Jombine is the culture-first talent firm built for the sports and active lifestyle industry — sporting goods, athletic brands, sports tech, clubs, facilities, and the companies that power the games we love. We don't recruit like an agency. We scout, evaluate, and draft like a championship GM. Because in your industry, that's not a metaphor. It's the job.
We Didn't Borrow the Front Office Model. We Built Our Whole Firm On It.
Jombine was founded on a simple conviction: the way elite sports organizations evaluate talent is the way every company should hire. No GM drafts a player off a stat sheet alone. They watch film. They run the Combine. They interview for character, coachability, and locker-room impact. They ask the question that matters most: does this player fit our system?
So we built our entire firm around that model. Our evaluation program is called 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 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, It's Your Game
You already live this model every day — in your products, your customers, your community. We speak your language natively, because we were built in it. Your most important draft is your own team.
Built By People Who Live This Industry
In your industry, a mis-hire doesn't just miss quota. They damage relationships with the users, players, clubs, coaches, and communities your brand depends on.
The sports and active lifestyle industry has a talent problem nobody talks about: passion is abundant, but fit is rare. Everyone wants to work in sports. Your inbox proves it — every opening floods with applicants who love the game. But loving the product has never once guaranteed someone can sell it, operate it, or lead a team behind it. Passion-heavy applicant pools make hiring harder, because the noise buries the signal.
Sports DNA Is Biography, Not Branding
Our founder is a lifelong athlete and coach — with a Cornell degree in organizational behavior and 20 years spent building teams. The industry connection runs deep.
We've Run Searches at Every Level
From national governing bodies to emerging athletic brands — we've navigated searches where mission, culture, and community passion had to align with hard operational skill.
We Understand Your Revenue Dynamics
Seasonal cycles, relationship-driven B2B sales into clubs, facilities, schools, and retail, brand-sensitive customer experience, and lean teams where one wrong hire hits everything.
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 decode your company's true culture — not the mission statement, but the real operating system: how you manage, communicate, sell, and win. We define what success actually looks like before anyone gets scouted.
2. The Scouting Phase
Our Scouts map the entire talent market — including 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 Workplace DNA™: character, coachability, drive, collaboration style, and performance under pressure. Only ~20% advance.
4. The Scouting Report
You don't get a stack of resumes. You get a true Scouting Report — earned Workplace DNA™ Badges, 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 sports and active lifestyle companies.
🎯 Revenue Roles
Sales reps, account managers, and BD leaders who can sell into clubs, facilities, retail, schools, and teams — where relationships and credibility close deals. The sports industry runs on trust; we find the people who earn it.
⚙️ Operations Roles
The builders who run your facilities, supply chains, events, and delivery — turning brand promises into lived customer experience. These are the quiet contributors every winning organization depends on.
🏆 Leadership Roles
GMs, directors, and executives who can protect your culture while scaling it — the hardest hire in any passion-driven company. We evaluate for the character and operating discipline that defines great leaders in your world.
The Hard Truth About Hiring in Sports
We'll tell you what other recruiters won't: "They played in college" is not a qualification. "They love the game" is not a skill set. The sports industry is full of teams built on shared passion that still underperform — because passion papered over misaligned work styles, weak systems, and leadership gaps.
What Culture Actually Is
Culture isn't everyone loving the same sport. Culture is how your team operates: the management styles, the communication cadence, the accountability standards, the way you win — day in, day out, in every room.
What We Find For You
Our job is to identify people who bring both — the genuine passion your industry demands and the Workplace DNA™ your specific system requires. That's the difference between a locker room full of fans and a roster built to win championships.
Our Guarantee: A World-Class Process
No GM can guarantee a championship. Anyone who promises you a "perfect hire" is selling you something they can't deliver — humans are humans. What we guarantee is something far more valuable: the most rigorous, culturally-aligned evaluation process in the industry, run by people who know your world inside and out.
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.
Draft Better. Win More.
Your competitors are hiring resumes and hoping for chemistry. You can build your roster like a front office — with scouting, evaluation, and intention. The organizations that win consistently aren't the ones that get lucky. They're the ones with a system.
Let's start with a conversation. 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. Direct with our founder. Thirty minutes. Zero obligation.
30 minutes. Direct with our founder. Zero obligation.
Prefer email? Reach us directly: topher@jombine.com
Scout. Evaluate. Draft. The Way Sports Companies Should Hire.