CRO jobs · Chief revenue officer vacancies · Permanent, interim and fractional

CRO jobs · permanent, interim and fractional

CRO jobs are chief revenue officer roles: the executive who owns a company’s revenue and runs sales, marketing and customer success against one number, answering to the chief executive and the board. They come as permanent full-time posts, interim assignments and fractional or part-time seats. The board below shows the roles on our board for this seat, permanent roles first where the posting says full-time.

We recruit permanent, interim, fractional, part-time and temporary revenue leaders, and non-executive directors. Hiring rather than looking? On every brief we send a shortlist of 3–5, each with pay or day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.

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How a brief runswhat we undertake

01Brief30-MINUTE SCOPING CALLDay 0
02Shortlist of 3–5VETTED · RATE BENCHMARK · IR35After the brief
03InterviewsYOU MEET THE SHORTLISTYour diary
04Scoped startFIRST-MONTH OUTCOMES AGREEDYou set the date
05Fractional, interim and permanentIR35 POSITION SET OUTOn every brief

Shortlist3–5

3–5

Shortlist · with pay or day rate, availability and IR35 set out

Vetting · stages before a candidate reaches a client

25 months

Average CRO tenure · US companies

Harvard Business Review, 2024

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CRO jobs jobs on the board

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Permanent CRO jobs

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Full-time CRO roles, posted by the employer as full-time and listed as the posting states them. We recruit permanent CROs as well as fractional and interim. CRO recruitment.

Current chief revenue officer roles on our board

How fractional recruitment agencies compare is set out in one place, including how we work: a CRO brief and a shortlist of three to five.

01/ the role

CRO jobs: what the board holds

The board on this page holds the chief revenue officer roles on our board. Roles whose posting says full-time come first. Interim, fractional and part-time CRO roles follow, and where a posting states how the role is engaged, the listing says so. When there are few CRO roles, the board widens to the revenue leadership seats below it, such as head of sales, and says that it has.

What the seat does

A CRO owns the revenue plan and the forecast the board relies on, and leads the teams that deliver it: sales, marketing, customer success and often revenue operations. The seat is most common in subscription and software businesses, where renewals and expansion matter as much as new sales, so one executive owns the customer from first contact to renewal. For the full picture, see what a CRO does.

It is a seat with little time to prove itself. Harvard Business Review reported in 2024 that the average CRO tenure is 25 months, among the shortest in the C-suite, and that 62% of companies see revenue growth decline or stay flat in the year after a CRO change. The research is US-based. Ask in the interview what happened to the last person in the seat.

One seat, several ways to hold it

A permanent CRO is employed full-time and owns the number for years. An interim CRO holds the seat for a set period, to cover a departure or reset a sales team. A fractional CRO holds it for agreed days a week, often in a company moving from founder-led sales to its first revenue team. The title is the same; the contract, the days and the tax position are not.

02/ scope

How to get a CRO job

1. Carry a number, then lead people who do

No qualification is required. Most CROs come up through sales: carrying a quota, then leading a sales team, then running sales as head of sales or sales director. See head of sales jobs and sales director jobs for the seats before this one.

2. Widen beyond sales

The step to CRO is owning the functions around sales: marketing, customer success and the systems that join them. Two professional frameworks are useful signals. The Institute of Sales Professionals’ Sales Capability Framework is the basis of Ofqual’s specification of sales qualifications. CIM’s Chartered Marketer status requires graded membership, two years of continuing professional development and an assessment.

3. Show the board work

A CRO shortlist is decided on forecasts you made and met, retention and expansion as well as new business, and how you set targets and pay for a sales team. Commission has to be set out properly: Acas says an employee’s entitlement to commission should be in their written statement of employment particulars. If the seat comes with a directorship, the duties of a company director apply.

4. Pick the route in

Not every CRO job is permanent. Interim CRO jobs cover a gap or a reset for a set period; fractional CRO jobs hold the seat for set days a week. If you work through your own company, the off-payroll working rules (IR35) may apply: status turns on how the engagement runs, and a medium or large client makes the determination. Our IR35 guide sets out the tests.

03/ related roles

CRO jobs by type

Every page we keep for the chief revenue officer seat, one per kind of role or question. We recruit permanent, interim, fractional and part-time CROs.

