James P.

Head of Talent

Austin, Texas, United States16 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Built recruiting functions for multiple startups.
Hired core AI/ML teams for innovative companies.
Led large recruiting teams through significant growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS recruiting expert with a strong focus on technical talent acquisition.

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Skills

Core Skills

Talent AcquisitionTechnical RecruitingRecruitingTalent OperationsProduct RecruitingTeam Management

Other Skills

HRAI/ML RecruitingAI/MLInterviewsSocial NetworkingCoachingScreeningHiringApplicant Tracking SystemsSocial MediaMarketingInternet RecruitingHuman ResourcesConsultingNetworking

About

At 8VC, I work with ambitious founders to help them find the right technical and operational talent to scale category-defining companies—often before PMF, and sometimes before there’s even a name. I’ve previously built recruiting functions at large, mid & early stage companies. Outside of work, I’m a lifelong health and fitness enthusiast. I strength train regularly, get humbled in BJJ, and continually explore longevity & performance optimization—from peptides to recovery supplements. I’m also a real estate investor, supplement entrepreneur, boy dad, and constantly seeking kaizen in everything I do.

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

8vc

Talent Partner

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Partnering with founders to hire technical talent.
The world's broken, let's fix it.
🌎 🇺🇸

RecruitingTechnical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Tome

Head of Talent

Jul 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

Wore many different costumes, turned uniforms across recruiting, talent ops, total rewards, and HR during major company milestones:
0 to 20 million users
Series A > B
Pre Revenue > Revenue
B2C > B2B
Recruiting Milestones:
Built out the hiring processes and hired the first core AI/ML team to create Tome’s gen AI storytelling features
Grew Tome’s engineering team with 30 hires across: full-stack, FEE, backend/infra, AI/ML, storage, data pipelines, and eng leadership
Hired first employees for engineering leadership (EM & Dir), AI/ML engineers, Data Pipelines, Storage Engineer, Head of Product, PMM, Biz Ops, Account Executive & operations
Built the recruiting team and implemented best practices across engagement, interview process, candidate experience, and closing
Tome is an AI-powered storytelling format for unlocking your best work and ideas. Tome fuses collaborative AI with an intuitive canvas, responsive, mobile-friendly design and live, interactive content to empower all storytellers.

RecruitingTalent OperationsHRAI/ML Recruiting

Instacart

Head of Product Recruiting

Mar 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Led the Product (PM & Design) Recruiting Team of 18, as Instacart prepared for their IPO.
Increased recruiting team by 60% and grew Product org by 35% (65+ hires)
Hiring Partners: COO, Product VPs, and Design Sr. Director

Product RecruitingTeam Management

Facebook

Senior Recruiting Manager

Jun 2014 – Mar 2021 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Austin, Texas & Menlo Park, CA

Austin Site Leader: led recruiting for Bay Area software engineering pipelines
Built & managed the ATX SWE Recruiting Team from 20 to 60+ recruiters & sourcers
Managed six recruiting leaders over 65 recruiters/sourcers in the Austin office
Client Group: Ads & Business Products
Software Engineering
Full-stack
Infrastructure
iOS
Android
Austin Site Leader/Sr Recruiting Manager (M2): August 2018 - March 2021 (Austin)
Recruiting Manager: January 2016 - March 2021 (Menlo Park & Austin)
Technical Recruiter: December 2014 - January 2016 (Menlo Park)
Technical Sourcer: June 2014 - December 2014 (Menlo Park)

RecruitingTeam ManagementTechnical Recruiting

Google

Technical Recruiter

May 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr · Mountain View, CA

gTech (Technical Account Managers / Customer Solutions Engineers / Partner Technology Managers)
GBO Top Producer of the Quarter (Q4) 2014
GBO Ad Astra of the Quarter (Q3) 2013

Technical Recruiting