
Alliance Manager at TheLadders.com
Greater New York City Area

Alliance Manager at TheLadders.com
Greater New York City Area
After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2002, I spent a year working as a teacher's aide for autistic children (first-graders). I then moved to Philadelphia where I worked in Marketing for a non-profit.
I joined TheLadders.com as employee #11 in April 2004 and have helped the company grow to over 300 employees, 2,300,000 $100k+ job-seeking subscribers, and well over 35,000 recruiters.
If any recruiter or hiring manager would like to learn more about TheLadders.com, please feel free to email me (michael@theladders.com) or add me as a connection.
Sales, online media, recruiting, business development, account development, account management, team management, customer service, online newsletter content
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
- Recruited internally by new VP Sales to create this position.
- Drive revenue and adoption through channel partners (Recruitment Advertising Agencies, Job Distribution vendors, RPO's, ATS vendors, etc.) Own partnership revenue quota.
- Through cold-calling, source new partners through top-down engagement. Also run all partner support which involves face-to-face meetings, creating and running partner support program, and managing day-to-day operations of partner/alliance program.
- Serve as partnership internal resource for all sales reps.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
December 2007 — October 2008 (11 months)
- Sales of RecruitLadder and RecruitLadder Enterprise to recruiting firms and companies in the Midwest.
- Closed $600k in all new business over 10 month period.
- Recipient of TheLadders DNA award given twice annually to employee who best represents all of company's 6 DNA pairs -- Fire / Drive, Energy / Hard Working, Gets Along / Great Attitude, Bright / Talented, Proactive / Problem Solver, Team Player / Trooper
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
April 2004 — November 2007 (3 years 8 months)
- Created Recruiter Relations team at TheLadders.com.
- Managed team of 11 recruiter relations representatives.
- Led transition from free service to paid service through market research, strategic analysis and development, product requirement gathering and definition, and marketing communications. Efforts highlighted in Harvard Business School case study.
- Responsible for individual and team quota for job postings.
- Developed and managed relationships with strategic content partners/vendors/membership organizations in the online recruiting space.
- Lead account manager for top-level clients.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2003 — April 2004 (6 months)
- Developed and maintained target client database
- Promoted city of Philadelphia through online customer service
- Maintained relationships with vendors
- Gathered and analyzed online traffic data
- Produced content for website -- www.gophila.com
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
September 2002 — June 2003 (10 months)
One-on-one classroom aide for children on the Autism spectrum.
BA , Organizational Psychology , September 1998 — May 2002
Fantasy Basketball, the NBA, Boston Sports, Michigan Sports, music, pop culture, online media, social networking, web 2.0, venture capital, blogs and other new and exciting forms of media distribution.
Recipient of TheLadders DNA (Feb 2008) award given twice annually to employee who best represents all of company's 6 DNA pairs -- Fire / Drive, Energy / Hard Working, Gets Along / Great Attitude, Bright / Talented, Proactive / Problem Solver, Team Player / Trooper