Summary
Brian Kim is a Senior Technical Recruiter with 11 years of experience building high-performing engineering and leadership teams across Spotify, Venmo, MLB, Amazon, Zulily and startups. He combines in-house TA leadership—managing teams, metrics, and acquisitions—with agency-style consultancy, having placed senior leaders and hard-to-fill IC roles for clients like Microsoft and the Gates Foundation. Comfortable running full-cycle technical hiring from sourcing to offers, he’s led large-scale hiring programs (e.g., ~200 Platform roles at Spotify) and operationalized interview rubrics, visa/relocation and compensation processes. Known for stepping into the trenches when needed, he’s scaled recruiting teams during hypergrowth phases (Venmo’s ~65 to 300+ growth) and coached recruiters to lift performance. Now recruiting for defense and air systems at Anduril while advising organizations through his consulting practice, he blends corporate rigor with entrepreneurial flexibility. Based in the NYC metro area, he’s pragmatic, metrics-driven, and skilled at aligning TA strategy to engineering priorities.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA in Business Administration Management Information Systems General, BA in Business Administration Management Information Systems General at Washington State University
English, Korean