Jennifer Borges

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I’m a self-driven Senior Recruiter with more than 15 years of full-cycle hiring experience ranging from high-volume entry-level positions to unique executive roles. I’m passionate about a data-driven recruitment process and implementing business intelligence by utilizing my experience in an array of industries to identify, set, and achieve goals. I work well in a fast-paced, dynamic, and transparent environment. I’m currently in the Bay Area but I’m willing to relocate.

Specialty Areas: Frontend/Backend, Full Stack, Architects, Design engineers, Cloud engineers, Product Managers, Data Engineers, Data Analysts, SRE/DevOps, Compliance Engineers, Linux kernel, and Executive Recruiting

Core Competency: Talent Acquisition & Management, Recruiting, and Hiring, Strategic Sourcing, Account Management, Vendor Management, Candidate Pipeline Development, Research, Diversity, and Inclusion, ATS management, Comp. Negotiation, DE&I.

Work Experience

ID.me - Sept 2022 to present

Contract Technical Recruiter

ID.me provides secure identity proofing, authentication, and group affiliation verification for government and businesses across sectors.

I was brought on as a contractor to help build an executive team within the Product and Engineering organization. I’ve successfully built a pipeline of X candidates and we’re moving to offer for the VP of Product. We’re also in the offer stage for one Principal UI/UX Researcher with several backups.

Genome Medical - September 2021 to September 2022

Lead Technical Recruiter

Genome Medical is a telehealth platform for genetic testing

I was brought on to help build teams across the company, primarily focusing on Engineering and Product, I also built out the Sales, Biz Dev, and Marketing teams as well. To keep the cost per hire low, we pivoted from an agency model to an internal recruitment strategy.

As a hands-on coach, I personally hired 7 Product Managers within my first 3 months. I also recruited and hired 12 in the Engineering org, 4 in Business Development, and sourced for our Sales and Marketing teams.

I worked closely with the hiring managers and interview teams to ensure we are all aligned on what the right profile looks like and our business needs. This helped to eliminate several “calibration” interviews and reduce our time to hire by 60% down to 30 days.

I also worked on employee immigration

CyberCube Analytics - March 2019 to September 2021

Senior Recruiting Manager

CyberCube was an early-stage start-up with engineering teams in SF and Tallinn, Estonia. CuberCube is a cyber analytics company for insurance companies.

I was recruited to expand and grow the engineering, Product, and Data analytics teams. I worked closely with the Head of Engineering and the Founder/CPO to build teams. I then researched/designed and executed a hiring strategy and recruiting plan.

I identified the global talent pool we needed in SF and Tallinn, Estonia. We targeted and hired Front-End UI, Back-End, Platform Engineering, SRE, Full Stack engineers at all levels and experience. We created a digital marketing campaign to attract and hire Data Analyst Product Managers as well.

Scheduled all interviews and conducted all feedback meetings, and worked on comp and offers

I managed 2 recruiters in SF and 1 in Tallinn, Estonia that worked on G&A, Sales, and Legal.

I personally hired in my 1st 4 months 1 VP Engineering, 4 VPs of Product, and 1 Sr. Director of Engineering in Tallinn, Estonia (these were all considered very critical hires)

Supported and filled the Engineering, Product, and Data Engineering team both in SF and Tallinn Estonia

All approved reqs were filled, on average within 30 - 60 days.

Arista Networks - March 2018 to March 2019

Technical Recruiter Manager

Arista delivers software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments.

Successfully Managed a team of 17 Global Recruiters in the US, Canada, Ireland, the UK, and India focused on finding the best and brightest talent. Scope of responsibilities includes; Providing leadership and direction to recruiting staff and working with Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners to establish an efficient hiring process.

Instrumental in establishing Recruiting best practices and was a key contributor to creating a recruiting process

Achieved 100% of Engineering, Biz Dev, Product, G&A, Legal, Finance, and HR hiring

Established a Hiring Manager “Hiring the Best” training module

Provided custom staffing metrics to Sr. Leadership weekly/monthly/Quarterly

Partnered with business executives, leaders, and all areas of HR to understand business needs, grow talent pipelines, and source for key positions with the company

Recruiting Executive level candidates successfully.

Managed communication with Leadership, HR, and Finance working on headcount budgets and justification for hiring needs

I was hands-on recruiting for confidential and key roles

Designed a campaign that led to us earning a Great Place to Work award.

FireEye - March 2011 to March 2018

Recruiting Manager

Worked closely with the Engineering team to build every product group (EX, NX, WebEx, Endpoint, and Cloud product)

Started work as an individual contributor, and grew to be a team lead /manager in 1 year. I’ve managed a team of 7 technical recruiters and 2 coordinators. I also helped lead the Global recruiting teams. I initially managed the teams in India and Singapore while also making hires in Italy and Germany.

We helped grow the FireEye team from 45 to around 3,000 before the IPO, I managed Engineering, Product Management, Data engineering, and Cyber Threat/Security Researchers.

I was part of the building process, training, and Onboarding.

Specific Technical Skills:

Compiler, systems (all OS's), kernel, device driver, tools developers, system test development/QA automation development (Linux or Mac), and more

C/C++. Linux, Windows, DB, API, Front-end, and back-end developers Solutions Engineers, and Architects

Technical Marketing, Product Management

IT – networking, security, risk management, administration, etc.

Eclectic Search - June 2000 to September 2008

Senior Technical Recruiter

The agency worked specifically with Network, wireless, storage, and security companies.

Technical Recruiting – worked closely with candidates to understand their background, and strengths, and identify industries, technologies, and companies they would be most excited about and be the best match. I partnered with companies and present my candidates to the hiring managers. Working to get them the best talent!

Education

Bachelor in Business Economics

Mumbai University

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