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Four ways to hire. Each one outcome-focused and accountability-based.

Contingency, retained, tranche or contract-to-hire. Pick the commitment that matches the search.

Contingency
30%
  • Pay when the hire starts.
  • 90-day unconditional guarantee.
Retained · one search
⅓ · ⅓ · ⅓
  • One critical or confidential seat.
  • Payments tied to approved milestones.
Retained · tranche
Flat project fee
  • Bundle multiple searches into one hiring program.
  • Lower effective cost per hire.
Contract-to-hire
$0 to convert
  • Six months of real work before the permanent decision.

Give us the role. We go find the people.

01
Define the targetWhat does great actually look like?
02
Map the marketOur technology searches our proprietary data, GitHub and the broader market.
03
Get their attentionOur headhunters call, email and engage the people who were never going to apply.
04
Bring you the shortlistQualified, interested candidates with the evidence behind why they fit.

You interview. We do the hunting.

Powered by SignalRadar: proprietary search, enrichment and scoring across 20+ tools. Human approval before outreach.

TetraScience didn’t need more resumes. They needed a team.

Scientific data and AI infrastructure. Regulated customers. No room for a tourist hire.

From senior individual contributors to chief software architects and forward deployed engineers.

35+hires across North America and EMEA
8:1submittal-to-offer
95%offer acceptance
Ellen DiPasquale

Verticalmove has been an extension of our internal team from day one. No warmup required.

Ellen DiPasqualeChief Human Resources Officer, TetraScience

Say it. We already have.

We already have recruiters.+

Good. We sit beside them on the searches that need a different reach motion. Your team keeps the brand and the candidate experience.

We don’t want to pay retained to test you.+

Then don’t. Start contingency. You pay nothing unless someone starts.

Our bar is unusually specific.+

That is where we tend to be most useful. Give us the profile and the companies you admire, and we will tell you quickly whether we can map the market.

We’re not ready to start yet.+

Use us for calibration first. We can map the market or pressure-test compensation without opening a search.

How quickly does this actually move?+

Calibration happens immediately. Mapping and outreach run in parallel, and the first signal from the market tells us quickly whether the brief is right.

Tell us where hiring is constraining execution.

Give us the seat. We’ll tell you how we’d attack it, where the talent is likely to sit, and which engagement model makes sense.

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