Ethan Van der Heide

Uphold an 80% offer acceptance rate as lone Technical Recruiter. Hire an experienced Product Manager and 5 full time L3 engineers from Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Lead Stanford and MIT Career Fairs in 30 days of start for 4 hires.

Hired to grow the initial engineering team from 2 to 5 in 2023. Recruited multiple software engineers, a Linux Systems Engineer and Lead UX Designer. Concomitantly hired a Director of IT, Senior Marketing Manager, and Marketing Designer. Established E-Verification and led STEM OPT and H-1B visa transfers for multiple employees. Recruited 2 Senior SWEs who helped build the bioinformatics computing platform that inspired Watershed. Targeted top contributors from analogous Github projects at local data science platforms, the leading genomics research institute, and specialty cloud providers. Wrote emails the CEO sent tying commits and career choices to specific product advantages, leading to 3 offers between Q2 and Q3 2024 from a total pool of fewer than 20 relevant engineers. Volunteered to join sales temporarily in Q3 2024 and permanently in February 2025. Implemented an account-based, call-oriented sales process to engage qualified growth stage biotechs. Made cold calls, booked demos, and led qualification calls with engaged customers.

Recruited MLEs, ML Infrastructure Engineers, and product SWEs for the AI Infrastructure, Content Understanding, and Document AI teams. Hired an L4 Software Engineer.

Primary recruiter for Platforms and IT. Grow SRE and IT from 0 to 11 and 5 with hires including multiple staff engineers, senior URGs, the promoted SRE team manager, and Head of IT. Average 2.66 hires per month from Q3 2021-Q1 2022 split between product SWEs, a lead iOS engineer, SREs, IT, and engineering leadership with a 68% offer acceptance rate with hires ranging in seniority from L4-L7. Partner with the Head of Security and finance stakeholders to build a remote-first, cloud-based IT department. Source and hire our Head of IT and a core 5 person team around him in 2.5 months.

Promoted to Bay Area to run team of 5 full-life cycle recruiters focusing on local Site Reliability and DevOps Engineers for San Francisco SaaS, IoT, and Fortune 500 companies Shift team focus from "IT" to "DevOps" for a 58% increase in YoY revenue on 40% fewer interviews in 2018 and $1.1 million on 34 perm and contract placements in 2019. Individually sourced 32 and placed 24 of team's 69 total placements. Notable candidates include original Tech Lead on Google AppEngine, the Director of IT and a female SRE at One Medical, and a Top 1% responder to Kubernetes questions on StackOverflow. Create team practices for client and candidage engagement while jumping-in to secure relationships, negotiate salaries, and close candidates. Rewrite candidate and client engagement material to promote understanding of infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration. Train staff from entry-level to a top billing Lead Recruiter, a senior sourcer, and two midlevel recruiters.

Engage new clients and candidates via full-life cycle tech recruiting and from scratch business development to fill Chicagoland .NET, BI, and Azure platform role Specialize in recruiting product-oriented software and database engineers for high bar local tech environments like Docusign, Nielsen Marketing Analytics, Insureon, and many others Regional guru for assessing candidate technical depth and company engineering culture. Mentor for 2nd highest performing regional team while leading division in individual placement revenue in 2014 and 2015 on 16 and 20 placements with lowest interview-to-hire ratio. Train recruiter who led her peer group from 2016 to 2017 and went on to work at Uptake. Source panelists and content for developer-focused Tech in Motion meet-up on Static vs. Dynamically Typed Languages.

Recruit and place .NET web and SharePoint engineers for Relativity, Deloitte, Xerox, Seismic, and others. 4th highest total revenue generating recruiter in division from start to promotion.

Retrieved and organized reserve library materials for University patrons. Respond to customer questions and provide customer service.

Drew up client memorandums and case summaries, and performed light data analysis.