in Atlanta140
- Contingency recruiting firms in Chicago133
- Contingency recruiting firms in Dallas133
- Contingency recruiting firms in Los Angeles109
- Contingency recruiting firms in Austin80
- Contingency recruiting firms in Boston74
- Contingency recruiting firms in San Francisco74
- Contingency recruiting firms in Denver68
- Contingency recruiting firms in Phoenix68
- Contingency recruiting firms in Miami66
- Contingency recruiting firms in Tampa56
- Contingency recruiting firms in Charlotte54
- Contingency recruiting firms in San Diego50
- Contingency recruiting firms in Orlando49
- Contingency recruiting firms in Philadelphia45
- Contingency recruiting firms in Irvine39
- Contingency recruiting firms in Washington38
- Contingency recruiting firms in Sheridan37
- Contingency recruiting firms in Cincinnati35
- Contingency recruiting firms in Nashville35
- Contingency recruiting firms in Plano35
- Contingency recruiting firms in Wilmington35
- Contingency recruiting firms in Fort Lauderdale33
- Contingency recruiting firms in Seattle33
- Contingency recruiting firms in Minneapolis32
- Contingency recruiting firms in San Antonio32
- Contingency recruiting firms in Columbus30
- Contingency recruiting firms in Las Vegas30
- Contingency recruiting firms in Portland29
- Contingency recruiting firms in Indianapolis26
- Contingency recruiting firms in Irving25
- Contingency recruiting firms in Raleigh25
- Contingency recruiting firms in Scottsdale25
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 contingency 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 contingency recruiting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 74 contingency 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?
Spectra360, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most contingency recruiting firms?
New York leads with 278 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (181) and Atlanta (140).
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 151 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 74 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 14, 2026.
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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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