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Outbound Intelligence Engine

We find the agencies and brands hiring for SEO and paid media the week the role opens.

While researching your market we found a stack of public hiring signals we can read on every company, score into a real in-market read, and wrap into a personalized talent-market report. Here is the data engine, a live example on a real dream-fit agency, the three offers we will split-test, and the plan to get you booked calls.

8
live hiring signals we read per company
15+
open search roles found on one target, live
3
offers ready to split-test
£0
cost on most of the data
What we found

The public hiring data we plug into

Every one of these is real and reachable today, most of it free. Together they let us see who is hiring a search-marketing role right now, how fast they are scaling, and who owns the decision, all from public signals, before a single email goes out.

LinkedIn Jobs

API · pennies/company

Every open role a company is posting, filtered to SEO, Paid Media, PPC and Growth titles.

Infer: a live open search role is the single clearest in-market buying signal there is.

Current headcount, the team size in marketing, and how fast both are growing.

Infer: headcount growth means more roles coming, scaling teams hire specialists fastest.

ATS detection

Greenhouse · Lever · Ashby

Which applicant tracking system runs their careers page, and how many roles sit inside it.

Infer: an active ATS carrying open marketing roles is a serious, funded hiring funnel.

Indexed job pages and Google Jobs listings, with how recently each role was posted.

Infer: a fresh, public careers funnel and role recency, urgency, not a stale listing.

Recruitment ad spend

Ad libraries

Whether they are paying to advertise roles on Google and LinkedIn ad placements.

Infer: paying to recruit means organic hiring is failing, the moment a specialist partner wins.

Tech stack

BuiltWith / Apify

The SEO and analytics tools a company runs, Ahrefs, Semrush, GA4, GSC, Screaming Frog.

Infer: a real search-marketing stack confirms a genuine function, and the right buyer.

The decision-maker by company type, founder and CEO at agencies, Dir of SEO, VP Marketing or Talent in-house.

Infer: the exact person who feels the cost of the open seat, and how to reach them.

Funding & expansion

News · SERP

Recent raises, new offices and expansion news on named agencies and brands.

Infer: a raise or a new market means a hiring surge, reach out before the role even opens.

SalaryGuide market data

Your data, suggested

Live comp and market data on the exact role they are hiring, from your own SalaryGuide.

Infer: what the role should pay and what the market is doing, the lead magnet itself.

Also on tap: Companies House for UK entity and size, and Glassdoor reviews that surface hiring pain in their own employees' words.

How it works

How we turn public signals into an in-market target

None of this is a template with a name dropped in. We chain the signals together so every prospect we hand you is a real company, with a real open search role, scored against your ICP. We find the in-market role. Your Golden Recruitment Formula closes the hire.

1

Pull the open roles

Find every SEO, Paid and Growth role a company is posting right now.

LinkedIn Jobs / careers
2

Read the company

Headcount, growth, ATS, tech stack and the decision-maker behind the role.

HarvestAPI / BuiltWith
3

Stack the signals

Recruitment ad spend, funding, role recency and the SalaryGuide comp band.

Ad libraries / SalaryGuide
4

Score the fit

Against your ICP, agency 30 to 50, in-house 50 plus, legal as priority.

Search For Hire ICP
= a real, in-market hiring target
A named company, a live open search role, the decision-maker, and the comp data to open the conversation, handed to you ready to work.
We keep it honest. Public hiring data is a sound inference from real signals, not a copy of their internal hiring plan. The exact brief is confirmed the moment they reply and book a call, which is exactly what the offers are built to do.
A live example

Real signals, pulled today, on a real dream-fit agency

We ran the engine on one of your named dream clients straight from public hiring signals. Nothing here is invented. Any prospect on the list gets the same treatment.

BrainlabsHigh-performance media agency · New York, US · 1,000+ staff
PULLED LIVE · 17 JUN 2026
from public hiring signals
15+
open search-marketing roles
1,000+
team size
PE-backed
growth signal
Greenhouse
hiring stack

How we read it

Brainlabs is posting 15+ open search-marketing roles right now, several at director level, all run through a Greenhouse careers funnel. The public signals tell us exactly how to open the conversation:

  • Director, SEO and Associate Director, Paid Search are both open and posted within the last few days, senior, client-facing seats.
  • 15+ search roles at once across SEO, paid search and analytics, a hiring volume that stretches any in-house team.
  • Greenhouse ATS, 1,000+ headcount, PE-backed, a serious, funded hiring funnel scaling fast after the Exverus acquisition.
  • Remote-US senior roles, exactly the top 1% pool that does not answer job ads, which is where your private network wins.

