Eric Yaeger

Drive end-to-end talent acquisition for Micron’s High Bandwidth Memory organization, partnering with engineering leaders to recruit top-tier architecture and design Engineers who enable cutting-edge memory solutions for next-generation computing.

Recruiting and Sourcing for: Cruise/UiPath/SiriusXM/Kustomer/Provenbase Drove the end-to-end recruitment process for product and engineering talent, successfully sourcing, recruiting, and hiring top-tier candidates for both large corporations and startup tech-oriented companies

We’re Ada, a brand interaction platform that empowers brands to live up to their promises and have more—and more valuable—interactions with the people who love them. Our AI-powered platform has automated over 2.6 billion brand interactions for the world’s fastest growing enterprises, including Zoom, Facebook, and Shopify. In May 2021, we raised Series C funding of $130M by Spark Capital (early investors of Twitter, Slack, Snapchat), and officially became a global unicorn with a $1.2B valuation!

Second Employee hired in Bellevue to work directly with the Chief Product Officer to build Product, AI & Engineering teams in the U.S. (Bellevue & Brooklyn) Hired the first 88 people in Bellevue as the sole Recruiter in 9 months Co-Created & managed the US UiPath coming out party, a fireside chat with our CEO and top Investors with over 400 guests hand picked by my team resulting in over 17 hires Managed a team of 9 Recruiters Sourcers and Coordinators to bring the total to 210 and counting Worked directly with CEO and CPO to establish market-based salary ranges to compete in the hot Seattle market Established Recruiting process, KPI's and reporting data for Product and Engineering in US and then collaborated with my peers to set the global standard for all three R&D sites Sourced and recruited the VP of AI, SVP of Product Robots, SVP of Product Cloud and SVP of Engineering Strategically Leading Recruiting accountability globally across R&D Centers in Bucharest Bellevue and Bangalore with 11 matrixed recruiters to ensure we are within budget and on pace Developed and manage our Global University Recruiting Program with HR & Finance Co Leading a team to streamline our systems and generate useable reporting Developing the framework for sourcing and competitive research teams globally in a Sourcer/Recruiter model Financial Times #2 fastest growing companies in the U.S. 2018/19

Lead Sourcing efforts to build out the Machine Learning Platform Organization from 30 to 60 employees (Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineers, and ML Researchers) Implemented and drove new sourcing processes for events, referrals and candidate reach out Supported multiple locations: Seattle, Cupertino, Pittsburgh and Israel

Led Sourcing efforts for Software Engineering, Music Discovery, Playlist Engineering, Computational Programming, Big Data Infrastructure, Product and Music Tools Developed and Delivered New Hire Training for market research and client presentation Led weekly business meetings with clients discussing progress, new ideas, market landscape, & candidate pipelines Participate in diversity sourcing and pipelining efforts Led weekly business meetings with clients discussing progress, new ideas, market landscape, & candidate pipelines

Nokia was acquired by Microsoft Managed the recruiting with a small team for our Connected Devices team, ramped up from 40 to 130 Product and Engineering talent, which designed and developed Nokia's first tablet Matrix managed 4 Sourcers for device team Delivered the first Research and Talent Mapping for Thermal Engineering across devices Partnered with our Microsoft Research teams to fill advanced product roles in neural networking and machine learning Led sourcing for our events team for several device and diversity events that led to several hires Developed and delivered “Licensed to Hire” training to Line Management and Directors to develop a better understanding of the recruiting process and how they can be involved in networking and social media