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Technical Recruiter @ Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates' revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city. At Postmates I am part of a talented group of individuals responsible for ensuring that we hire high quality passionate candidates for our Engineering teams. From September 2015 to Present (2 months) San Francisco, CARecruiting Consultant @ Recruiting Consultant responsible for full-cycle recruiting process across all areas of the company. Partnering with hiring teams in meaningful and collaborative ways to engage, recruit and help hire experienced, mission aligned people who are passionate about their work. Participating in the selection and implementation process of recruiting resources, sourcing techniques, and tools, vital to the success of meeting aggressive hiring goals. From March 2015 to September 2015 (7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Recruiter @ Technical Recruiting for the Wikimedia Foundation. Hired engineers for a top five visited site in the world. Wikimedia operates the Wikipedia and the largest open source collaboratively edited reference projects in the world. Acted as the sole technical recruiter. Partnered with 13+ engineering teams with a passion for and focus on hiring engineers with a diverse set of unique skills and experience. This was an opportunity to work with a group of super smart, technically talented passionate people. Recruited highly specialized technical and non-technical people, influenced hiring decisions, negotiated and closed offers in a challenging environment in the face of a competitive market. Introduced and implemented an effective and positive candidate experience. Implemented creative sourcing strategies. Planned events indirectly relevant to hiring. Created and conducted specialized general and technical screening materials. Established innovative internal hiring processes and improvements. Researched, tested, and helped implement and migrate to a new ATS. From January 2013 to March 2015 (2 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaRecruiter | Talent Acquisition @ Full-cycle contract recruiting and hiring process development. Sourcing and recruiting active and passive candidates. Responsible for full-cycle recruiting. Collaborate and innovate hiring processes, strategy and framework. Livecareer leads the way to finding professional success. Services include a comprehensive suite of on-line career search resources including resume building, salary information, resume posting and more. From December 2012 to February 2013 (3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaRecruiter, Talent Aquisition @ Recruiting for specialized positions as a contract recruiter at Host Analytics. Host is the first Corporate Performance Management vendor to launch a Software-as-a-Service product. Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting, and candidate management processes- including, sourcing, screening, technical screening, primary candidate interface, interviewing, and hiring across multiple business units. From May 2012 to September 2012 (5 months) Redwood City, CARecruiter @ Partnering with various client companies in the technology space on specialized searches. Creating brand development for early stage companies increasing client's visibility in their unique market. Strategic Consulting, including hiring plan and growth strategy development. Advising new clients on search strategies, resources, budget, marketing, etc. Sourcing and generating an extensive pipeline of candidates for each position. Initiating and managing a comprehensive candidate tracking database. Providing onsite and offsite search management and updates. From October 2011 to June 2012 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaRecruiting Consultant @ Berkeley Quantitative: High Frequency Trading (HFT) platform. Recruited Director of Engineering, Quantitative Research Analysts, Platform Engineers, Systems Engineer, CFO, Investor Relations Rep, and more. Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting across all business units. Created and trained interview teams. Partnered with hiring managers to draft compelling and unique job descriptions and phone screens. Crafted and conducted detailed technical phone and e-mail screens for each position. Doubled the size of the company. Implemented an Ad-Hoc candidate sourcing, tracking and reporting process. From January 2010 to October 2011 (1 year 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaRecruiting Consultant @ Responsible for all recruiting activities for TRUSTe.com across all business units. Sourcing and connecting active and passive candidates, from initial screening to offer. Organizing and maintaining candidate records for back office reporting and future contact. Initiating unique brand development via social, event and business networking. Interview scheduling and feedback follow up. Implementing and creating interview teams and tools and interview process recommendations. From July 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 3 months) Recruiting & Technical Consultant @ Recruited and managed development for BigLive, an interactive live music platform. Functionality included interactive social networking features; live chat, friending, event rating, and more. Recruited