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David Sadler

Talent & Technology Enthusiast

David Sadler
United States
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Helped some of the fastest growing Software Companies in history achieve their talent demands during their fastest growth periods.

Specialties: Recruiting Strategy, Talent Identification, Talent Engagement, Talent Acquisition, Talent Metrics, Workforce Science. Deep knowledge of nearly all Talent Management Systems, Sourcing Tactics and Interview Methodologies.
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Recruiting Team Lead

Siebel Systems
January 1998 to January 2002
  • Additionally I co-founded the first Cloud Based Recruiting Application Company Digital Workforce in my evenings with 12 employees. Siebel was our first Customer and many Siebel Execs on our Board of Directors.
  • Partnered with Executive Team Members - Pat House, David Schmaier, Ed Abbo, Craig Ramsey, Paul Wahl and Mark Armenante to secure the "best and brightest talent in the market".
  • Special projects directly for Tom Siebel - that resulted in the quickest hire to date.
  • Reported directly to the VP of worldwide Sales and put nearly all of Siebels leadership team in place for Sales, Sales Consulting.
  • Had the pleasure of being the first and only Sales Recruiter from 100M - 1B in revenue. Delivered "arguably" the greatest sales force any software company has enjoyed - please ask anyone there.
  • Siebel Systems invented CRM and is recognized as the fastest growing software company in history.

Senior Recruiting Specialist

Netscape Communications Corp
January 1996 to January 1998
  • I had the pleasure of working with some of the brightest minds in the valley that have since shaped entire industries.
  • Met all hiring objectives, and had a lot of fun! A truly unforgettable and awesome experience!
  • Initial Recruiter for Sales at ground zero of the biggest game changer yet in High Tech "the internet". Netscape was the first commercial browser that introduced the world to the world wide web.

Sales Recruiter

Sybase Inc.
February 1991 to January 1995
  • Delivered more passive hires from competitors than any other recruiter year over year.
  • Instituted and delivered a Sourcing model that maintained 100% a coverage model of competitors and tiered targets complete with org charts. This was before sourcing was recognized as a profession.
  • Exceeded all hiring goals with zero agency usage.
  • Special recognition every quarter.
  • Ran Sales Recruiting for the Western half of the US for the Darling of Wall Street.

Talent Acquisition Lead -Sales

Coupa Software
Since January 2014
  • Coupa Supplier Network with over 1,000,000 Suppliers does not charge Supplier fees
  • We are constantly looking for good people, who are strong in their field of expertise, who are team players, who are authentic, come with a strong work ethic, and who love making customers successful.
  • Ability of integrating multiple ERPs/Charts of Accounts into one single Coupa instance
  • Coupa customers will reduce indirect spending costs by up to 12 percent.
  • Extremely fast ROI - Average payback time within 6 months
  • Extremely high ROI - Average ROI over 20-30x
  • Extremely fast Time-To-Value - Average implementation time of 2.5 months
  • Extremely high user adoption - Average Spend Under Management of 88%
  • Extremely fast software innovation delivers growing suite of truly integrated financial applications
  • Organically grown state-of-the-art True SaaS platform with 99.99+% up-time
  • Truly unique to Coupa are:
  • Our SaaS platform empowers organizations to spend smarter and save money through broad adoption and use of innovative, easy to use, fast to implement and cost-effective cloud spend management applications.
  • Coupa’s mission is to deliver software innovation that breeds responsible spending while positively impacting the company bottom line. We are the fastest-growing provider of cloud spend optimization solutions, used by more than 400 organizations in over 40 countries worldwide to amplify their buying power, reduce spend, improve regulatory compliance and reduce financial risks.

Talent Acquisition Best Practice & Jobvite Implementation Consultant

California Recruiting Systems
May 2012 to August 2014
  • Too many to list....
  • Additional work directly for Venture Capital firm in Bay Area, and pro bono Executive Search for charitable organizations that positively affect kids.
  • Kontagent - Engineering and Leadership. Jobvite redeployment
  • Insurity - Professional Services Recruitment
  • Ca Technologies - North America (Sales & Services)
  • Bluescape - IT recruiting
  • Facebook - Confidential Executive Search
  • Vlocity - Sales and Executive Search
  • APTTUS - Jobvite deployment and Best Practice
  • Short list of current and recent engagements:
  • Talent Acquisition Best Practice Consultant, and Retained Recruiter to Software Companies. I consult to Boards, VCs and CEO's on select engagements to help them quickly achieve their Talent goals.

