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Julie Locke

Julie Locke

Managing Director and Vice President Executive Coaching

[email protected]
Direct: (415) 379-4545
Fax: (650) 590-7470
Julie's Qualities
  • Partners closely with clients
  • Strategic understanding of organizational structure & cultural needs
  • Beyond placing individuals, builds teams

Team Building Expertise

  • Clients Requesting Additional Searches From Julie 100% 100%
  • Clients Requesting Searches Across Multiple Functions 75% 75%
  • Vice President Placements Requesting Julie’s Expertise to Build Their Team 100% 100%
Julie comes to Vantage Partners as Managing Director and our resident Vice President of Executive Coaching. Her career spans 20 years of Executive Coaching and Executive Search with tier 1 global VC-backed and public technology companies and individuals.  Julie’s expertise spans Consumer and Enterprise markets and draws upon a unique background that includes Organizational Development, Executive Search, Womens’ Studies, and Psychology. Bringing a highly consultative style to bear, she often works with first-time CEOs, and functional leaders, and organizations developing their employee growth strategy and with high potential leaders honing their leadership skills. Julie strongly supports companies advocating social good and human well-being/health and is committed to transparency, integrity, and difference.

Julie is originally from Ireland and earned her BA in Political Science from Furman University, MA and Ph.D. (ABD) in International Relations from the University of South Carolina and MA in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was awarded Phi Beta Kappa. In addition, she is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) certified Personal and Executive Coach, is certified in the EQ-I 2.0 and EQ-360, and trained in a number of additional Level B psychometric assessments.

Function and Level

    Domains Served

      Julie is the strongest executive recruiter I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Her ability to quickly calibrate throughout the search process and to create an excellent experience for candidates is extraordinary, as is her commitment to successful outcomes. In short, Julie is rock solid.

      VP of Product and Strategy, The Wikimedia Foundation

      Global Network Size

      Recruiting Since

      Total Placements

      Redo or Replacement Searches

      Fulfilled Searches
      • VP Core Product, Tango
      Consumer, Mobile, Social
      (Alibaba, DFJ, Qualcomm, Access Bridgegap Ventures)

      • VP Product, The Dollar Shave Club
      CPG eCommerce Retail
      (Andreessen Horowitz, KPCB, Rustic Canyon, Venrock, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures)

      • VP Design, The Dollar Shave Club
      CPG eCommerce Retail
      (Andreessen Horowitz, KPCB, Rustic Canyon, Venrock, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures)

      • VP Engineering, The Wikimedia Foundation
      Consumer Internet, Non-Profit
      (Crowdfunding)

      • SVP Products and Business Development, RocketFuel
      AdTech
      (NYSE: FUEL)

      More
      Role Client Sector
      CEO Ebates Consumer / Internet
      CEO MokaFive Enterprise / SaaS
      CEO Proximic Consumer / Internet
      Chief Customer Officer Tagged Consumer / Internet
      SVP Network Operations Zynga Consumer / Internet
      VP Customer Service Zynga Consumer / Internet
      VP Product Tango Consumer / Internet
      VP E-Commerce Product Tango Consumer / Internet
      VP Product The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      VP Design The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      Sr. Director UX Design The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      Director Design The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      Director Interactive Design The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      Senior Interactive Designer The Dollar Shave Club Consumer / Internet
      VP Engineering The Wikimedia Foundation Consumer / Internet
      VP Finance Like.com Consumer / Internet
      VP Marketing Adchemy Consumer / Internet
      VP Marketing Mokafive Enterprise / SaaS
      VP Online Marketing Total Defense Enterprise / SaaS
      VP Operations Topsy Consumer / Internet
      VP Product MetaCafe Consumer / Internet
      VP Product Management Retrevo Consumer / Internet

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      Managing Director and Vice President Executive Coaching
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