highly specialized technical, design, and general talent. Managed initial design projects in conjunction w/ an off site development team. Initiated HR policies and procedures. From April 2009 to February 2010 (11 months) Recruiting Consultant @ Zivity is an interactive royalty sharing platform. Focused on recruiting talented and culturally aligned people for the team. Recruited Designers, Front-end, Back-end and systems engineers, doubling the size of the company. Sourced direct and passive candidates and conducting detailed screening. Established a candidate pipeline and tracking system. Initiated and implemented an AdHoc recruiting process and strategy. Orchestrated interview processes by creating interview teams and feedback sessions, offer negotiation and more. Responsible for full life-cycle recruiting interfacing with HR, executive and hiring manager interface for all hiring activities. Acted as both an external and internal evangelist of open positions and hiring goals. Represented Zivity as the recruiting contact at conferences and networking events. From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaCorporate Recruiter @ Telenav is a LBS/GPS the first company to launch a GPS navigation service for mobile phones in North America. Recruited a complex mix of engineers including; search, mobile (multiple platforms), systems, design, database, analytics, and more. Recruited across all business units including; product management, tech writing, finance, administration, HR, client services and more. Worked with Telenav in 1998 as an agency recruiter when the company consisted of 5 Co-founders and employees. Returned in 2006 at the request of the CTO. Responsible for entire hiring process, from initial screening to offer negotiation and on-boarding. Created a hiring strategy including; reporting, posting, events and career fairs, interview training, maintaining a comprehensive and current candidate database, and pipeline. Managed various HR responsibilities including; benefits orientation, new hire paperwork, Visa processing, special projects and more. From March 2006 to April 2007 (1 year 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTechnical Recruiting Consultant @ Technorati is the leading blog search engine and directory, and indexes more than a million blogs. Hired by Technorati by the Executive team as the company's first recruiter. Recruited with a focus on engineering including; search, database, systems, front-end and back-end, design, analytics, and more. Recruited for other business units including; business development, finance, product management, marketing, and more. Exceeded aggressive hiring goals doubling the the size of the company. Created interview tools, teams, reporting resources, candidate pipeline and database and more. Various HR responsibilities and reporting. Made a positive impact on company culture resulting in dynamic, productive, and fun place to work. From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaAccount Executive (So. Cal. Territory) @ DSI (aquired by Iron Mountain), the world's leading provider of IP management services in technology escrow and domain name records management. Generated and closed new business and maintained existing relationships. Acted as a trusted neutral third party, consulting, and securing IP Escrow and Verification agreements. Partnered with licensors, licensees, and legal professionals across multiple industries to meet and exceed revenue goals. Revived and grew the So. Cal territory and was recognized as the highest producing escrow agent in the first twelve months with DSI. Clients included; Disney, St. Jude’s Medical, CityNationalBank, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, ClearChannel, FoxEntertainment, Playboy, Los Angeles Water and Power, and more. From 2002 to 2004 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaRecruiter @ Hall Kinion was a recruiting agency. I worked with clients on a contingency basis placing permanent technical talent. Client base was primarily comprised of early stage start-ups. Specialties included enterprise software, web-based application providers, Mobile Service providers, Storage and networking companies, among others. Ranked as a top revenue producer translating into my clients meeting their hiring goals. President's club member generating revenue in the excess of 800K per year. Consistently exceeded personal and team goals. Upon my departure, Hall, Kinion & Associates was acquired by K-force. From 1997 to 2002 (5 years) San Francisco Bay Area

Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Affairs @ San Francisco State University Emily Blanchard is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Recruiting, Start-ups, SaaS, Search, Applicant Tracking..., Strategy, Interviews, Product Management, Internet Recruiting, Sourcing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, MySQL, Mobile Applications, Business Development, Java, CSS, Social Networking, Hedge Funds, Product Marketing, JavaScript, E-commerce, Start-up Consulting, Operating Systems, HR Policies, Hiring Practices, Engineering, Executive Sales..., JavaScript Libraries, CSS3, IT Operations, Sales Hiring, Python, Web Analytics, HTML, Agile Web Development, Android Development, iOS Development, Mobile Internet, PHP, Release Engineering, QA Automation, QA Engineering, Web Design