Jake Stidham 🌊

Director of Recruiting @ Coastal

About

I help startups 10x their product, by hiring the top 1% of engineers (aka cracked engineers) to build their unicorn. Hands-on startup builder, and leader located in Boise, Idaho with my lovely wife and rad son. I'm not just any old "recruiter", I'm a hyper focused startup builder that focuses on the 1 percenters Building the top 0-1 startups that shape the entire future of technology. Passionate about effective leadership and building highly effective teams, fueled by the brightest engineers. Retired Collegiate Baseball player, and painfully average Golfer. Huge Padres fan! SOBER! 5 years and counting! Skilled in recruiting for: Tech, software engineering, startups. I’m currently hiring! Send me an invite to connect or reach out directly.

Country

United States

City

Boise

Industry

Staffing & Recruiting

Skill

Early-stage Startups, AI, Recruiting, Team Building, Leadership, Payroll Software Solutions, Time and Labor Management, Internal Recruitment, Software Development, Manufacturing, Executive Placements, Executive Search, Executive Staffing, Scalability, Management, web3, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Online Lead Generation, Sales

Experience

Director of Recruiting

Coastal

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

Los Angeles, California, United States

Good people know good people. Coastal scales with partners & founders across the entire engineering + revenue spectrum from first IC hires --> managers --> directors and ultimately--> VP/Head of Engineering, Sales. One firm, exclusively focused on engineering and revenue leadership at every stage of growth, and a constant talent scout for the Founders we work with.

Principal Recruiter

Coastal

2024-10 - 2026-1 · 1 yr 4 mos

Los Angeles, California, United States

2025 Presidents Club Recruiter #4 - Building the top 0-1 tech startups in SF & NYC with the top 1% of engineering talent. Working with top startups backed by investors like: Khosla Ventures, a16z, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, YC, Shasta, Accell, Bain, Lux, NFX, Sequoia, NVIDIA, and many more.

Lead Technical Recruiter

Quest Groups LLC

2023-2 - 2024-10 · 1 yr 9 mos

San Francisco, California, United States

- Technical Recruitment for startups Seed - Post IPO. - Led 2 recruiters and picked up the San Francisco market. - Consistently produced and brought in new clients.

Senior Executive Tech Recruiter

Quest Groups LLC

2022-5 - 2023-2 · 10 mos

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

- Leading, Growing and Mentoring Jr. Recruiters.

Executive Tech Recruiter

Quest Groups LLC

2021-1 - 2022-5 · 1 yr 5 mos

New York, New York, United States

*Awarded 2021 Rookie of the Year award*

National Sales Specialist

Paylocity

2020-1 - 2021-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Meridian, Idaho, United States

- Consistent Top-10 performing sales person. - Over 120% YTD quota. - Generated meaningful leads by identifying key decision makers and collecting business intelligence that will help drive sales. - Used a growth mindset to drive business. - Built rapport with potential clients to help generate business. - Handled objections and used sales techniques to align our solution to an organization's needs. - Maintenance of our customer relationship management database. - Worked closely with emerging market, mid-market, and enterprise account executives in the beginning stages of the sales cycle for companies with 1-100,000 employees. - SaaS and B2B sales in the Payroll and Human Capital Management industry.