About the Company
Gamma is an AI-powered tool that helps people create presentations, documents, and simple websites in seconds. The platform has grown rapidly through a strong product-led motion and now supports more than 70 million users and over one million creations each day.
With a product that has already captured massive grassroots adoption, the next chapter is enterprise. They needed two founding teams to get there. SwingSearch was engaged to build both: a Founding AE team to own and close enterprise deals, and Gamma’s first CSMs to convert that momentum into lasting, expanding customer relationships.
Swing Search Insights
- Multiple profiles = multiple searches. Narrowing to a specific persona proved more effective than casting a wide net.
- One of our first searches to stress-test AI fluency. Top candidates built full AI workflows, not just consumed tools — critical for an AI-native company like Gamma.
Placed Candidate: Senior Customer Success Manager
Dave Hunt
As employee #11 at Patreon, David built the CS function from scratch and scaled with the company from $10M to $100M+ ARR — driving ~150% growth across his managed book. At Sentry, he stepped into a more established motion, managing $4M–$10M ARR across ~20 Fortune 500 accounts including Disney+, Square, Twitch, and DoorDash, growing his book ~35% through a technical, credibility-led approach.
Placed Candidate: Founding Account Executive
Kara Cederwall
Kara spent ~8 years mastering the expansion motion — five as an IC, three in management — before deliberately returning to what she does best: owning client relationships and closing growth. She joined G2 as employee #60, scaling with the company to ~800 people, and transitioned from CSM to Account Management to own quota across expansion, retention, and renewals.