John Vettraino

About John Vettraino

Company Builder. SME in AI-Driven SaaS, Data Management, Multicloud Infrastructure, & Cyber Security.Principal Technical, GTM, and Executive Recruiter with 14 years of sourcing, recruiting, and closing top talent for Enterprise SaaS companies featuring AI utilizing generative and agentic AI, RAG, and LLM. Extensive experience providing talent advisory to founders and leaders, and building exceptional GTM and technical teams. Expert in high velocity recruiting for hypergrowth startups by providing targeted outbound sourcing, and data‑driven, scalable and efficient processes. Full‑cycle GTM and business recruiting for AI‑native SaaS companies: AEs, Sales, CS/Support, Marketing, RevOps, G&A. Senior technical recruiting for generative/agentic AI, RAG, LLMs, data/ML platforms, and large‑scale distributed systems on public cloud. Strategic outbound sourcing and talent mapping for scarce AI research/engineering, platform, and GTM profiles in highly competitive markets. High‑touch candidate experience and strong closing skills with passive, senior AI and cloud engineers as well as GTM leaders. Trusted partner to founders and C‑suite, using AI‑enabled recruiting workflows, ATS/CRM, and KPI‑driven analytics to shape scalable hiring strategies and structured, DEIB‑forward interview processes.

Experience

1. Senior Talent Partner

   Cohesity

   Dec 2023 — Present

   Market leading, AI-Driven Data Management & Security Juggernaut. Join us! Recruiting across Engineering/R&D, CX, Finance, and Legal for an AI/ML‑ and security‑focused SaaS platform, emphasizing generative/agentic AI, RAG, and LLM‑driven systems. Managing 10–20 full‑cycle requisitions across software engineering, AI/ML, data/platform, IT, and G&A, owning outbound sourcing, technical calibration, and closing. Served as single point of contact for hiring managers, providing AI talent market intel, talent mapping, and KPI‑driven reporting against aggressive growth targets.

Education

• UC San Diego

  Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Economics

• UC San Diego

  Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Data Mining for Advanced Analytics

• The Wharton School

  Business Foundations Specialization

Skills

• Recruiting
• College Recruiting
• Screening
• Internet Recruiting
• IT Recruitment
• Technical Recruiting
• Information Technology
• Talent Acquisition
• Epic Systems
• Ehr
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Healthcare
• Permanent Placement
• Interviews
• Technical Sourcing
• Staffing Services
• Screening Resumes
• Benefits Negotiation
• Consulting
• Contract Recruitment
• Staff Augmentation
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Sdlc
• Sales
• Software Implementation
• Vendor Management
• Being Awesome
• Talent Management
• Emr
• Interviewing