Aaron White Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Leading Upwork's AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning hiring initiatives. Currently dedicated to strategically building and expanding our AI organization.Responsible for full-cycle recruiting at Upwork in key areas such as (Machine Learning, Engineering (Mobile, Payments, Trust and Safety and Platform Engineering)-Algorithms and Research ,Vector and Semantic Search ,Recommendation Systems (RAG Systems), Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and Knowledge Graphs, Machine Learning, Data Science, Search and Recommendations-Focused on a metrics-first approach to solving challenging recruiting problems. Using Greenhouse, Crosschq, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and Teamable software to collect metrics in key areas, such as time to fill, time to hire, quality of hire, candidate satisfaction, offer acceptance rate, sourcing channel effectiveness, cost per hire, and DEI hiring metrics. - Focused on building out a positive candidate experience process.Key hire: VP of Machine Learning, Search - Q2 2024 , Principal ML Engineer, Senior Engineer, Payments, Director of Trust and SafetySearching for Engineers with these skills: Payment Systems, LLM's, Algorithms, Neural Networks, Vector Search, Semantic Search, Recommender Systems, Distributed Systems, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph, Technical Excuitive Leader Ship, Machine Learning, Data Science and Product Engineering

San Francisco, California, Us

*Promoted to Lead Technical Recruiter in 2023*Executive full-cycle recruiting (VP levels 1 & 2, Director, Senior Manager) for Data Science, Machine Learning, and CORE Engineering.-Worked directly with our CTO to fill VP-level roles internally, significantly reducing reliance on third-party agencies. Filled IC positions all the way up to Executive Leadership in Engineering.-Sourced by sending out 50 to 100 individualized messages per position each week, using LinkedIn Recruiter and Teamable for creative and innovative drip campaigns, with a 30% response rate from cold outreach. -Workload consisted of recruiting 10 to 13 full-time roles at once and managing them through the full cycle, filling 3 to 4 roles a month, with an average fill time of 30 to 60 days.-Partnered with C-Level and VP Engineering leadership.-Built out effective and diverse hiring processes.-Collaborated closely with our VP of Rewards and Finance to determine the hiring budget.Recruiting Milestones at Upwork:-Doubled the Machine Learning organization from 35 to 70 people (2x growth) by hiring all leadership from the top down (2022).-Filled our VP of Engineering, Machine Learning position in Q4 2021.-Filled our VP of Data Analytics position in Q2 2022.-Filled our VP of Engineering position in Q3 2022.-Saved over $600K in third-party recruiting fees by filling hard-to-fill roles in-house.Recruiting tools: Greenhouse, Textio, Linkedin Recruiter, OKTA, Workday, GEM, ChatGPT, Teamable software, Goodtime.IO

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Full Cycle Global recruiting (sourcing, screening, feedback, Issuing offers and closing) - Partnering with Engineering Leadership to build a recruiting process with the focus on D & I best practices. Most importantly a process that scales and is measurable over time. - Working with our Recruiting team to create D & I strategies with a focus on using data to help to drive our decisions- Working closely with Candidates and HR business partners to issue offers and close candidates- Weekly meetings with our Engineering Leadership to go over the pipeline and other recruiting metrics- Sourcing for over 5-8 technical, manager, director roles at a timeRecruiting Tools: Linkedin Recruiter, Hire Right, Greenhouse , JiraPositions I have filled while at Change.org: Engineering Manager (Starter Growth), Senior Engineering Manager (ML Platform), Staff Data Scientist, Staff Research Engineer, Engineering Manager (Supporters Pack) Victoria

San Francisco, California, Us

*Laid off due to covid-19.While at Cruise- Partnered with Director and Senior Managers to build out a full recruiting process.- Full-cycle recruiting (sourcing, screening, and closing)- Ran intake meeting with a focus on presenting metrics- Used a metrics-based approach to drive process and recruiting based initiatives- Partnered with HR to issue offers Recruiting Tools: GreenHouse, Gem and Linkedin Recruiter

Los Angeles, Us

*Laid off due to work force reduction*-Employee #60-Responsible for supporting our Engineering, Design, and Product recruiting efforts.-Using metrics and data-based approach with hiring managers (Directors, VP of Product Engineering, SVP of Technology)Recruiting Tools: Linkedin Recruiter, Entelo, Github, Hired.comApplicant Tracking System: Lever

San Francisco, California, Us

- Full Life Cycle Recruiter working/filling roles for (CTO, CISO, Director of Engineering) in both Vancouver and San Francisco marketsKey Hires: Director of Security Engineering, Senior Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Senior SalesForce Developer, Senior Product Manager,

San Francisco, California, Us

-1st Recruiting Hire-Employee # 20

London, England, Gb

MitchelLake is a Management Consulting firm with an emphasis on Human Capital and Talent Acquisition for ventures that are leading the global convergence of technology, media & marketing.

Boston, Ma, Us

Technical recruiting manager based in San Francisco / New York specializing in placing software engineers for full time and contract positions with an emphasis on Java technology and Ruby on Rails with a little bit of Frontend (HTML5,css3 and JavaScript).