JD

John Delaney

Principal, Talent at Greylock Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2017

  • Principal, Core Talent (AI)

    2020

    Expanded role (L8) with a stronger focus on building and scaling early teams (co-founders & founding engineers) as well as helping key investments make categorical first hires. Primary focus areas: Machine Learning Engineers, Research Scientists, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Infra Engineers

  • Core Talent (AI & Infra)

    2017 - 2020

    First remote hire (L7). I primarily helped our investments connect with senior-level technical talent, advised startups on best practices in hiring, and introduced future founders to members of our investment team.

2015 - 2017

  • Staff Recruiter

    2017 - 2017

    One of the first people in Twitter's history to get promoted to L7 in recruiting. I focused my time improving key hiring processes while filling high-priority roles for the Revenue organization.

  • Sr. Recruiter

    2015 - 2017

    Expanded my role from TellApart to support additional engineering teams within the Revenue organization.

  • Recruiting Manager

    2013 - 2015

    Joined TellApart at Series B (lead investor: Greylock) as their first full-time recruiter (employee #37). During this time, I helped TellApart triple the size of its engineering and product teams (in SF and NYC)--culminating in the largest acquisition in Twitter's history.

2009 - 2013

  • Manager of WW Staffing

    2010 - 2013

    Joined Proofpoint at Series E (lead investors: Benchmark and MDV) as their first full-time recruiter (employee #200). As a player coach, I managed a team while working on engineering, product, and support roles in multiple (international) office locations. During my time, I helped Proofpoint quadruple its global engineering team from a fast-growing start-up through a successful IPO in 2012 (PFPT).

  • Staffing Consultant

    2009 - 2010

    First remote hire in recruiting and worked on engineering, product, testing, and support roles in Toronto, Sunnyvale, and Draper. Converted to FTE 9 months later.

2009 - 2010

  • Product Manager --​> Strategic Advisor

    2009 - 2010

    Helped design and ship several key features of the product and influenced many of the core features of the system as well. (Newton Software acquired by Paycor in 2015)

2000 - 2010

  • President

    2000 - 2010

    Boutique recruiting firm focused on SF Bay Area market.

2005 - 2009

  • EVP Services

    2005 - 2009

    Hired, managed, and trained multiple teams of recruiters to drive a full-cycle RPO solution with a national client base (staff: 50). During my time, Gravity was recognized as one of the Bay Area’s 50 fastest-growing privately held companies in 2005, 2006, and 2007 and was also recognized as a company to watch in 2008 by Inc. magazine.

1996 - 2005

  • President

    1996 - 2005

    Boutique recruiting firm focused on SF Bay Area market.

2004 - 2005

  • Staffing Consultant

    2004 - 2005

    Scaled-up Ominture's tech org before their big push to go public. I was brought on to (dramatically) speed up hiring in EPD. Inheriting teams that were averaging of one hire / six months, I revamped most of their screening and interview processes and closed 39 EPD candidate out of 42 offers (working 20-30 hours/week on avg). I was offered an FTE role but declined it.