Advising and scaling an AI startup while marrying my passion for music and drumming! Uncharted Labs is a generative AI startup founded by three former Google DeepMind researchers: David Ding, Charlie Nash, and Yaroslav Ganin. The company, based in New York, focuses on advancing AI technology, particularly in areas like AI-generated images and music, building on the expertise the founders developed while working on projects like Google's Imagen and Lyria.The founders left Google due to frustrations with the slow pace of translating AI research into practical products and the bureaucratic challenges following the merger of Google and DeepMind. Uncharted Labs has already raised $8.5 million of a $10 million funding goal, with backing from notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz.The startup is part of a broader trend of AI researchers leaving large tech firms to establish their own ventures, aiming to push the boundaries of AI innovation without the constraints of corporate bureaucracy. Uncharted Labs, an AI startup founded by three Google Deepmind researchers, raises $8.5 million in funding - Tech Startups](https://techstartups.com/2024/01/31/uncharted-labs-an-ai-startup-founded-by-three-google-deepmind-researchers-raises-8-5-million-in-funding/) ,Ex-DeepMind researchers ditch Google to speed up AI innovation with Uncharted Labs](https://the-decoder.com/ex-deepmind-researchers-ditch-google-to-speed-up-ai-innovation-with-uncharted-labs/).

Kiddom is an education technology company focused on enhancing K-12 learning experiences through digital tools. The platform integrates curriculum, instruction, and assessment in one place, helping educators manage and customize lessons. Recently, Kiddom introduced AI-powered features to streamline tasks like lesson planning, grading, and providing student feedback. These tools are designed to save teachers time and improve student outcomes by offering personalized, real-time support and adaptive resources tailored to individual needs.For more information, you can visit: https://www.kiddom.coKiddom, an educational technology company, has raised a total of $91 million in funding across multiple rounds. The most significant investment came in August 2021, during its Series C round, where it secured $35 million. Notable investors in Kiddom include **Altos Ventures**, **Owl Ventures**, and **Khosla Ventures**, among others. These investors have supported Kiddom's growth as it continues to develop its collaborative education platform designed to enhance learning experiences.Kiddom has gone through three primary funding rounds, with its Series C being the largest. The company is based in San Francisco and remains privately held, backed by these institutional investors. Kiddom Company Profile 2024: Valuation, Funding & Investors | PitchBook](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/150510-79) Kiddom - Raised $56.5M Funding from 8 investors (https://tracxn.com/d/companies/kiddom/__gGdSMhscxMhMZDCdcdYAe8yyal2SIVjS1POB_RlZETc/funding-and-investors).

Supporting Engineering, GTM, and Leadership roles globally in a full cycle capacity from sourcing to offer.Reporting to SVP of Talent Frank HanCreated all operational documentation and process re architecture to help us prepare for acquisition and massive scale. (Intake documentation, SLA’s for recruiters, coordinators, & hiring mgrs, talk tracks forrecruiting, google drive structure, and reference guides for other recruiters to name a few)Hired against a monthly goal of 4 but achieved an average of 6-8 per month. To date I have sourced and hired 73 people in total with no agency help.Owned, created, and published all job descriptions and postings. Worked closely with HR and hiring managers to draft and publish. Implemented the idea and concept of having hiring managers and leaders create vide job descriptions for us to push to our networks and give candidates insights into the role, culture, and hiring managers they would potentially work with. This increased response rates by 58% and shortened time to fill by 42%. 82% of my hires were sourced, 10% referrals, 8% applicants.Sourced and hired AI and ML teams from scratch totaling 32 engineers, scientists, and researchers. Lead all efforts to make the TA function data driven, pulling data out of Lever into domo, and working with the business to establish keep reporting metrics, as well as creating and delivering weekly reports and narratives to leadership. This took several months to accomplish due to the way they had Lever setup with over 20 different interview stages in which we consolidated to 8 stages across the entire company so we can make use of our data in Lever. Trained and mentored new and existing recruiters on all the features they were not utilizing in Lever, how to maximize their sourcing on LinkedIn, Boolean & sourcing tactics, how to use AI in HR and Recruitment, and how to maximize our tools/tech stack. Conducted weekly sourcing with hiring managers and recruiting.

Joined as the first recruiter for R&D during pandemic, collaborating with co-founder Ilan to scale all of engineering for Travel and Fintech product called Liquid.Built the Israeli, UK, and Netherlands R&D team from scratch in 3 months.Reported to Co founder Ilan and CFO.Built the first AI/ML team, hiring 58 researchers, scientists, and engineers.Revitalized global talent acquisition, rebuilding engineering, product, UX, security, IT, and data teams.Led global talent acquisition strategy, increasing engineering hires by 30% during the pandemic.Directed global hiring processes, reducing time-to-hire by 20% amid pandemic challenges.Fostered cross-functional collaboration, improving hiring efficiency by 15%.Mentored 30+ team members, including 6 Senior Managers, promoting continuous improvement and collaboration.Established and led global sourcing function, increasing response rates by 40% using Gem sequence and analytics.Spearheaded Glassdoor review revamp project to help increase positive responses and reviews.

