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:
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Looking for Culture Fit, Too
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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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…and They’re Coming
Peter Phelan, Chief People OfficerThank you!