Put together, Brainlabs is a textbook in-market target: a high volume of senior search roles, an active hiring funnel, and a warm route in. The talent-market report opens the door; the Golden Recruitment Formula fills the seat.

In-market read: 15+ open search roles, director-level, in-market now
Open the full talent-market report
More, same engine

The same pull across your dream-client list

A spread across your ICP, from specialist agencies to in-house brand teams. Each one shows what the engine surfaces: the open roles, the team behind them, the hiring signals, and the in-market read.

Jellyfish

Global agency · T2

~25 open roles · Paid Media + analytics · US / UK / LATAM

A steady flow of senior paid and analytics seats across regions, exactly the six-figure roles you specialise in.

Siege Media

SEO agency · T1

SEO + content led · San Diego · Inc. 5000 x6

Founder-led and SEO-first, hires senior SEO and content strategists, a flagship tier-1 culture fit.

Legal SEO & paid agencies

Legal · Priority

US · 30 to 50 staff · 2026 priority niche

The Hennessey and Rankings.io archetype, scaling and hiring senior search, where your proof lands hardest.

In-house brand teams

In-house · T2

50+ staff · internal talent function

The SEMrush, Cadence and Sage archetype, hiring strategic search roles. About half of your placements.

Funding-triggered scale-ups

Trigger

Recently raised · first senior search lead

We catch the raise and reach out the week the hiring surge starts, before the role is even posted.

GEO & AI-search roles

Emerging

Hardest-to-fill · tiny top 1% pool

The skill ceiling just moved, exactly where a specialist headhunter is worth the most.

Open-role counts and signals here are pulled from public job boards and company pages and are indicative at a point in time. We run the exact live pull per company, as with the worked example above, before any outreach.

The campaign

Three offers we will split-test

Same ICP, same data engine behind them, three different doors in. All three launch in parallel, then we pour volume into the winner. Every one is built to hit the same nerve: they have been burnt by generalist recruiters and cannot afford to get the next senior hire wrong.

Offer ATalent-market report
Offer BCost of the open seat
Offer CProof, then a call

The "that's our actual role" play. We send a personalized talent-market report on the exact role they have open, built on SalaryGuide data, then book the call. Highest perceived effort, strongest hook.

    What the email says
  • We saw the open Head of SEO role and pulled the live market on it: what it should pay, how the comp band is moving, and how many operators actually fit.
  • Name the real cost of the seat sitting open while they fight for the same handful of specialists.
  • Position the proof: top 1 percent placed at the kind of agency they admire, filled in 25 days.
  • Ask: a look at the full report, then a 20-minute call.

The cost-of-inaction play. We open on what the open seat is quietly costing them, in account pressure, lost momentum and senior bandwidth, then offer to fix the timeline. Hits the fear of a critical seat sitting empty.

    What the email says
  • Every extra week a senior search seat stays open carries a real cost, and the industry norm is 55 to 75 days to fill it.
  • Proof: Hennessey Digital, a senior client-facing SEO seat placed on day 25 from a vetted pool of 257.
  • The wedge: a specialist who proves fit before the offer, not a generalist sending CVs with no context.
  • Ask: a 20-minute call to map the brief and the timeline.

The proof-first play, for the burnt buyer. Lead with the one thing no other recruiter offers, then go straight to a call. For founders who have been let down before.

    What the email says
  • One line: a specialist search-marketing headhunter that proves fit with an AI-enhanced scorecard before you ever make an offer.
  • The differentiator: the only partner that backs a placement with a full 1-year guarantee, against a 12-week industry norm.
  • Speak to the burn directly: built for teams who have been sprayed-and-prayed by generalists before.
  • Ask: a 20-minute call, no CVs until we have aligned on the perfect-fit human.
Who they use now

What Search For Hire displaces, and why it wins

We read how a prospect hires today from their signals, then name it in the email. Here is the field they are stuck choosing between, and the wedge that makes you the obvious answer.

Generalist recruiters

CV dump

Send a stack of CVs and LinkedIn URLs with zero context on whether the person can actually do the job.

Cannot vet EEAT, ROAS or the real tools. Three months interviewing, then nine months watching them underperform.

In-house talent team

Stretched

A generalist internal recruiter juggling every role, with no specialist network in search marketing.

Cannot reach the top 1 percent who are not job-hunting, and the seat stays open while they try.

Job boards & LinkedIn ads

Volume, not fit

Post and pray. A flood of applicants, almost none of them the operator the role actually needs.

Inbound volume buries the team, the real specialists never apply, and quality is a lottery.

