Richard Mullins

As a seasoned Technical Recruiter, I’m all about connecting incredible talent with opportunities where they can shine and make a real impact. For me, it’s not just about filling positions — it’s about building powerhouse teams that thrive and create something amazing together.
Experience

Circle Medical (Contract) — AI-powered Telehealth Platform | Remote (Atlanta, GA)

Technical Recruiter | September 2024 - Present

• Own and support full-lifecycle recruiting and sourcing for Engineering and Product organizations. Current/previous reqs include Engineering Management, DevOps, Front-End, Back-End, Full-Stack, and Product Management
• Collaborated with other members of Talent Acquisition team to create and fine-tune first official internal interview process and corresponding documentation (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Provided Gem sourcing training to various internal stakeholders
• Provided sourcing support and acted as a strategic advisor to clinical recruiting team (MDs, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Registered Nurses)
• Metrics: 4 offers accepted — Engineering Manager, Senior Back-End Engineer, Intermediate Back-End Engineer, and Intermediate Front-End Engineer

Rev — AI focused on Automated Speech Recognition | Remote (Atlanta, GA)

Manager, Engineering & Product Recruiting (IC role) | June 2023 - August 2024

• Led full-lifecycle recruiting and sourcing for Engineering and Product organizations
• Specialized in sourcing and recruiting for the following roles across multiple levels ranging from junior individual contributors to Senior Directors: Speech Science, MLOps, Data Science and Analytics, Front-End Engineering, Back-End Engineering, QA, UX, and Product Management
• Partnered with and collaborated closely with Engineering and Product leaders to identify, recruit, and hire top-tier talent, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and project requirements 
• Provided strategic guidance on role definitions, candidate profiles, and interview processes, resulting in successful placements that drove team and product success
• Contributed to the creation and rollout of leveling and job scoping for engineering and product positions. Translated scoping documents into more robust interview scorecards which helped create a more structured interview environment, led to quicker hiring decisions, and nurtured a better candidate experience
• Supported and managed full-lifecycle recruiting for Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Enablement 
  Contributed to revamp of employment and TA branding on LinkedIn, BuiltIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed 
• Metrics — Offer Acceptance Rate: 92%, Passively Sourced: 40%, Average Time to Fill: 27 days
   

EverOps — Boutique DevOps Consultancy | Remote (Atlanta, GA)

Manager, Talent Acquisition (IC role) | July 2022 - June 2023

• Hired as the first Talent Acquisition employee in company history, responsible for all recruiting, sourcing, and related operations
• Led sourcing and recruiting for DevOps, Site Reliability, and Network Engineers, focusing on skill sets including Cloud Architecture and Design, Infrastructure-as-Code, Containerization, Operating Systems, Monitoring/Alerting, CI/CD, Scripting, and Network Infrastructure
• Implemented and configured first ATS in company history
• Created job description templates, formal interview processes, offer templates, onboarding processes, interview scorecards, reports, and integration with background check vendors ESR and Checkr
• Created training collateral for interview teams, conducted interviewer compliance training sessions, and established recruiting Standard Operating Procedures
• Conducted compensation research using Radford, benchmarked data against public resources (Robert Half, Salary.com, levels.fyi), and established comp ranges for DevOps and Network Engineering roles
• Introduced LinkedIn Recruiter and Gem, and created TA Marketing collateral, including candidate interview process documents, Google Meet backgrounds, LinkedIn banners, etc.

OneTrust — Data Privacy and Governance Software | Atlanta, GA

Manager, Technical Recruiting | June 2019 – June 2022

During my time at OneTrust I supported multiple business units including Research & Development (Software Engineering, Product, and UX), Sales, Customer Experience, Marketing, IT, Finance, and G&A, but focused exclusively on sourcing and recruiting for R&D starting in January 2020.

• Led a team of 5 hybrid and remote technical recruiters supporting roles across the Research & Development organization. Roles we sourced and recruited for included: UX Design, UX Research, Back-End Java, Back-End Python, UI Development (Angular and Ember), DevOps, CloudOps, Site Reliability, Information Security, IT, Quality Engineering, Data Engineering, and Business Systems
• In addition to team lead duties, I owned sourcing and recruiting for ~4-8 strategic reqs focused on Staff level and above (Principal, Leads, Managers, Directors, and VPs)
• Acted as the primary point of contact for R&D leaders, including the CTO and Senior VPs in Product, Engineering, Ops, and Quality Engineering
• Metrics — Total Individual Hires: 100+, Individual Hires Per Month: ~6, Team Hires Per Month: ~36, Total TA Team Attainment Rate: 103%

Other Contributions:

• Defined and established OneTrust’s first Global Sourcing function, including process documentation for sourcing best practices, training sessions, standardization of metrics, goal setting, and req alignment
• Contributed to the internal sourcing playbook, and developed Boolean strings for strategic DE&I sourcing to help identify and target candidates with specialized skill sets in specific industries and locations
• Assisted development of TA Marketing content. This included the creation of interactive one-pagers for specific business units and graphics for “hot jobs” posted on social media platforms

IQTalent Partners — RPO | Nashville, TN

Engagement Leader, Technical Recruiting | July 2016 – October 2019

• Led a team of sourcers and recruiters supporting Amazon’s Workforce Staffing team, coordinated efforts across 24 reqs and established best practices alongside Amazon’s recruiting team
• Managed sourcing efforts for Amazon’s Catalog and Selection business, focusing on Back-End engineering roles, and served as the primary point of contact for Amazon hiring team(s)
• Supported NVIDIA engineering roles, including Sr. Software Engineer - Video Analytics, Metal Compute and OpenCL Software Engineer, Senior Systems Software Engineer, Director of Display Systems Software, DirectX Software Engineer, and Offensive Security Software Engineer – GPU
• Created and maintained candidate pipelines for realtor.com’s My Home and Mortgage platforms, primarily supporting Front-End, Full-Stack, and Back-End engineering roles
• During my time with IQTP I supported and/or led engagements with Amazon, NVIDIA, realtor.com, Postman, Soundhound, Cruise Automation, Rally Health, Twitter, and BloomReach

Skills/Tech

• Recruiting Skills/Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter, Eightfold (alpha, beta, and early power user), Gem, Seekout, HireEZ,
• Github, Stack Overflow, Discord, Slack, Boolean Sourcing, OpenAI, Reddit
• Communication & Collaboration: Slack, Google Suite, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams
• ATS: Greenhouse, Lever — Would LOVE to get my hands on Ashby
• Design Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Canva Pro

Education
Asbury University | Wilmore, KY
Bachelor of Arts | Journalism
 

I began my career and worked for seven years in the journalism industry as a graphic designer and copy editor for various Gannett-owned properties.

In 2016 I moved into Talent Acquisition and have worked both externally and in-house as an Individual Contributor and Manager.

Asbury University

Bachelors of Arts — Journalism