The Pipeline Group provides recruiting consulting services for emerging technology companies.

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP's Executive Recruiting team conducts hundreds of searches annually for General Management, Sales, Marketing and Technology executives across numerous product groups (e.g., Analytics, Business Applications, Database & Technology) and industries (Financial Services, Retail, Regulated Industries, Travel & Transportation).Key Capabilities:Ability to define and execute search strategy with creative multi channel sourcing in delivering top talent to the clientAbility to work across any job functionEffective partner with hiring managers , HRBPs and Total Rewards employees at the executive levelExcellent verbal communicator and active networkerAbility to distill complex information into a consumable and organized format with a focus on content, tone and structureTakes ownership and effectively manages time and process across rolesProvides an exceptional candidate experienceSample of searches completed:Chief Design OfficerPresident and Chief Product Officer, SAP SuccessFactorsGlobal Head of Cross Product Architecture SVP, Engineering - S/4HANA Public Cloud ERPSVP, Product Management, S/4HANA Public Cloud ERPSVP, Head of Global Cloud OperationsSVP, Cloud Infranstructure, SAP SuccessFactorsSVP, Engineering, SAP SuccessFactorsSVP, Engineering, Business Technology PlatformSVP, Engineering- SAP ProcurementVP, Experience DesignVP, User ResearchVP, Engineering - Low Code / No CodeVP, Engineering - Application Infrastructure and Extensibility

DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a passionate community of technologists around the world. We want to simplify cloud computing for every developer and are working on some of the most challenging and interesting problems in cloud computing.Searches completed:General CounselChief Security OfficerVP, ProductVP, MarketingVP, UXVP, InfrastructureVP, Customer Success and SupportDirector, R&DDirector, UXDirector, Business OperationsDirector, Product - StorageDirector, Product - NetworkingDirector, Talent DevelopmentDirector, Customer SuccessDirector, Customer Success and Support OperationsDirector, Infrastructure OperationsDirector, Security EngineeringDirector, Security OperationsDirector, SalesDirector, Sales Operations

The Pipeline Group provides recruitment consulting services - Employer Brand management- Recruiting Metrics and resource allocation- Recruiting Process optimization with SLAs - Hiring Manager, Interviewer and Recruiter Training- Selection and implementation of recruiting tools and technologies- Candidate Experience and Onboarding Best Practices- Employee Referral Program Management- Talent Mapping

Talend is a 450-employee, pre-IPO, Big Data integration software company with deep open source roots. With over $100 million raised to date and continued rapid growth, we are the second largest independent open source company in the world. Talend is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. The company also has an EMEA HQ in Suresnes, France and offices in the UK, Germany, China and Japan. Talend’s integration solutions allow data-driven organizations to gain instant value from all their data. Through native support of modern big data platforms, Talend takes the complexity out of integration efforts and equips IT departments to be more responsive to the demands of the business, at a predictable cost. Delivered talent acquisition and supervisory leadership to drive recruiting initiatives for Big Data integration and open-source software vendor. Created a strategic talent acquisition roadmap that focused on Employer Brand enhancement. • Defined and established best-in-class sourcing and talent acquisition strategies to align with hiring goal of 150 in 2014. • Hired, supervised, and developed geographically disperse team of 6 recruiters located in California and Europe. • Integrated company brand into internal and external recruiting platforms to position organization as an Employer of Choice, achieving a tenfold increase in number of applicants and raising rating from 3.1 to 4.5 out of 5 on Glassdoor. • Managed process to select new ATS vendor, negotiate contract, and oversaw system implementation project. • Increased employee referrals from 12% of all hires to 28% by revising the Employee Referral Program.

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure.Part of an R&D Staffing team that helped to scale the company’s employee base from 1,000 to more than 14,000, globally.Principal Strategic Staffing Partner, R&D for VMware's Virtual Center, vCloud Director and Application Storage organizations, after being relocated back to the Bay Area to work at the company’s Palo Alto HQ. Previously worked in a similar capacity for VMware's Networking and Security Business Unit.Hired hundreds of software engineers from the world's leading CS programs for the following teams at VMware:VM Monitor (Hypervisor)VMKernel SRM (Disaster Recovery)FT (Fault Tolerance)HA (High Availability)Horizon Mobile (Mobile Virtualization)Networking and SecurityStorage (VAAI, vSAN)Performance Virtual Center (Management Platform)vCloud DirectorEcosystems EngineeringProfessional ServicesAs the 4th person hired in the Cambridge, MA R&D Center, I was instrumental in the hiring of over 200 software engineers and management personnel who work in over 25 different R&D groups, without paying a single agency fee.- Successfully staffed teams in Cambridge, MA, Palo Alto, CA, Bellevue, WA and Grenoble, France for three of the company's key strategic initiatives - the "vCloud", Cloud Computing R&D and Professional Services groups, the Mobile Virtualization Platform (MVP) group and the Cloud Services Business Unit.- Chosen for a secondment to the EMEA Region to work on staffing key Sales and Professional Services related job openings that involve Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization and SpringSource (Java) related technologies. I was instrumental in filling 12 very challenging senior level job openings in 16 weeks in the UK, France and Italy.- Served as the sole HR representative in the Global R&D group that deals with IT, Finance, HR, Facilities and other issues for more than 12 R&D facilities in North America, Europe and Asia.