David Booth@david__booth
Last day for @a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship applications - closing at midnight tonight!
We've had over 1k folks apply so far, representing an incredible cross-section of the industry & adjacent functions..
We are building a cohort of ~40-50 people max - bringing them together on and offline, hosting dinners & more in SF + NYC from late Aug-early October.
We are looking for the people who are right at the frontier of building or instrumenting part of the recruiting stack: sourcing agents, building relationship graphs, candidate-intelligence workflows, referral systems, AI-assisted technical evaluations, hiring-manager context engines, talent-brand surfaces & unique experiences, internal tools that make the whole machine smarter...
You may not call yourself "Talent Engineer" .. you could also be an engineering leader who cares + thinks deeply about building teams, a recruiter who's gone deep on building AI-stack to automate and scale their business, a founder with a thesis for the future of this space.
Joining so far- folks like:
- Danielle Poreh - Clay for Recruiting Lead, prev. Talent Scientist at Clay
- Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy) Talent Engineering Lead at xAI
- Viet Nguyen - Founder at Talent Collective, ex- Vercel, Netflix, Gem, Airops
- Sebastian Cuadros (@hiiinternet) Head of Talent Engineering @ Fonzi AI
- Joshua Gill - Talent Engineering & Operations @ Luma AI
- Jared Long - Recruiting Ops Lead @ Cursor, prev. Head of Recruiting Systems @ OpenAI
- Jeffrey Li (@lijeffrey39) Co-founder & CTO at Paraform - Dan McCarthy - Snr Talent Engineer at Zapier
- Madison Morales - Talent at Anthropic, prev. General Catalyst
- Amit Matani (@amitm) CEO @ Wellfound, formerly AngelList Talent
- Johnny Sanchez (@johnnyblu6) - Head of Recruiting Operations & Technology @ Airbnb
- Scott Bianco (@ScottBianco3) - Head of Talent at Hebbia - Ishan Deshpande (@ishand) - Talent Engineer at xAI
- Joe Penn (@techdetjoe) - Talent Engineer & Partner at Carrara
- Matt Wilson - CEO at @Jackandjillai
...and many more !! ~1k applications so far, kicking off interviews next week 🙏👀
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