Patrick Larkin

About Patrick Larkin

Talent Acquisition Specialist with over 18 years of experience spanning agency, consulting, executive, international, corporate and in the startup space as both a consultant and in-house. Ability to pivot from highly technical and niche individual contributor roles, to impactful executive level roles. A data driven utility player within the SaaS space (industry agnostic), covering Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Sales, GTM, Marketing, IT, Finance & Accounting and G&A.Recruiting Tech Stack:Rippling (trained administrator), Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, iCIMS, Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, G Suite, Microsoft stack, Apollo, Notion

Experience

1. Partner - Talent Acquisition

   Launchd

   Oct 2020 — Present · US

   Launchd is a boutique venture-talent platform built for founders, VCs, and high-growth AI startups. We combine elite headhunting with a venture mindset, helping startups hire the top 1% of leaders, engineers, and GTM talent that move valuation.Who we work with:AI startups scaling from 0 to 50+. Founders hiring their first critical operators. Venture funds supporting their portfolio. Frontier-tech companies building ambitious products.•Partner with and advise founders, CxOs of startups in early stage, high growth mode, to understand their hiring needs, strategies and initiatives and how they plan to scale and grow. This typically takes the form of strategic individual hires or acting in an RPO and Contingency capacity, owning the entire recruiting process for these companies •Advise clients on all things talent acquisition; sourcing strategies, the entire interview process, onboarding, go-to market for recruiting, referrals, providing and understanding market trends•Industries: FinTech/Crypto, MarTech, PropTech, Cybersecurity, HRTechClients Supported: TRM Labs, dYdX, 100X, Bonusly, TurboTenant, currently, Sparrow (building out Eng and GTM Teams)

Education

• Syracuse University

  B.S., Psychology

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Employee Training
• Benefits Administration
• Interview Preparation
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Leadership
• Employee Benefits
• Interviews
• New Hire Orientations
• Corporate Recruiting
• College Recruiting
• Sdlc
• Benefits Negotiation
• Talent Acquisition
• Recruiting
• Recruitment Advertising
• Cold Calling
• Workforce Planning
• Sourcing
• Technical Recruiting
• Candidate Generation
• Temporary Staffing
• Employer Branding
• Training
• Management
• Screening Resumes
• IT Recruitment
• Permanent Placement
• Peoplesoft
• Staff Augmentation
• Employee Relations
• Talent Management
• Rpo
• Job Fairs
• Executive Search
• Onboarding
• Taleo
• Networking
• Hris
• Resume Writing
• Vendor Management