ABOUT
Recruiters Who’ve Sat In Your Seat
We built Industry Sage Recruiting after years inside fast-moving companies, scaling teams under real pressure. We know the challenges because we’ve lived them.
Your Trusted Partners
Industry Sage is a small, hands-on team of recruiting professionals who've spent our careers inside fast-growth companies—building teams, refining processes, and learning what actually drives hiring success.
Contact: trevor@industrysagerecruiting.com
Trevor Robinson, Founder & Partner
Trevor Robinson is the Founder of Industry Sage Recruiting and the creator of the Precision Placement Framework™, a system built to help companies fill critical sales and supply chain leadership roles with speed and precision. With a background spanning recruiting, employer branding, and digital strategy, Trevor has a track record of sourcing hard-to-fill positions and building talent strategies that give companies a competitive edge. He is known for blending deep recruiting expertise with modern digital skills to connect organizations with the right people while strengthening their long-term employer brand.
Tricia Kawado, Recruiting Partner
With over 20 years of recruiting experience and a master’s degree from Case Western Reserve University, Tricia specializes in placing top talent in sales and supply chain leadership roles. She has a proven record of filling critical positions—like VPs of Sales, Supply Chain Directors, and Operations leaders—that directly impact growth and performance.
At Industry Sage Recruiting, Tricia is known for her precision-driven approach and ability to match candidates who not only meet the role’s demands but also align with company culture and long-term goals.
Contact: tricia@industrysagerecruiting.com
Most recruiting follows the same tired playbook:
post jobs, wait for applications, send over a few resumes, hope something sticks.
That approach doesn't work when you're scaling. It doesn't work when the role is specialized. And it definitely doesn't work when a bad hire costs you six months of momentum.
Here's what we do differently:
We embed, not transact.
Traditional agencies operate at arm's length. We integrate into your workflow, represent your brand like it's ours, and recruit with the same standards you'd hold an internal team to.
We're former operators.
We've built recruiting functions inside scaling companies. We understand capacity constraints, budget realities, and what it takes to hire under pressure.
We optimize for fit, not speed.
Volume doesn't win. We vet every candidate for technical ability and cultural alignment—because a fast hire that churns in 90 days isn't a win for anyone.
Predictable, transparent pricing.
No surprise invoices. No commission-driven behavior. Just clear pricing that aligns our success with yours.
Before founding Industry Sage Recruiting, we were in-house recruiters building teams from the inside...balancing headcount targets, hiring manager expectations, and culture alignment while chasing growth.
We saw firsthand working with traditional agencies how (and why) they miss the mark: disconnected from internal realities, misaligned incentives, and outdated approaches.
So, we built a recruiting partner designed for today’s growth-stage companies. One that integrates seamlessly, operates transparently, and delivers hires that last.
The Industry Sage Mission
Growth-stage companies are stuck between two broken options:
- Hire a full-time recruiter (expensive, slow to ramp, risky if the hire doesn't work out)
- Use a traditional agency (disconnected from your culture, incentivized by volume, forgettable candidate experience).
Neither model was built for how you need to scale today: fast, lean, and without sacrificing quality.
We bridge that gap. Industry Sage delivers fractional embedded recruiting, targeted search, and talent strategy that feels in-house because it's led by people who built in-house recruiting teams from the ground up.
Our approach is guided by four principles:
Neither model was built for how you need to scale today—fast, lean, and without sacrificing quality.
Partnership
We win when your hires succeed long-term, not just when they accept an offer.
Precision
Every role clearly defined. Every search executed with intention. No spray-and-pray.
Integrity
Honest timelines. Transparent process. No inflating candidate qualifications to close a deal.
Humanity
Behind every role is a person building a career and a team counting on the right fit. We treat it that way.
Let's find your next great hire.
We know what good recruiting looks like because we've done it ourselves, under the same constraints you're facing right now.
Ready to see how embedded recruiting and our talent services can accelerate your growth?