Brian Rife

Experience

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  Go Fractional

  Talent Advisor

  Mar 2025 - Present

  At Go Fractional, I act as a strategic matchmaker between high-growth companies and our community of experienced fractional executives. Go Fractional operates as both a marketplace and a professional ecosystem—connecting organizations with proven leaders who deliver impact without the overhead of full-time hiring. I partner directly with clients to understand their goals, identify gaps, and place fractional talent that accelerates progress.

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  The High Agency Company

  President / Head of Talent / Lead Recruiter

  Feb 2024 - Present

  Current & Past Clients: Teads, VideoAmp, Forward Studio, Yahoo, Playshake.io, & Stealth startup (name coming soon!)

  • The High Agency Company is your go-to partner for building exceptional leadership teams in the Technology, Media, and Advertising startup space.
  • Available for: Retained Exec / Leadership Search; Consulting; Fractional Head of Talent roles; Talent Strategy; Developing Interview Frameworks & Processes; Engineering and Sales retained search
  • We specialize in handcrafting high-performing teams that drive growth, innovation, and success.
  • We understand the unique challenges startups face when it comes to scaling, and our tailored solutions ensure that you have the right leaders in place to navigate the ever-evolving landscape.
  • We know the right leaders that will get you from 50 employees to 200 employees or from 20 million in revenue to 100 million in revenue, todays market requires a specific type of leader for each phase of your company.
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  VideoAmp

  Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

  Mar 2023 - Jan 2024

  Measurement and Optimization for Data-Driven Advertising.

  • Over a 3-year period, increased total company headcount from 175 to 550 employees through focused hiring, team coaching, and strategy development.
  • Grew VideoAmp’s Engineering & Product headcount by 140% in 12 months.
  • Created a new hiring process for Engineering that resulted in a 40% decrease in Time to Hire (from 39 days to 23.5 days). During that quarter, hired 28 engineers and 14 hires in December.
  • Hired the Machine Learning team of 11 engineers in less than 60 days.
  • First non-sales person to win ‘Closer of the Year’ at VideoAmp.
  • Conceptualized, created, and implemented: Hiring Philosophy; Interview Framework & Questions; Interview Training; Hiring Manager Training; Sourcing Strategy; Annual & Incremental Headcount Planning & Approval Process; Hiring Framework & Model; Predictive
  • Revamped Employer Branding & Career Page resulting in an increase in 20% more inbound applicants in 2023. Won multiple Best Places to Work Awards including AdAge #10 Best Place to Work & BuiltIn’s #1 Startup in 2021.
  • Led Talent Acquisition across all business units. Coached & managed a team of 6 recruiters. Sourced and Closed levels ranging from Intern to VP to Executive Officer and everything in between.
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  Yahoo

  Senior Technical Recruiter + other roles

  May 2014 - Jul 2017

  Amplifying what matters the most to you. Yahoo is a global media and tech company connecting people to their passions. Yahoo reaches almost a billion people worldwide, bringing them closer to what they want.

  • High success rate closing top candidates -- closed 40+ engineers a year at Yahoo with interview to offer rate of 50%.
  • Chosen to join the top performers program within the Yahoo People Team.
  • Lead full-cycle tech recruiter for Advertising and Search Products and Communications (Yahoo Email).
  • Recruited 40+ engineers a year and shepherded them through Yahoo’s onboarding and training process.
  • Led the talent integration of Brightroll ($640 million acquisition) engineering teams with Yahoo’s talent strategy.
  • Developed and implemented a program management dashboard none had created to streamline recruiting.
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  Ca Technologies

  Technical Recruiter

  Apr 2014 - Aug 2014

  Global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor, enterprise software and security solutions.

  • Full-cycle recruiting for SaaS, DevOps, Security, Cloud Management, Mainframe, Nimsoft and Product Marketing.
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  Hgst, A Western Digital Brand

  Technical Recruiter

  Aug 2012 - Apr 2014

  (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services before being acquired by Western Digital.

  • Full-cycle recruiting and sourcing of top candidates from 25 target academic institutions.
  • Filled 60+ requisitions a year.
  • Redesigned the university recruiting program for schools across the globe.