Woody Garrett

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Top Performing Full Cycle Lead/Senior Technical and Non-Technical Recruiter, with Expertise in Fast-Growing Startups (open to full-time and contract opportunities)

Recent Delivery Highlights:

-Lily.AI: as the first inhouse recruiter, reduced agency spend by 81%while delivering 29-hires within first 4-months; increased staff diversity by 45% and doubled company HC in less than 6-months.

-Vectra.AI: as the first and only inhouse recruiter, delivered 114 hires across 15 countries and decreased time to fill by 10-days companywide, and built/managed 100% remote-based intern program in 2020.

-Zenefits: rebuilt small recruiting team that, in 2018, delivered 197 hires, increased engineering staff diversity by 102%, reduced time to fill overall by 33% companywide, and decreased cost per hire by $4,500.

-Upwork: revamped recruiting team performance with intensive training that led to increasing sourced pipelines by over 150%, delivering 25% more hires per month, and reducing the overall time to fill by 33% within 4-months.

EDUCATION

University of California at Berkeley (Major: Sociology) (Aug, 1994 - May, 1999)

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Lily AI, AI-based startup (eCommerce platform for the Retail industry) 12-months

Senior Technical Recruiter/Head of Talent Acquisition

●Full cycle recruiting support, managing an average of 35+ active req’s and made 54 hires in first 5-months (including 2 VP’s, and 14 Engineers).

●Sharply reduced agency spend by 80%.

●Increased diversity by over 45%.

●Drove employer brand campaign that produced 7 Comparably Awards in 2022.

●Positions Sourced and closed: Data Scientists, Sr. Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers, Enterprise Sales Managers,

Product Analysts, VP of Customer Success, and VP of HR)

Reason for leaving: company wide layoff. (Co-founders are among references)

Upwork, Freelance talent delivery platform and work marketplace 4-months

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner/Head of Recruiting

●Hired to revamp internal recruiting team to improve recruiting support across the business.

●Full cycle recruiter and hiring manager of 23+ new req’s across recruiting team (personally sourced and closed 17 new hires in 4 months).

●Managed a team of 41 recruiters/coordinators; coached and trained team extensively on sourcing techniques and desk management.

●Results:

increased the teams hires per month average by 35%.

Increased the team’s talent sourcing production by over 150% within the first 30-days, delivering 103 new hires in Q3.

Reason for Leaving: Recruited to join Lily AI

Vectra AI, AI-based enterprise cybersecurity SaaS startup 1-year, 6-months

Senior Technical Recruiter/Head of Recruiting

●Full cycle recruiting support, managing an average of 55+ active reqs across 13 states and 15 countries.

●Closed 114 new hires in 2020, including 24 Engineers and 60 Enterprise Sales Reps across 15 countries.

●Created compensation framework, job levels, and new hire pay guidelines and equity ranges.

●Created, conducted training modules for interviewers and hiring managers.

●Increased hiring speed (average Time-To-Fill metric) company wide by 10+ days.

Reason for Leaving: Founding CEO reduced operating spend in HR and Talent Acquisition teams (position eliminated)

Zenefits, Inc. Human Capital Mgmt (HCM) SaaS startup 1-year, 6-months

Senior Technical Recruiter/Head of Recruiting

●Personally managed 25+ active reqs, and averaged 15 hires per month.

●Led Diversity campaign that increased engineering team diversity by 102% in 3 quarters.

●Created/launched employer re-branding strategy.

●Sharply reduced Cost per Hire by over $8,000.

●Positions sourced and hired: Social Media Marketing Mgrs; Account Executives, Sr. Software Engineers, Tech Support

Engineers, and all Director level positions across the company.

Reason for Leaving: Company struggled to compete in HCM space, leading to hiring freeze and layoffs.

LinkedIn, Social Networking Site 5-months

Engineering Recruiter (Contract)

●Hired into the Applications Engineering team, recruiting Front-End Developers, Performance Engineers, and applications Engineers.

●Trained and mentored a team of three Sourcers to help drive better accuracy in talent pipeline generation efforts.

●Developed and implemented recruitment strategies and programs focused on talent generation and candidate sharing across all recruiting teams.

