Bringing a Track Record of Recruiting Growth, Revenue Leadership, Team Building, and Business Development to a New Executive Chapter
Craig Montgomery has been appointed Chief Growth Officer at a Private Family Office in Newport Beach, California, beginning in September 2026. The appointment marks a new chapter in a career spanning more than 15 years across executive recruiting, business development, sales leadership, organizational growth, and talent-focused operations.
Based in Newport Beach, California, Montgomery brings a strong record of building high-performing recruiting organizations, developing revenue-generating teams, expanding business divisions, and combining technology with human-led talent solutions.
Before joining the Private Family Office, Montgomery spent nearly five years at Jobot, where he progressed to Partner / Vice President of Recruiting. During his tenure, he played a significant role in scaling the organization, building recruiting teams, developing leaders, driving revenue, and supporting the adoption of proprietary AI recruiting technology.
His earlier career at CyberCoders further established his reputation as a high-performing recruiting and business development leader, including building a $20 million permanent placement business from the ground up.
A New Chapter Focused on Growth
Montgomery began his role as Chief Growth Officer at a Private Family Office in September 2026, working in a hybrid capacity from Newport Beach.
The Chief Growth Officer role represents a natural evolution of his career, bringing together the commercial, recruiting, leadership, and business-building experience developed throughout his professional journey.
Growth leadership increasingly requires organizations to look beyond traditional sales functions. It involves identifying opportunities, developing teams, strengthening relationships, building scalable processes, and creating sustainable revenue engines.
Montgomery’s background aligns closely with these priorities.
His career has consistently centered on growth, people, performance, relationships, and execution, providing a strong foundation for his latest executive mandate.
A Transformational Chapter at Jobot
One of the most significant chapters of Montgomery’s career was his tenure at Jobot, where he served as Partner / Vice President of Recruiting from July 2021 to May 2026.
During nearly five years in this position, he helped drive substantial organizational and divisional growth.
Among the achievements highlighted during his tenure were:
- Helping grow Jobot from 10 to more than 750 employees
- Launching Jobot OC alongside Heidi Golledge, Jason Rodrigues, and Jaclyn Montgomery
- Building a division of 360+ experienced full-desk recruiting professionals nationwide
- Establishing recruiting capabilities across every major vertical
- Building the company’s first $1 million and $2 million quarterly team
- Building the first $10 million and $20 million quarterly division
- Promoting more than 15 Senior Managers
- Promoting six Directors
- Supporting the launch of Jobot’s proprietary AI recruiting platform, JAX, through multiple versions
- Supporting the launch of Jobot House, the company’s oceanfront headquarters in Newport Beach
These accomplishments illustrate Montgomery’s ability to operate at the intersection of recruiting, revenue generation, organizational development, technology, and leadership.
Building High-Performance Recruiting Organizations
As Partner / Vice President of Recruiting at Jobot, Montgomery carried responsibilities extending well beyond traditional recruiting.
He oversaw divisional profit and loss, balancing revenue generation with cost management and profitability while supporting broader growth objectives.
He also drove divisional sales and revenue through recruiting best practices designed to improve business performance.
Another major focus was the development of people.
Montgomery created and implemented company-wide full-desk recruiter training, with an emphasis on business development, client engagement, and negotiation skills.
He also managed a team of 14 direct-report recruiters, supporting day-to-day operations and building a high-performance culture.
In addition, he managed 11 Senior Managers and Directors, providing leadership development, coaching, performance management, and strategic alignment with Jobot’s broader objectives.
This combination of people leadership and commercial responsibility helped shape Montgomery into a broader business leader rather than a traditional recruiting executive.
Partner / Director of Recruiting at Jobot
Prior to becoming Partner / Vice President of Recruiting, Montgomery served as Partner / Director of Recruiting at Jobot from April 2019 to July 2021.
The role expanded his leadership responsibilities within a fast-growing recruiting and career platform.
Jobot’s model combines technology with human expertise to connect organizations and candidates, making Montgomery’s experience particularly relevant to the evolution of modern talent acquisition.
His progression from Director to Partner / Vice President demonstrates the increasing scope of his responsibilities and his ability to deliver results while building teams and developing leaders.
Building a $20 Million Business at CyberCoders
Before joining Jobot, Montgomery spent approximately seven and a half years at CyberCoders, progressing through Executive Recruiter, Lead Recruiter, and Senior Recruiting Manager roles.
As Senior Recruiting Manager from July 2014 to April 2019, he built a $20 million permanent placement business from scratch.
The achievement stands as one of the defining milestones of his career and demonstrates his ability to create a substantial business operation from the ground up.
During his time at CyberCoders, Montgomery was also recognized as a:
- Top 10 individual producer in the history of CyberCoders
- Five-time Presidents Club winner
- Six-time CEO Club winner
- #1 team average performer
- #1 team total billing performer
- #1 highest percentage over goal performer
He also received the company’s Hardest Working Recruiter award.
His performance extended beyond individual production. He consistently delivered strong results while hiring, training, and promoting other professionals.
Setting Recruiting Performance Records
Montgomery’s tenure at CyberCoders was also marked by several company records.
He set records for:
- Most interviews in a quarter and year
- Most new clients in a quarter and year
- Most signed agreements in a quarter and year
These accomplishments demonstrate a strong orientation toward measurable outcomes and sustained business development.
His progression at CyberCoders–from Executive Recruiter to Lead Recruiter and ultimately Senior Recruiting Manager–also reflects his ability to translate individual performance into broader organizational leadership.
