Strategic Recruiting
for the world's most innovative high growth companies
How We Help
We are a boutique recruiting firm led by a former internal talent acquisition leader who has worked with leading startups and big tech. Our services are designed to seamlessly integrate with high-growth companies scaling their teams, from seed stage through IPO.
Will is a talent acquisition leader with nearly 15 years of experience in the recruiting industry. A former in house talent acquisition leader, Will led technical recruiting at Peloton for 6 years, from the early startup years as one of the first 150 employees through IPO. At Peloton, Will successfully hired over 1,500 employees into the company for their software engineering, hardware, product, design, and enterprise technology departments globally. Will’s recruiting experience also includes leading 3 sourcing teams at Meta that focused on recruiting senior AI and ML software engineers for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality Labs. Will also worked internally at Birchbox where he led technical recruiting for the pioneer in discovery e-commerce. Earlier in his career, Will spent more than 5 years in staffing and supported scaling market leaders such as CAA, Fanatics, Tesla, and SpaceX, in addition to many more startups and publicly listed companies.
Will has led recruiting orgs of up to 40 employees and saw the need first hand for a more capable, tech enabled, and experienced embedded recruiting partner. Will decided to start Blaze Talent in 2022 to create the recruiting company he would have loved to have partnered with when he was an internal talent acquisition leader, and to focus his time on working with companies whose mission he believes in.
Will is an active member of the talent acquisition community and has been featured as a part of the following panels, conferences, podcasts, and webinars, among others:
Gem.com’s Talent Summit 2021
Hired.com’s “Talk Talent To Me” Podcast
Greenhouse’s Scaling Rapidly Webinar and was a panelist at the Greenhouse Open 2018
HackerRank’s webinar on How a Team of 3 Interviewed 600 Candidates
The Muse’s panel and article for Your 10-Step Checklist to Master the Job Search.
Will is a native New Yorker and spends a lot of time in Manhattan with clients. He currently lives in a coastal town called Atlantic Highlands, NJ, with his wife, son, daughter and Aussie-Doodle. His favorite pizza in NYC is from Deninos in Greenwich Village, and can share more fun facts in a discovery call, or in real life at Variety Coffee.
Who We've Helped
Below are a few of our recent client engagements
Areas of Focus
We are able to hire talent across a broad spectrum of expertise areas, with success in hiring individual contributors spanning entry to principal levels to pivotal people leadership roles ranging from manager to executive levels.
Tools
We can hit the ground running with your team's recruiting tech stack, or make recommendations to accelerate your hiring even further. Unlike other recruiting firms, we've worked in house and understand how to make your software investments impactful first hand.
Applicant Tracking Systems
Greenhouse, Jobvite, Lever, Ashby, Workable
Sourcing
LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Chatkick, Seekout, Fetcher, Google X-Ray
Interviewing
HackerRank, Coderpad, Karat, Criteria, HireBrain
Project Management &
Note Taking
Notion, Monday, Asana, Otter, Smartsheet
Communications
Slack, Teams, Google Apps, Zoom
Compensation
Radford, Pave, Carta, Levels.FYI
Other
ChatGPT, Lattice, Culture Amp, Calendly, Airtable