Joseph Ortiz

Visionary and results-driven Talent Acquisition Leader with a proven track record of building and scaling organizations. With strong consulting, relationship-building, and analytical skills, a versatile Talent Acquisition Partner with demonstrated experience in the tech, music, and media industries. Adept at defining and driving best-in-class recruiting strategies, scaling high-growth companies, and providing influential leadership to recruitment teams. With experience recruiting across North America, Europe, Nordics, and APAC, a proven history of success in recruiting for a variety of business lines including Data Science, Analytics, Product, Tech, Finance, Accounting, and Legal. Technical proficiencies include Greenhouse, Jobvite, Microsoft Office Suite, and G-Suite.

• Summit Chasers Network, New York, NY, Partner, 08/01/24, Present, I took the plunge into entrepreneurship with four professional connections to help spin up Summit Chasers Network. We focus on helping small and medium size business not only succeed, but scale. I lead our Talent function. I work with Founders and Solopreneur’s to build their talent practice.
• Path Robotics, Remote, Talent Acquisition, Advisor (Contracted), 09/01/24, Present, I lead the Talent Acquisition efforts at Path as the sole member of the Talent Acquisition function. Joined at Series C and approximately 160 people. Work with the Founders and Executive team to create and deploy recruiting best practices. Working on hiring for roles across multiple levels from Executive to Senior IC. Hiring spans all disciplines including tech and business. Machine learning engineers, sales and product are of high importance.
• Datadog, New York, NY, Global Talent Acquisition Manager, Tech, 02/01/22, 07/01/24, I lead the Product Management and Technical Program Management recruiting teams globally at Datadog. Our team sits and hires across multiple geographies including North America, France and the United Kingdom. Built our Product recruiting team from scratch. Managed a team of recruiters and sourcers geographically distributed between Europe and the United States. Led our team to product 300% above offer accept goal and 180% above offer extend goal. Partnered with Executives to create and deploy creative talent attraction initiatives such as AMA events in Paris and Boston. Defined and deployed a formal goal structure for our team. Reduced key funnel metrics including time to fill (70 to 35 days) final round to offer conversion (20 to 5). Created and deployed a more streamlined global recruiting process.
• Glossier, New York, NY, Director, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, 05/01/21, 01/01/22, Head tech, business, and retail recruiting efforts, and provide leadership to a team of nine technical and non-technical recruiting professionals. Set recruiting strategies and best practices in collaboration with business leaders, with a focus on identification, engagement, interviewing, close, and onboarding processes, and elevating the candidate experience. Defined and deployed a technical recruiting strategy, resulting in doubling all technical hiring year over year within seven months (20 hires in 2020 vs 50 hires in 2021). Implemented and communicated workflows with cross-functional stakeholders, focusing on increasing operational excellence and leading to decreased hiring time to fill from 140 days to 60 days. Established a sell strategy for all offers, resulting in an increase in offer acceptance rates from 80% to 87%. Initiated the recruiting organization success framework and team goaling framework, leading to several promotions.
• Facebook, New York, NY, Recruiter, Product & Data Science, 01/01/18, 05/01/21, Built Facebook’s teams by recruiting for Data Scientists and Product Managers across the family of apps. Hired across business functions including Sales, Marketing, Tech (Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence), as well as other functions including personalization, recommendations, rankings, and identification. Partnered with senior leadership to develop recruiting strategies and sell frameworks to land the best talent for Facebook. Tripled hire goal in first year with 30 hires, leading to increased production for the SMB Data Science team who provided support to revenue driving teams. Created a diversity action plan to optimize attracting and hiring diverse talent to the organization. Facilitated interview training to mitigate interview bias and ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process. Represented Facebook at recruiting events across the country, including AfroTech in San Francisco, resulting in multiple key hires.
• Spotify, New York, NY, Global Talent Acquisition Partner, 10/01/15, 01/01/18, Sourced, excited, and attracted top talent and managed the recruitment life cycle, contributing to scaling Spotify 3x in Business and Tech. Partnered closely with the Executive team to build new organizations in Finance, Legal, Operations, Data Science, Product, and Analytics. Collaborated directly with the C-Suite to scale their respective organizations globally. Headed an international hiring committee tasked with scaling the Data Science teams globally across North America Europe, Nordics, and Asia. Led the staffing of the new finance team in NYC, ahead of a potential IPO. Hired Spotify’s first Data Scientist in Japan, a foundational hire which laid the groundwork to a successful debut in APAC which has since become a leader in Spotify’s growth, providing pivotal data and analytics to drive data-based decisions. Hosted a weekly committee meeting with all stakeholders with Data Science vacancies globally, leading to collaborative and solutions-focused discussions on pipeline health, events, and collaborative approaches to attracting talent.
• Home Box Office Inc., New York, NY, Talent Acquisition, 07/01/14, 10/01/15, Managed the recruitment life cycle for Finance, Accounting, Legal, Business Affairs, Human Resources, Creative Services, and Domestic Network Distribution. Executed strategic recruitment and sourcing activities including direct sourcing, industry networking, internet/social media recruiting, resume database, employee referrals, and relevant trade and industry organizations. Built and fostered trusted partnerships with client groups through understanding strategic objectives and business needs, and providing exceptional search and staffing solutions. Effectively implemented recruitment processes through kick-off meetings, enhancing job descriptions, candidate interview and selections, and salary justifications. Administered candidate and requisition status reports, hiring metrics, compliance with EEOC regulations, and company recruitment policies, and new hire and onboarding processes. Eliminated $500K of agency spend leveraging skills, experience, and expertise to recruit in-house only.
• Robert Half, Woodbridge, NJ, Staffing Manager, 05/01/13, 07/01/14, Established strong client relationships by meeting regularly with clients to understand and assess their needs. Identified new contract opportunities for the temporary Finance and Accounting department. Conducted daily new applicant interviews for potential candidates. Reached out to potential new clients and provided education opportunities on Robert Half’s business and benefits. Invited to participate in a top producer conference for best performers in the company globally.
• Kforce Professional Staffing, New York, NY, Account Manager, 10/01/12, 05/01/13, Developed trusted partnerships with clients and met weekly to discuss market trends and evaluate client needs. Set the daily recruiting focus for the delivery team and conducted daily new applicant interviews for potential candidates. Established new contract opportunities for Finance and Accounting. Connected with potential new clients and shared information on Kforce’s business and benefits, contributing to overall business development targets.
• VMO Candidate Generation Specialist, New York, NY, 10/01/12, 03/01/13, Executed sourcing strategies to identify quality candidates, conducted phone screens and in-person interviews, and drove the end-to-end hiring process between clients and candidates. Established and maintained relationships with hiring managers to better assess client needs. Hired several high-quality candidates for clients across multiple industries including tech, media, and telecom, leading to enhanced client relationships and contributed to growing the business over time.
• The Forum Group, New York, NY, Information Technology Recruiter, 08/01/12, 10/01/12, Performed search for qualified candidates including deploying sourcing strategies and meeting candidates to understand career objectives and determine the overall fit with client needs. Developed relationships with hiring managers to optimize understanding of client needs and coordinated the full hiring process between the client and candidate. Successfully hired for five high priority telecom clients in their technical organizations, fulfilling roles that had previously been vacant for six months.