I was the founding and sole technical recruiter sourcer supporting the entire Looker engineering, product, design, and security. Conducted weekly reporting on all funnel metrics to every hiring manager I supported. Trained hiring managers on interview best practices, Lever ATS, and how to source on LinkedIn Recruiter. Met with finance and HRBP’s weekly to ensure alignment on headcount goals and reconciliation. Client Personally sourced and hired nearly 300 across EPD&S orgs leveraging referrals, targeted sourcing, social campaigns, university recruitment, and SOBO campaigns using Lever and Entelo. I made over 62 hires from hired.com alone. Re-architected our entire recruiting process and candidate interview experience. Primary lead for all DEI recruiting efforts.I had the privilege of building our sourcing practice/program from scratch to enable us to achieve aggressive hiring and diversity goals.I was part of the google cloud acquisition and went on to work for google for one year as an FTC in order to accelerate vesting and release the golden handcuffs.

Propelled technical recruitment efforts establishing a strong foundation for efficient talent acquisition in the organization. Directed and guided a team of four recruiters and one sourcer, driving collaborative efforts to effectively manage and lead technical recruitment initiatives. Joined the company as the sole technical recruiter and subsequently promoted to lead recruiter, overseeing a team of 5 recruiters and 2 sourcers. Rendered end-to-end recruitment support for engineering, product design, and the new grad/intern programs.Led the expansion of company’s newest offering, now known as "Coursera for Business," by spearheading the recruitment efforts.Doubled the size of the AI/ML, Product, Design, and Engineering teams. Worked closely with Andrew Ng on establishing our AI teams.

Joined when we were 300 employees and saw massive growth throughout my tenor there. Started as the first recruiter and built out the function while recruiting for all disciplines full time.

Successfully managed my own book of business during an economic recession essentially sourcing my own clients and job orders, negotiated contracts, then sourced and closed candidates for over 35 clients in the bay area and was able to double Robert Half Technical's revenue in my first year. Promoted to a leadership role in 2007 in parallel to my primary duty as a full cycle recruiter, and hired, trained and mentored a team of 4 technical recruiters and was still able to maintain my performance ranking as being the top 10 performing recruiters worldwide for Robert Half International.

Main POC for ISV’s who are wanting to host in the SAAS arena- Gathered requirements, procured hardware, setup staging environment, and got them to go live- Full CycleTurned up 30 accounts, and was the main rep for 15 clients like BMC, Blue Martini, Etology, Amp’d Mobile, MS, Firepond etc..Lead and directed project teams Globally “ Follow the Sun Model “Managed expectations in regards to day-to-day execution of projects and changes including resource management Maintained a best practice project management methodology that promotes: communication, organization, role clarity, and risk mitigation Created and assessed project plans and objectives and executing as needed to stay within cost, quality, and time limits Procured hardware from vendors for each client in excess of 1.5 million US dollarsProvided timely and appropriate project status and communication to customers, stakeholders and management Interfaced with the customer, internal team members, third party vendors and contractors to facilitate a successful engagement Identified opportunities to renew/up-sell services and communicate to sales and management Identified areas for efficiency and improvement of service delivery and developing/implementing plans to achieve such improvements Interview potential candidates for open positions within the Operations department Participating in sales initiatives as a representative of Operations able to describe the full product offering, detail the company’s areas of expertise, define scope appropriate to the existing business model, and discuss methodology of the operation for successful product delivery. Identifying customers/engagements that are outside of the operating model and proposing solutions to increase company efficiency and profitability

Implemented and maintained multi-platform servers, labs, backups and projects including OSX Server, NT Server, Win 2003 Server.Designed, organized, and maintained the I- movie quality assurance lab.Setup/maintained file sharing for Multi platform environment with proper share points / privileges.Setup images for all PC’s and Mac’s in the QA Lab, and deployed images to machines via OSX Server, and Ghost for the PC’s.Helped plan, supervised and followed-up on strategic projects (network upgrades, Server installations)Created and administered Apple OSX Server accounts, controlled access (ACLs), and troubleshootingPart of a Top Tier Team of three individuals who supported internal employees at apple campus with Hardware and Software issues / upgrades / implementationsParticipated in the OSX migration roll out at Apple CampusCertified in Laptop / and Desktop repairs for Apple