About
The talent team at A Capital specializes in helping entrepreneurs build a solid foundation for everything related to their recruiting and human resources functions. Our goal is to partner with our portfolio companies to help them quickly and successfully grow through every phase of their development.
Experience
Partner - Talent & Operations
A.Capital Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area
Present
A Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in consumer and enterprise technology companies.
Co-Founder
Farrell Strader (FaSt) Consulting · San Francisco Bay Area & New York, NY
Independent consulting to startups.
Recruiting Partner
GV · San Francisco Bay Area & New York, NY
Partnered closely with founders, individually tailoring solutions to help them scale and grow. Worked with teams as small as two, and companies as large as 800+ globally distributed employees. Assisted with a large array of issues related to hiring and operational growth.
Human Resources Business Partner
* Human Resources Business Partner for multiple client groups within Engineering (Infrastructure, Commerce, Apps, Corporate Engineering, QA/Test) supporting ~600 employees. * Partnered with Directors and VPs across a range of programs and issues including salary/equity planning, performance management, retention, counteroffers, legal issues, employee relations, benefits, coaching and development, etc. * Worked with compensation team to assist in building job ladders and benchmarking salaries. * Facilitated trainings for new managers.
Recruiting Manager
Google · Greater New York City Area
* Recruiting Manager for the team that handled Google's offices in Waterloo, Montreal, Chicago, Atlanta, and Austin. * Partnered with Heads of Engineering in each office to build out local recruiting strategies.
Recruiting Manager
Google · Japan, Israel, California
Mountain View * Managed a team of over a dozen recruiters and sourcers responsible for building out the Google Engineering Platforms group. * Ran leadership/executive hiring. Tokyo: * Special project in our Tokyo office to assess overall staffing function, augment staff, improve process, train new and existing employees on Google systems and processes, launch new programs, and help build relationships between the local team and important partners in Mountain View. * Shared responsibility for daily management of the Japan team (10-14 employees, mix of contract/full-time). Israel: * Partnered with two new Engineering Directors in our Haifa and Tel Aviv offices to assist them in growing their engineering teams and hiring and training local recruiting staff. * Personally grew Haifa from zero to 25 Software Engineers and Tel Aviv from zero to 10 Software Engineers. * Hired and trained two local recruiters and a recruiting coordinator. * Created new graduate and industry-level compensation g…
Lead Recruiter
Google · Mountain View, CA
Mountain View Engineering: * Recruited for roles across most of the engineering organization. * Ran multiple hiring councils in addition to assisting with executive offer review. * Trained and onboarded new hires in the recruiting organization. Seattle Engineering: * Sole initial recruiter for Google’s Kirkland site. * Built office from 2 to 30 Software Engineers. * Ran open houses, batch interview weeks and university events. * Interviewed, hired, and trained local recruiting team.
Technical Recruiter (Contract)
Charles Schwab · San Francisco Bay Area
Recruiter for Charles Schwab's Technology Division.
Recruiting Consultant
ePeople recruiting · San Francisco Bay Area
Staffing Programs Manager
Technical Recruiter
Macromedia (now Adobe) · San Francisco Bay Area
Technical Recruiter
Desktop.com · San Francisco Bay Area
Sole recruiter. Grew company from 60 to over 100 employees.
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Biochemistry
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