Catherine Li

Head of Talent

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

Expert in technical recruiting and talent acquisition.
Proven track record in advising startups and building teams.
Strong background in strategic communications and business development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic talent acquisition leader in the AI and tech startup ecosystem.

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Account ManagementAdobe PhotoshopBusiness DevelopmentConsultingEntrepreneurshipEvent PlanningGIMPGoogle AppsInterpersonal CommunicationInterviewingLeadershipMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft Word

About

Building new things! Feel free to follow me on Twitter @daikonland. Check out my personal website to learn more about my work at https://catherineli900.wixsite.com/daikoncake

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Advex ai

2 roles

Head of Talent

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Synthetic data, vision agents, and manufacturing galore 🤖🤖🤖
We are also hiring!

Talent Advisor

Aug 2024 – Mar 2025 · 7 mos

Solve Data, Solve AI
Advex AI's mission is to improve industrial efficiency 1000x. We're developing Vision AI that can support the ever-changing and use-case dependent nature of the real world.
Leading hiring for a phenomenal team :)

Various startups

Advising

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Providing strategy to various seed stage startups!
NEX - building foundation models for image generation from scratch on low compute
Alma - immigration tech reform using AI
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/11/immigration-visa-alma-law/
And more :)

Openreq

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Aug 2024 – Mar 2025 · 7 mos · Remote

OpenReq is building the growth platform for early-stage startups. We help startups recruit the best talent and raise capital through our investor network.
Our team comes from Rivian, Tesla, Lyft, Waymo, Amazon, and Robinhood, and we've had first-hand experience building some amazing organizations from the ground up.

Plvck

Founding Talent Partner

Sep 2023 – Jul 2024 · 10 mos

Bootstrapped the brand new venture & talent accelerator PLVCK from zero with an amazing team!
www.plvck.com

Waymo

Technical Sourcer

Mar 2021 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Scaling Trucking & Simulation

Twitter

Technical Sourcer

Jan 2020 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I helped to pilot Twitter's first general interview process for Product Features roles, as well as worked cross-functionally with hiring managers and stakeholders to improve and ship the new process.

Robert walters

Technical Recruiter

Jun 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Robert Walters is a global executive recruitment firm with a presence in 28 countries. Our California office, headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in recruitment within the technology industry partnering with exciting tech start-ups ranging in size and funding (seed to pre IPO) for permanent mid-senior level placements. We are partnered with many of the top VC firms in the tech industry and work with many of their portfolio clients on leadership and specialist searches.