Blake Williams Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for Executive Recruiting at Nuro.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Nuro is a leading autonomous vehicle company. Our mission is to better everyday life through robotics and strengthen local communities with our electric, zero-occupant autonomous delivery vehicles.Responsible for managing teams of Recruiters and Sourcers dedicated to hiring for Hardware, Embedded Software Engineering, Technical Program Management, Manufacturing and Quality, Commercialization, Regulatory, Policy, Legal, Systems & Safety, Product, Design and G & A.

We empower job seekers of all backgrounds. Hirepool.io is the only platform 100% dedicated to the job seeker, and the tools we build are based on our shared knowledge of how this space can be better. We've interviewed thousands of job seekers and want to use those learnings to reimagine the job search.Building a smarter option to the spreadsheet is only the beginning. We can't wait to show you the rest!Our vision: When a woman engineer in Africa decides she wants to be an architect in New York City, she will turn to hirepool.io to get there -- in 7 years instead of 10 and without facing sexual harassment or gender bias. Our approach: we rely on first principles of transparency, collaboration, and data equality. The first step in empowerment is to help job seekers organize their job search, better.For job seekers, we believe in a product-oriented solution. Hirepool is currently in private beta and will soon be available to the public. The product gives a job seeker one place to manage their job search, and gather insights on what to do next to achieve their job search goals.For employers, we concluded: no one product in the enterprise environment can create a better candidate experience, to do so requires the combination of people, process, and products. With this in mind we’ve decided to try to impact our mission by providing services to enterprise companies who believe in building a talent process that puts the candidates first.Here is a quick example of some of the services we’ve provided that have paid dividends for our enterprise customers:-Headcount planning with the business -Talent org design and capacity planning -Structured interviewing / interview architecture-Recruiting training program -Tools selection, implementation, and training-Contract negotiation and vendor management

Redmond, Washington, Us

I joined Microsoft as part of the Xamarin acquisition, and was tasked with managing the recruiting process for the three divisions comprising Developer Tools. With specific focus on Diversity and Inclusion initiatives, I worked to update and create processes to make more efficient our divisions' recruiting practices. -Leveraged Microsoft recruiting team resources to provide training for Xamarin Managers on new systems-Shared training with recruiting and engineering teams around recruiting and interview best practices-Worked with CVPs to understand the business and set corresponding recruiting goals and actions-Leveraged a pilot Alternative Interviewing program and implemented with my teams-Led sourcing and recruiting efforts across Microsoft’s Developer DivisionD&I:-Focused on diversity hiring and achieved over 40% diversity hires-Co founded Level Up (A diversity focused engineering meet up led by Microsoft)-Partnered to implement a pilot Diversity On Boarding program

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Xamarin’s mission is to make it fast, easy and fun to build and test fully native mobile applications. We provide the best platform for C# developers to create great mobile apps for IOS, Android and Windows Phone, using their existing skills, tools, and code to build mobile apps for IOS and Android. All developers, including those new to the C# language, benefit from the ability to share code between platforms, while building fully native apps, without compromise. I joined Xamarin to supplement the Technical, Sales and Product recruiting efforts. -Designed and implemented unique candidate experience offering 360-degree​ value proposition -Productized and implemented end-to-end interview process globally -Reviewed, selected, configured, implemented, on-boarded and managed recruitment workflow optimization platform-Consolidated Vendors list and reduced agency spend by close to $1M-Prepped Recruiting department for Acquisition by Microsoft (contract and resource consolidation, review and reporting)-Worked with the executive team on head count planning-Responsible for employer branding (events, glassdoor etc)-Responsible for recruiting reporting and analytics

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Hired and managed a team of technical recruiters.

Boston, Ma, Us

Led then was promoted to manage a team of technical recruiters specializing in FTE and contract placements.

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

B.A, English

International Baccalaureate, English

G.C.S.E, English Literature (British And Commonwealth)