Currently with a startup as Consulting Head of Talent Acquisition, and conducting retained searches for other organizations.Hiring Engineers (Mobile, FE, BE, Fullstack, etc!) and Product Designers. Reach out if you're curious!

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http://www.airbnb.com/jobsHands-on technical recruiting manager, recruiter, and sourcer (online researching techniques, networking, referrals). First full time in house tech recruiter at Airbnb. Grew the technical recruiting team from 1 to 20+, and the engineering organization from 20 to 100+ engineers with my team. Experienced in mentoring and managing direct reports. Skilled in recruiting metrics and reporting. Established processes and best recruiting practices. Selected tools and systems for the team. In 2013, I focused on hiring Leadership/Engineering Managers for Airbnb and managed candidates for Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2014, I focused on hiring Mobile Engineers (Android and iOS) for Airbnb's Mobile First Initiatives.

•Worked directly with the staffing manager and hiring managers for the product, sales, and engineering teams to source, engage, and close qualified candidates.•Continued to utilize advanced online sourcing techniques and referral based networking to build a candidate pipeline.•Designated as lead recruiter by staffing manager for UI Software Engineer and Operations Engineering requisitions at AdMob.•Organized and conducted an employee referral event which increased the candidate pipeline and resulted in hires for the engineering team.•Worked closely with the staffing manager to select a 3rd party applicant tracking system which streamlined the recruiting process and allowed the recruiting team to efficiently manage candidates.•Coordinated and organized multiple university campus recruiting events for AdMob including successful engagements at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Washington.•Flexed with organizational changes and shifts within the company's needs by transferring sourcing skills to generate client leads for the sales team for one quarter.

•Primary sourcing support for YouTube's entire passive engineering candidate pipeline utilizing advanced online sourcing techniques and referral based networking. Advanced sourcing techniques include Boolean searches, social and professional networking searches, user group searches, blog searches, etc.•Introduced process changes to streamline the engineering hiring process to ensure completion in an effective and timely manner.•Developed effective relationships with hiring managers and an understanding of their functional teams to fulfill their needs while maintaining their expectations.•Sourced candidates across technical and non-technical areas.•Performed sourcing duties at external conferences (MySQL 2008, PyCon 2008, Flash Forward 2008) as well as with internal events around increasing employee referrals, internal transfers, and visibility of opportunities available within YouTube.•Engaged in brainstorming sessions to find new sources of passive candidates and improve sourcing techniques.

•Responsible for prescreening and technically evaluating passive and active engineering candidates for Google's Site Reliability (Google.com) Engineering department, one of Google's greatest sourcing challenges (<1% of candidates are hired).•Worked closely with engineers, coordinators, and recruiters to accurately market opportunities to passive candidates, schedule interviews, and close candidates (respectively).•Utilized advanced online sourcing techniques and referral-based networking to identify, track, research, prescreen, and market engineering opportunities to passive candidates.•Sourced and prescreened passive candidates at local and international conferences (SDWest 2007 and ApacheCon EU 2007).•Selected to collaborate with a group of top Google sourcers and human resources applications engineers to develop a passive candidate search tool.•Presented passive sourcing techniques - i.e. Boolean, social networking, user group, and blog searches - to subsequent Google Sourcing trainees.•Offered support and assistance to new trainees around Google's structured recruiting process.