Nathan Thayer (He/Him/His) Email & Phone Number

Bainbridge Island, Wa, Us

Drive and direct Waymo’s overall design, development and delivery of effective strategic sourcing plans in partnership with Engineering Recruiting Leads and internal executive level client stakeholders. Effectively manage a team of individual Sourcers. This includes but is not limited to: setting performance expectations and coaching team members, providing tactical, day to day direction, leading by example to ensure data integrity, pointing out issues in order to enable course corrections and providing developmental feedback.

Greater Seattle Area

Manage a team of Technical Sourcers and help craft Uber's pipelining strategies nationwide and internationally. Mentor the team, champion operational excellence, and build creative solutions to drive meaningful, and impactful, results at scale. All the while, optimizing for delivering and engaging candidate experience and ultimately hiring the best talent to Uber.

Greater Seattle Area

More than 20 years of experience in recruitment/sourcing, both within corporate and consulting environments serving as a seasoned advisor for sourcing strategy and recruiting/sourcing architecture development. o Managed 4 Tech Sourcers on the Alexa AI TA teamo Responsible for recruiting for Senior Leadership and Senior level IC roles for V1 projecto Responsible for Program Management to build out V1 projecto Responsible for recruiting for Senior Leadership and IC roles on the ACSS (Alexa Cloud Security Solutions) teamo Work closely with business leaders, HR business partners, and our Comp/Finance teams to develop effective strategic recruitment plans to exceed hiring planso Leverage market data to help guide changes to the recruitment strategy, where neededo Have a passion for finding the best way to do things at every step of the recruiting/sourcing lifecycle. o Innate ability to improve and streamline recruiting processes that produce a more effective team.o Proficient at leveraging technology to find, and engage, more of the right people quickly, as well as, provide more value to the teams that I support o High level of expertise in leveraging databases, social networks, applicant tracking systems, and the Internet for talent identification and acquisition. Specialties: Developing Strong Teams, Deep Business Acumen, Stakeholder Satisfaction, Customer Obsession, Tenacity for Delivering Results, Recruiting Systems, Recruitment Operations & Delivery, OFCCP, Effective Communication, Candidate Relationship Management, Networking

Greater Seattle Area

o Manage 4 dynamic, Contract Sourcers that support the organization in Non-Clinical areaso Responsible for full-cycle recruitment to support the IT organization within Group Health o Influence business partners to revise the standard recruiting process to provide swift decisions on interviewed candidateso Developed an annual strategic recruiting plan to guide the IT organization in meeting their aggressive staffing goalso Design and develop candidate sourcing strategies including building pipelines, conduct in-depth interviews and negotiating offers (98.6% acceptance rate)o Filled, on average, 4 roles per week for the IT and ESA groupso Source, and close, a multitude of roles; Executive Director to Entry-level position within the IT organizationo Provide monthly training regarding sourcing techniques and toolso Developed a company-wide Alumni program that will be implemented in 30 dayso Researched, negotiated and implemented Social Talent for the Talent Acquisition team

Seattle, Wa

o Source and close technical talent for the Search & Browse, Personalization and Global eCommerce Platform teams, within Staples eCommerceo Leverage multiple tools, social media, deep web searches, user groups, Staples office networking events, employee referrals, etc. to accomplish aggressive recruiting goalso Persuade Executive Management team to increase employee referral bonus to help attract more candidates through that avenueo Influence the design, development and execution of a targeted recruiting strategy specific to the newly opened Seattle Dev Labo Developed a white paper for a new PTO Donation/Sharing programo Led sourcing/training sessions for the 200+ Global Tech Recruiting organization

Seattle, Wa

o Source and close technical talent for the Edge Services group within the Amazon Web Services organizationo Leverage multiple tools, social media, deep web searches, user groups, networking events, etc. to accomplish aggressive recruiting goalso Partner with senior leadership team to develop recruitment strategies for the Edge Services teamo Manage the candidate’s recruitment experience o Quickly establish credibility with senior management team by educating on recruitment process, OFCCP, compliance, market trends, etc.o Utilized proprietary applicant tracking systems ART, MRT and iCIMSo Developed white paper for a new Alumni program to attract, and stay in contact with, former Amazon employees

Greater Seattle Area

o Managed/coached/mentored contract recruiters and full-time regular recruiterso Influenced management on hiring decisions, recruiting strategy and recruiting processeso Motivate and develop individuals to meet and exceed recruiting goals/objectiveso Established and implemented effective social media campaigns to attract top talent for the organizationo Responsible for full, lifecycle recruiting for a variety of technical roles, including individual contributors, managers, senior managers and executives o Continually developed new process changes to make the recruiting workflow more efficient and effective, both internally, and from the candidate’s perspectiveo Managed relationships with contract to perm, and permanent placement vendors, such as Robert Half, MMC and Big6 Consultingo Utilized sources, such as, employee referrals, user groups, advanced internet sourcing, social networking and outbound recruitment efforts, to identify top talento Utilized Taleo as an applicant tracking systemo 3 month redeployment opportunity in Frankfurt, Germany to support various Accenture Global roles and coached the Accenture ASG team on leveraging social media for recruiting purposes

o Managed 2 full-time recruiters and marketing assistant to help in the recruiting processo Managed third party vendor relationships with Monster, LinkedIn and Careerbuildero Managed annual recruiting budget with extreme effectivenesso Developed and executed recruiting programs that included strategies, services and activities, to support talent acquisition needs of the business o Responsible for nationwide recruiting efforts for this national wedding photography organizationo Instrumental in organizing, and implementing, extremely proactiverecruiting campaignso Utilized employee referrals, outbound recruitment efforts, and the Internet,to identify candidateso Strategized with upper management on the focus of our recruitment efforts and implement those strategies

o Aggressively recruited Retail Banking Team Members for the Contra Costa, Marin, I-80 and Vineyard Marketso Utilized Internet sourcing, job fairs, referrals, competition shopping and Gallup/PeopleScout screening process to identify new candidateso Handled a high volume of requisitions at one time and closed, on average, o 10 positions per week in those marketso Partnered with Branch Managers to fill multiple positions of varying levelso Strategized with Market Presidents to achieve recruiting goalso Team Lead for recruiting group with regards to PeopleScout implementation

o Developed, and implemented, metrics to monitor ongoing effectiveness, and client satisfaction, from recruiting programso Identified qualified candidates in Sales, Engineering, Product Management, Technical Support and Testingo Managed technical recruiters on various contractso Developed employee referral programs for targeted positionso Implemented processes and infrastructure to help streamline the recruiting processo Established strong rapport with internal managers and qualified candidateso Sourced candidates from referrals, job fairs, advertisements and the interneto Directly supervised all working visa and labor certification sponsorships

Bachelor'S Degree, Liberal Studies

Hs Diploma