John Levie

Co-Founder and General Partner
Verticalmove Partners, LP
January 2013 – Present
WE WANT TO DISRUPT THE WORLD, ONE AMAZING HIRE AT A TIME.

Verticalmove Partners, LP is a collaboration of top-producing Technical and Executive Headhunters from within Verticalmove, Inc., providing Headhunting (Executive & Technical Search), Human Resource and Advisory solutions to early-stage, privately held enterprise and consumer software companies for cash/equity and pure equity compensation.

SKIN IN THE GAME THROUGH EARLY STAGE INVESTMENT.

In addition to providing Headhunting, HR and Advisory support, our LPs are actively searching for promising seed-stage investments throughout the enterprise and consumer software domains. Please note that our initial criteria for investment consideration is that a company have an actual working prototype (alpha is acceptable) rather than idea(s) sketched upon napkins or lengthy business plans. We like to see code!

Get in touch with us at: partner (at) verticalmove (dot-com) or message me directly here on LinkedIn

Lead Technical Recruiter
Verticalmove, Inc.
March 2005 – Present (8 years 5 months)Seattle, WA and San Mateo, CA
Let’s face it; now that high-tech is hot again, recruiters are coming out of the woodwork. You’re probably feeling overwhelmed with twenty calls daily from recruiters, who six-months earlier, were doing something completely unrelated to our industry.

WE'RE NOT OBLIVIOUS TO THE SITUATION.

You want something close to home in Seattle; instead recruiters are calling about roles in Tacoma or worse yet a 2 week contract role in Ohio. You want an established company; the same recruiters are calling about start-ups. Don’t get us wrong, we love Tacoma; the point is you’re not a square block and shouldn’t be forced into a round hole.

WE GET IT. WE UNDERSTAND THE DISAPPOINTMENTS.

We’re a tightly knit group of very experienced headhunters who sleep, eat and breathe software – it’s because we love what we do. We don’t care about being the biggest firm, but instead, the most admired and referred. We’re well connected throughout the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, Southern California, Austin and New York.

IT'S NOT ONLY WHAT WE KNOW, IT'S WHO WE KNOW.