Head of Talent Acquisition

C3 Energy Network
August 2011 to May 2012
  • Delivered a "Best In Class" Recruiting Strategy.
  • Meet all performance goals working directly with Executive Leads.
  • Hired by Tom Siebel to run Global Recruiting at his latest venture.

Director of Global Recruiting

Guidewire Software
January 2010 to August 2011
  • http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-tech-companies-to-work-for-2011-9?op=1
  • Redeployed Jobvite, rewrote all Talent Acquisition Business Processes and Operational procedures.
  • Business Insider 2011 acknowledged Guidewire in the #1 spot for having the Top Technical Talent in the Valley - ahead of our more glamorous competitors: Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others.
  • Promoted to Head Talent Acquisition Globally.
  • Filled Executive positions, and granted "Special Recognition by CEO at Company Meeting".
  • Brought Guidewire to 100% Headcount for first time in company history which helped enable IPO.
  • For Engineering: (Complete Turn around) Hired 90 people in 5 months.
  • Brought in by Founders and Board to address attraction on the top 1% of engineering talent in the valley.

Recruiting Relationship Manager

Ca, Inc.
August 2009 to January 2010
  • Directly recruited and placed the #1 Sales Rep from our top competitor in my first 3 weeks.
  • Recruited and placed 3 VPs from our #1 competitor
  • Managed Sales Recruiting for the North, and temporarily handles Canada, North East and Latin America.

Director Worldwide Recruiting Operations

Avanade Inc.
October 2006 to September 2008

Director of Recruiting Operations

Oracle Corporation
March 2003 to October 2006
  • Served as Recruiting Domain Expert to Oracle Field Sales Team on Customer Engagements.
  • Accompanied VP of Talent Acquisition on special events and User Conferences.
  • As a virtual worker I developed an entirely new recruiting application that was deployed to over 250 internal recruiters.
  • Given global responsibility for Oracles internal product iRecruit, and trained-supported 60,000 internal employees with a self service wiki/video training model.
  • Quickly promoted from Lead Sales Recruiter - reporting directly to VP of Global Talent Acquisition to redefine Oracle Recruiting (Systems and Processes).

Recruiting Team Lead

Salesforce.com
January 2002 to January 2003
  • Directly recruited and placed much of what exist today in Sales Leadership at the highest levels. Exceeded all hiring quotas without any external or internal recruiting support.
  • I was brought in by the Executive Leadership Team and Board Members to address the insatiable demand for top Sales talent.

Computer Science

University of Michigan

September 1988 to June 1991
Computer Science

Aeronautical science

Culver Military Academy

September 1985 to June 1987
Aeronautical Science
  • Salesforce.com
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • CRM
  • Semantic Web
  • Cloud Computing
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • Passive Candidate Development
  • Sourcing
  • Technical Recruiting
  • Recruiting
  • Executive Search
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Talent Management
  • Global Talent Acquisition
  • Jobvite
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Web Scraping
  • SaaS
  • Process Improvement
  • Enterprise Software
  • d3.js
  • Executive Sales Recruitment
  • Hiring
  • Strategy
  • Negotiation
  • Contract Recruitment
  • Sales
  • Human Resources
  • Taleo
  • Start-ups
  • Boolean Searching
  • Professional Services
  • Python
  • Networking
  • Talent Mining
  • Executive Coaching
  • CouchDB
  • Management
  • Oracle
  • Training
  • BPMN
  • Leadership
  • Semantic Search
  • Business Development
  • Consulting
  • Business Strategy
  • Interviews
  • Delivering Results
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Neo4j
  • Python
  • Django
  • Ruby
  • Rails
  • Scrapy
  • Workforce Science
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Semantic Web
  • Taxonomies
  • Ontologies
  • Metrics
  • API's
  • Metaverse
  • Net Neutrality
  • Adapting technologies to make a love connection
  • "Getting it done right"
  • "Finding a better way"
  • "Getting and keeping the Flow Going!".