Early Experience in Technology Recruiting
Montgomery began developing his professional recruiting expertise at Jobspring Partners, where he worked as a Technical Recruiter from June to November 2011 in Orange County.
Jobspring Partners specialized in technology recruitment, connecting software developers, network engineers, systems administrators, and other technical professionals with growing organizations.
This early exposure to technology recruiting helped establish the foundation for Montgomery’s later career in talent acquisition, business development, and recruiting leadership.
Beginning His Career in Corporate Sales
Before entering recruiting, Montgomery worked as a Corporate Sales Representative at Town Sports International from July 2010 to June 2011.
His responsibilities included outbound sales activities and reconnecting with previous membership holders to generate new membership enrollments.
Although an early-stage position, the role provided valuable experience in direct sales, prospect engagement, communication, and relationship building.
These commercial fundamentals would later become central to his success in recruiting and business development.
From Sales to Recruiting to Growth Leadership
Montgomery’s career can be viewed as a progression through several interconnected disciplines:
Corporate Sales → Technical Recruiting → Recruiting Leadership → Business Building → Executive Growth Leadership
Each stage expanded his capabilities.
His sales experience developed his commercial instincts and customer engagement skills.
Technology recruiting introduced him to talent markets and client requirements.
Recruiting leadership expanded his responsibilities into team development and operational management.
Business-building roles at CyberCoders and Jobot added P&L oversight, revenue responsibility, organizational scaling, and leadership development.
His appointment as Chief Growth Officer brings these capabilities together under an enterprise-level growth mandate.
The Power of Combining People and Technology
A defining element of Montgomery’s recent career has been the integration of human expertise and technology.
At Jobot, he supported the launch and evolution of the company’s proprietary AI recruiting platform, JAX, across multiple versions.
The development of AI-enabled recruiting tools reflects the broader transformation taking place across talent acquisition.
Technology can improve sourcing, matching, workflows, analytics, and productivity, while human expertise remains critical to relationship management, leadership assessment, negotiation, and strategic decision-making.
Montgomery’s experience operating within this intersection provides valuable insight into how organizations can combine technology with high-touch human engagement.
Leadership Through Team Development
Throughout his career, Montgomery has demonstrated an emphasis on building people as well as businesses.
At Jobot, he managed recruiters and senior leaders while creating training programs designed to improve business development and recruiting effectiveness.
At CyberCoders, he delivered high individual performance while simultaneously hiring, training, and promoting other professionals.
This leadership approach reflects an understanding that sustainable growth depends on building organizations capable of performing beyond the contributions of any single individual.
Developing managers and directors, establishing repeatable processes, and creating performance-oriented cultures can create a stronger foundation for long-term growth.
A Growth Mindset Built Around Measurable Outcomes
Montgomery’s career is notable for the scale and specificity of the results associated with his leadership.
From building a $20 million permanent placement business at CyberCoders to contributing to Jobot’s expansion from 10 to more than 750 employees, his experience has consistently involved measurable growth.
His track record includes revenue milestones, team expansion, leadership promotions, company records, training initiatives, and technology adoption.
These achievements point to a leadership philosophy centered on execution and measurable outcomes.
Looking Ahead in His Chief Growth Officer Role
As Chief Growth Officer at a Private Family Office, Montgomery begins a new phase of his career with a broad commercial and leadership background.
His experience building recruiting businesses, managing high-performing teams, driving revenue, developing leaders, and supporting technology initiatives provides a diverse foundation for growth leadership.
The Chief Growth Officer role offers an opportunity to apply these capabilities beyond the traditional boundaries of recruiting.
Growth today increasingly depends on the ability to identify opportunities, build relationships, create scalable systems, develop talent, and align people and technology around strategic objectives.
Montgomery’s career has provided exposure to each of these areas.
A Career Defined by Building
Perhaps the strongest theme throughout Montgomery’s career is building.
He has built recruiting teams, business divisions, revenue streams, leadership pipelines, client relationships, training programs, and technology-enabled recruiting capabilities.
At CyberCoders, he built a $20 million permanent placement business.
At Jobot, he helped scale teams and organizational capabilities while contributing to significant revenue milestones and leadership development.
Now, in his role as Chief Growth Officer, the focus shifts toward applying that builder mindset to a broader growth mandate.
A New Opportunity for Strategic Impact
Montgomery’s appointment represents the latest step in a career that has steadily expanded from individual sales and recruiting responsibilities into organizational and executive leadership.
His journey demonstrates how expertise in recruitment can evolve into broader capabilities in business development, revenue management, team building, organizational scaling, and growth strategy.
With more than 15 years of experience across sales and recruiting, including more than a decade in leadership positions, he brings a distinctive perspective to his new executive role.
As organizations continue to compete for talent, customers, and sustainable growth, leaders who understand both the people and commercial dimensions of business can create significant strategic value.
CXO Gateway Perspective
CXO Gateway recognizes leaders whose careers demonstrate measurable achievement, continuous progression, and the ability to build organizations and high-performing teams.
Craig Montgomery’s journey from corporate sales and technical recruiting to senior recruiting leadership and now Chief Growth Officer reflects a career driven by ambition, execution, people development, and business building.
His record of scaling teams, creating multimillion-dollar businesses, developing leaders, driving revenue, and embracing technology illustrates how a strong growth mindset can evolve into enterprise-level leadership.
His new role marks another chapter in that journey–and an opportunity to apply his experience in building people, businesses, and performance-driven organizations to a broader strategic growth agenda.