Andrei Santalo

Operations & Head of Talent

Edison Scientific

Feb 2026 - Current (7 months)

Building the engine to hire world-class AI talent as we scale. Edison is a $70M-backed AI x science startup whose mission is to accelerate scientific breakthroughs (backed by Jeff Dean, Spark Capital, and leaders from major pharma and frontier AI labs). We're building an AI scientist platform — Kosmos — that will be deployed to the world's leading pharma and biotech organizations.

Fractional COO & Enterprise Partnerships (companies: Edison, Canals, Upwage)

Freelance Self employed

Jul 2025 - Mar 2026 (9 months)

Current clients: • Edison Scientific (AI science lab): Consulting on hiring workflows to hire top AI engineers and scientists. • Canals AI (AI for Sales Order Entry): Working at the intersection of product, operations, and enterprise customers at Canals. Helping scale product execution, launches, internal operations, and GTM ecosystem workflows. Past clients: • Upwage (AI agentic hiring): Collaborating with CEO and COO to drive enterprise AI transformation for this early-stage startup. They are deploying over 14,000 AI agents across the HR employee lifecycle to enhance ROI for clients.

Head of Operations

Rain AI

Oct 2022 - Jun 2025 (2 years 9 months)

(IP acquired by OpenAI) Rain AI’s mission was to power the future of AI using the most advanced chips via our compute-in-memory (CIM) technology. Rain AI raised $60M and grew to almost 100 employees. Managed all things operations for the company including core ops, people, investor relations, business operations, marketing & comms, facilities; ran the day-to-day operating rhythm of the company.

Global Head of Community Partnerships, Director

Apr 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 5 months)

I managed a global team of 60+ people to cultivate relationships with content creators, community leaders, and brands who want to build digital communities on LinkedIn. I also partnered closely with product leadership to build the tools to help these communities build audiences and discover business opportunities.

Product Partnerships and Strategic Planning Team Lead

Instagram

Apr 2017 - Apr 2021 (4 years 1 month)

Led GTM planning for all products impacting creators and media organizations. Product areas my team supported: Creator monetization, video, influencer marketing, public policy, trust & safety, social good, content policy, and COVID-19 response efforts. The partnerships team at Instagram manages relationships with key global partners across digital, sports, fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, and news. My team's role is to represent Instagram's 10K+ partners across these products, ultimately driving real business value for both Instagram and our creators. Key responsibilities: - Shape product roadmaps based on the needs and behaviors of our largest and most influential partners, while also overseeing the ways we measure trends, partner

Strategic Partnerships (social impact)

Aug 2015 - Apr 2017 (1 year 9 months)

Managed strategic partnerships for LinkedIn's social impact programs. - Worked with the head of LinkedIn for Good to develop LinkedIn's company-wide social impact strategy through programs, partnerships, and strategic projects. - Managed cross-sector strategic partnerships with public & private organizations to help them use LinkedIn's platform, products, data, and network. - Managed high-impact, cross-functional partnerships with internal stakeholders including product, diversity, marketing, communications, public policy, and executive leadership. - Drove our U.S. youth employment programs ($1M budget) - everything from building the core strategy to executing on a global level. Specialties: partnerships, strategy, communications,

Global Social Impact Programs Lead

Feb 2015 - Aug 2015 (7 months)

Managed LinkedIn for Good's internal social impact programs. Our goal was to ensure that LinkedIn brought our vision of economic opportunity to life in our 30 office cities (with 9200+ employees) to make a dent in global youth unemployment. - Developed & administered the global employee engagement strategy impacting 9200+ employees - Connected Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) to 300+ volunteer events in their local communities - Managed global volunteer program with 100+ volunteers in 30 cities - Executed largest employee volunteer day, increasing employee participation by 30% - Administered LinkedIn’s $1M employee grant program to over 100 employees and 50 nonprofits - Redesigned our pro bono recruiting program processes that led to a 300

Deputy Chief of Staff, Consulting

Deloitte Consulting

Sep 2014 - Feb 2015 (6 months)

Worked directly with lead partner to develop the first-ever social impact service line that serves fortune 500 companies, nonprofits and foundations.

Consultant, Talent Strategy & Innovation

Deloitte Consulting

Nov 2013 - Sep 2014 (11 months)

- Advised a social enterprise on their mission to create next generation social entrepreneurs in the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Co-developed their 10-year strategy on standing up the first social enterprise incubator to combat regional unemployment.

Business Analyst

Deloitte Consulting

Jul 2013 - Nov 2013 (5 months)

Led operations on a $500M M&A implementation across a 1000+ person workstream

People Technology & Operations Analyst

Google

May 2012 - Aug 2012 (4 months)

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