Food & Beverage Recruiter · Denver, Recruiting Nationwide
High Altitude Partners is a specialized food and beverage recruiter and executive headhunter. We place the leaders who scale F&B brands — from VP of Sales to CEO — with a real-time client portal, written candidate evaluations, and a 90-day guarantee on every search.
Food and beverage runs on things a generalist recruiter has never had to think about: shelf velocity and ACV, broker and distributor relationships, co-manufacturing and fill schedules, trade spend, cold chain, food safety, and the retailer scorecards that punish an operations miss directly. A leader who thrived in software or industrial manufacturing often can't translate to it — and the cost of finding that out after the hire is enormous.
As a specialized food and beverage recruiter, we recruit inside this category every day. We know what a strong VP of Sales looks like at a $5M brand building its first broker network versus a $40M brand defending national distribution. That difference is everything, and it's why a headhunter who knows F&B beats a generalist who is learning your business on your time.
Why It Matters
The leader you want is employed, performing, and not applying anywhere. We identify and approach them directly — the only reliable way to reach the best F&B operators.
Grocery, natural, club, foodservice, DTC — and the stage you're at. We vet for the specific experience your next chapter demands, not an impressive logo.
A live client portal, written candidate evaluations, and a 90-day guarantee mean no black box and no hoping it works out.
Roles We Recruit
From the executive suite to the plant floor, we recruit the roles that keep a food and beverage company growing:
Looking across the wider category? We're also a CPG recruiter for supplement, personal care, and household brands. See our full F&B and CPG practice.
How It Works
A working session to define the role, the level, the compensation range, and what success looks like in the first 30, 60, and 90 days.
Your client portal goes live and targeted outreach begins within days — visible to you in real time.
We go straight to the operators who aren't on job boards, using a network built over sixteen years in food and beverage.
Three to five finalists, each with a written two-to-four page evaluation and a clear recommendation.
We support the offer, help manage the transition, and back every placement with a 90-day guarantee.
Common Questions
We find and place leaders for F&B companies through retained executive search — mapping the market, approaching passive candidates, running written evaluations, and backing every hire with a 90-day guarantee, from manager level through CEO.
They describe the same work: proactively identifying and approaching the right leaders rather than waiting for applicants. For senior F&B roles the best candidate is almost always employed and not looking, so headhunting them directly is the only reliable way to reach them.
Founder-led and PE-backed brands scaling from roughly $5M through $50M and beyond — emerging beverage brands, better-for-you food companies, snack and supplement brands, and established manufacturers. The process is the same regardless of size.
Most searches produce a shortlist of three to five finalists within four to six weeks, with the full search typically running six to ten weeks. Your portal gives you real-time visibility the whole way.
We're based in Denver, Colorado, and recruit nationwide — most placements are remote or hybrid, though we also fill on-site manufacturing and operations roles.
Tell us about the seat. We'll show you how we'd run the search.