SAMPLE RPO PROJECT OVERVIEWS
Mesosphere
Series D open source data center management software venture. Engineering recruiting and international staffing requirements.
(13 month assignment)
Successfully filled all assigned positions across 11 different hiring teams (including China, Australia and Germany).
Partnered with Co-Founder to fill company’s key Sr. Product Designer position.
Introduced offshore sourcing model and AI based recruiting tools for scale.
Managed several technical and G&A sourcing campaigns, market mapping projects and bulk messaging campaigns.
Anki
Series D growth stage consumer robotics startup.
(19 month assignment)
Senior member of 3-5 headcount recruiting team that achieved company leading 91% OKR results during record hiring campaign netting 91 total hires.
Responsible for (26) key engineer hires for computer vision, robotics, AI, hardware, mechanical, data eng. teams, in addition to (14) FP&A/G&A hires.
Introduced and implemented new tactical sourcing methods and related tools.
Contract renewed 3 times.
Mentored Sr. Recruiting Manager hire ramp onto fast paced in-house corporate recruiting environment.
Introduced proprietary “Decision Matrix Model” offer closing strategy.
Productboard
Series B SaaS startup delivering cloud-based product management platform. Product – GTM team hiring.
(11 month assignment)
Doubled Product Management leadership team with 4 Director level hires.
Led Head of Design search and worldwide Designer recruiting campaigns.
Delivered passive candidate sourcing and engagement training to Prague team.
Descript
Series A digital media tools startup. Enterprise-wide recruiting including Montreal based R&D positions.
(7 month assignment)
Doubled headcount for SF office (5 headcount) and hired founding QA Team in Montreal.
Skyhigh Networks
Series B/C cloud security venture. Enterprise-wide Engineering recruiting.
(9 month assignment)
Expedited Proxy, DLP and Dashboard Engineering recruiting to fill all requisitions in 6 months
Made first hire (Sr. Linux NetOps Eng.) within 18 days to quickly address key employee turnover within the DevOps group.
Identified and facilitated Director of Global Talent Acquisition hire.
Inherited company’s #1 requisition = Sr. UX Designer and filled the position within 4 weeks with world class candidate from Cisco.
Pocket Gems
Founding RPO contract recruiter hired to grow core team for leading mobile-gaming startup.
(17 month assignment)
Created and co-managed staffing campaign that resulted in 96 world class hires in 17 months, with no turnover.
Trained executive team members and growth team members on full lifecycle technical recruiting, vendor management and LinkedIn Recruiter functionality.
Trained and implemented proprietary “decision matrix model” for engineering Offer closings (91% close ratio).
Trained new hire recruiting manager, and replacement technical recruiter.
Digital Fountain
Repeat RPO assignment with former client/CEO for Series B streaming mobile media re-start delivering leading-edge IP/FEC based content delivery and VOD applications.
(16 month assignment)
Grew headcount from 24 – 57 enterprise wide, with 7 Eng. hires in first 30 days to jump start engineering team.
Hired critical Video Compressionist Eng., 2 Eng. Directors, first QA Team and the entire Sales Engineering team.
Reduced cost per hire by 75%, streamlined interview process and achieved 96% close ratio on Offers.
RPO Lead Technical Recruiter responsible for leading the recruiting efforts for the Configuration Mgt., QA and Software Internationalization Teams within the Eng. Staffing Organization.
(12 month assignment)
Identified, engaged, trained and mentored team of 12 recruiters which produced 21% of Google Engineering’s new headcount additions (team headcount represented 9% of total Engineering Recruiting Team headcount).
Architected, implemented and managed Quality Assurance contingent workforce staffing campaign, which exceeded plan by 11% (252 QA contractors hired during my tenure).
Personal production: 110 contractors, 29 Configuration Management Engineers, 42 other Engineering hires.
Iolon
Founding contract technical recruiter for Series A tunable laser startup, retained to design and implement enterprise-wide staffing plan with minimal resources and no additional staff.
(19 month assignment)
Grew headcount from 18 – 142 people (124 hires).
Hired 7 Directors, 1 VP and assisted with CEO search.
Hired and trained Sourcer/Jr. Recruiter.
Six Apart
Recruited by CFO as single source engineering recruiter for Series B funded social/mobile media leader.
(12 month assignment)
Hired Dir. Eng. and supporting teams for Data Analysis Group, QA and Ops staff.
Hired and trained virtual sourcing resource.
Become, Inc
Recruited by CEO to lead full lifecycle recruiting efforts for growing Series B eCommerce (B2C) venture.
(6 month assignment)
Grew US headcount by over 60% in 16 weeks (65 to 105).