Torrence Hyman
New York,New York
Summary
Talent lead with proven experience scaling globally distributed high performing engineering teams. Extensive experience building end to end recruiting processes for multiple high growth startups that focus on scale and velocity.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Mentor
Newchip Accelerator
01.2023 - Current
- Volunteer advisor to early stage startup founders around recruiting strategies and people related best practices.
Talent Lead, Engineering
Anchorage
04.2022 - 01.2023
- Hands on talent lead for multiple globally distributed engineering teams in U.S, Canada and Portugal.
- Successfully hire 17 engineers in six months in areas of core engineering, quant and data engineering.
- Strategic hiring partner to over ten engineering leaders in over four countries.
- Built hiring strategy for trading and financing teams resulting in senior leadership plus five SME's hires in five months.
- Built data driven metrics to capture pipeline activity and interview pass through rates.
- Led globally distributed team of recruiters, sourcers and recruiting coordinators.
- Led performance and goal setting reviews with direct reports.
- Closely collaborated with financial and operational teams around compensation analysis & adjustments.
- Built strategy around D&I initiatives including content, employee branding and company wide interview training.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Carta
02.2020 - 04.2022
- First technical recruiter for Carta's brokerage team with a core focus on trading and quant development.
- Hired over 25 engineers in final nine months with 68% of hires at staff level or above.
- Reduced time to hire from 93 days in 2020 to 41 days in 2021.
- Maintained offer acceptance rate of 83.
- Built SRE and SDET teams from end to end by driving structured interview process, defining technical assessments and managing candidate pipeline.
- Recruited security team of seven within eight months including VP of security, two directors and four staff engineers.
- Develop sourcing strategies to specifically attract candidates in areas of trading and brokerage.
- Oversaw team of sourcers.
- Rebuilt compensation structure in order to attract and hire brokerage SME's.
Global Technical Recruiter
Chainalysis Inc.
01.2019 - 02.2020
- First technical recruiter leading hiring in over five countries.
- Successfully sourced 30 of 45 technical hires in 2019.
- Reduced time to hire from 110 days to 60 days within first five months.
- Successfully maintained 85% offer acceptance rate.
- Wrote specific and compelling job descriptions to improve candidate quality and increase inbound applicants by 30%.
- Revamped employee referral program which resulted in ten hires in eleven months.
- Achieved 87% overall candidate satisfactory via greenhouse interview surveys.
- Reduced outside agency cost by over 70% in first year.
- Successfully placed five director level roles within first year.
- Globally led all external recruiting events with a focus on attracting crypto related attendees.
Engineering Recruiting Lead
InRhythm
08.2017 - 01.2019
- Full desk recruiter responsible for sourcing to closing of candidates in the areas of DevOps, big data and core engineering.
- Grew cloud practice within consultancy by over 200% in first year.
- Responsible for creating KPI metrics for talent team.
- Working directly with CEO on branding and marketing campaigns in order to attract developer talent.
- Tasked with modifying interview process in order to ensure a positive experience for candidates.
- Frequently commended in employee satisfaction surveys for being responsive, positive and collaborative in interviewing and hiring process.
- Utilized applicant tracking system to maintain and track relationships with high potential candidates for future opportunities.
- Conducted analysis to address gaps in interview process which led to reduction in time to hire by 60%.
Account Executive
Stack Overflow
06.2016 - 03.2017
- Account Management of over 250 active partners for Stack Overflow talent platform.
- Created solutions based on client's technical requirements and hiring needs.
- Help create branding campaigns around team culture for clients in order to attract developer talent.
- Full-desk sales which included self-prospecting, product demo, close to ongoing account management.
Recruiting Account Manager
TEKsystems
08.2014 - 06.2016
- Recruiting account manager for over 200 accounts.
- Full-desk sales which included self-prospecting, product demo, close to ongoing account management.
- Focused on building and maintaining relationships with organizations and expanding IT departments with permanent employees and global services.
- Educated customers on local market analytics, employment trends, best practices, and most effective procedures for talent acquisition
- Negotiated contract terms and pricing with clients for resources requested.
- Managed team of three direct recruiting reports.
- Designed and developed various recruitment programs for start-ups.
Senior Recruiter
TEKsystems
10.2011 - 08.2014
- Full desk recruiter owning all aspect of candidate process from sourcing to offer.
- Sources and closed top engineering talent including core engineering, mobile developers, designers, product managers and SDET's.
- Built the open source sourcing strategies which was used the entire recruiting team.
- Help create branding campaigns around team culture for clients in order to attract developer talent.
Education
MBA - Business Admin
Southern Connecticut State University
2011
BBA - Business
Marshall University
2008
Volunteer
Housing Works, Non-profit fighting against AIDS/HIV and homelessness.
- Support the HR team in the areas of payroll, compliance, compensation and recruiting.
Brainstation, Engineering bootcamp
- Talent advisor to students in the various engineering programs.
Timeline
Talent Mentor
Newchip Accelerator
01.2023 - Current
Talent Lead, Engineering
Anchorage
04.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Technical Recruiter
Carta
02.2020 - 04.2022
Global Technical Recruiter
Chainalysis Inc.
01.2019 - 02.2020
Engineering Recruiting Lead
InRhythm
08.2017 - 01.2019
Account Executive
Stack Overflow
06.2016 - 03.2017
Recruiting Account Manager
TEKsystems
08.2014 - 06.2016
Senior Recruiter
TEKsystems
10.2011 - 08.2014
MBA - Business Admin
Southern Connecticut State University
BBA - Business
Marshall University
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