Jesse Silverman

Jesse Silverman

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Building @ UP.Labs | Venture Builder | Talent Acquisition & Operations Leader | Ex-Google, MLB
Texas, United States

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  • Soularis
    Advisor
    Soularis
    Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)
    The social booking platform for hobbies and local experiences.

    Advising on product - coming soon to Austin, TX
  • The Israel Bridge
    Advisory Board
    The Israel Bridge
    May 2025 - Current (1 year 6 months)
    The Israel Bridge helps Israeli student-athletes pursue higher education in the U.S. and builds bridges between Israel and the Jewish American community.
  • UPLabs
    Head of Portfolio Talent
    UPLabs
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)
    • Platform team - Lead talent acquisition across UP.Labs and the UP.Partners venture portfolio
    • Developing a suite of agentic AI tools to enhance the efficiency of our internal recruiting team
  • Syelo Ventures
    Founding Member
    Syelo Ventures
    Dec 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)
    A collective of the worlds greatest People Leaders investing in the worlds greatest tech companies
  • UPLabs
    Principal, Talent Acquisition & Strategic Partnerships
    UPLabs
    Mar 2023 - Jan 2025 (1 year 11 months)
    UP.Labs is a first-of-its-kind venture lab unlocking the future of transportation and mobility. We work with global corporate partners to identify the most pressing challenges that they, and broader society, face. Inspired by these complex problems, we launch startups built by proven entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists that use their agility and talent to develop transformative solutions. After these companies have matured and proven market fit, our corporate partners are able to acquire them, reaping strategic value while enriching their culture and core business. We believe this to be the shortest road to a faster, cleaner, safer, and more accessible future
  • Waldo
    Founding Team
    Waldo
    Feb 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 3 months)
    Co-founded for a startup in the recruiting technology space. We were focused on building an end to end automated and AI driven sourcing platform (pre AI agents :) for early stage startups. Scaled to $1.2 million ARR, 30+ customers
  • Primary Venture Partners
    Principal, Talent
    Primary Venture Partners
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (2 years)
  • HiveFiveai
    VP, Talent & Operations
    HiveFiveai
    Jun 2020 - Feb 2022 (1 year 9 months)
    Executive Team Member - Leading our embedded talent and account management teams - Managed a team of 10 focused on hiring strategy, process, recruiting ops & technology implementation at high growth startups
  • Rent the Runway
    Head of Talent Acquisition - Data & Machine Learning
    Rent the Runway
    Jun 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 7 months)
    Sole recruiter within data org: Data Engineering, Data Science, BI and Machine Learning teams (Computer Vision)

    Fully embedded via HiveFive: Leading a team of three recruiters
  • Quadpay a Zip company
    Head of Talent Acquisition - Tech (Acquired)
    Quadpay a Zip company
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 4 months)
    QuadPay was acquired by Zip Co in June 2020

    First talent hire - Fully embedded via HiveFive. Consulting and advising on hiring strategy & process across tech org. Scaled Engineering, Data and Product teams by 3x. 75+ hires (4 month hiring pause due to COVID-19) including key roles such as:

    - Chief Product Officer
    - Chief Data Officer
    - 2 Directors
    - 4 Technical Leads
  • HiveFiveai
    Principal
    HiveFiveai
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 (10 months)
    Employee #3 - HiveFive.ai is building a suite of proprietary recruiting technology tools that help companies solve one of the most difficult challenges - hiring.

    - Worked closely with co-founder and CTO to develop our SaaS platform and scale the business
    - Led discussions and planning around our product and technical roadmap, onboarding and customer success infrastructure
  • P
    Program Manager
    Aug 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 2 months)
    Co-founded the People Ops Buddy Program and scaled it from 30 to over 1,000 Googlers across the globe. Partnered with Area120 (startup incubator within Google) to build an automated application for the program, and was recognized by VP of People Operations as an innovative project within Google. Co-managed 5 program managers across various offices throughout the world.
  • T
    Talent Acquisition - Software Engineering & Machine Learning
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 9 months)
    Full time employee partnering with tech leadership to scale teams across software engineering

    Selected for multiple large scale learning initiatives including:

    - SWE-Cademy: Facilitated training's and onboarding for new talent team members
    - Enhancing Sourcing Capability: Built and scaled an e-learning portal focused on upskilling recruiters
    - Engineer Insights: Connecting staffers with team members in the roles that they support via ongoing programming
  • Major League Baseball MLB
    Talent Acquisition Lead
    Major League Baseball MLB
    Sep 2017 - Jan 2018 (5 months)
    Talent Lead (leadership and individual contributor) for all of MLB Advanced Media, the tech arm of Major League Baseball.

    Key Hires Include:

    - 2 VPs of Engineering
    - 4 Directors of Engineering
    - Director of Baseball Data
    - 3 Engineering Managers
    - 40+ IC's across SWE, Data Science, Product, Mobile and Project Management
  • Major League Baseball
    Talent Acquisition - Engineering, Product & Design
    Major League Baseball
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year 3 months)
    Built out tech teams for both MLB Advanced Media and Disney Streaming Services (Previously BAMTech under MLB Advanced Media), before they were acquired by Disney.
  • SingleSprout
    Senior Account Executive
    SingleSprout
    Jan 2016 - Jul 2016 (7 months)
    SingleSprout partners with well respected VC-backed tech startups to help them build out their technology and product teams.

    Built out engineering teams for tech companies such as Dataminr, Blue Apron, Harry's, Aetion, Oscar Health, Birchbox, Segovia, ActionIQ, Simulmedia and more.
  • SingleSprout
    Account Executive
    SingleSprout
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)
  • C
    Cofounder
    Cameron Silverman LLC
    May 2014 - Feb 2015 (10 months)
    Managed three professional tennis players. Helped them with business related tasks such as sponsorships, social media postings and financial investments
  • Digiday
    Intern
    Digiday
    Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 (3 months)
    Digiday creates content, services and community that foster change in media and marketing.
  • S
    Intern
    Scholarship for Athletes
    Apr 2012 - Aug 2012 (5 months)
    Scholarship For Athletes is the premier consulting company for student-athletes and their families. We educate student athletes and their families about the recruiting process, making sure that the athletes end up at the best school for them on and off the field of play.
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  • Elon University
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Strategic Communications, Strategic Communications
    Elon University
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2014 (5 years)
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