Nicholas Hambleton Garcia

▪ Contact, screen, interview and sell to top technical talent at a high-growth late stage startup backed by a16z, Lux Capital & General Catalyst.

▪ Currently sourcing for the following roles: Infrastructure Engineers (ML infra, Cloud infra, Enterprise Security, developer tools), ML Engineers, Perception Engineers, Geospatial Mapping Engineers, Sensor Simulation Infrastructure and GenSWE.

▪ Collaborate with hiring managers on a weekly cadence to ensure top of funnel pipeline metrics are being met and sourcing strategies are aligned with technical caliber expectations.

▪ Promoted twice while reporting to the CEO: Global Recruiting Lead, Talent and Performance Manager, and Chief of Staff (stepped down).

▪ Joined as employee number 68; led the staffing for our now 300+ person team across 3 continents (U.S., India, & China).

▪ Achieved 212% headcount growth (personally hired 143 total employees) across all departments, levels, and global locations.

▪ Organized our company all-hands, social events, and exec off-sites.

▪ Created executive dashboard with real-time insights into candidate pipelines including total number of hires, diversity metrics, conversion rates, time to hire, offer acceptance rates, and sourcing channel effectiveness.

▪ Developed and led our full cycle end-to-end global recruitment strategy including managing our RPO channels.

▪ Maintained an average time to hire of 24 - 31 days as the sole recruiter (position dependent).

▪ Held an offer acceptance rate of +87% (92% acceptance rate in 2023 Q2, Q3, Q4).

▪ Led the hiring of our product and engineering teams (6 PMs, 12 PO’s, 36 full-stack engineers, 4 UI/UX designers, 1 visual designer).

▪ Evaluated and implemented key people ops tools (Workable, Gem, Carta, Trinet, and Briq) within my first 60 days.

▪ Collaborated with the C-Suite during GTM standup meetings to provide insights on hiring forecast reports aligned with current and anticipated hiring demands.

▪ Key metrics: total positions hired: 9, offer acceptance rate: 97%, Cost/per hire: $19,444

▪ Total amount billed: $175,000

▪ Positions hired: 2 Senior Accountants, FP&A Manager, Strategic Finance Manager, 1 DeVops Engineer, 2 ML Engineers, Data Engineer, QA Automation Engineer.

▪ Partnered with the CFO and Chief of Staff of Nomi Health, a series A high-growth venture-backed startup (Sequoia, Lightspeed) to strategically recruit top-tier strategic and operational finance professionals in Miami and Salt Lake City.

▪ Led the search to staff our Woodside, CA office.

▪ Key internal hires included: Principal Investment Manager, Investor Relations/LP Manager, Chief of Staff, FP&A manager).

▪ Spearheaded our university recruitment initiative among the top 20 colleges across the nation -project terminated due to COVID-19.

▪ Served as the in-house recruiter and recruitment consultant for our portfolio companies (Seed stage to Series A).

▪ Developed campus recruitment strategies at Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech to attract top talent for both our firm and our portfolio companies.

▪ Managed our deal flow lifecycle and LP relations and communication alongside our CFO.

▪ Assisted with the development and launch of Pear Garage (in-house startup incubator).

▪ Partnered with the COO in hiring our supply chain team while Guayaki migrated to an in-house distribution model.

▪ Tasked with hiring and training our distribution team across the western states (CA, AZ, NV, OR).

▪ Hired and trained over 130 employees during my tenure, ran group onboardings and company training initiatives.