Jessica Iyer

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Jessica has a proven track record as a leader in a wide range of industries (infrastructure, saas, consumer, robotics, etc.) and startup environments over more than a decade. Jessica’s experience spans building from 0-1 as a first recruiter and Head of Talent at Ike (a robotics/automated trucking company), to supporting niche technology roles at Salesforce during a period of hypergrowth (scaling from 4,000 to 14,000).

Jessica’s depth and breadth of experience across different industries and platforms allows her to build custom solutions uniquely tailored for small startups - as well as for established technology companies ready to quickly scale. Her approach is to always remain hands-on to enable and help her teams excel at what they do best, while also operating at a higher level as a strategic partner to executive and leadership teams. Her work directly with founders gives Jessica a unique and deep understanding of how to balance trade-offs and operate in the best interest of a company's immediate and long-term growth.

Experience Highlights:

• Airbnb - Joined when the company had 85 engineers and spent the next 5 years scaling processes and team capacity during hypergrowth to hire 200+ technology team members per quarter (including over 100 senior engineers quarterly)

• Led a team of 80 as Head of Technology Recruiting. Built resource planning model used by worldwide recruiting team. Led mergers and acquisitions recruiting as well as employment brand.

• Ike - Robotics and automated trucking startup. Joined when the company was <30 as the first recruiting hire - built processes and grew company by 4x. Supported IC-VP level hiring hands-on across software, hardware, and business roles.

• Mux - Video streaming infrastructure and performance analytics startup. Joined when the company was <100 as the first Head of Talent - grew company by 2x (supporting leadership roles across tech and business) before taking on additional scope also leading HR as VP of People.

• Salesforce - Synonymous with SaaS since the early 2000s and current CRM market leader. Supported niche teams such as performance and security engineering, hiring candidates from Associate to Architect level, as well as Managers and Directors.