Oct 2024 – Feb 2025 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Supported multiple startups to hire key engineering, GTM, and leadership roles, including Anysphere (building Cursor), Linear, and Gen OS.

Nov 2021 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• *Moved to Advisor role Oct 2024* Owned all things Talent including creation of performance reviews, onboarding programs, internal leveling guide, data room / fundraising prep, interview training, partnership outreach, and multiple GTM/growth initiatives. Flux raised $15M+ in funding from Bain, 8VC, Outsiders Fund and other notable investors.

May 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• 100+ hires including Management (25+ hires) in early Robotics, ML/CV, Simulation, and Embedded SW groups; engineering hiring for Principal Eng (x3), and Senior / Staff SME in Perception, Radar, Prediction, Tracking, Planning, Controls, Compute and AV Frameworks. I also sourced a few Recruiters, TPM's, and SWE's for other groups.
• Key contributor to: technical Recruiter interviewing; onboarding 50+ Senior Recruiters & Sourcers; Talent mapping POC; owned full plan, implementation and training programs for Gem sourcing tool.

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

• Crushing, bottling, delivery, sales & promotions, and other random tasks for www.oliviabrion.com

Aug 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Teknominds provided retained recruiting to startups. We worked with founders and executives to help them plan to grow 10x, or hire elite technical contributors and management. Sourced and closed 50+ hires across multiple timezones, including early hires at Preact (acq. Spotify), Calm.io (acq. Nutanix), Swiftype (acq. Elastic), Sano Intelligence, BetterDoctor, and Grailed.

Nov 2013 – Aug 2014 · 9 mos

• Blackbird was acquired by Pythian in July 2014.
• 25 HIRES: Led all recruiting efforts for US, EU and Australia for SWE, DevOps, MySQL DBA, and Technical PM roles, including a DataStax MVP award-winner for Apache Cassandra. Created and maintained all updates on TWTR, hosted Tech-talks, and launched the Developer's blog. Sourced and closed multiple new customers in various markets.

Sep 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Recruited by CEO post Series B - responsible for all hiring initiatives, sourcing strategies, interview training/calibration, monthly meetups, internship program, and conference evangelism. Managed a team of 2 with weekly 1-on-1's and presented weekly pipeline/offer metrics to Exec's. My team hired ~40 people: mostly senior engineers, 3 managers, DevOps, and a few PM's, mobile designers, and community managers. Core contributor to company LinkedIn page & website redesign.

May 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• 240 HIRES: First member of the Recruiting team and grew the company from 25 to 265 employees; hired 150 people in 12 months with team of 2 recruiters. Directly recruited Exec's, multiple Directors, Managers & Team Leads for new teams across the studio; presented, negotiated and closed the majority of offers in the first year. Hired, trained and managed the recruiting staff, created college recruiting, internship, employee referral, interview training, retention, and job advertising strategies. Helped design company events, meetups, promotional flyers, GDC, FGS & E3 conference recruiting strategies, and lots more.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos

• Reported to the GM, and responsible for all engineering, art and management recruiting for the multiple development groups [AddictingGames, Shockwave and the Social Games division]. Single POC for all sourcing, job postings, interviews, scheduling, offer negotiations and onboarding.
• 35 hires in 6 months including:
• VP of Publishing; VP Eng; Director of Product; Director of Marketing; Software Architect (x2); Lead Flash Eng, Platform Engineer (x3); Lead Game Designer; Game Developers (x5); PM's; 2D/3D Animator; UI Engineer; Analytics Engineer; Customer Support (x2); UI Designer

Mar 2008 – May 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Teknominds provided strategic consulting to Bay Area software startups, to recruit some of their first engineering and technical hires, or build entire teams. My team worked directly with the founders of 30 startups and larger profitable companies. Completed multiple early-stage engineering hires for BitTorrent, Hyperic (acq. VMWare), Xoopit (acq. Yahoo), Serious Business (acq. Zynga), DNA Games (acq. Zynga), Ohai (acq. EA), mFoundry (acq. FIS), The Playforge (acq. Saban), Medhelp, Bionic Panda, Nextlabs, Thrillcall and others.
• left to join a startup!

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 · 4 yrs

• Worked closely with the CEO to define BD and Sales targets for their software offering
• Recruited employee # 3 to run Product Management and Messaging for v1 and v2 releases
• Provided analysis for product design and new feature development.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs

• Opened business and led technical recruiting efforts for dozens of Silicon Valley companies. I built the core engineering team for a few startups, including 7 acquisitions. Recruited early-stage hires for Roblox (CTO), IMVU, Tokbox, Hyperic, Rapt, Lithium, Epocrates, Neopath Networks, Atom Shockwave, Stratify, Nextlabs, Airgo Networks and senior talent for public co's including Symantec, Apple, Cisco, SAP, EA and Expedia.
• Helped grow and manage Gravity's contingency team into 8 recruiters and analysts who worked with 100+ private and public software organizations in the Bay Area. Trained analysts and new hires in advanced data mining and cold-calling techniques.

Aug 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Contributed to multiple SW releases in the core R&D team. Grey box testing of full SW suite, Flash tools, and B2C app. Debugged production work (Perl), built virtual environments (VMWare), created analytics environments, and tracked bugs. Met with VPE + Arch to discuss functionality and performance issues, and Production QA team for testing "live" releases. Promoted after 5mo's to re-write and own the middle-tier and UI testing of Catalog and early Zoom Flash products.