Andrew Kent

Strategic talent acquisition professional with over a decade of experience in high-growth environments, from global giants like Google and Meta to dynamic, fast-paced startups like Anduril. Expertise in full-cycle recruiting, team leadership, and strategic talent planning. Proven ability to thrive in ambiguous, "multiple-hat" environments, delivering high-impact results across talent acquisition, process improvement, and strategic operations. Adept at addressing challenges head-on with innovative solutions, ensuring alignment with company goals. Experience working in startup and corporate in addition to defense and commercial space. Technical recruitment professional prepared to drive impactful hiring initiatives. Experienced in identifying and engaging top technical talent to meet organizational needs. Known for collaborative teamwork and delivering results in dynamic environments. Skilled in full-cycle recruitment, talent sourcing, and fostering candidate experience.

• Strategic Talent Leadership: Drove talent strategy by building trusted partnerships with C-suite and VP-level executives, directly influencing hiring roadmaps and outcomes.
• High-Stakes Acquisition Recruiting: Led the end-to-end recruiting process for Anduril's acquisition of a 90+ person Microsoft mixed reality team, ensuring a seamless transition and high talent retention through the process.
• Full-Spectrum Hiring: Achieved over 100% of hiring goals each quarter by successfully recruiting talent across all levels, from individual contributors (IC3) to Director-level leadership in diverse technical domains.
• Data-Driven Recruitment Strategy: Transformed raw pipeline data into actionable insights, presenting a data-driven narrative to senior leadership weekly that increased hiring momentum and identified key areas for process optimization.
• Consistent Top Performer: Recognized for top-tier performance with consistent 'Exceeds' ratings and the prestigious President's Club award, highlighting a commitment to excellence and exceeding expectations.
• Understand and can hire across several profiles domains from Software Engineering, Game Development, Product Manager, Program Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, Cyber Security, System Engineering, Firmware/Embedded Engineering, Frontend and Backend Engineering, etc.