🇵🇸 #CeaseFireNow | Founder | Leader | DEIB Hiring | Startups | ✊🏽 Racial Justice | 🎙 Podcast host | Mama to Izzy 👧🏼
Against advice and trends of firms supporting later stage startups - we placed a big bet that early stage startups need a hiring and people partner across the full team ecosystem. It was the hard path - building candidate communities across functions vs. specializing in just one role, but I'm feeling proud of this list and how we've not only made a diverse set of function placements, but also truly supported foundational team building across dynamic early stage startups. A few insights that confirmed our bet and kept us on this path: 💥 Great early hires always come down to soft skills 🔍 Identifying which soft skills to focus on takes a bit of intentional brainstorming 👯 There is more similarity between the first engineer and first sales person at a specific company than differences 🤔 Founders (esp. solo founders) don't often get to have a sounding board for org planning, and we were able to fill that role organically #MyFave #TeamBuilding #FounderLife #MyJourney #Learnings #Startups #Hiring
"Do you hire for technical roles? What other types of roles?" We get asked this often - and thought it was time to show some of the titles and levels of the amazing folks we've placed onto parter startup teams: ✅ Head of Product ✅ Engineering Manager ✅ Full Stack Engineer ✅ Frontend Engineer ✅ Backend Engineer ✅ Cloud Architect ✅ Dir. of IT Systems and Security ✅ Data Engineer ✅ Data Scientist ✅ Data Analyst ✅ Customer Success Manager ✅ Customer Success Operations Manager ✅ SDR ✅ Account Executive ✅ Head of Growth ✅ Head of Marketing ✅ Product Marketing Manager ✅ Social Media Manager ✅ Content Manager ✅ Finance Manager ✅ Dir. of Operations ✅ Chief of Staff ✅ Executive Assistant ✅ Project Manager
