Alan Williams

Co-founded boutique recruiting startup. Helped several known companies such as Duolingo, Thirty Madison, SeatGeek, Braze, Bloomberg, and ADP.

• Built and managed a team of 3 recruiters & still remained engaged as an individual contributor sourcing and managing client base
• Achieved 82% candidate submission-to-interview ratio across client base; which ranged from seed startups to publicly traded companies
• Created & maintained a high volume pipeline of candidates for dozens of clients by creating unique cold outbound email campaigns resulting in a 36% replay rate (industry standard 8.5%)
• Developed and executed a diversity and inclusion recruiting strategy, resulting in a 30% increase in diversity candidate applications
• Personally coded unique tools to upgrade workflow for collecting data with our ATS. This allowed us to easily search & locate hard to find data in database - including integrating 3rd party APIs
• Built system for building over a 20 specialized candidate pipelines for clients concurrently
• Developed true candidate relationships resulting in over 35% of placements coming from referrals; without a referral program paying for the referrals.
• Built client base from 0 to over 30 & managed anywhere from 15 to 20 concurrently
• Developed client management, sourcing, and all internal processes strategies
• Built internal, proprietary tools to collect data from candidate screens and client calls for team & pre-brief clients with candidate information before interviews

Definition of fast paced startup environment. Grand Central Tech is New York's largest, most selective and most inclusive tech ecosystem, with over 100,000 square feet and 100 companies under its purview.

• Acted as internal & external recruiter for the companies in the space
• Built & Lead a team of 5 recruiters to run the in-house recruiting team at Grand Central Tech.
• Developed metrics, KPIs, and strategy for our team to handle the unique recruiting challenges for the community
• Honed interview processes resulting in a 25% decrease in time-to-hire & 75% candidate submission to interview ratio.
• Designed recruiting outreach strategy; cold email, job postings, maintaining relationships, and ensuring candidate experience interviewing stayed to priority
• Conducted hiring strategy & developed hiring roadmaps with over 40+ incubated, seed stage companies; of which had no recruiting processes in place.
• Responsibilities of internal role for companies inside the community. involved managing ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Bullhorn, and many others), creating & posting job descriptions, screening, scheduling, negotiating, and ensuring best candidate experience
• Placed 3 CTO's, 5 Directors, and 3 VPs at Seed stage companies through Series B
• Built Mast Mobile's engineering team from 0 to 6 in 4 months
• Led & spoke at several panels/meetups at the community