Reason for Leaving: Recruited to join Sunrun in a leadership position

Tesla Motors, Electric Vehicle Manufacturer 2-years, 2-months

Senior Technical Recruiter

●Top performing recruiter within Tesla’s engineering (powertrain) recruiting team for five consecutive quarters with respect to Total Number of Offers approved by Elon Musk; Total Number of Hires, and Hiring Efficiency (Time to Fill rate and Average Salary).

●Improved engineering teams’ Time-To-Fill averages by 15 days by improving hiring process inefficiencies.

●Strengthened Tesla’s employer brand recognition within targeted talent pools through social networking avenues and ‘buzz-generating’ campaigns across academic and professional institutions.

●Responsible for rapid delivery of elite caliber technical talent across Tesla’s powertrain engineering organization

●Positions sourced and closed: Architecture (Motor Design, Power/Control Systems Design, Performance/Dynamics); Hardware,

Firmware, and Software Engineering; Vehicle Electrics/12v Systems and Integration; Infotainment & Interactive Electronics; Charging Systems; Product Quality & Reliability/Vehicle certification, Validation and Homologation; Supplier Quality Engineering; IS⁢ and DVT and Validation Engineers.

Reason for Leaving: company culture and grossly under-competitive pay standards

AOL/Time Warner Startup Acquisitions (Bebo and Truveo) 2-years, 3-months

Lead Technical Recruiter (Contract)Supporting AOL subsidiaries:

Bebo.com, Social Networking site acquired by AOL in ‘08

●Bebo’s only dedicated full-cycle recruiter, responsible for executing on all hiring objectives within short timeframes

●Consistently generate multiple high volume, high quality talent pipelines that support a req list of cross-functional job profiles primarily through the use of aggressive hands-on sourcing efforts.

●2008-’09: Within the first 2-months, successfully hired to 100% of Bebo’s Q4/2008 growth plan across both engineering and tech Ops teams (in support of the mission-critical 2.0 site launch in Q1/2009).

Truveo.com, Video Search Engine acquired by AOL in ’07

●Dramatically decreased hiring Time-to-Fill by more than 18 days, as compared to recruiting efforts of the prior two years.

●Lead all candidate sourcing/lead generation efforts for all TRUVEO and established all recruitment strategies such as its College Recruitment Program, while maintaining a steady flow of engaged passive candidates for the hiring teams.

●Successfully achieved hiring 100% of 2008 budgeted headcount growth goals, 4-months ahead of plan.

Reason for Leaving: Both Truveo and Bebo were sold off by AOL/TimeWarner

Google, Inc., Search Engine 12-months

Technical Recruiter, Partner Solutions Org. [PSO]

●Consistently generated a high volume, and high quality pipeline of candidates under very tight timelines and strict hiring requirements

●Solely responsible for supporting the Sales Engineering teams; initially considered the least successfully hired profile within PSO, averaging 1 hire per quarter when I started.

●Produced the most hires of any PSO recruiter (averaged 4 Sales Engineer hires per quarter)

●Grew the Sales Engineering team (US) by 50% in less than 12-months; and moving from the top of PSO’s “business critical hires” list to the very bottom from the time I started to the completion of my contract.

●Designated as the search expert for Sales Engineering teams (company-wide) because of keen understanding of the ideal talent profile, position specifications, and sourcing strategy effectiveness.

Reason for Leaving: 12-month contract expired. Was offered a second year contract, which I turned down for a Lead Recruiter role at AOL.

LIST OF REFERENCES

Lily.AI – VP of People, Ellen Hootman; Co-Founding CEO, Purva Gupta; CTO, Sowmiya Narayanan (direct mgrs)

Vectra.AI – VP of HR, Aaron Bean (direct mgr), Sr. HR Director, Anna Salonga

Zenefits – Chief People Officer, Beth Steinberg (direct mgr)

Sunrun Solar – Chief People Officer, Beth Steinberg (direct mgr)

Tesla Motors – Eng Recruiting Mgr, Matt Giambruno (direct mgr), VP of HR, Arnon Geshuri

AOL – CTO of Bebo, Darius Contractor; CTO of Truveo, Pete Kocks

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