About Us

Braxton Recruiting was founded by J. Michael Dean who worked as a hiring manager for 25 years, securing top sales talent for Fortune 500 companies, high-growth companies, and private equity firms.

We bring extensive experience in sourcing and recruiting top talent in the SaaS, B2B, and PR/HCM space. We work with large corporations and start-ups and private equity firms which require top sales talent to build and sustain the high growth B2B companies in their portfolio. We provide a direct line of communication between our principals and your sales leadership to solve your recruiting needs. We actively listen to your needs, understand them and then deliver the solutions.

Recruiting becomes simple when you have a consultative partnership with us. Whether you need full-service talent acquisition or supplemental support, we can help you effectively manage your recruiting and hiring process. 

By leveraging our quality network and utilizing our industry-leading software, we use the latest best practices in recruiting and technology to search for both active and passive candidates - a very powerful combination. We will bring you the candidates who will turn into new employees, whether you need contract-to-hire or direct-hire candidates.

An effective sales team is the backbone of a company’s success. We help you grow your sales team through our core competencies:

  • We are experts in recruiting top-tier SaaS and software sales professionals.
  • As a partner, we work with you to craft your unique branding message to candidates, because we know your industry and your competition.
  • Our comprehensive recruiting strategy leverages our extensive candidate database, referrals, social media, and direct sourcing by utilizing industry-leading software.
  • We thoroughly screen candidates through our comprehensive process to ensure the best match.

Meet J. Michael Dean, Founder

Mike Dean is a SaaS industry expert who throughout his career has built, coached and led high-performance sales teams in a complex and highly competitive landscape. How did he do this? Through his recruiting expertise.

His career began with an industry-leading Fortune 250 company with nearly $9 Billion in annual revenue. In his business development role, he was consistently a member of the President’s Club. Then as a manager he was awarded for recruiting and building sales teams achieving the #1 ranking with global sales organizations. Multiple hires became the top ranked sales professional at their company. Later he was a partner at a boutique recruiting firm.

As the Vice President of Sales and as Sales Director for several software companies, Mike developed strong sales teams to execute strategic sales plans that led to year-over-year growth.

His expertise in sales management in the SaaS and software industries led him to start Braxton Recruiting to help other companies with their sales recruitment needs.

Contact us today if you are looking for a recruiting agency which recruits exclusively for the software industry!