Johnson Chao is a Seattle-based recruiter and HR analyst with 9+ years of experience specializing in tech, product, design, and management hiring across startups and large enterprises. He has driven high-volume hiring programs at Qualtrics and Meta’s Reality Labs, consistently achieving 90%+ offer acceptance rates and exceeding DEI goals, including hiring 71% underrepresented candidates in one cycle. Johnson excels at building cross-functional stakeholder partnerships, redesigning interview processes to cut cycle time by over 35%, and creating end-to-end candidate prep and offer-closing guides used company-wide. He’s equally comfortable leading recruiting teams, mentoring sourcers, and running talent-market mapping and sourcing jams to expand pipelines (including opening H‑1B candidate pools). After a recent freelance and caregiver sabbatical he joined King County as a Recruiter/HR Analyst, bringing both high-volume tech recruiting rigor and a human-centered approach to candidate experience. Outside work he’s known to trade hiring tips for conversations about food, pets, and basketball.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication General, Bachelor's degree Communication General at University of Washington
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Johnson Chao - Recruiter HR Analyst at King County, WA