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Founding Recruiter
Orby AI · Full-time
May 2024 - Present
• 1 yr 1 moOrby AI raised $30m at Series A to automate complex enterprise business workflows. I'm responsible for all of Talent (compensation, levels, equity) and People Ops (benefits, immigration, performance).
- Joined as employee 19 in Q2 2024.
- Grew company from 19 to 47 FTEs in first 7 months (147%)
- 80% of growth was on Eng, Prod, Design and 20% on GTM (AE, marketing)
- Closed top talent from Stanford, Deepmind, Google, Meta
- Implemented AI tools to automate recruiting workflows
- Managed benefits, immigration, intern program, onboarding, and even some IT
Here's our research team's ICLR'25 paper UGround: https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/UGround
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Lead Technical Recruiter (Machine Learning)
Grammarly · Full-time
Aug 2021 - Feb 2023
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Staff Technical Recruiter (ML)
Meta · Full-time
Nov 2011 - Aug 2021
• 9 yrs 10 mosHumbled to have joined Facebook in 2011.
Select Accomplishments
- Design, Tested, and Implemented core recruiting infrastructure that are now crucial to FB's recruiting process company wide.
- Created, Established, and Scaled the interviewing process for critical high volume hiring pipelines like Machine Learning, Systems Software Engineering, and Product Software Engineers.
- Partnered with Eng Leaders to create the evaluation metrics for hiring pipelines, forecast long-term hiring needs, and develop scalable recruiting processes.
- Created the hiring process for niche cold start positions across different organizations.
- Partnered with Recruiting, Engineering, and Compensation leaders to drive large scale compensation changes at Facebook which helped reduce internal friction while increasing candidate acceptance rate.
- Led teams to make step changes to overall company's recruiting process; responsible for key hiring goals for Machine Learning, Network Software and Product Engineers.
- Built, Hired, and Trained recruiting teams at Facebook including Machine Learning, Eng Leadership, and Software Engineering.
- Created and Presented multiple learning seminars across recruiting orgs on topics like Candidate Engagement, Closing Scenarios, and Navigating FB's Hiring process.
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TEKsystems
Mar 2010 - Nov 2011
Account Manager
Feb 2011 - Nov 2011
• 10 mosLeadership role in same company below.
Technical Recruiter
Mar 2010 - Feb 2011
• 1 yrRecruiting agency located in downtown San Francisco.
I learned engineering recruiting from a great group of peers and mentors here. I recruited for infrastructure generalists, data analysts, QA/SDET, network technicians, business intelligence professionals, and ERP professionals.
My clients included a combination of Fortune 500 companies like Wells Fargo and Schwab to smaller Web 2.0 companies like Salesforce and CNET.
Sep 2008 - Jul 2009
• 11 mos-Worked to create an innovative and patentable patient monitoring device from concept to creation
-Prepared and presented multiple presentations showing progress of the project and final design
-Learned real world skills involving engineering procedures, patent specifications, and sales/marketing considerations
-Preformed mock FDA guidelines testing of prototype device
-Interviewed target consumers and organized consumer feedback