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Blueprint Search Partners

Blueprint is a boutique research, recruiting, and executive search firm. We move quickly, but in a collaborative way. Our clients include early stage start-ups through Fortune class organizations. 

At Blueprint, we embrace diversity in a very big way and bake it in to everything we do. We empower our clients to see diversity as part of their very foundations and give them the tools needed to improve culture and performance. Learn more here: www.blueprintsearchpartners.com 

I lead the retained executive search arm of our firm and focus on Director level and above placements. I focus my search approach on high-touch partnerships, paramount responsiveness, and understanding my clients' needs from a nuanced perspective.

Managing Director - Founding Partner

The Pacific Firm

The Pacific Firm is a retained search firm. We specialize in the retail, consumer products, technology, and financial services industries and our clients include companies ranging from Venture-backed start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The Pacific Firm has been ranked a top 10 Bay Area retained executive search firm and has consistently ranked in the Top 100 women-owned businesses.

I focus on C-level and senior-level executive searches, board director appointments, succession planning, and in-depth senior executive management assessments. 

Additionally, I lead the the firm's recruiting team responsible for training, managing, and developing internal staff. This role requires a heavy mentorship component.

Director & Senior Executive Recruiter

Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) is a global leader in optical and routing systems, services, and automation software. We build the world’s most adaptive networks to address ever-increasing digital demands for richer, more

Cisco

Executive Talent Acquisition: CxO, EVP, SVP and VP talent acquisition across Cisco's entire portfolio - top 300 executive positions globally.

In-house executive talent acquisition, analytics, sourcing, and recruitment for Cisco's executive search arm: executive search, competitor intelligence, demand and succession planning, candidate pipelining, executive referrals, market intelligence research, and sourcing.

Strategic Programs Lead, Global Executive Talent Acquisition

Ann Wenzell

Deployment Strategist needed in SF. On-site, 5 days/week. Must have technical background, resonate with tech teams, 4+ YOE, client-facing skills. Ex-founders preferred. Top 20 university degree required. Handle 10-15 customers, work with EPD, passion for AI. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $150K-$220K.

Barrett Mistele

Jonathan Feldman

Sussy Pan

Decagon builds AI support experiences for large enterprises and fast growing startups like Eventbrite, ClassPass, Substack, Rippling, BILT, etcWe're backed by world-class investors like a16z, Accel, and BCV

Decagon

Decagon is hiring Deployment Strategists. This role is critical to shaping how we work with, learn from, and best serve our customers. Our ideal candidate has an entrepreneurial mindset, strong technical acumen, ability to earn customer love, and passion for AI.You will develop expertise in understanding customer pain points, be at the forefront of applying AI to large-scale problems, and work with our engineering team to build the products and features that best serve customer needs.Ex-founders and aspiring founders are great fits for this role.

Deployment Strategist

Experienced Pre-sales Deployed Engineer needed. 1+ years in solutions/pre-sales for technical products, CS degree from top 25, strong OOP skills. Familiar with AI dev tools (Codeium, Copilot). Must code, sell, and communicate tech clearly. Mountain View, on-site. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $160K-$220K.

Christina A Pan, MS

Featured on the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/?sh=4fa973cd290f">Forbes AI 50 list</a>, Codeium has risen to become a leader in the AI developer tools space in just over a year, giving hundreds of thousands of users around the world code autocomplete, in-editor chat assistants, and more.For over a year, Codeium has been integrated into your favorite IDEs, supporting more than 40 editors—including Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Eclipse, XCode, Jupyter, Vim/Neovim, and more offering features such as autocomplete, chat, and command to help accelerate development workflows.&nbsp;In November of 2024, we released the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://codeium.com/windsurf">Windsurf IDE</a> which is the first code editor developed around AI flows, allowing developers to seamlessly use AI to develop anything from brand new apps to million line codebases. Our state-of-the-art proprietary language models and custom inference stack allow us to deliver the best experience possible to our users.&nbsp;We're one of the fastest growing AI startups, focused on product, revenue, and customer experience. We work hard, and we operate with a high degree of trust, agency, and ownership.Media Highlights<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://codeium.com/blog/series-c-annoucement">Series C Announcement</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2024/08/13/this-ai-coding-engine-can-process-100-million-lines-of-code-at-once/">Forbes Startup Feature</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://codeium.com/blog/jpmc-codeium-hall-of-innovation">Inducted into the JPMC Hall of Innovation</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boNFuuCTaX0">The AI Company That Codes For You</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k82RwXqZHY8&amp;t=2606s">Called out in by Jensen in his CES Keynote</a></li></ul>

Codeium

As a Pre-sales Deployed Engineer at Codeium, you’ll help to transform customers' software development workflow through the use of our AI coding tools. You’ll collaborate closely with Sales to qualify and close opportunities, acting as the key technical advisor and product advocate.&nbsp;Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Present Codeium’s vision, benefits, and differentiators to stakeholders at every level, from developers to the C-suite.</li><li>Drive product discussions, conduct evaluations, and showcase how Codeium addresses diverse use cases.</li><li>Deliver technical training, create documentation and demos, and develop resources (blog posts, guides, videos) to help developers maximize productivity.</li><li>Provide critical feedback from customers to Product and Engineering, influencing the product roadmap and success strategies.</li></ul>Challenges<ul><li>How do we educate and onboard hundreds of large Enterprise customers?</li><li>How can we answer our customer's biggest questions?</li><li>What are the biggest problems we can solve for our partners and users?</li><li>How can we remain the best AI Company to work with?</li></ul>

Deployed Engineer (pre-sales)(Mountain View)

The candidate has to be exceptional for sponsorship to be an option. The one example where this happened, the candidate was a CS PhD from one of the top CS programs

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