Market Director, IT Staffing - LA
Job Description
Market Director, Technology Staffing - Los Angeles / Orange County (Irvine area)
Location: Must be commutable to Irvine/OC.
Travel/Remote: Remote (expect local client travel)
7-10 years staffing industry experience required
Are you a staffing leader looking for your next opportunity?
Our client is a long-established, nationally recognized staffing and solutions firm known for organic growth and a growing solutions/SOW capability.
We’re hiring a Market Director to lead and grow the LA/OC business—driving new revenue while coaching and scaling a local team.
What you will do:
- Own market revenue, growth strategy, and client expansion across staffing and solutions/SOW
- Personally drive new client development and senior-level relationships
- Lead, coach, and develop recruiters and sales talent (player/coach)
- Partner with delivery/recruiting to ensure execution and retention
- Build pipeline, forecast accurately, and manage performance against goals
- Expand solutions penetration aligned to leadership’s growth targets
What we’re looking for:
- Proven staffing sales leadership with measurable market growth results
- Ability to sell staffing + SOW/solutions (or a credible path to it)
- Strong client-facing presence; can operate at VP/C-level when needed
- Track record building and leading teams in a competitive market
- Hands-on, high-urgency leader (not purely managerial)
Required skills
- Staffing sales, team leadership, strategic account growth, consultative selling
What you get:
- Base $175K–$225K (per notes) + strong upside (details TBD)
- A market with an existing book and team in place
- The opportunity to build something meaningful in a key West Coast territory
Job Number 7986
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Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
