Peter Phelan from MediaMath talked about inventing a talent pool at the NYC Rebels of Recruiting Roadshow

1. Hiring
for
an
industry
that
didn’t
exist
in
2007
Inventing
a
Talent
Pool
Peter
Phelan,
Chief
People
Officer,
MediaMath

3. A
Thirsty
Industry
800,000
unfilled
hi-­‐tech
jobs
1
Million
unfilled
hi-­‐tech
jobs
77,000
hi
tech
jobs
unfilled
2008 2018 2020

4. A
Thirsty
Industry

5. The
Gap
Responsibilities
• 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.

6. Minding
the
Gap
Finding
experts
in
hiding
Making
experts
where
there
are
none

7. Finding
Experts
in
Hiding

8. Google
Searches
Data
Scientist
New
York
“or”
New
Jersey
area….

9. 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)

10. Finding
Common
Interests

11. Data
Mining
Interests

12. Asking
Employees
About
New
Skills

13. Data
Scraping
Evolving
Employee
Skills

14. Identify
Leaders
in
Our
Midst

15. Online
Matchmaking
–
LinkedIn
Recruiter

16. Matchmaking
Services
and
Tools

17. Building
Experts
Where
None
Existed

18. Success
by
Internship
Standards

19. Marketing
Engineer
Program

20. Data
Mining
for
Perfect
Fit
SCORE
33
Percentile
in
Total
Population:
96th
IQ
Equivalent:
125
Strong
Fit
Moderate
Fit
Weak
Fit
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

21. Looking
for
Culture
Fit,
Too

22. teach
height.
— Red
Auerbach
You
can’t

23. 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

24. Employee
Evangelism
Keeps
Great
People
Coming
2014•2015
2014
&
2015
Top
12
in
the
US
#2
in
NYC

25. 0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
LinkedIn
&
Glassdoor
Employee
Referral Company
Website Worked
with
Us HR
Active
Applicant
Sources
Total
Apps Engineering
Apps
…and
They’re
Coming

26. Peter
Phelan,
Chief
People
Officer
Thank
you!