Melisa Fich — Co-Founder
Melisa Koutz Fich is a Recruiting Leader who has spent the last decade of her career learning at Google, growing Airbnb from ~500 to 5k+ and scaling Robinhood from ~100 to 4K+ - helping both Airbnb and Robinhood go from pre-IPO to a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ. She holds extensive experience in technical and nontechnical recruiting inclusive of Executive and Board hiring. Melisa advises several early stage start ups as they scale their companies from Seed to Series D - specializing in scaling leadership, engineering, GTM and IPO readiness teams from the ground up. More to share on her next chapter as a Co-Founder soon. JadeIQ uploading...
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech recruiting expert with extensive startup scaling experience.
Location: Denver, United States
Experience: 14 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Scaling Companies
- Generative Ai
Career Highlights
- Scaled Airbnb from 500 to 5000 employees.
- Led Robinhood's recruiting during rapid growth phases.
- Advised startups on scaling and IPO readiness.
Work Experience
JadeIQ
Co-Founder (1 yr 5 mos)
Mercury
Head of Talent Acquisition (6 mos)
First Round Capital
Fast Track Mentor (3 mos)
Robinhood
Director of Talent Acquisition (7 mos)
Senior Recruiting Leader (5 yrs 4 mos)
Y Combinator
Recruiting & People Advisor (3 yrs)
First Round Capital
Advisor (11 mos)
Stanford FLAN (First-Generation and/or Low-Income Alumni Network)
Committee Volunteer (6 yrs 2 mos)
Airbnb
Senior Technical Recruiter (4 yrs 2 mos)
Engineering Sourcer (1 yr)
Coit Group - A Hudson RPO Company
Lead Technical Recruiter & Account Manager (9 mos)
Hillerich & Bradsby Co.
Marketing Representative Intern (2 mos)
Stanford University
Graduate Student (1 yr 5 mos)
Research Assistant (Mind, Culture, & Society Lab) (9 mos)
Student-Athlete (Varsity Softball) (3 yrs 9 mos)
Los Angeles Sparks
Public Relations Intern (1 yr 3 mos)
Agajanian, McFall, Weiss, Tetreault & Crist LLP
Legal Associate Intern (3 mos)
HOPSports, Inc.
Trainer (1 yr 9 mos)
Education
Master of Arts (M.A.) at Stanford University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Stanford University
at Saugus High School