Julian Ballen

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Head of Talent

Code Climate

Mar 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 10 months)

• Oversee company hiring, organizational structure decisions, and talent strategy while working directly with the CEO, CFO, VP of Eng, and the leadership team • Built interview processes from scratch and implemented metrics gathering in Greenhouse, Gem talent, Talentwall, to share in a weekly leadership meeting • Created levels, comp bands, and infrastructure within the tech team • Implemented Justworks as our HRIS platform with the Head of Employee Experience

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Head of Talent & People

Rightway Healthcare

Nov 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 5 months)

• Oversee all hiring, scaling, and team building at the company • Grew the company from 70 to 220 people and grew my HR team from 1 to 5 people • Worked closely with the leadership team to build out org structure, comp bands/leveling • Built out succession planning, bi-annual 360 feedback reviews and Impulse checks through Lattice, payroll through ADP, Greenhouse ATS • Built out ERG's, L&D programs, and internal mobility process

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Head of Tech Recruiting & ERG Leader

Better Commerce

Jan 2019 - Nov 2020 (1 year 11 months)

• Started as the first tech recruiter and grew my team to 15, with a mixture of IC's and managers • Hired 47 people to the tech team in 2019 that I personally sourced • Worked directly with CTO and Eng Directors to build teams, hire leadership, develop tech recruiting strategy, progression planning, leveling and org structure • Started the Asians ERG at Better, as a herald of diversity and a person of mixed race

Senior Technical Recruiter

Squarespace

Feb 2018 - Jan 2019 (1 year)

• Lead recruiting for Engineering: Infrastructure, SRE, Product Manager, and Security • Created Associate Recruiter rubric and trained AR's on calls, emails, messaging • Hired engineers globally in NYC, Portland and Ireland

Senior Technical Recruiter

Blink Health

Sep 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 6 months)

• Developed talent & interview processes from scratch as the first recruiter • Worked directly with the VP of Talent to hire across all roles in the company • Oversaw 50% growth of the company in first year from 55 to 100 employees • Lead the engineering recruiting effort, working with engineering leadership to develop interview guidelines for engineers

Technical Recruiter

Square

May 2015 - Sep 2016 (1 year 5 months)

• Lead recruiting for Engineering in NYC, SF, Atlanta and Waterloo, while working directly with the East Coast Talent Lead to grow multiple offices around the world • Worked on Product Manager, Design, Compliance and Support requisitions • Developed our interviewing process in NYC to better our candidate experience

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Research Associate & Account Mgr

CONTINUITY PARTNERS, INC.

Aug 2013 - May 2015 (1 year 10 months)

• Sourced talent by utilizing creative ways of reaching out to candidates on Linkedin Recruiter, GitHub, emails, Connectifier, rapportive, Twitter and other platforms • Trained a junior recruiter on how to use platforms like Bullhorn and Linkedin Recruiter to source top talent • Continually put out top metrics out of all the junior recruiters and kept an average of 25% response rate over 3000+ inmails • Managed my own accounts after doing business development and acquiring a few of my own clients

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Medical Malpractice Paralegal

Ellenberg & Partners LLP

Jul 2012 - Aug 2013 (1 year 2 months)

• Drafted legal documents such as Demand for Authorizations and Combined Demands • Drafted and paid checks to be sent to Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company • Processed Authorizations and requested records from medical providers • Prepared Trial and EBT notebooks for attorney use during trial • Became a registered Notary Public to notarize legal documents for the firm

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