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The talent leaders that made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
Jenny Molyneaux
VP of People at Vercel
8Danielle Poreh
Recruiting systems at Clay
8Charlie Kerr
Recruiting at Uniswap Labs
Jaime J.
Talent at Ramp
8Bryan Lee
Founder & CEO at Subgraph, an AI recruiting company
7Arvind KC
Chief People Officer at OpenAI
7Umesh Khanna
Talent engineering at xAI
7Johnny Sanchez
Head of Recruiting Operations & Technology at Airbnb
6Jared Long
Recruiting Operations Lead at SpaceXAI
Aurora Petracca
Startup talent advisor
6Baris Akis
Co-founder and Managing Partner at Human Capital
6Edsel Rivera
Talent at Base Power
6Scott Bianco
Building SpaceXAI
Melanie Tantingco
People and talent leader; Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners
5Madison Morales
Talent at Anthropic
5Viet Nguyen
Building Talent Collective | Vercel, Netflix, Gem Alum
5Jake Flohr
🚀 Scaling Startups
5Jordan Mazer
Head of Talent at a16z speedrun, helping early-stage startups build teams and connecting talent with opportunities across the a16z portfolio
4Julia Li
Talent at Persona
4Chase Roberts
AI operations partner at Andreessen Horowitz
4Peter Van Voorhis
I introduce exceptional builders to founders. 245 hires at Robinhood. Built X1’s recruiting function through Robinhood acquisition.
3Joe Penn
Partner at Carrara
3Ishan Deshpande
Talent engineering at xAI
3Jackie Xu
Founder & CEO at Xu Talent · Former Head of Talent at Kleiner Perkins
2Will Ducey
Talent Operations at ElevenLabs
Dan McCarthy
Defining talent engineering
Maggie Landers
VP of Talent at Harvey
2Katie Burke
Chief Operating Officer at Harvey
Jorge Janeiro
Head of Talent at HappyRobot
1Marisa Rackson
Head of People at Valon
Andy Linder
Partner at TCP, building startup go-to-market teams
1Sebastian Cuadros
Head of Talent Engineering at Fonzi
1William Eleazer
1Matthew Kantner
Alfredo Mercedes
Alston Chiang
Joshua Gill
Talent Engineering & Operations at Luma AI
Erin Wilson
Head of Talent at Rox