Luis Salinas
Austin,TX
Summary
Experienced Talent Acquisition professional adept at finding and guiding top talent through a seamless hiring processes. Expert in developing effective recruiting strategies, collaborating with hiring managers, and contributing to diverse hiring initiatives. Can quickly pivot to new hiring demands and complex roles.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Sourcer - Short Term Employee
Meta
12.2024 - 07.2025
- Provided guidance and support throughout the entire selection process until a successful placement is achieved for Senior and Staff-level Product Designers.
- Conducted initial screening interviews to assess candidate qualifications and fit for roles across the EPD organization.
- Maintained candidate pipelines for high-volume roles, ensuring a constant flow of talent.
- Regularly exceeded 80 targeted cold outreach a week while maintaining at least 12 initial interviews.
- Identified, engaged, and built relationships with passive candidates through various channels, such as LinkedIn, in-house recruiting software, professional networks, referrals, and SeekOut.
- Collaborated with recruiters to ensure a smooth transition from sourcing to interviewing process.
- Sourcing point of contact for the GenAI pillar openings for Product Design.
- Ran intake meetings with director-level hiring managers in the GenAI pillar, ensuring recruiting had all of the necessary information needed to calibrate on candidate profiles.
Recruiting Researcher - Contractor
Netflix
04.2024 - 10.2024
- Acted as the primary Sourcer for all open Product Design positions at Netflix, focusing on Senior, Staff, and Principal level roles.
- Conducted at least 60 targeted cold outreach a week while simultaneously reviewing applicants for all Design roles and holding 8 initial interviews.
- Collaborated closely with Design Managers and Directors to gain a deep understanding of their specific needs, enabling us to attract and engage top-tier talent in the User Experience field.
- Identified effective strategies to cultivate and expand talent pipelines, actively engage referrals, and navigate through Netflix's applicant pool.
- Employed Boolean search, LinkedIn, and various alternative sourcing techniques to connect with passive candidates.
- Screened candidates through a consistent and structured review process, ensuring a thorough evaluation.
- Influenced senior managers and director-level hiring managers, utilizing market maps, market trends, and past hiring data.
- Supported high growth areas such as Netflix Games, Netflix Live, Netflix Member Experience, and Netflix Payments.
Senior Design Sourcer
Dropbox
05.2021 - 11.2023
- Sole Sourcer for all of Design at Dropbox (IC2 - IC6).
- Guided senior candidates, leveraging experience of Dropbox's career frameworks and compensation philosophy.
- Maintained 100% acceptance rate from Offer Extends to Offer Accepts.
- Developed top of funnel recruiting strategies to identify qualified candidates and build network.
- Crafted Market Maps that displayed market trends, talent pools, and time to hire estimates for all roles I supported.
- Collaborated with hiring managers to understand job requirements, set expectations based off of market maps, and create a seamless hiring process.
- Pivoted to help hiring in several other domains (Interns, Staff Engineers, and Technical Program Managers).
- Assisted in sourcing Executive talent across all Executive openings.
- Worked on several AI tool initiatives to make TA more efficient.
- LatinX ERG member: attended meetings, workshops, and worked on increasing participation.
- Consistently met or surpassed quarterly production KRs.
- Positive team member and culture carrier across the business.
UX, Sourcer II
Google
09.2019 - 05.2021
- Proactively conducted research and created innovative sourcing strategies to find senior UX talent.
- Strong focus on sourcing passive candidates through networking, targeted LinkedIn searches, internal databases and referrals.
- Act as a search expert for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by understanding functional hiring needs, position specifications and search requirements.
- Partner with Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and fellow Sourcers to achieve hiring goals and DEI initiatives.
- Successfully sourced and hired UX talent ranging from IC3 to IC7.
Lead Nurse Recruiter
MGA Homecare
02.2019 - 09.2019
- Collaborated with nursing team as well as the on-boarding team on a regular basis to streamline recruiting process.
- Assisted in the hiring and training of new recruiters.
- Leveraged job boards such as Indeed, Zip Recruiter, Career Builder and GoogleAds to attract qualified candidates.
- Tasked with increasing overall spread of the office.
- Recruited nurses to work 1 on 1 with medically fragile children in the greater Austin area.
- Used several different channels such as cold calling, online postings and social media outlets.
- Conducted phone interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
- Conducted reference checks, background screening and other pre-employment checks to verify information on applicant's resume.
Recruiter I & II
MGA Homecare
02.2018 - 02.2019
- Recruited nurses to work one-on-one with medically fragile children in the greater Austin area.
- Used several different channels, such as cold calling, online postings, and social media outlets.
- Conducted phone interviews to assess applicants' relevant knowledge, skills, experience, and aptitudes.
- Conducted reference checks, background screening, and other pre-employment checks to verify information on the applicant's resume.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX08.2017
Skills
- Cold outreach
- LinkedIn Insights
- Recruiting Research
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- FBR
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Executive Sourcing
- Ghire
- Gem
- EightFold
Timeline
Senior Sourcer - Short Term Employee
Meta
12.2024 - 07.2025
Recruiting Researcher - Contractor
Netflix
04.2024 - 10.2024
Senior Design Sourcer
Dropbox
05.2021 - 11.2023
UX, Sourcer II
Google
09.2019 - 05.2021
Lead Nurse Recruiter
MGA Homecare
02.2019 - 09.2019
Recruiter I & II
MGA Homecare
02.2018 - 02.2019
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
Texas State University
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