Anthony Cruz Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Wilmington, Ma, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

⏵Spearheaded talent plan strategy including job kickoff, profile calibration, interview plan & prep, offer negotiations, and closing strategy.⏵Designed interview strategy, recruiting analytics, sourcing plan, and closing strategy.⏵Owned Mobile and Web recruitment. Supported Product Engineering recruitment.⏵Trained and mentored junior recruiters & sourcers. ⏵Recognized by Pillar Lead, Cliff Chang, for producing Web teams all-time “strongest candidates”.⏵Led weekly recruitment sync meetings with hiring managers and senior leadership.

Long Beach, California, Us

⏵Drove Rocket Lab’s U.S. workforce expansion from 40 to over 200 employees during Series-D to IPO (NASDAQ: RKLB) as the sole full-time recruiter for the initial 2.5 years, utilizing zero agency support.⏵Personally led the hiring of Rocket Lab’s first 20 engineers for the newly formed Space Systems department, responsible for the company’s inaugural satellite development. Today, the Space Systems division generates more revenue than Rocket Lab's flagship launch services.⏵Oversaw full-cycle recruitment: conducted job intake meetings, talent sourcing, phone screenings, interviews, reference checks, and offer negotiations.⏵Collaborated with department leaders to design and implement competency-based interview frameworks, including engineering assessments, technical skills tests for production & assembly technicians, and behavioral and presentation evaluations.⏵Led Greenhouse ATS integration project, managing the process from RFI through system configuration, quality assurance, team training, and rollout, providing continuous support and optimization post-launch.⏵Achieved an average hiring rate of 5.3 hires per month, ensuring alignment with organizational growth objectives.⏵Supported an average of 15 hiring managers and stakeholders at all organizational levels, delivering strategic recruiting insights and solutions to meet hiring needs.

⏵Provided workforce solutions to manufacturing companies including Precision Castparts, Meggitt, Alcoa, and FMC. ⏵Built proprietary Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in cloud database Airtable.⏵Developed lead harvesting application in Google Sheets using web scraping functions e.g., XPath, and ImportXML.⏵Authored an entry-level and advanced recruiter training program.⏵Negotiated service agreements, managed account receivables, reported annual earnings, and cashflow forecast.

Irving, Texas, Us

⏵Full-cycle technical recruiter. Supported 50+ requisitions at any given time. ⏵Hired for SpaceX, Northrop, Lockheed, Boeing, Gulfstream and other aerospace & defense primes and contractors.⏵Recruited on PDS Tech’s most hard-to-fill engineering and DoD cleared roles.⏵Consistently achieved Top 7 out of 250 full-time recruiters each year.⏵Won Email Contest at Recruiter Conference, 2014. Mock LinkedIn message was selected by panel, out of 100+ submissions.

Del Mar, California, Us

⏵Full-desk recruiter primarily responsible for recruiting B2B outside sales representatives for F500 companies.⏵Captured new business, negotiated contracts, developed relationships, and won multiple awards (Highest Cash-In Award for the month of 7/2007, 8/2007, 11/2007, 12/2007, and 2/2008. Gold Team award 2007).