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Professional Summary:Dedicated, Passionate, and Seasoned Sourcing and Recruiting expert with 15+ years of experience. Deep expertise in pre-seed, seed, startup, and large enterprise environments. I pride myself on bringing creative, strategic, and forward-thinking solutions to every challenge and task while leading with empathy and integrity. Hardworking, ego-free with a strong bias for action. I am deeply passionate about the physical world and building a safer, more efficient, and climate-friendly world through emerging technologies. Key Expertise:- Core expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Autonomy & Robotics. AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Software engineers (low-level to application), Hardware Engineers, Product Managers, Data, GTM, Sales, and Operations roles. - Scaling/Hypergrowth Experience: Hulu Live TV team from 50 to 140+ (solo recruiter), SendBird from 15 to 208 (founding recruiter), Torc Robotics from 145 to 350 (owned all of Eng, Prod, PMO), Argo.AI 1500 to 2500+ (built recruiting systems to scale).- Sourcing & Prospecting: Advanced expertise in sourcing tools and Boolean techniques. Public speaker and trainer/mentor. Proven history in pushing the boundaries for Diversity hiring across multiple organizations and domains. - Relationship Building (Candidate, Client & Stakeholders): Strong at developing short-term and long-term partnerships, focusing on building trust, providing proactive communication, and setting/managing clear expectations. - Negotiation & Consulting: Skilled in offer negotiation and providing strategic guidance to both candidates and clients/hiring managers. Career 90% close rate. Training & Development: Experienced in client/hiring manager and interviewer training, process improvement, and enhancing candidate experience.- Metrics & Process Optimization: Continuously optimizing recruiting workflows, tracking performance & providing weekly, monthly & quarterly reports.Technologies & Tools:- Sourcing: LinkedIn Recruiter (Advanced), HireEz, Seekout, RecruitBot, Entello, Teamable, GEM, Rocketreach, Swordfish, Greyscale.- ATS/CRM/HRIS: Greenhouse (Super Admin), Ashby (Super Admin), Lever, ICIMS, Jobvite, Taleo, SmartRecruiters, Salesforce, Bamboo, Rippling, Gusto.- Other Tools: MS Office, G-suite, Asana, Miro, Workforce, Talent Neuron, TalentWall, Calendly, Interseller.
Pj Ledorze's Current Company Details
Contrario
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Founding Recruiter
San Francisco, CA, US
- Website:
- contrario.ai
- Employees:
- 18
- Company phone:
- 1-888-843-5449
Pj Ledorze Work Experience Details
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Founding RecruiterContrarioSan Francisco, Ca, Us
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Ceo - Founding RecruiterFoundingrecruiter.Com - Founding RecruiterUnited States -
Ai Recruiter - Ai + Ml + Data Science (A2D)Intuit Jul 2024 - PresentMountain View, California, UsFull-cycle recruiting for Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. Heavy emphasis on Real-time/online ML Modeling, GenAI, NLP, and Deep Learning. - Highlight reel: Achieved 137% of hiring quota for Q1 2025 (new fiscal year). Achieved 100% of my Woman-in-Tech, and 80% URM goals (both led the A2D Recruiting team). - Highlight reel: Helped speed up our time-to-hire and quality-to-hire. Increased our hiring pass-through rates from 12:1 to 3:1. - Primary contact for A2D VP Clients. -
Advisor - Hiring FoundersProtected Wellness Feb 2024 - PresentHelping launch Longevity AI Startup in Stealthmode - Healthspan AI.Protected Wellness is a trailblazing longevity business incubator. Currently focused on Genomics, Aging Biomarkers, and AgeTech, with Neuroscience, Wearables, Precision Medicine, and Cellular Reprogramming on the radar. -
Principal Recruiter - Ai/Ml, Robotics, Gtm, SoftwareSympl Labs Nov 2022 - Jul 2024San Francisco, Ca, UsRoles: Founders (CEO, CTO, CPO), Executive, Engineering, AI/ML, Product, Sales, GTM, Marketing. - Pre-Seed: Mercante.ai, Protected Wellness/Healthspan AI.Consulting + Advisory: Acted as the primary recruiter and advised leadership on Talent Management. - Seed: Aerovect (Autonomous Robotics Startup), Paraform (commissioned-based startup recruiting).Consulting: Acted as the primary recruiter and advised leadership on Talent Management.- Startup: GovOS.Consulting: I helped close out their Q4 end-of-year hiring. I hired 18 GTM, Sales, Software Engineers, and Product Managers in 3 Months (0 offers declined). - JobSplash AI - Co-Founder - AI Startup - Stealth Mode. -
Advisor - Ai/Ml, Gtm, EngineeringMercante Technologies Aug 2023 - Feb 2024London, GbPart-time Advisory work with Pre-seed AI startup. -
