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We’re hiring a staff level engineer at Pinata. We’ve got a solid applicant pool but I’d love to see more female engineering candidates. Any tips on good job boards or places to post this opening that will help encourage that? 
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Thanks for asking the right questions. I was prev. a recruiter and scaled a co from 7-35 in yr as the first nontech hire.  

While your JD is posted, now is the time for cold outbound. Staff level folks don't really apply for jobs because they usually have recruiters in their dms.

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Create a list of companies that are your direct and indirect competitors. Or cos that have similar tech stacks. Usually this is around 10-15 companies that are seed to series b stage, and maybe total around 150-200 profiles to look for. Around 10 of those profiles should be women. Write a custom message to them.

Adjacently, if you already know who you want, one of my favourite founders made this twitter thread: https://x.com/jalehr/status/1560306820404523008?lang=en

If you're venture funded, your VCs should have recommendations for a firm or an internal recruiter available.

Love how much thought you're putting into this. It's always important to think about diverse hires from the beginning, otherwise it leads to something called diversity debt - essentially, scaling beyond 50+ people becomes very difficult because women don't want to work at a majority male company.

Let me know if you want to chat or if you want me to connect with your ops person! Good luck! 

Also wrote it quite granularly on a guide if that's helpful:

Let me know if you want to chat or if you want me to connect with your ops person! Good luck! 

Also wrote it quite granularly on a guide if that's helpful: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ilD_uVBugcsbfmSfnS38LWSOgssksRu2BkOMs6ZkGC0/edit

After that, use Linkedin recruiter (you can use one month free) and type in the top 100 female names as a boolean. Then the languages, frameworks etc. Then the location and graduation year. You should probably have a couple thousand results of women who are staff level engineers with the same tech stack.