Head Of Talent Consultant @ Startups
San Jose, Ca, Us
Help startups with challenging or no recruiting functions to get them hiring successfully by creating recruiting processes, strategies, systems, onboarding, compensation, and doing a lot of recruiting. Would end assignment where the company has a thriving recruiting operation.Velodyne LiDAR, San Jose, CA • 2/17 – 11/17 Head of TalentPre-IPO inventor of 3D LiDAR for autonomous vehicles• Doubled the company from 200 to 405 employees in 9 months including 17 executive hires: CFO, SVP Validation, 4 VPs, and 11 Directors. Also grew manufacturing temporary hires from 290 to 750• Grew R&D by 60% and Operations by 130%• Grew Recruiting team from 1 to 6 Recruiters• Implemented Greenhouse ATS, and helped evaluate the company’s first HRIS (Namely) • Led HR for the first 3 months: developed their first compensation structure, leveling matrix, salary and stock ranges, and bonus structure for exempt and production staffDJI, Palo Alto, CA • 4/15 – 1/17 Head of Palo Alto TAMarket leader in drones (unmanned aerial vehicles)• Helped build new Palo Alto R&D office to go after the commercial drone markets hiring new deep learning, computer vision, back-end, vehicle design, test automation, and QA teams from scratch, while growing embedded, iOS and Android teams• Implemented Greenhouse ATSPebble, Palo Alto, CA • 10/13 – 3/15 Head of TASmartwatch pioneer• Grew from 35 to 150 people in SW (embedded, mobile, web), HW (EE, ME), PMs, Design & Business • I filled 111 positions including 9 executives: CFO, General Counsel, SVP of Design and Product, VP of HW Engineering, Head of Design, Director of SW Engineering, 2 Product Directors and Head of Sales• Implemented Greenhouse ATS Houzz, Palo Alto, CA • 12/12 – 9/13 Technical Recruiting Lead• Recruited for Engineering and Design, key hires: VP Design & Data Architect• Implemented Greenhouse ATS