Jared Watts

Retained by a PE-backed telehealth SaaS (>$50M ARR) to hire a 100% remote RVP of Sales reporting into the CRO Lead 5 AEs selling into Higher Ed 100K Average Deal Size $330K OTE US Based Ready to shape the future of healthcare in higher ed? DM @nxtplaysearch or RT #SaaS

3 successful retained searches completed: High Growth SaaS company with over $120M in funding

@nxtplaysearch is partnering with a PE-backed SaaS company that's raised over $100M in funding and is looking for a world-class Chief Customer Officer to help drive their next stage of growth. #SaaS #hiring #PrivateEquity Email jared@nxtplaysearchgroup.com

I am 100% "lucky" to be in the Post AND to be building @nxtplaysearch. Here's to building more teams

@SahilBloom shared a great point on the "Surface Area of Luck." He explained that your habits place you in situations where you're more likely to encounter luck. The more effort you put out into the world, the more you increase your chances of appearing lucky.

I was in NYC a few weeks ago for 3 reasons: 1. Attend The Post Annual Summit. 2. Meet and spend an afternoon with a top VC Firm to explore a recruiting partnership. 3. Meet a Senior Director of Engineering in person I placed last month. As a new entrepreneur - this was gold..

@btsampson11 - emailed you but guessing it landed in spam.

Week 3 of @nxtplaysearch Can anyone help with my gmail business account sending all emails to spam!?!? I’ve had this account for over a year. Hosted through @ZenBusinessInc w/ @ Loxo CRM all run through Google workspace. I’ll admit: I did send 5k emails out in one day

(2/2) "I care more about the individual working on the search vs the name of the firm. I want to be confident we made the right choice in a partnership." What do you all think? ps: will let you know if @nxtplaysearch wins the search later this week.

(1/2) Trying to win an Exec Search against Daversa and On Partners - two really well known & respected search firms.... Met a CFO of ~$20M ARR PE backed SaaS company last week to talk about a potential partnership for this search. They shared something that I 100% agree with

It’s been a long time coming but now the work starts. A few searches we are retained on: VP of Finance and for a PE backed SaaS company Director of Engineering for a VC backed SaaS company Senior Mobile Engineer for a PE backed SaaS company

🚀 The Launch of ​nxtplay Search Group 🏆 Thrilled to announce the official launch of ​nxtplay Search Group, a premier headhunting firm dedicated to bringing championship-level success to recruiting. We’ve spent years competing at elite levels in professional soccer & search.

@MLSAces Let’s do it man! Would love to link up and get your hot takes in recruiting and MLS.

Just found out that an ex-MLSer is in the same career as me! Pretty cool stuff @JaredWatts02!!! Would love to chat about recruiting whenever you want

Two tweet night: who are the best boutique recruiting firm owners that have scaled to $1M+? Always enjoy new followers and learning from really smart people. What’s the single biggest piece of advice you’d share if you were going to do it again?

Any good/bad experiences bringing on advisors? What are the pros and cons? And on that note - how quickly should you bring in an EA?

@thesmbrecruiter That’s what I’m talking about man! Great stuff

Placed three Directors in ten weeks for a local healthcare startup. But, the true signal that the partnership is going well is when the founders invite you to Friday Pickleball.

I failed miserably in tweeting 100 days straight. I set that goal back in May. I’ve been heads down working on something big. I’ll be able to share more in a few weeks. I’m entering a new season and I couldn’t be more excited. Jumping in and burning the boat

Big weekend for the Rocky Mountain Cup. Great memory here being in the right place at the right time for the goal. I want the Rapids and Pablo to do well. I think it’ll be a good game. 2-2 draw

@trentjhughes Great list. I’d maybe disagree on the solopreneur take but you are way more experienced in this and probably know. I think you can create a lifestyle biz (1M+) as a solopreneur. But as a former pro athlete- the right team can elevate ind. performance for sure

HOT TAKES: 1. Investor and founder interests are more often than not misaligned 2. Morning routines are less important than night routines 3. Social media content is far less effective than DMs 4. Goals don't help entrepreneurs grow, systems do 5. Employees seeking work life balance actually need a better sense of boundaries 6. Former teachers are the best sales people you can hire 7. Trying to raise money before doing hundreds of validation customer interviews makes no sense 8. Reviews are far better marketing than paid ads 9. The solopreneur craze is unsustainable. Those who build teams will likely do better in the long run 10. There is more opportunity in local business than SaaS Any of these resonate? Any you disagree with?