Rachel Taylor

In my role as Head Talent at Aviatrix, I am responsible for sourcing and hiring top-tier candidates to support the company's revenue and growth objectives. By finding engaging in hiring top-tier talent to ensure our ability to scale at will and over-achieve against revenue and product goals in alignment with the company's strategy and growth trajectory. Through strategic talent acquisition efforts, we are building a high-performance team that will drive Aviatrix's success in the market. If you are interested in an opportunity we have posted, or proactively want to be considered for future roles (we are growing fast!), please email me at rtaylor@aviatrix.com

Founded a deep-tech industrial IoT startup pioneering DevOps for the smallest edge devices in critical infrastructure. Raised $4.2M from top-tier investors and strategic partners, including Bee Partners, Engage, and Chevron Technology Ventures. Secured multiple patents for our real-time operating system (RTOS)-based container and microservices architecture—purpose-built for resource-constrained environments. Partnered with Tier 1 OEMs such as ABB for pilot deployments. Building Nubix—bringing "tiny containers" and "tiny services" to life—was both intensely challenging and deeply rewarding. I’m incredibly proud of the technology we developed and the mission we advanced: delivering agility, security, and manageability to the farthest edge of industrial infrastructure. Our vision addressed a massive, often overlooked problem: over 100 billion microcontrollers power the physical world, many in remote, hazardous, or inaccessible locations. Updating them traditionally requires physical intervention, leaving systems vulnerable and non-compliant. Nubix enabled modern software development practices—CI/CD, containerization, orchestration—for these devices, empowering developers and operators in industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and energy sectors to manage edge devices as easily as managing applications in the cloud.

Acquired by iCIMs - January 2018 https://www.icims.com/about-us/news-room/press-releases/icims-acquires-mobile-recruiting-platform-textrecruit

Rocana acquired by Splunk October 2017 As COO I was responsible for: Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, People Ops and the organizational tools and infrastructure that kept the company running. As a fully geographically distributed company, we had the ability to hire the best people wherever they were in the world. Founded in 2014, Rocana (formerly ScalingData) closed a $15m Series B funding round in April 2015, lead by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and participated in by General Catalyst, Toba Capital, Paul Sagan, etc. Grew to 65 people in 18 states and 3 countries prior to acquisition. Modern infrastructure is dynamic and adaptive, requiring a new approach to monitoring. Rocana Ops is next-generation monitoring software that eliminates scalability and performance limits for analyzing and visualizing logs across your entire infrastructure, making it much easier and faster for IT staff to find, prevent, and solve problems.

Cloudera IPO in April 2017, merged with Hortonworks January 2019 Built first internal Talent Acquisition function at Cloudera growing the company from 185 to 800+ in 18 months, phased out the 90+ external agencies and recruiters scattered across the organization/hiring managers who were creating tremendous distraction and adding no value (quality hires). Internal talent team was delivering 50+ directly sourced hires a month consistently meeting hiring quantity and quality goals - well respected and trusted by executives and department heads to deliver against hiring goals so they could deliver against business goals (product and revenue). Responsible for building/improving employment brand, culture, interview training, manager training, complete reimplementation of Jobvite/ATS, aggressive diversity initiatives, built international hiring team. Hiring costs well below cost-per-hire industry standards in one of the hottest spaces (big data) in one of the hottest, if not hardest, hiring geos (Silicon Valley). Created and reported on a multitude of hiring metrics weekly to BizOps Executive team.

Acquired by Corel • Founding executive of the Talent team, grew 770% in 12 months from 15 to over 130 • First non-founding executive to join ClearSlide. Designed and implemented hiring strategies and people operations to support a goal of 600% revenue growth and deliver against aggressive product development/delivery timelines • Defined hiring philosophy and Employment Brand, streamlined process optimizing for quality/scale/repeatability • Implemented effective sourcing strategies, including: social media, internet presence, enhanced employee referral programs, employment branding, positioning, marketing and external agency program • Developed and implemented weekly/monthly reporting, key performance indicators, success metrics • Grew Engineering from 0-15, Field Sales from 0-10, Customer Success 0-25, Director-VP-CxO roles 0-7 • Revamped Employee Referral program, increasing referral related hires from less than 2% to over 15% • Owned Culture initiatives - monthly company meetings and happy hours, quarterly team building events, monthly collaborative lunch program, passive candidate open house, EcoGreen and Fit programs • Facilities Manager - identified and planned the build out of multiple offices across the US, all offices were 100% paperless and LEED certified

Acquired by Cisco 2012 Sequoia backed WLAN start-up in San Francisco. Exclusive internal talent acquisition and HR consultant post-Series B. Sourced, interviewed and hired 100+ people nationally, strategically growing from 19, consistently overachieving against monthly/quarterly revenue targets. Aligned organizational development and hiring plan to business objectives, built a well respected employment brand capable of attracting high-quality candidates, implemented candidate experience best practices, interview standards and training across organization, selection criteria. Reported on a multitude of hiring metrics (cost per hire, time to hire, quality of hires, employee referrals, achievement against goals, etc) Partnered with VP WW Sales to align hiring goals to revenue targets, identifying gaps in skills, geographies, succession planning and hyper-scale Solely responsible for all inside sales, field and channel sales, sales ops, technical support, executive and advisory board hiring requirements

Merged with and became Chemetry, still operating • 5th employee at Khosla Venture funded green/clean tech start-up, sequestering CO2 as a stable carbonate mineral in cement/building materials • Member of Calera’s leadership and operating team reporting directly to the CEO • Responsible for headcount strategy, workforce planning and recruiting delivery • Presented Key Hiring Initiatives and their status to the BOD in monthly/quarterly meetings • Hired 120 scientists, engineers, senior executives, industrial plant technicians and operators and individual contributors • Hired Senior execs, PhDs and Masters students with technical and scientific expertise in: electrochemistry, carbonate chemistry, materials science, process design, particle separation, geochemistry, emissions testing, etc. • Implemented creative sourcing strategies, established academic relationships with key target universities, identified and attended industry conferences, organized Calera management to deliver expert presentations to target audience to promote employment brand and generate awareness • Organized, hired and oversaw summer internship in 2009, 22 students participated • Responsible for the creation of recruiting reports, dashboards, and metrics – presented to the executive team weekly

Riverbed IPO September 2006 In-house Senior Corporate Recruiter for a broad range of positions at Riverbed Technology including Marketing, Finance, Professional Services, Sales Operations, Legal and IT from individual contributor to VP level roles. Filled 42 positions in 5 months.

Acquired by Google August 2007. Peakstream, which made multiprocessor systems easier to program by leveraging Nvidia GPUs, was funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia, and then Foundation Capital prior to being acquired by Google. PeakStream offered the first commercially available software application platform to help technicians program high performance, multi-core and parallel processing machines. PeakStream was inspired by Stanford University's Brook Project on stream programming, which is a form of parallel computer design optimized for handling data-intensive images, video and other digital processing jobs. Built the team that was acquired into Google, added 12 people including: Compiler, Numerical, QA, Build/Release, GUI and Performance Engineers, Development Manager, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support and Application Engineers