Andrew Cerda Email & Phone Number

San Diego, CA, US

New York, US

Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access. We’re growing fast with more than 45k mental health providers using Headway to deliver 16M+ appointments to 1M+ patients. We just raised a $100M Series-D ($2.3B valuation) with the best investors in tech, and we're growing fast. Our team is ambitiously delivering great product.

New York, US

Returning from a short medical leave, and with the support of a great management team, I moved into an individual contributor role after building and leading a tech recruiting team of 5 FTEs and 4 Contractors.

New York, US

New York, US

• Hired to lead full-cycle recruiting across multiple new and established engineering teams during accelerated product development and unprecedented growth.
• Closed 55+ full-time offers across software engineering, data engineering, data analytics, and machine learning.
• Mentored 5 new hires (Recruiters, Sourcers and Coordinators), providing structure and documentation during onboarding, and ongoing support for continued skills development.
• Built and led multiple trainings, including company-wide interviewer training, best-practices for sourcing engineers, Lever (ATS) nurture/candidate marketing campaigns, pronoun & inclusivity training, and post-offer.
• Multi-year Lead of #PRISM, Attentive's LGBTQ+ employee resource group (ERG) and recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Event company award for Transgender Day of Remembrance.

New York, US

Contracted by the company co-founders to run high-priority searches. Placed a VP of Finance and Senior Product Designer.

New York, NY, US

• Hired by the Head of People to lead full-cycle recruiting across multiple teams, increase outbound sourcing strategies to yield higher quality hires and shorter time to fill metrics, and mature the TA organization.
• Hired 20+ full-time employees from VP to Coordinator across Growth Marketing, Legal, Product Design, E-Commerce, Finance, Communications, Brand, Creative (design), and People & Culture.
• Provided additional sourcing support for hard-to-fill Engineering roles across Web, Data, ERP/Systems, and IT - sourcing 3 engineering hires for other recruiters.
• Co-built and co-led company-wide Hiring Manager training and Interviewer training.

New York, NY, US

• Hired by the Head of People as theSkimm's 1st full-time, in-house recruiter tasked with centralizing and managing company-wide hiring during organizational maturity, product diversification, and revenue optimization.
• Hired 60+ full-time and 25+ part-time employees, including 12 Software Engineers and multiple VP, Director and Manager-level hires. Hired and managed a Recruiter in 2019.
• Aided in the restructuring and scaling of multiple mission-critical functions, including Engineering, Data & Analytics, and Brand Partnerships (Media Sales)
• Developed recruiting operations, training, and supported headcount planning alongside FP&A.

New York, NY, US

• Contracted by the Head of People ahead of a $70M Series-C to source and build hiring pipelines for Product Management, Product Design (UI/UX), Email & Product Marketing, Classes on Demand (in-house studio production).
• Placed 5 senior hires and sourced 3 additional experienced hires for other recruiters.
• Provided recruiting consistency for internal stakeholders during a time of talent team turnover and the building of a new recruiting team in NYC & Montana.

New York, US

• Led recruiting and people operations as the startup’s 15th hire and first in function.
• Hired 40+ employees across all functions, including the doubling of our Engineering team and the addition of new Design, Marketing, B2B Sales and Account Management teams. Hired and managed a Recruiter from 2016-2017.
• Built and managed HR activities, including employee on-boarding & exit processes, performance management, manager training, and culture & events programs. Managed Payroll and Benefits through TriNet PEO, as well as.
• Managed Facilities and IT to ensure an operational and engaging environment, and built out a new 110-person headquarters in 2016. Hired and managed an Office Assistant from 2015-2017.

New York, NY, US

• Hired by the Head of Talent & People to lead full-cycle recruiting and support HR generalist responsibilities for multiple teams, including Product, Design, Sales, Account Management, Operations, Community Support.
• Hired 100+ full-time employees and 30+ interns and contractors.
• Co-built and co-iterated early talent processes, including new hire on-boarding, training & mentorship programs, culture & events programs, (early) performance review processes, employer branding & special projects..
• Partnered closely with business team leaders/management in support of organizational development and the strategic hiring practices / tasks needed to grow teams from 0 > 1.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Recruiting for Sales, Sales & Ad Ops, International User Ops (i18n/l10n), and G&A.
• Hired 180+ employees in SF & NYC and assisted in hiring 300+ additional entry level salespeople in Phoenix through university recruiting and triaging inbound candidates from multiple recruiting partnerships.
• Initiated quality of hire analysis for Account Executives in San Francisco by measuring new hire sales performance against interview panels and interview feedback, iterating Yelp's sales interview process and.
• Initiated cost per hire and cost per source analysis for inside sales hiring during a time of rapid growth and increasing hiring targets.
• Managed Yelp's ATS (JobVite) and numerous recruiting & sourcing partnerships, providing training and onboarding for interviewers, hiring managers, and new additions to Yelp's rapidly growing Recruiting team.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Full-cycle inside sales to small & medium-sized businesses across multiple new and mature markets as part of Yelp's first-ever 'sales class.'
• Closed at 124% of total quotas from July 2008 through April 2010. Promoted to Senior Account Executive within 10 months of employment based on sales quota attainment and exemplifying Yelp's core values.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Provided training and support to 16 Resident Assistants in their event programming & community development of 800+ undergraduate students.
• Liaised with numerous campus organizations focused on LGBT-student issues, as a way of bridging the resources & educational opportunities available to residents.
• Supervised 6 University-wide event committees, working with internal & external vendors, and engaging 150-600 students per event.
• Served as an adviser & resource for the completion of 128 Academic, Social, Transitional, & Service or Leadership-based programs to groups of 10-60 student residents; maintaining & enforcing annual programming.
• Assisted in the refresh of a 200+ page student-employee manual, revising core job responsibilities to reflect recent policy advancements and enhancing sections around event programming & community development.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Supervised a resident community of 60+ undergraduate students, serving as a resource with twice-annual OKRs in personal, academic, professional, & social topics.
• Led and participated in extensive education & training in diversity awareness and inclusion-based event planning, emergency response & situational management, as well as community & team building (co-facilitated a.
• Planned and implemented 8 Academic, Social, Transitional, and Service/Leadership programs per year, as well 20 additional community development activities per year.
• Enforced University & Housing policies, documenting incidents of violation & following up with residents as needed.
• Remained on-call 1/4 of the month to respond to emergencies within the residence halls.

• Assumed responsibilities of a separated HR Manager, Senior Accountant and Office Manager to close out the '04-'05 academic year and manage the consolidation of four small charter school customers into a single entity..
• Administering monthly payroll, taxes, accounts payable, and the submission of CA standardized testing & student records.
• Managing facilities, inventory, and vendors during school closures and consolidation of 4 distributed K-12 campuses, as well as the dissolution of corporate headquarters.
• Hiring & supervising 2 temporary staff members for record and asset organization.
• Performing various office & personnel duties as needed, including phone support & crisis management.

Ba, Anthropology

International Baccalaureate (Ib) Diploma & High School Diploma