Staff Recruiter - Ai/Ml, Executive & Swat RecruitingArgo Ai Sep 2021 - Nov 2022Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, UsBefore closing down, Argo AI was a leader in the L4 Autonomous Vehicle space. - Strategic: Worked closely with the industry recruiting team and COE Leads to help with complex high-priority (P0) roles. Example: Took on 2 Cybersecurity roles open for 12+ months. Cybersecurity Cloud Architect and Sr Manager of SOC. I worked closely with our CIS and filled both roles in under 3 months, and the pipeline resulted in 2 additional hires.- Projects: I was tasked with helping Argo AI increase the overall efficiency and quality of recruiting. - Task 1: included building the Sourcer team, including creating the sourcer profile, job/level ladders, and job description, and working with COE Leads on implementation.- Task 2 worked closely with our People Ops, Cybersecurity, and PMO teams to add additional resources and rework our Software Approval Process. - Task 3: Led an extensive research effort to add recruiting tools like Interseller and Rocketreach. Created a 3-phase plan to roll out additional tools/resources. - Highlight reel: My efforts directly resulted in Argo more than doubling our hiring velocity (60% to 140%). I directly helped the organization scale from 1500 employees to just over 2500 in 10 months. - Highlight reel: Increased organizational Diversity hiring by 80%. Executive: I worked on 3 confidential Director hires, and 1 VP of SEIT, and built our first Safety Advisory Board.- Executive: I worked on 3 confidential Director hires, and 1 VP of SEIT, and built our first Safety Advisory Board. -
Lead Technical Recruiter - Ai & RoboticsTorc Robotics Mar 2021 - Sep 2021Blacksburg, Va, UsLed, mentored, and empowered a small scrappy team of recruiters (and 1 RC). We focused on AI/ML, Leadership, Autonomy Engineering (Behaviors, Motion Planning, Vision, Active Sensing, Fusion, Mapping, Localization), Release Management, Build & Release, PMO, Product, System Engineering & Simulation teams. - We worked as a team (one unit) across our engineering businesses. Day-to-day included identifying the best team/role fits for the top-of-funnel candidates, closing candidates, and wrangling hiring managers and interviewers.- Created team documents, guides, training materials, scorecards, kick-off questionnaires, and LinkedIn templates. - Work closely with the business (and leaders) on hiring manager coaching, interviewer training, recruiting metrics, and service-level agreements. We have a lot of people new to hiring/interviewing. - Built in-house sourcing function from scratch. - Highlight reel: Role expanded from IC focused on BPC & PMO teams to leading all of Engineering (minus Infrastructure/tools), PMO, Leadership, and Product teams. - Highlight reel: Rebuilt our entire engineering interview process from the ground up with a focus on speed, candidate experience, scalability & reduction of resources. Increased hires, decrease while offer declines. We were on pace to save the business 4,500 hours in interview time while improving our hiring velocity from 43% to 92% and our Offer acceptance rates went from 42% to 88%. Achieve 120% of personal Diversity hiring goals. - Highlight reel: Created best practice document for Greenhouse use. Cleaned up all our GH interview stages, and removed things like repetitive scorecards (Resulting in more accurate data). Added tools GEM, Talentwall, Greyscale. -
Senior Technical Recruiter - Autonomy Technology, Leadership & ProductTorc Robotics Feb 2020 - Mar 2021Blacksburg, Va, Us
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Strategic AdvisorCarmen.Co Oct 2019 - May 2021San Mateo, California, UsPart-time Advisory role for Seed AI Startup on product positioning, features and business development. -
Global Head Of Recruiting, Sales, Gtm, Engineering & OperationsSendbird Oct 2019 - Feb 2020San Mateo, California, UsPartnered with C-level leadership, VPs, Directors, and hiring managers to lead global recruiting efforts for the US (San Mateo, New York), EMEA (London, Berlin, Dubai) & APAC (Seoul, Singapore, India). I was hired as Director of US Recruiting and promoted in Nov 2019 to Global Head of Recruiting. Full-cycle recruiter for Director level and above (US), all levels in EMEA, and helped with our day-to-day recruiting.- Doubled both HQ offices (San Mateo & Seoul, South Korea) and added 5 new global offices. - Hired as the first US Recruiter. Built a global recruiting team of 6 Recruiters, 3 Sourcers & 2 Recruiting Coordinators. Total team size of 11 direct reports between the US and APAC offices.- Created global recruiting processes, global recruiting budget, headcount tracker (SSOT), and candidate engagement strategies. - Added recruiting tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Glassdoor paid account, Entello, TalentWall, Greyscale.- Highlight reel: Created Project Sangi. Talent mapped every Korean Software Engineer in the US and every non-Korean software engineer who spoke Korean. We were losing the compensation battle, we needed to identify areas where we could win in the talent market. The engineering team went from 13 offers declined in a row (mostly before I started) to a 50% close rate in the first 3 months to a 100% close rate in the final 3 months of the project. - Highlight reel: Achieved 105% of FY20 hiring goal, against the board goal of 92%. Grew our global headcount from 70 to 208. Achieved 90% of our global Diversity hiring goals (up from 10%). -
Director Of Recruiting - UsSendbird Apr 2018 - Oct 2019San Mateo, California, UsHired as Director of US Recruiting, promoted in October 2019 to Global Head of Recruiting.
