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    Rob Mallery

    Rob Mallery

    Talent at Magic AI

    Entrepreneur San Francisco Bay Area University of Nevada,...
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    Experience
    OpenAI
    OpenAI
    Member of Talent Staff 2021 - 2023 (over 1 year)
    Helping to build an amazing team of engineers, researchers, product, policy and safety experts to work together towards our mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence... more (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
    BitcoinIRA
    BitcoinIRA
    Talent Advisor 2021 (2 months)
    Helped the executive team select and onboard an ATS and fill a few positions.
    The AI Foundation
    The AI Foundation
    VP of Talent and Collaborations 2018 - 2021 (over 3 years)
    Growing our team of researchers (computer vision, audio, NLP), software engineers, product, designers, producers/creatives, operations, and AI Trainers.

    Always looking... more to foster new partnerships, collaborations, and integrations with teams from companies, organizations, and universities around the world. We are working on a number of very tricky problems and AI Foundation knows that it will take a team effort to combine everything together and bring Digital Humans... to "Life"!
    Originate
    Originate
    VP of Talent 2009 - 2018 (about 8 years)
    Built the company with CEO from a Talent First and a Venture perspective. I was employee number 12 and we brought together 200+ awesome teammates in 7 primary locations.
    NewAer
    NewAer
    Talent Advisor / Investor 2010 - 2016 (almost 7 years)
    Lassen Group
    Lassen Group
    Founder, Managing Director 2004 - 2008 (about 4 years)
    I was a founding partner and day to day operations / sales manager while also being the top biller for the office. We performed F/T perm technical placement services for companies... more in Orange County and LA needing to hire the best software engineers.

    Primary areas of expertise were Software and Web Development (.NET, Java, C++, PHP, Ruby on Rails).

    I hired and trained all staff (primarily entry-level college graduates) and grew office revenue to over $1.5 million/year with 50% profit margin.
    10by10 (YC S17)
    10by10 (YC S17)
    Talent Advisor 2021 (3 months)
    Magic AI
    Magic AI
    Head of Talent & Ops 2023 - Present (over 3 years)
    Building aligned and more complete AI to accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems.
    Founder
    Lassen Group
    Employee
    NewAer, Magic AI, 10by10 (YC S17), Originate, The AI Foundation, BitcoinIRA, OpenAI
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    Founding Board Member of Nevada Prep Junior High
    College Prep Charter School for underserved LV students
    Board Member · School is 5th-8th grade and will focus on STEM, college preparation, hard work, and mindfulness. Doors will open for first 135 students… · More on August 2018!

    Advisor, thought leader, and overall educational disruptor to the status quo. I also want to help coach/support the Junior Varsity Quiz trivia team when the school opens.
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Founder of a multi-million dollar software recruiting firm in Orange County in 2005.

    First talent person at a software venture firm called Originate. We built the company around the concept of gathering talented, entrepreneurial people to work on fun, challenging software ventures and take equity stake in the upside.

    Founding talent leader at AI Foundation where we took a swing at AGI and bringing our Digital Humans to "Life".

    Head of SWE recruiting at OpenAI. Mission was the development of safe, general purpose AI to benefit all of humanity. Along the way, the team built one of the most successful products ever released... a "small research preview" known to most as ChatGPT.

    First non-technical member of the team at Magic. Mission is to build safe, aligned AGI and accelerate humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Recruiting Team Building Leadership Sales Strategy and Management Startup Mentoring on Tech Company Culture Talent Acquisition Strategy Organizational Development
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area Las Vegas
     
    Q&A
    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Ready Player One, Ender's Game, The Long Walk, Lord of the Rings, The Stand... Reminds me that I need to read more non-business books since most of these are from my teenage and college years.

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