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Hiring  for  an  industry  that  didn’t  exist  in  2007Inventing  a  Talent  Pool

Peter  Phelan,  Chief  People  Officer,  MediaMath

A  Thirsty  Industry

800,000  unfilled  

hi-­‐tech  jobs

1  Million  unfilled  

hi-­‐tech  jobs  

77,000  hi  tech  jobs  unfilled

2008 2018 2020

A  Thirsty  Industry

The  GapResponsibilities• Manage  a  team  of  software  engineers,   including   task  planning  and  code  reviews.• Drive  technical   projects   and  provide  leadership   in  an  innovative  and  fast-­‐paced  environment.• Take  responsibility   for  the  overall  planning,   execution   and  success  of  complex   technical   projects.• Contribute   technically   to  projects.• Work  closely  with  product   management  team  to  ensure  we’re   building   the  best  products.

Minimum  Qualifications• BA/BS  in  Computer   Science  or  closely  

related  degree  or  equivalent  practical  experience.

• 3  years  of  hands-­‐on  technical   leadership  and  people  management  experience.

• Hands-­‐on  programming   capabilities  in  C++  and/or  Java.

Preferred  Qualifications• MS  or  PhD  in  Computer   Science  or  closely  

related  degree.• 10  years  of  relevant  industry  experience,  

with  5  years  of  hands-­‐on  technical  leadership   and  people  management  experience   (managing  teams  of  8+  developers).

• Transaction   processing,   payments,  and/or  commerce   experience.

• Strong  distributed   systems  and  architecture  knowledge  and  experience.

• Strong  leader  capable  of  motivating  and  energizing  the  very  best  software  engineers,   as  well  as  gaining  their  respect.

• Experience   shipping  successful   products.

Minding  the  Gap

Finding  experts  in  hiding

Making  experts  where  thereare  none

Finding  Experts  in  Hiding

Google  Searches

Data  Scientist  New  York  “or”  New  Jersey  area….

Google  Searches

intitle:resume OR  inurl:resume machine  learning  natural  language  processing  data  visualization  python  (646  OR  917  OR  212  OR  516  OR  732  OR  908  OR  201)

Finding  Common  Interests

Data  Mining  Interests

Asking  Employees  About  New  Skills

Data  Scraping  Evolving  Employee  Skills

Identify  Leaders  in  Our  Midst

Online  Matchmaking  –LinkedIn  Recruiter

Matchmaking  Services  and  Tools

Building  Experts  Where  None  Existed

Success  by  Internship  Standards

Marketing  Engineer  Program

Data  Mining  for  Perfect  FitSCORE

33Percentile   in  Total  Population: 96thIQ  Equivalent:

125

Strong  Fit

Moderate  Fit

Weak  Fit

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Looking  for  Culture  Fit,  Too

teach  height.— Red  Auerbach

You  can’t

The  Pipeline  Is  Working

Can  fill  100%  of  Platform  Solutions  positions

100%  job  placement

Decreases  onboarding  time  and  increases  “experience-­‐level”  that  we  can  hire  for

50%  increase  in  overall  applications

Employee  Evangelism  Keeps  Great  People  Coming

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2014  &  2015Top  12  in  the  US

#2  in  NYC

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Total  Apps Engineering  Apps

…and  They’re  Coming

Peter  Phelan,  Chief  People  OfficerThank  you!