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Senior Sourcer - Marketing, GtmFacebook Aug 2017 - Jan 2018- Top of the funnel sourcing for Product Marketing and Marketing Research. - Highlight reel: Eliminated extra steps in the Facebook sourcing process. What previously took 3 steps, I was able to narrow down to 1. - Highlight reel: On pace to achieve 150% of my annual hiring goal and 180% of my annual Diversity hiring goal. 0 Offers declined. -
Senior Technical RecruiterHulu Nov 2015 - Aug 2017Santa Monica, Ca, UsThe Seattle office built the Hulu applications across all living room and mobile device partners. Our location played a significant role in building the Hulu Live Streaming service, a first of its kind at scale for the entertainment industry.- Partnered with CTO, VP of Engineering, and Senior Leaders. - Led technical recruiting efforts for the Seattle Engineering office (sole Recruiter). Focused primarily on - Application/Software Developers, Mobile Developers, and Technical Program Managers. Partnered with the recruiting team on Product and UX hires. - Highlight reel: Helped build the Seattle office from 50 to 140+.- Highlight reel: Transformed recruiting processes, implemented more targeted job descriptions, localized our marketing and social campaigns, and put more emphasis on sourcing. We moved our hiring from mostly referral-based to a more balanced candidate hire pool of 40% sourced, 30% applicant, and 30% referral.- Highlight reel: Interview ratios ranged from 6:1 (some teams as high as 12:1), reducing the overall interview-to-hire ratio to 3:1. -
Senior Recruiter Iii / Talent SourcerAmazon May 2012 - Nov 2015Seattle, Wa, UsSourced and Recruited for business-critical roles (Senior, Principal, and Senior Manager level). Managed business relationships up to the VP level. I was one of the first recruiters to start working on Alexa product, including Alexa Voice AI. List of roles: AI Engineers, ML Engineers, Software Developers, Big Data Architects, IT Transformational Consultants, Cloud Security Consultants, Pre/Post Sales, Account Managers, Technical Program Managers, Senior Marketing Managers & International Business Analysts.- Highlight reel: I never achieved less than 130% of my annual hiring goal and less than 100% of my annual Diveristy hiring goal. - Highlight reel: Metrics: Took over struggling reactive business with a hiring ratio of 5:1 and, a phone interview to the onsite ratio of 6:1. Aligned hiring managers with interviewers, created a baseline to help define a consistent bar, and reduced phone interview to onsite and onsite to hire ratio to 3:1. Resulting in faster hiring pace while reducing business interview time significantly.- Highlight reel: Created a new screening event bypassing a more complicated event structure. This resulted in more hires with fewer resources needed.- Highlight reel: Brought 2 businesses (1 FY14 & 1 FY15) to year-end hiring goals by the end of Q3. First time either business hit their year-end hiring goals.- Highlight reel: Created a new pilot sourcing program giving hiring managers access to LinkedIn project folders while collaborating with sourcers. Results: Higher caliber candidates and hiring managers had more visibility into the top of the sourcing funnel. -
Founder / Principal Recruiting ConsultantPassive Planet Jan 2010 - May 2012Passive Planet, Seattle WA, January 2010 – May 2012)Principal Recruiting Consultant (contract work) - 100% focused on early to mid-stage startups. - Black Pixel: Startup iOS and Android application development company working with some of the top brands on the planet (ESPN, Starbucks, etc.).- Primary function: Brought on to grow the organization from 25 to 50 (globally) and establish global HR policies. Managed a small team of 3 (HR & Recruiting). Brought in as the interim Director of People.- Global end-to-end recruiting initiatives, built global recruiting strategy, hands-on sourcing, and onboarding new hires. Managed relationships with the CEO, CTO & COO. - Secondary function: Managed benefits (medical/dental, vacation & sick time), created annual review process and dealt with employee resignations/terminations.- Managed relationships with the external legal team including: Employees, immigration, and financial lawyers.DataSphere Technologies (STARTUP)- Sourced, Recruited, and Hired Software Development/Web UI/UX, Ad Creative, andMarketing/Product Management (.Net/C#, Java, HTML/5, CSS/JavaScript, SQL/MySQL/NoSQL,PHP, LAMP, Drupal, HBase, Hadoop & Cassandra).- Built internal and external sourcing, staffing, interviewing, and onboarding process(Development & Marketing teams).- Increased company visibility with local networking events, tech publications, and local mediasources (NwJobs / Seattle Times & GeekWire).- Worked closely with CEO, CTO, CFO & VP of Products.- Helped build the organization from 108 people to over 400 within 9 months.- Oversaw implementation of new ATS (OpenHire), increased web presence with job searchaggregators (Indeed, SimplyHired), managed paid advertising campaigns with Facebook,Indeed, SimplyHired and industry-specific job boards.Vertafore- Worked with CTO to hire VP of Engineering, Chief Architect & multiple Software Developers.
