Gordon Zhen

-Team lead of 9 recruiters responsible for hiring Data Scientists, and Software engineers for Scale's premier clients. -Provide recommendations and strategy for high volume pipelines and proposed solutions to improving interview processes, increasing candidate engagement, and targeting highly qualified engineers/coders.

-Lead recruiter on Portworx (Pure Storage's Cloud storage) team hiring kubernetes and cloud backend infra engineers. -Supported hiring for Backend Infra SWE's, Cloud SWE's, TPM's and TPMM's for Pure Storage’s Flash Array business. -Exceeded quarterly hiring goals by 100% with an 80% close rate hiring for Portworx and Flash Array orgs

-Led and scaled the Cloud Storage Kubernetes and Infra Engineering teams at Twitter hiring for Senior and Staff Software Engineers. -FLC Recruiter, leading a team of 4 sourcers and exceeded quarterly hiring goals with above average close rates.

Relationships matter, recruiting is not just a transaction but an opportunity to connect the world’s professionals and to make them more productive and successful. I try to live it, and love it, our culture and mission statement in one.

Leanplum is a Series D Mobile SaaS A/B testing Startup on a mission to shape the world’s best mobile apps. Founded in 2012 by former Google engineers with years of experience in optimization, Leanplum is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, UK, Singapore, Amsterdam, and Sofia. Recruiting and Leadership Responsibilities: -Joined Leanplum between Series C to D and grew company from 80 to 150 employees, including sourcing and closing 18 engineers with a 70% close rate -First FLC Technical Recruiter. Assisted with hiring, on-boarding, and mentored 2 Sourcers, and Corporate Recruiting lead -Partnered with CTO, VP of Engineering, and hiring managers on intake meetings, sourcing, building pipelines, and effective closing strategies for candidates -Sourced, and closed Software Engineers with backgrounds in BackEnd Applicatons (Java/Python/Distributed Systems/Map Reduce), Infastructure, SRE, ML, FE (Javascript, Angular, React). Also brought in a Product Manager, Corporate Recruiter, Dir of Eng, and CMU and Waterloo Interns Tools: -LinkedIn Recruiter, Github, Stack Overflow, Talent Bin, Google, Angellist, Quora, Reddit, Connectifier, Twitter, Glassdoor, and Referrals. ATS - Greenhouse -Posted jobs, customized and created messaging templates, worked with integrators, granted access/permissions, reporting and analytics

Nelson Technology is a high performance staffing and consulting services company. Some of Nelson's clients include Salesforce.com, Equinix, Callidus, Zendesk, Marketo, Netflix, Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, Oracle, Expedia.com and Adobe. FLC recruiter Specialized in recruiting Back End, Front End, Mobile engineers

FLC Technical Recruiter • Specialized in recruiting Back End, Front End Engineers and UI/UX Designers • Partnered with 30 clients and negotiated salaries and fees with Directors, Engineering Managers, and C-level executives at startups and fortune 500 companies • Generated leads through 80+ cold calls and emails per day and qualified them • Screened, coordinated, coached, and closed candidates on interviews • Consistently exceeded monthly goals (job orders, tps/on-sites, hires) and brought in over $200,000 in revenue