Executive Search
...finding exceptional talent
The “I know a guy” approach of legacy search firms is outdated in our world of ever expanding startups, and most of all, from a D&I perspective.
Executives with specialized knowledge are hard to hire and at record low unemployment, they're hard to keep. Additionally, over 50% of executives fail within 18 months. - Harvard Business Review
The cost of a bad hire is not just in the salary, but in lost time, lagging morale, and missed objectives.
Startups have fragmented most every industry with new challenger brands rising up every day. Some of them get acquired by the incumbents, some fail, and some become the new guards of their industry.
All startups face unique challenges due to internal and external dynamics, marketing positioning, funding, timing, location, and more. Learning the stories of these evolving companies means understanding the people who built them, how they organized themselves, and the challenges they overcame.
CrunchBase
Location: Distributed
Employees: 1,166
Funding: $617M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Los Angeles
Employees: 325
Funding: $161M VC
Thrive Market is an online shopping club on a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. Members can buy the best-selling healthy foods and natural, wholesome products in everyday sizes, always 25-50% off retail prices, delivered right to their door.
CrunchBase
Location: New York
Employees: 185
Funding: $88M VC
Signpost is a CRM platform that has helped 10,000+ local businesses get 5-star reviews, new referrals, and repeat clients. Their platform provides businesses with enhanced ways of building and managing customer relationships. They’ve shown to improve local businesses' ratings by 34% and increase revenue by 14%.
CrunchBase
Location: Los Angeles
Employees: 160
Funding: $61.7M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: San Diego
Employees: 300
Funding: $47.2M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Nashville
Employees: 36
Funding: $1M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: New York & New Orleans
Employees: 6
Funding: Closing Series A
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Boulder
Employees: 15
Funding: Closing Series A
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: San Francisco
Employees: 5
Funding: Closing Series A
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Los Angeles
Employees: 25
Funding: Undisclosed Series A
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Toronto
Employees: 25
Funding: $5M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
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CrunchBase
Location: New York
Employees: 7
Funding: $6.5M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: Denver
Employees: 35
Funding: $13.5M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: New York
Employees: 7
Funding: Closing Series A
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
CrunchBase
Location: New York
Employees: 5
Funding: $1.7M VC
Automattic is best known as the company behind WordPress, Wo0Commerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Simplenote, and many more. Their technologies power 1/3 of all websites, eCommerce, business management tools, content production tools, and much more.
As a team, we’ve placed over 150 executives at startups across the country.
We’ve supported a wide array of startups in industries such as consumer goods, enterprise SaaS, fintech, foodtech, crypto, media, healthcare, education, cleantech, entertainment, and more. Similarly, our team hails from diverse industry backgrounds with collective experience in founding startups, sales, learning & development, people operations, business development, and onboarding.
We are able to draw upon our unique professional perspectives for each search. Additionally, our team members have experience building equitable and balanced teams from early stages and intimately understand the business imperative to prioritize D&I. We believe it to be a moral imperative to provide support and consulting to our clients to empower them to build diverse and inclusive teams. Building the right team is hard work and we don’t give up on difficult searches.
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A Nashville native, Brittney spent the majority of her career in Washington, DC, having moved in 2013 to work as a sales leader and sales coach for The Advisory Board Company- a research, technology, and consulting firm that served thousands of healthcare and education institutions globally. Most recently, Brittney was the Director of Talent Acquisition at Axios. After joining the news/tech startup just before its first anniversary, Brittney built and led a recruiting team that grew Axios from 80 to 200 employees. Brittney is passionate about building balanced and equitable teams, and she played a pivotal role in Axios’ inclusion initiatives, diversity efforts, and the rollout of its employer brand. She brings a deep bench of experience in in-house recruiting, people operations, learning and development, and consultative sales to the team.
Brittney moved back to Nashville in 2019 with her family before joining Position.
Kim is an Associate at Position where she works full-cycle to source, interview, and hire exceptional teammates for her clients. Previously she worked in Human Resources and Training Programs at the Ethereum blockchain startup ConsenSys. Here, Kim joined as employee #80 and supported the company as it skyrocketed to +1250 employees worldwide within 2 years. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Kim was an Extended Learning Associate at the startup school Avenues where she helped build out study abroad programs and a community engagement program in the upper school.
When she’s not out seeking talent, Kim enjoys practicing and teaching yoga, catching live music, and exploring new corners of the world. Kim holds a BA from the University of San Francisco, and a MA in Sociology of Education from NYU.