Every one of them leaves the same gap. None can vet a specialist, none reaches the operators who are not looking, and none carries the risk. Search For Hire is specialist by design, proves fit with an AI-enhanced scorecard and the Behavioral Fit Engine before the offer, works a private network built through events and the Agency Growth Club podcast, fills 95 percent of roles within 25 days, and backs Gold-tier placements with a full 1-year guarantee. That is the wedge, in every email.

Two more plays

Beyond the cold list

Two angles that open doors a standard sequence misses.

Own the US legal niche

Your 2026 priority. US law firms are hiring search marketing in-house, and the legal SEO and paid agencies that serve them, the Hennessey and Rankings.io archetype, are scaling alongside. We watch legal-sector hiring signals specifically and concentrate volume there, where your case studies and proof are strongest and the buyer already trusts a specialist.

Catch the funding and expansion triggers

We watch raises, new US offices and rebrands across your dream list and reach out the week the hiring surge starts, before the role is even posted. Plus the emerging seat: GEO and AI-search specialists and data and engineering roles, where the skill ceiling just moved and the top 1 percent is hardest to find, exactly where a specialist partner is worth the most.

Who we target

The ICP breakdown

We target companies actively hiring a senior SEO, Paid Media or Growth role, mid to senior, six-figure seats, US-first then UK. Within that, three tiers by where the pain bites hardest, with legal as the priority overlay.

Three tiers

Tier 1 · Core

Sweet spot

Specialist digital marketing agencies, 30 to 50 staff, $1M+ ARR, fast-growing, remote or hybrid, founder-led. Often burnt by generalist recruiters before. Legal SEO and paid agencies sit right at the top.

Tier 2 · Strong

Expansion

In-house brand teams, 50+ employees with their own internal talent function, hiring strategic, high-impact search roles. The SEMrush, Cadence and Sage archetype. About half of placements.

Priority · Legal

2026 focus

The overlay across both tiers: US law firms hiring search marketing in-house, plus the specialist legal SEO and paid agencies serving them. Where your proof is strongest and the buyer already values a specialist.

Targeting at a glance

Target titles

The person who feels the cost of the open role directly. Agencies: CEO, Founder, Managing Director, we sell top-down. In-house: Director of SEO, VP of Marketing, Head of Growth, or an Internal Talent Partner.

Company & fee fit

Agencies 30 to 50 staff, in-house 50 plus. We hold a fee floor of £3,500 / $4,500, which maps to a salary floor near £45k / $60k. Mid to senior, six-figure roles only, no low-fee work.

Buying signals

An open or imminent SEO, Paid or Growth role, the core trigger. Plus headcount growth, an active ATS, recruitment ad spend, a recent raise or expansion, or a real search stack on the site.
The plan

How we run it

Inboxes warmed and ramped safely, all roads lead to a 20-minute call, and a call only counts as qualified when it clears five criteria.

Where we are

Now
Contract signed, engine built, offers written, inboxes warming, target list building from live hiring signals.
Once warmed
First personalized talent-market reports go out on the warmest accounts, all three offers in rotation.
Weeks 2 to 4
Read the data, kill the losers, pour volume into the winning offer. First qualified calls land on your calendar.
Ongoing
New open-role and funding triggers feed fresh in-market prospects into the top of the funnel every week.

What counts as a qualified call

  1. Company type & size · a specialist digital-marketing agency (30+ staff, $1M+ ARR) or an in-house brand team (50+) with a real search-marketing function.
  2. Live hiring need · an open or imminent SEO, Paid Media or Growth role, the trigger that makes them in-market.
  3. Authority · CEO or Founder at an agency, or Hiring Manager, Director of SEO, VP Marketing or Internal Talent in-house.
  4. Fee fit · the role sits at or above the fee floor (~£45k / $60k salary), a mid to senior, six-figure seat.
  5. Shows and stays · turns up on camera and stays at least 15 minutes (no-shows and sub-15-minute calls are not billable).

£250 per qualified call for the first 10, then £400 thereafter

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5
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10
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The risk reversal that closes it

We carry the risk, the same way you do with your own clients. 10 qualified, showed-up calls within 90 days of launch, or every pound of infrastructure fee in that window comes back. Measurable, capped, and aligned with how you sell.

Status

We are building it now

The data engine and the offers are built. Inboxes are warming this week; the first talent-market reports go out the moment warmup completes. Here is what happens next.


Search For Hire · Dopamine Digital
Outbound intelligence engine for specialist search-marketing recruitment. Data sourced from public job boards, hiring signals and company records. Example figures are pulled from public data for illustration and are confirmed live per company before any outreach. Prepared for Search For Hire.