Spencer Coles

CEO

Austin, Texas, United States22 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven leader in technical recruiting at Apple.
  • Expertise in talent acquisition across diverse engineering domains.
  • Strong negotiation skills in commercial real estate.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with extensive experience in hardware and engineering recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingTalent AcquisitionRecruitingNegotiationSales ManagementCustomer ServiceTeam Building

Other Skills

Financial AnalysisBusinessHuman ResourcesTalent ManagementSourcingManagementCRMBusiness DevelopmentMarketingBusiness AnalysisEmployee RelationsProcess ImprovementEmployee TrainingFinanceOrganizational Development

About

Throughly experienced technical recruiter with a diversified background in financial analysis, commercial real estate, sales management, accounting and negotiation. Extensive education in business finance and certified in microsoft excel. Responsible and reliable, work well on a team.

Experience

22 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
12 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Apple

5 roles

Hardware Recruiting Director

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Hardware Technologies Recruiting Leader across multiple locations and groups.
Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Hardware Recruiting Senior Manager

Promoted

Oct 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs

  • Hardware Technologies Recruiting Senior Leader for Imaging and Sensing, Power and Haptics, Display Technologies, Program Management, Camera Incubation, Prototyping, Video Engineering and Sensing Data and Interaction SW.
Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Hardware Recruiting Manager

Jul 2018Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Hardware Technologies Recruiting Leader across multiple locations and groups. Successfully partnered with several recruiting leaders to ensure rapid growth and the creation of strategies for all new locations in the US for Hardware Tech.
Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Hardware Recruiting Lead

Promoted

Jan 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Expat Assignment: Hardware Technologies Recruiting Lead for the Munich Hardware engineering organizations. Successfully hired several engineers including Analog Design, Analog mixed signal, Design verification, PMU engineers, physical design, STA, CAD, etc. Partnered with Israel engineering leadership to build out teams in Munich. Organized and managed several hiring events. Trained and led the hardware recruiting team. Successfully helped infuse Apple Hardware Tech Culture to new office and grow the engineering function from a grass roots effort. Successfully managed a very aggressive hiring growth rate and timeline, which continued after I returned to the US.
  • In addition, was the main recruiting point of contact for our hardware engineering teams in all locations throughout Germany and Switzerland.
Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Hardware Recruiter

Mar 2014Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • GPU Hardware Technologies Recruiter for Austin in the silicon engineering team. March 2014- March 2015 as an Apple Contractor. Full time employee from March 2015 onwards.
  • Successfully hired and placed several GPU front end, DV and backend designers. Everything from micro architecture to tape out.
  • Ex: RTL Design, micro-architecture, power modeling/design, performance modeling and analysis, Full Chip DV, Unit DV, DV Flow, Emulation, Physical Design, STA, Design Implementation, etc.
Technical RecruitingTalent Acquisition

Lsi, an avago technologies company

Sr. Recruiter

Dec 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Austin, TX

  • Full cycle recruiter for LSI’s RAID, FCD and other engineering organizations in the US. Team performance recognized to COO level within LSI. Individually recognized as one of the top three performing recruiters on the team.
Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Amd

Sr. Recruiter

May 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Responsible for finding and recruiting talent for AMD's Product Development Engineering, HR, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing and Corporate Services groups in Canada and the United States.
  • Successfully recruited top talent solution/software architects, IT directors, IT managers, database admins, programmers, software developers, data warehouse experts, storage admins, project/program managers, system engineers, business analysts, financial analysts, quality assurance analysts, product development engineers, etc.
  • Led the sourcing effort for university relations to obtain contact information for university engineering and business diversity groups. Organized the effort to schedule the top universities AMD would visit for 2010 and 2011 by identifying the top engineering schools for WIE, SWE, IEEE, NSBE and SHPE.
Talent AcquisitionRecruiting

Coldwell banker commercial nrt

Retail and Investment Specialist

Sep 2007May 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Represented land owners and, or, tenants/buyers. Negotiated commercial real estate transactions from start to finish. Experts in site analysis and creating a win-win for both parties.
  • Responsible for leasing over 1 million square feet at the Valley Fair Mall. Negotiated leases with In N Out, Ross, Petco, Olive Garden, TGI Fridays, Famous Footwear, Costco and more.
NegotiationSales Management

Lending tree loans

Mortgage Banker

Dec 2006Sep 2007 · 9 mos

  • Responsible for originating loans and providing customer care until the loan funds. Learned critical customer and communication skills in this role. Also, gained a deep understanding of originating loans and the fee structure.
Sales ManagementCustomer Service

Icon security, inc.

Sales / Recruiting Manager

Apr 2004Jan 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Responsible for recruiting and training new employees. Sold ADT residential alarms systems. Responsible for technical and administrative operations. Developed strong customer facing, direct sales and team building skills. Created and innovated new recruiting methods for hiring sales team.
  • Recruited the 2nd highest producing sales office for Icon Security that produced over 1.4 million dollars in revenue. Oversaw the technical installation of over 1000 ADT alarm systems in a three month period.
Customer ServiceSales Management

Trizon llc

Sales / Recruiting Manager

Apr 2003Apr 2004 · 1 yr

  • Responsible for recruiting and training employees. Sold Comcast cable TV and high speed internet. Developed strong team building, direct sales skills and work ethic.
Sales ManagementTeam Building

Education

California State University, Fullerton

BBA — Finance

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Utah Valley University

A.S. — Business

Jan 2003Jan 2005

Brigham Young University

3.9 GPA — Spanish

Jan 2002Jan 2003

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