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John Delaney
Principal, Core Talent (AI) at Greylock
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
John Delaney is a Principal at Greylock Partners in San Francisco, specializing in technical recruiting, leadership development, and working with investors. With a background in roles at Twitter, TellApart, and Proofpoint, he has a proven track record in staffing and talent acquisition, particularly in the AI and data services sectors.
Having held leadership positions at notable companies and contributing to successful acquisitions, John Delaney now leads talent initiatives at Greylock Partners, focusing on Series A and seed stage investments in the San Francisco Bay Area, highlighting his expertise in technical recruiting and leadership development.
Work Experience
Principal, Core Talent (AI)
2020 - Current
Expanded role (L8) with a stronger focus on building and scaling early teams (co-founders & founding engineers) as well as helping key investments make categorical first hires. Primary focus areas: Machine Learning Engineers, Research Scientists, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, ML Infra Engineers
Core Talent (AI & Infra)
2017 - 2020
First remote hire (L7). I primarily helped our investments connect with senior-level technical talent, advised startups on best practices in hiring, and introduced future founders to members of our investment team.
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Staff Recruiter
2017 - 2017
One of the first people in Twitter's history to get promoted to L7 in recruiting. I focused my time improving key hiring processes while filling high-priority roles for the Revenue organization.
Sr. Recruiter
2015 - 2017
Expanded my role from TellApart to support additional engineering teams within the Revenue organization.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Recruiting Manager
2013 - 2015
Joined TellApart at Series B (lead investor: Greylock) as their first full-time recruiter (employee #37). During this time, I helped TellApart triple the size of its engineering and product teams (in SF and NYC)--culminating in the largest acquisition in Twitter's history.
TellApart helps the world’s biggest retailers unlock the power of their customer data with the next-generation Customer Data Platform.
Raised $17,750,000.00 from Harrison Metal, Greylock and Bain Capital Ventures.
Manager of WW Staffing
2010 - 2013
Joined Proofpoint at Series E (lead investors: Benchmark and MDV) as their first full-time recruiter (employee #200). As a player coach, I managed a team while working on engineering, product, and support roles in multiple (international) office locations. During my time, I helped Proofpoint quadruple its global engineering team from a fast-growing start-up through a successful IPO in 2012 (PFPT).
Staffing Consultant
2009 - 2010
First remote hire in recruiting and worked on engineering, product, testing, and support roles in Toronto, Sunnyvale, and Draper. Converted to FTE 9 months later.
Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Raised $885,500,000.00 from KG Investments, Bridgescale Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Benchmark, Meritech Capital Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Inventures Group, RRE Ventures, Icon Ventures and DAG Ventures.
Product Manager --> Strategic Advisor
2009 - 2010
Helped design and ship several key features of the product and influenced many of the core features of the system as well. (Newton Software acquired by Paycor in 2015)
President
2000 - 2010
Boutique recruiting firm focused on SF Bay Area market.
EVP Services
2005 - 2009
Hired, managed, and trained multiple teams of recruiters to drive a full-cycle RPO solution with a national client base (staff: 50). During my time, Gravity was recognized as one of the Bay Area’s 50 fastest-growing privately held companies in 2005, 2006, and 2007 and was also recognized as a company to watch in 2008 by Inc. magazine.
URGravity is a digital health service to lose weight, eat healthy, sleep better and be more active.
President
1996 - 2005
Boutique recruiting firm focused on SF Bay Area market.
Axis Technologies is a data management specialist focusing on digital transformation, virtualization, analytics, and business services.
Staffing Consultant
2004 - 2005
Scaled-up Ominture's tech org before their big push to go public. I was brought on to (dramatically) speed up hiring in EPD. Inheriting teams that were averaging of one hire / six months, I revamped most of their screening and interview processes and closed 39 EPD candidate out of 42 offers (working 20-30 hours/week on avg). I was offered an FTE role but declined it.