Blake Stephens

About Blake Stephens

Passionate about building a sustainable, scalable and exceptional Talent function that supports, influences, contributes and enables the business to achieve its goals across markets. Believer in the importance and the role that HR & Recruitment plays with a seat at the table, particularly when working together to attract, enable and retain exceptional talent. With strong partnerships and close alignment to the strategy and mission, we can enable teams to be built with a strong team and customer-focused culture, from seed through to maturity. Achieving this is done through understanding both business and individual team needs, how it fits company strategy, and the candidate market, along with the expectations of each segment. Through close partnerships as opposed to transactions, this not only ensures but expedites results, seeing exceptional hires, faster onboarding, high performance and retention.

Experience

1. Global Ai Recruiting Leader - Google Cloud

   Google

   Feb 2026 — Present · New York, NY, US

   We identify, partner with and secure the world’s top AI engineering and research talent to architect the future of Google Cloud. My team operates at the critical intersection of massive scale infrastructure and the next frontier of intelligence, ensuring we own the talent density required to win this cycle. If you are among the top percentile of practitioners capable of moving the needle on global scale AI and/or Talent, we should connect.

Education

• Australian Catholic University

  Bachelor of Human Resource Management

Skills

• Temporary Staffing
• Contract Recruitment
• Energy Industry
• Customer Service
• Human Resources
• Healthcare Management
• Recruiting
• Recruitment Advertising
• Performance Management
• Executive Search
• Renewable Energy
• Talent Acquisition
• Social Media
• Employee Relations
• Management
• Technical Recruiting
• Consulting
• Leadership
• Organizational Development
• Healthcare