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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? 
cc: @adrienne @cassie

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Btw I’m glad you’re still asking these questions in this post-woke era 🙂

I have but I have subconscious biases. Fortunately we have @elise9 who wrote it and definitely screens for that 🙂

Great evergreen question with no easy answer. Have you reviewed the JD to see if it’s written in a way that subconsciously turns off female candidates? 

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There aren’t any staff engineers in crypto joining existing companies. 

Staff Engineers want stability and aren’t interested in chasing PMF. 

If they want to hustle to bring a business to life, they can probably start their own. 

Not sure why people don’t get this.

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Feel free to drop the JD here or in my DCs

I'm happy to post on Boys Club and SheFi

Actually DCing you the recruiter for SheFi's email now

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.

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.

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.