Steve Potestio Email & Phone Number

Built for Work. Staffing, Direct Hire Placement and Executive Search leveraging 20+ years of experience and network. Harvester Talent aims simply to be the best creative/marketing staffing, placement and talent resource in the world. As it is, we're pretty damn close. We work with clients globally from our locations in San Francisco and Portland. Ask me about our Harvester Talent hats...coolest in the biz.- Staffing and direct-hire placement services with unmatched talent reach.- Executive Search. C-level, VP, Director roles across creative, marketing, and operations.- Teams. Leveraging talent network and agency experience to build custom solutions.- Insight. The experience that comes from building large creative services firms and nationally recognized people solutions for businesses.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Lead business operations, development and delivery for the West Coast region of a national creative, marketing, digital and gaming staffing agency. Manage and mentor a 22-person team of account services, business development and recruiter professionals spread across geographies.

Portland, Or, Us

(Company sold in 2022) Drive business strategy, growth, team management, geographical expansion, philosophy vision, and culture for award winning creative staffing agency. Lead client acquisition, growth, built and managed teams in Portland, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boise. Grew revenue from $0 to $19 million with year over year growth. Established and managed relationships with corporations and creative services agencies resulting in 70% - 93% of total company revenue depending on year. Hired, trained and managed team of division managers, account managers and recruiters. Taught a talent-centric, high client touch approach counter to the traditional metric, quota based staffing industry norm. As CMO, oversee all marketing, including branding and naming, with an emphasis on building a strong creative talent community through brand marketing, content, and events. Concepted and developed The Creative Party and The Administration brands including naming, identity development, tone and voice, and go to market strategy.Five time winner of Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. award. Accomplished without a dedicated sales staff...virtually unheard of in the staffing industry and proving the power of my approach.

POTESTIO provides Human Resources/Talent Management consultancy to creative and marketing agencies to help build great cultures to attract, retain, and grow their talent and their business (including cultural insight, organizational structure, HR infrastructure, compliancy and process). POTESTIO also provides recruiting and placement services leveraging 17 years of hiring top creative and marketing talent. Clients include interactive agencies, design firms, ad agencies and integrated marketing communications firms. Build a People Positive Culture.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Led client services, business development, recruiting, human resources, talent and staff management for creative staffing company servicing Portland and Seattle. Managing recruiting, placement and business development, I built 52 by giving amazing service and building amazing relationships. 52 was named to Portland Business Journal's Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies in 2009 (#29) and 2008 (#15). I instilled a philosophy of being in the staffing industry for the right reasons; to make positive meaningful connections for talent and client companies and always doing the right thing regardless of the bottom line.

Portland's largest digital agency, Via develops interactive websites to train worldwide retail sales channels. As part of the executive leadership team, I managed all operations, human resources and recruitment functions. Hired and placed people in international positions in the UK and Singapore. Via was named to Portland Business Journal's Fastest Growing Private 100 Companies for 2004 (#9) and 2005 (#13) and during my tenure the firm grew from 12 to 140 employees and we were known as being one of the best agencies locally to work for due to our progressive, positive culture.

Portland, Or, Us

Human Resources Manager for established branding agency and start-up digital agency (Via Training). Managed talent resources, and recruiting for both sister companies. Developed human resources department, company policies, procedures and established and grew culture for Via. Then sat back as people pounded down the doors to come work for us.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Managed account and talent relationships placing full-time and temporary personnel: digital production artists, graphic designers, multimedia developers, web designers, programmers, account managers, traffic managers, producers, project managers, illustrators, copywriters, editors, art directors, interface designers. Placed individuals in creative agencies and at corporate clients including: Nike, adidas, Intel, Xerox, and Columbia Sportswear. Increased gross monthly billing fourteen consecutive months and was the top company producer in 1999-2000.

Launched one of Portland's first creative staffing practices for a technical recruitment agency. Developed and built client base, talent pool and drove all placement activity for creative service agencies and corporations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed all aspects of temporary staffing division for recruitment agency focused on financial services industry. Established a creative staffing practice servicing agencies. Grew revenue 300% in first year without sales support by providing exceptional customer service, making excellent placements and building strong relationships with talent, clients and staff.

Worked as a graphic designer, traffic manager, account manager, copywriter, and marketing account executive for agencies and as a freelancer. Designed some stuff, wrote some stuff, drew some stuff and tried to stay versed in pizza slices, burritos, beer and basketball.

B.S. Journalism, Advertising

Goldman Sachs 10, 000 Small Businesses, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

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