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Jeff Barker

Head of Talent

Portland, Oregon, United States15 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led global talent teams achieving 203% headcount growth.
  • Successfully managed surge hiring during major SaaS acquisition.
  • Passionate about developing talent and organizational goals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Talent Acquisition Leader with extensive experience in scaling teams and driving growth.

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Global Talent AcquisitionSocial MediaOnline AdvertisingSocial NetworkingSalesTeachingManagementEvent PlanningCoachingMarketing StrategyCommunicationSocial Media MarketingCurriculum DesignCustomer ServiceBranding & Identity

About

After beginning my career in teaching and coaching, I've spent the past decade+ helping high-growth SaaS organizations around the globe hire top talent, innovate, scale, and achieve their organizational goals. Combining winning teams with revolutionary AI technology to solve problems and protect humans is immensely challenging and rewarding. I love leading our global Talent teams, and have a deep passion for helping others develop, achieve their goals, and find balance in the process. I am all about family and love being outdoors with my wife and two kids. I've been accused of having too many hobbies and am always on the go: playing basketball, tennis, heading up to the mountain, traveling, coaching, and cheering on the Blazers, Ducks, and Gunners!

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Engine

VP of Talent Acquisition

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Thrilled to be leading a TA org of 25+ across NAMER and LATAM as we build a high-performing, talent-dense organization in the age of AI

Abnormal ai

2 roles

Head of Talent Acquisition

Promoted

Feb 2023Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Honored to be leading Abnormal AI's global Talent Acquisition team
  • Global team of 50+ (FTE + contractors): TA Partners, Coordinators, Ops, Talent Brand, Analytics,
  • and Enablement
  • 203% headcount growth in < 3 years, tripling company size
  • Expanding our global employee footprint from 5 to 17 countries

Director GTM and G&A Recruiting

Aug 2022Feb 2023 · 6 mos

Slack

CSG Recruiting Leader - Americas

Jul 2021Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area - Remote

  • Leading Slack's Customer Success and Consulting Services hiring for the Americas
  • 137% YoY HC growth
  • 105% to plan FY'22
  • Led Surge Hiring across all post-sales GTM departments
  • Responsible for growth metrics, reporting, and SVP-level stakeholder relationships
  • Increase efficiencies and improve candidate/stakeholder experience E2E Recruiting cycle
  • Function as the global POC, seated in AMER, for CSG recruiting in EMEA, APAC, JP/KR: weekly
  • reporting, sentiment, and information/knowledge-sharing
  • Led team through second-largest SaaS acquisition by Salesforce while still achieving 105% of hiring targets

Altsource, inc

Head of Talent Acquisition

Jul 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs · Portland, Oregon Area

  • AltSource's mission is to help our clients make a lasting impact on the performance of their organization through technology. We support organizations of all sizes by giving them control of their business, creating custom software solutions tailored to their needs. Our goal is to facilitate lasting partnerships that lead to long-term business advantages.
  • Lead all Sourcing, Coordination, and Recruiting efforts across NAMER and APAC offices
  • Part of the Senior Leadership Team: responsible for driving skill and talent gap analyses across the organization to identify people, process, and technology gaps
  • Lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly TA/HR meetings with leaders from Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product, Project, HR, and Ownership for both strategic updates, forecasting, and tactical decision-making
  • Responsible for Employee Value Prop, Employer Brand, and all website and social media content including LinkedIN Live Video Stream
  • Build and own socially responsible DEB recruiting initiatives and strategies alongside HR leadership
  • Design Recruiting, Interviewing, and Onboarding practices for Product, Project, Engineering, QA, Data, Operations (Sysadmin, DevOps, and Site Reliability), UX, Sales, Marketing, and Client Services
  • Build interview training decks for hiring managers across the organization and lead focused training sessions for specific interviewing tactics, strategies, and methodologies

Salesfirst recruiting

4 roles

VP of Recruiting

Promoted

Oct 2018Jul 2019 · 9 mos

  • Lead a team of Recruiters and Recruiting Managers
  • Develop strategic initiatives for growth
  • Address workflow, resource/tool issues and develop solutions to increase overall efficiencies and revenue
  • Build elite Sales, Marketing, Administrative, and Leadership teams
  • Train and develop internal Sales, Recruitment, and Leadership Professionals
  • Develop and enhance client partnerships
  • Coach C-level clientele on best practices for optimizing sourcing and interview/evaluation processes
  • Source and vet top talent
  • Consult with local, national, and international leadership teams for structure/org design

Director Of Recruiting

Promoted

Sep 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Recruiter

Promoted

Feb 2015Sep 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

Recruiter

Jun 2014Feb 2015 · 8 mos

Brandefined

2 roles

Sr Sales Manager

Sep 2013Jun 2014 · 9 mos

  • Brandefined is a comprehensive brand management company, offering big brand strategies for small businesses worldwide. I worked closely with strategy, design and sales departments to ensure that lines of communication were open, and that deadlines, budgets and quality were all top-notch.I led 5 managers and a total of 36 employees across multiple functions.

Senior Account Executive

Apr 2013Oct 2013 · 6 mos

  • I was responsible for acquiring and maintaining new accounts. I worked closely with small business owners across the country, educating them on the available social media and search engine tools. After teaching them how to utilize these tools and engage their target market, I managed the branding and marketing campaigns of their company. Whether it was establishing brand identity or developing brand loyalty, I loved studying the ways in which businesses build brands, and consumers interact with them. With over 80 active accounts, I wore many hats: from teacher to salesman to marketing/brand manager to tech advisor. I loved working one-on-one with small business owners, as they are always passionate about their company and their work.

International school of curacao and reynolds school district

Teacher

Jun 2010Mar 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Willemstad, Curacao

  • Curriculum design and implementation; classroom instruction/management of students from over 20 cultural and national backgrounds; piloted after-school academic and athletics program; varsity boy's basketball coach; assisted the athletic director in event planning and management; co-led a self-study assessment for the Council of International Schools regarding health and physical education standards; private tutor for English language acquisition, language arts and mathematics.

Education

University of Oregon

BA — Philosophy

Jan 2008Present

Concordia Portland Alumni & Friends

Master of Education - MEd — Education

Jan 2010Present

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