Summary
Janelle Mansfield is Head of Technical Recruiting at Ab Initio Software with 11 years of experience bridging elite technical talent and high-performance enterprise software teams. An MIT AeroAstro graduate, she leverages deep engineering domain knowledge from early roles at Lincoln Laboratory, Orbital ATK, and Boeing to credibly hire and evaluate software, product design, and infrastructure candidates. Since leading technical recruiting she scaled the engineering org by 76% and grew product design by 125%, while transforming campus hiring—boosting intern-to-FTE conversion from 16% to 85% and building presence at 50+ campuses. Known for hands-on involvement across the interview lifecycle, she combines rigorous sourcing and interviewer training with technical intuition that comes from having once designed and analyzed aerospace systems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 4.8/5.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 4.8/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology