by Erica Seidel | Feb 25, 2025
I love helping strong SaaS CMOs recruit their VPs. How should SaaS CMOs be thinking about assembling their teams in today’s landscape? Based on my recent conversations with SaaS CMOs, here are key organizational factors to consider in 2025. General Observations for...
by Erica Seidel | Feb 3, 2025
I run a retained executive search practice with a laser focus on recruiting the ‘make money’ type of marketing leaders, not the ‘make it pretty’ ones. So I’ve had thousands of conversations in the course of recruiting CMOs and VPs of...
by Erica Seidel | Dec 16, 2024
Hiring a CMO is one of the most challenging—and risky—decisions for a CEO: Marketing is often critical to the company’s growth thesis. Marketing is often misunderstood: Everyone THINKS they understand marketing, but often they don’t. Marketing ROI doesn’t...
by Erica Seidel | Nov 14, 2024
Excited to share with you the latest episode of The Get podcast! For this one, I talked with Gary Survis, Operating Partner with Insight Partners. we discuss how the strongest CMOs limit risk when transitioning into new marketing leadership roles: They stand out by...
by Erica Seidel | Oct 31, 2024
What do CEOs fear most when hiring CMOs? In this episode of The Get podcast, we discuss why the CMO role is particularly tough to fill, and common concerns that bedevil CEOs and investors when they hire CMOs. My guest is Peter Mahoney, Chief Commercial Officer at GoTo...
by Erica Seidel | Sep 24, 2024
These days, when CEOs and investors hire marketing leaders, they can have very specific wish lists. Such as: Experience scaling from point A to point B Facility with a mix of sales-led and product-led growth motions Background that spikes in demand generation...
by Erica Seidel | Aug 29, 2024
A successful career, in my view, comes from 3 things: talent, good luck, and good decision-making. Let’s assume you are talented, and let’s assume luck is out of your hands. The lever you are left with is your decision-making. How can you make the...
by Erica Seidel | Aug 15, 2024
I’ve recruited marketing leaders for 13 years. What my CEO and investor clients often mention to me in passing is that the CMO role is the hardest one to recruit for…. and the trickiest executive role to get right. In the latest episode of The Get podcast,...
by Erica Seidel | Aug 1, 2024
The newest episode of The Get is live and it’s a really exciting one! It’s called “CMO Secrets to Maximize Recruiter & Network Relationships.” I do a deep dive with my guest Tracy Eiler, CMO at OpenSesame. You’ll hear about: What’s...
by Erica Seidel | Jul 18, 2024
Excited to share that The Get podcast is back! It’s Season 6… and our theme this season is ‘The Race to Reduce Risk in CMO Recruiting.’ I’ve been thinking a lot lately, in this unique hiring market, about the role of risk in CMO recruiting....
by Erica Seidel | Jun 3, 2024
I’m feeling a bit more attuned to risk than usual these last few days. In Philadelphia last week for a reunion, I was merrily walking down the street with a friend. Suddenly I tripped on some uneven pavement and crashed down, knocking the bejesus out of not one...
by Erica Seidel | Apr 10, 2024
“What’s the market like in executive search for SaaS CMOs now?” I’m getting this question a LOT these days. (The only question I get more is from my husband, and that’s: “Will you PLEASE not start a conversation with me from three...
