Specializing in sourcing, networking, and building relationships with IT Professionals in various industries including Financial, Entertainment, Software Development, Web 2.0, Healthcare and Interactive Media, within Northern and Southern California.
Positions range from jr level to C-level, in permanent and contract opportunities.
If you are looking for your next opportunity, I would love to be able to help you and build an effective working relationship with you. Feel free to contact me: tye@instacart.com
Tye Tolentino
Specialties: Full Life Cycle Recruiting and Building Amazing Teams. Scaling Startups.
Recruiting Manager @ From September 2015 to Present (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Recruiter @ Instacart (YC S12) is building the best way for people everywhere in the world to shop for groceries. Using your phone or the web, you can order groceries and have them delivered to your door in minutes. You can choose from a variety of local stores including Whole Foods, Safeway, Costco, Mariano's and many more, as well as being able to mix items from multiple stores into one order.
Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customers that is nothing short of magical. We are located in San Francisco, and well-funded by some of the greatest investors in the world, like Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreesen Horowitz, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.
Instacart delivers in 15 cities across the United States!
Priority Openings, April 2015:
Everywhere
- General Manager
- City Manager
- City Launchers
- Business Development Lead
San Francisco
- Ruby/Rails Engineers
- Senior iOS Engineers
- Customer Happiness Team Members
- Product Manager
- Data Scientists
- Designers
- Recruiters
- Sourcers
- IT Manager
Please visit our careers page to learn more at https://www.instacart.com/jobs
tye@instacart.com From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Technical Recruiter (Consultant) @ We love it here. You will, too. Come join us at TuneIn, the leading service for listening to music, sports and news from around the world. With over 40 million monthly active listeners, our mobile apps rank in the top of the App Store's Music category across 80 countries and territories. Our service is available across 200 different connected platforms, including all smartphones and tablets, smart TVs, CE devices and connected cars. We're located in downtown Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley, and well-funded by the most prestigious names in venture capital, including Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Google Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). From July 2013 to November 2013 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Technical Recruiter (Consultant) @ Evernote gives everyone the ability to easily capture any moment, idea, inspiration, or experience whenever they want using whichever device or platform they find most convenient, and then to make all of that information easy to find.
Performed full life cycle recruiting, from sourcing to closing candidates, for the software engineering team.
• Primary recruiter for software development positions, which included Mobile, Windows,
DevOps, Data Product, and Java Server Side Engineer roles.
• Had nine (9) engineering candidate offers in just over the first two months, including two (2)
especially challenging searches that have been open for over a year.
• Built Recruiting Business Library to serve as a resource and training guide for everything to
do with recruiting at Evernote. From March 2013 to July 2013 (5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Technical Recruiter @ • Performed full life cycle recruiting from sourcing to closing candidates.
• Achieved 130% of goal for offers accepted for the last year.
• Tasked with growing our Data Engineering team, an area where there had been no previous success in hiring. Grew team from 4 to 9 engineers in two quarters.
• Modified the sourcing strategy to improve engineering hiring.
• Co-developed the hiring strategy with the engineering team to define the recruiting process.
• Implemented an improved referral program, created a door –to- door program with individual engineering teams, and helped create a larger internal pipeline of candidates.
• Developed Collegiate Hackathon from inception to creation to improve recruiting efforts with top tier universities in the Bay area.
• Hosted and managed multiple Meetups at our headquarters. Groups included Data Engineers, Android Development Group, and Mobile Engineers. From March 2012 to March 2013 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaLead Technical Sourcer @ Leading Google's Platform and Ops Engineering sourcing/recruiting teams to recruit talented and top-level engineers.
• Achieved 183% of Platforms Team goal for offer accepts in Q3 2011. The Platforms Team had the most hires in a single Quarter in all its history.
• Achieved 180% of Platforms Team goal for offer accepts in Q2 2011; achieved 120% of Ops Team goal for offer accepts in Q2 2011. Achieved 400% of individual goals for offers in Q2 2011.
• Achieved 167% of team goal for offer accepts in Q1 2011; achieved 200% of individual goal for offers in Q1 2011.
• Accomplished 300% of goal for offers in Q4 2010 (9/3) as an individual contributor. Four of the nine offers were Diversity candidates.
• Implemented direct-to-onsite interview procedure for Data Center Automation and Networking Software Engineering teams.
• Re-designed recruiting strategy for Data Center Automation team, improving the number of sourced hires by over 1000% in three quarters (1 sourced hire in 2010, 22 sourced hires YTD).
• Developed sourcing and interviewing strategy for Business System Integration and Developer Program Engineer teams.
• Implemented Platforms sourcing party to collaborate with Platforms Engineers to generate candidate leads; 55 engineers participated resulting in 601 prospects.
• Implemented Platforms sourcing audit to re-engage previous candidates; gathered data from past infobahns, candidate declines, intern conversion declines, and candidate withdrawals.
• Created and presented Platforms and Hardware Presentation to new sourcers, and successfully trained multiple teams on each requisition.
• Managing two teams totaling 22 people. Responsible for generating leads lists; training each contributor on specific requisitions; improving effective sourcing strategies; instructed teams on advanced Boolean searching; and mentoring contributors leading them to fixed-term conversation within the organization. From February 2010 to March 2012 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaIT Recruiter @ • Developed relationships with IT Professionals and hiring managers, built a consistent pipeline of active and passive candidates, evaluated compatibility with specific open job requirements as well as actively pitched candidates to companies.
• Billed $456k in revenue for 2008. $195k for 2009 (9 months).
• Averaged 30 new active candidates a week, 20 actively hiring leads (company name and hiring manager).
• Developed training plan to train and mentor new hires on recruiting practices, sourcing practices, and selection efficiency and effectiveness.
• Created and managed Onestream.net Twitter Account and LinkedIn Group.
• Tracked candidate activities, account activities, developed and posted job openings, and managed all resumes in Salesforce CRM. From June 2007 to October 2009 (2 years 5 months) IT Recruiter @ The Pinpoint Resource Group are passionate, innovative and inspired leaders committed to building empowered relationships, exceeding expectations and delivering outstanding results to all we serve. From November 2004 to June 2007 (2 years 8 months)
BS, Exercise Science/ Pre Med @ University of Puget Sound From 1997 to 2001 Federal Way High School From 1995 to 1997 Tye Tolentino is skilled in: Technical Recruiting, Sourcing, Interviews, Recruiting, Social Networking, Salesforce.com, Applicant Tracking Systems, SDLC, Temporary Placement, Cloud Computing, Event Management, Internet Recruiting, Search, Leadership, Start-ups