We speak DTC fluently.
ROAS, MER, LTV to CAC, contribution margin, 3PL handoffs, retail sell-through. We test candidates in the language your business runs on, so you only meet people who have done the work.
Executive search for consumer brands
Exceptional leaders. Extraordinary growth.
We partner with ambitious consumer brands to find the executives and senior leaders who turn growth ambitions into reality.
Who we work with
Founder-led brands at the eight- and nine-figure stage, hiring the people who decide what happens next.
Our clients build on Shopify, sell direct and scale through paid acquisition, retention and retail. They call us when a role touches the P&L and a wrong appointment would cost them a year.
5+years running focused consumer searches
100+placements closed personally
20+brands and groups served
- Founder-led DTC brandsCategory leaders
- Shopify and e-commerce businessesScaling online
- Multi-brand consumer groupsPortfolio hiring
- Brands crossing $10M, $50M, $100MStage change
We don't publish client names. Most of our work is confidential by design, and references are shared privately with founders we're speaking to.
Our expertise
Five functions. Each one moves a number you report to the board.
C-suite & executive leadership
Leaders who take a founder's vision and turn it into an operating plan, a team and a cadence the business can run on.President · COO · CMO · CGO
Growth & performance marketing
Operators who have owned CAC, MER and contribution margin at real spend, and know when to scale a channel and when to cut it.Head of Growth · Head of Paid Media · VP Growth
Creative strategy & brand
Creative leaders whose work sells. They connect brand, offer and direct-response testing so the ads and the identity pull in the same direction.Creative Director · DR Creative Strategist · Brand Lead
E-commerce & digital operations
The people behind conversion rate, AOV, fulfilment and the product pipeline, who keep the store and the supply chain ahead of demand.Head of E-commerce · Director of Product Development
Finance, operations & commercial
Finance and commercial leaders who understand inventory cash cycles, unit economics and margin, and can get a consumer brand investor-ready.CFO · Director of Finance · Head of Operations
I don't post candidates. I place operators.
Why Supremos
A senior hire is a bet on the next three years of your P&L.
We run each search as if we had a stake in the outcome. That starts with understanding how your business makes money.
We reach the people who aren't looking.
The strongest operators are rarely on the market. We approach them directly, with a clear brief and a reason to listen, and bring you leaders you wouldn't find on a job board.
The founder runs every search.
No hand-offs to junior researchers. Sachin leads the brief, the outreach, the interviews and the close, so you have one point of contact who knows the whole picture.
We judge candidates commercially.
A strong CV is the starting point. We look at what each leader actually moved: revenue, margin, the team they built. Then we ask whether they can do it again at your stage.
Discretion and fit come first.
Confidential replacements, stealth launches, sensitive restructures. We handle every brief quietly, and we optimise for the person still thriving in your business two years from now.
The search process
Rigorous enough for the board. Personal enough for the founder.
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Understand the business
We start with the model: channels, margins, team, ambitions and the leadership gap holding growth back. Then we agree what success looks like twelve months after the hire.
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Define the profile and the strategy
A precise candidate profile, a target list of companies and backgrounds, and a clear view of compensation and the pitch that will make the right person move.
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Engage exceptional leaders
We map the market and approach leaders directly and in confidence, representing your brand with the same care you would.
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Evaluate for excellence and fit
Every candidate is assessed for functional excellence and business-model fit: what they built, at what scale, and whether it transfers to yours. Each one comes to you with our written reasoning.
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Support through appointment
We manage interviews, references, offer and negotiation, and stay close through resignation, notice period and the first months in role.
Candidate scorecard
Illustrative exampleFunctional excellence
Business-model fit
The founder
You work with Sachin. Start to finish.
Sachin Kumar founded Supremos Talent to give ambitious consumer brands a search partner who understands their business as well as their hiring brief.
He works directly with founders, CEOs and leadership teams on the appointments that shape a company: the first COO, the CMO who resets the brand, the growth leader who takes paid acquisition to the next tier of spend. Over five years he has personally closed more than one hundred placements.
Every search gets his full attention, from the first conversation to the leader's first months in role.
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Building something ambitious?
Let's find the leaders who can take your business further.