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04/ vetting

How we vet CROs

What we undertake on every brief, before a candidate reaches you.

01
Qualification screen
Verify CRO tenure, sector context and stage fit.
SOURCING
02
Mandate fit
Match to your situation — stage, board dynamics, timing.
MATCHING
03
Reference deep-dive
We take references ourselves, from recent past clients — real outcomes, not titles.
VERIFY
04
Shortlist
Three to five candidates with day rate, availability and IR35 position set out.
SHORTLIST OF 3–5

05/ chief revenue officer jobs

Chief revenue officer jobs the seat and its titles

Chief revenue officer jobs are advertised under several titles. Chief revenue officer and CRO are the same seat; VP of revenue or VP of sales can be the top revenue role where there is no CRO; chief sales officer usually covers sales alone. A chief commercial officer is the nearest seat with a different shape: wider on pricing, partnerships and the commercial model, and usually without customer success. See chief commercial officer jobs.

Check the abbreviation. CRO also stands for chief risk officer, a risk and governance role that in an FCA-regulated firm is one of the senior management functions needing approval before the holder starts. In a bank or insurer, a posting or salary table labelled CRO is likely to mean risk, not revenue.

Read the posting for what the seat owns: sales alone, sales and marketing, or the whole revenue engine including customer success and renewals. In a small company a CRO job is often hands-on sales leadership; in a larger business it is an executive seat over several revenue leaders.

06/ permanent cro jobs

Permanent CRO jobs the market and the pay

Permanent CRO jobs are full-time employed roles, and they are the ones listed first on this page. Exec Capital’s C-Suite Salary Guide 2026 puts revenue CROs at UK businesses with commercial revenue model complexity (SaaS, subscription and multi-channel retail) on base salaries of £120,000–£220,000 at mid-market scale, with variable pay tied to revenue on top. Exec Capital is a search firm, and these are its own ranges.

Base pay is often the smaller part of a revenue leader’s package. Commission or bonus against the revenue plan, equity in a growth or private equity-backed business, pension and notice period all vary, so compare offers line by line. For the pay picture across permanent, interim and fractional seats, see our chief revenue officer salary guide.

For a hirer, a permanent CRO search starts with what the seat owns and the number it carries. Our chief revenue officer recruitment page sets out how a permanent search works; to hire for set days a week, see how to hire a CRO.

07/ questions

CRO jobs FAQ

The questions people ask before bringing in a CRO.

On this page: the board shows the chief revenue officer roles on our board, permanent roles first where the posting says full-time, then interim, fractional and part-time. Each kind of CRO role also has its own page, from interim CRO jobs to fractional CRO jobs.

Roles owning a company’s whole revenue engine: sales, marketing, customer success and the forecast, run against one number and reported to the chief executive and board. See what a CRO does.

Both. On this page it means chief revenue officer. A chief risk officer leads risk management and governance; in an FCA-regulated firm it is a senior management function. Check the posting: in banks and insurers it is likely to mean risk.

Exec Capital’s C-Suite Salary Guide 2026 puts revenue CROs at UK businesses with commercial revenue model complexity on base salaries of £120,000–£220,000 at mid-market scale, with variable pay tied to revenue on top. Interim and fractional CROs are paid by the day; see our chief revenue officer salary page.

Come up through sales leadership to head of sales or sales director, then widen your remit to marketing and customer success, with a record of forecasts met and revenue retained as well as won. No qualification is required. Interim and fractional CRO roles are another way into the seat.

A sales director runs the sales team to a number. A CRO owns the whole revenue engine, with sales, marketing and customer success reporting in, and the sales director often reports to the CRO. See sales director jobs.

It depends on how the engagement runs in practice, not on its label. In most cases a medium or large client makes the determination; for a small client outside the public sector, the worker’s own company decides (HMRC). We set out each candidate’s IR35 position on the shortlist and do not promise an outcome.

Decide whether the seat is permanent, interim or for set days a week, then write down what it owns and the number it carries. For a permanent search, start with chief revenue officer recruitment; to hire for set days a week, see how to hire a CRO. On every brief we send a shortlist of 3–5 after five-stage vetting.

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