Jombine is the culture-first talent firm built for service-based businesses — restoration, commercial services, facilities, trades, and the companies where every employee is the face of the brand. We scout, evaluate, and draft talent like a championship front office, because when your people deliver the promise, there's no such thing as a low-stakes hire.
Every Hire Walks Into Your Customer's World Wearing Your Name.
Here's the truth about service-based businesses that most recruiting firms never grasp: you don't sell a product your clients can hold. You sell trust, delivered by human beings.
The project manager who shows up on the worst day of a property owner's life. The sales rep who becomes the face of a five-year commercial relationship. The estimator whose numbers your entire reputation rides on. In your business, one wrong hire doesn't just miss a quota — they damage relationships you spent years building.
That's why we built our entire firm around a different model: the way elite sports organizations evaluate talent. No GM drafts a player off a stat sheet alone. They watch film. They run the Combine. They test for character, coachability, and how someone performs under pressure. They ask the question that matters most: does this person fit our system?
So we built that system for your business — literally. Our evaluation program is The Combine™. Our recruiters are Agents and Scouts. Every candidate we present comes with an in-depth Scouting Report, complete with earned Workplace DNA™ Badges. This is the actual architecture of how we work — from your first conversation to your final draft pick.
For Our Clients
A powerful & proven way to think about hiring — rigorous, systematic, and built around true fit rather than surface-level credentials.
For You, Your People Matter the Most
You already live this model every day — in your service, your customers, your community. We speak your language natively, because we were built in it.
Built for the Brands in the Fight
In CPG, a mis-hire doesn't just miss their number. They can burn a buyer relationship it took you years to build.
CPG has a talent problem nobody talks about: your product attracts applicants, but loving the brand has never once built one.
When your inbox floods with people who "love your product," the passion buries the signal. Meanwhile, the traits that actually win in your world are invisible to a resume — the persistence to survive a reset season, the credibility to sit across from a national buyer, the scrappiness to do three jobs at once inside a lean team.
Relationship-Driven Revenue
Your growth runs through buyers, brokers, and distributor partners. These are trust relationships built over years, and the wrong hire can burn a door it took you a decade to open.
Lean Teams, Outsized Stakes
In an emerging or mid-sized brand, one key account manager can carry a massive share of your revenue. Every seat is a franchise position.
Industry Pedigree
Industry pedigree doesn't predict success. A strong CPG resume tells you where someone's been — not whether they'll succeed at your brand. We evaluate for what actually translates.
Talent Wins Games. Teams Win Championships. We Build Both.
Here's what it looks like when you stop hiring and start drafting.
1. The Game Plan
We start by decoding your company's true culture — not the mission statement, but the real operating system: how you manage, communicate, sell, and deliver. We define what success in the role actually looks like before anyone gets scouted.
2. The Scouting Phase
Our Scouts map the entire talent market — including the passive A-players who aren't applying anywhere. We hunt for champions; we don't wait for applications.
3. The Combine™
Every candidate goes through our proprietary, multi-stage evaluation. We test beyond the resume — decoding their Workplace DNA™: character, coachability, drive, resilience, and how they perform under pressure. Only about 20% advance.
4. The Scouting Report
You don't get a stack of resumes. You get a true Scouting Report — earned Workplace DNA™ Badges like The Grinder ⛏️, Unwavering Integrity 🛡️, and Clutch Performer 💎, evaluation data, and our straight-shooting assessment of fit.
Our Scouting Reports are customized around your hiring goals & culture and get to the heart of the key metrics, data, and team-fit pieces that will make the difference.
See a Sample Scouting Report
💎 Clutch Performer
Excels under pressure when outcomes matter most.
🔗 Team-First Player
Elevates those around them and protects culture.
🔋 High Motor
Relentless drive and consistency across conditions.
The Positions We Draft For
Whether you're building a sales engine, scaling operations, or finding your next great leader — we recruit across the full roster of roles that power your team and success.
🎯 Revenue Roles
Key account managers, regional sales leads, and BD talent who can win the buyer meeting, work the distributor network, and grow doors without burning them down.
⚙️ Operations Roles
The planners, ops managers, and supply chain minds who keep fill rates strong and margins intact while the brand scales — the unsung engine of every CPG win.
🏆 Leadership Roles
Sales directors, GMs, and executives who can protect a founder-built culture while scaling it — and marketers who build brands, not just campaigns.
The Hard Truth About Hiring in CPG
"They love our product" is not a qualification. "They came from a big brand" is not a guarantee.
What Culture Actually Is
Culture isn't the product samples in the break room. Culture is how your team actually operates — how fast decisions get made, how promises get kept with retail partners, how a lean team covers for each other in crunch season. Our job is to find people whose Workplace DNA™ matches that — the real system your brand runs on.
What We Find For You
CPG is full of teams that hired for passion or pedigree and stalled — because passion can't run a broker network, and big-brand experience without big-brand infrastructure often falls flat. What actually wins in your world is a specific DNA: the scrappiness to build without a playbook, the relationship skill to earn a buyer's trust, and the ownership to treat your brand like their own.
Our Guarantee: A World-Class Process
Nobody can guarantee a perfect hire — humans are humans, and anyone who promises otherwise is selling something they can't deliver. What we guarantee is this: the most rigorous, culturally-aligned evaluation process in the industry, run by people who understand your world.
Retention Rate
Our placements stay longer — because fit was never left to chance.
Advance Rate
Only the top candidates clear The Combine™ evaluation. You only see the real contenders.
Backed by Guarantee
Every placement is backed by a guarantee period. We do the hard work up front — no shortcuts, ever.
We give you a level of hiring certainty that's impossible to achieve any other way. The up-front rigor is the point — because a mis-hire in your industry doesn't just cost a salary. It costs relationships, momentum, and brand equity you spent years building.
Your Brand Is Only as Strong as the Team Behind It.
You've fought for every door, every shelf, every loyal customer. The next stage of growth comes down to the people you draft to carry it forward.
The conversation starts simple: no pitch deck, no pressure. Just a strategic look at your team, your open seats, and whether we're the right partner to help you build.
30 minutes. Direct with our founder. Zero obligation.
Prefer email? Reach us directly: topher@jombine.com
You Fight for Every Inch of Shelf Space. Your Talent Deserves the Same Fight.