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Recruiting (Staffing Consultant) Entertainment & Devices DivisionMicrosoft Jul 2007 - Jan 2010Redmond, Washington, UsRecruiting (Staffing Consultant) Entertainment & Devices Division- Sourced/Recruited – Technical (SDE, SDET, TPM) and Marketing (Branding, PR, Creative, Product Management & Business Development).- Averaged (all years combined) 109% of my total hire goals and 200% of my diversity goals.- I was one of the first Recruiters for Microsoft (and industry) to start recruiting Entertainment & Music talent out of LA to convince them to come over to Tech and work for a software company in Redmond, WA. PMX/Danger/Kin – Confidential Startup Business (Palo Alto, CA & Redmond, WA)- Maintained full confidentiality of business and products with staffing/HR colleagues, internal Microsoft employees, and internal/external candidates throughout the entire recruiting process.- Managed all US Sourcing and Staffing process, built candidate pipelines from scratch, boosted hiring activity, and finished the integration of the staffing processes with Danger Inc. after the acquisition.Zune Software & Marketplace (www.Zune.net)- Tasked with helping the business with their struggling recruiting efforts in California and Washington regions.- Hired as a full-time employee after completing a 1-year contract through Volt. Musiwave – Global leader in Mobile Entertainment (Paris, France & Redmond, WA)- Served as primary staffing contact to International HR/Staffing team, managed integration of process/policies after Zune/Microsoft acquisition, and aligned global Musiwave staffing strategy with US Zune staffing strategy.- Received approval from Executive leadership to continue recruiting activity during Microsoft global hiring freeze and successfully completed project 1 month ahead of schedule (12 hires in 3 months).- Exceeded management expectations and filled 36 out of 36 open positions in under 3 months. -
Corporate RecruiterFanbox - Sms.Ac Jan 2007 - Jul 2007
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Head Of Allied Recruiting – Sourcing ManagerAccess Nurses Dec 2003 - Jan 2007San Diego, Ca, UsNow Aya Healthcare - Healthcare Staffing Agency- Built brand new division from the ground up, zero revenue to 5 million.- Led sourcing development team in Costa Rica and built allied candidate database from 100 talent prospects to over 50,000 talent prospects.- Worked full desk as a recruiter, account manager, business development manager, and division manager.- Managed a team of 2 recruiters, 1 payroll specialist, and 1 support admin.- Responsible for P&L, division profit margins, and operating cost.- Hired, mentored, and trained new recruiters to the company.- Built new sourcing strategies, workflow processes, and training guidelines. -
Agency RecruiterStafftopia Jan 2000 - Dec 2003Ketchum, Id, UsFull-cycle agency recruiter: Sourcing, recruiting, generating/cold-calling new client leads, negotiating contract terms and closing potential hires.- Played a key role in starting a new division focused on recruiting Sales, Marketing, and Product Managers in San Francisco/East Bay & Silicon Valley. - One of the youngest professionals ever hired by the company.- Ranked in the top 3 in total hires and billed revenue every year employed (out of 40+ recruiters).- Mentored and led a team of 7 Recruiters.- Example of client placement list: Google, Siemens, Oracle, WebEx, Intel, & Peoplesoft
Pj Ledorze Education Details
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Microsoft - Ninja Recruiting CoursesContinuing Education
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