Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Team
Daniel
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Allison
Light
GTM
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Breanna
Manore
Operations
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Jose
Guardado
TALENT
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Josh scaled Robinhood from 30 to 4,000—he's an expert at finding gems and helping them shine.
Josh built his career around bringing logic, and a bit of humor, to the often ritualistic and emotionally driven recruiting world. He applies decision training to all of his candidate-facing work, with the goal of helping people embrace risk and discover the best opportunity for them. As Josh puts it—it’s all about finding a gem and helping them shine.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
The recruiting jumpstart
Josh got his jumpstart in recruiting at his alma mater, managing the undergraduate recruiting team. He moved into the tech space shortly after, managing a university program for a small startup that was recently acquired by Checkr, the HR tech platform.
Robinhood
Josh joined Robinhood as the company’s first recruiter, where he helped build out the company from 30 people to 4,000 people. While at Robinhood, Josh had a “tag me in” mentality—he experienced most flavors of recruitment by doing whatever was required to get the job done. Ultimately, Josh ended up specializing in executive hiring and placed Robinhoods first independent board member, former SEC Commissioner Dan Gallagher, who ultimately became the company’s Chief Legal Officer. To close out his tenure at Robinhood, Josh led and managed a 40-person product recruitment team.
For Josh, the work he enjoys most as a builder is when he’s helping people swing for the fences and bet on themselves.
Highlights
The challenger sale conversation.
Robinhood was an underdog for a long time, and Josh loved talking through the validity of the product with candidates as he was growing the team. Josh applies that experience to all of his work today; he thrives at showing people a product’s differentiated perspective in the market, which he finds naturally aligns with folks across design, product, user research, and content.
Thinking through the larger ecosystem.
Josh excels at sussing out how a product is going to fit and be different in the market. He enjoys working with founders who are self-aware enough to make the right decisions, and who are willing to co-design a recruitment process that’s mutually beneficial for both the company and employees.
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING
Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Allison
Light
GTM
Breanna
Manore
Operations
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Jose
Guardado
TALENT
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Josh scaled Robinhood from 30 to 4,000—he's an expert at finding gems and helping them shine.
Josh built his career around bringing logic, and a bit of humor, to the often ritualistic and emotionally driven recruiting world. He applies decision training to all of his candidate-facing work, with the goal of helping people embrace risk and discover the best opportunity for them. As Josh puts it—it’s all about finding a gem and helping them shine.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
The recruiting jumpstart
Josh got his jumpstart in recruiting at his alma mater, managing the undergraduate recruiting team. He moved into the tech space shortly after, managing a university program for a small startup that was recently acquired by Checkr, the HR tech platform.
Robinhood
Josh joined Robinhood as the company’s first recruiter, where he helped build out the company from 30 people to 4,000 people. While at Robinhood, Josh had a “tag me in” mentality—he experienced most flavors of recruitment by doing whatever was required to get the job done. Ultimately, Josh ended up specializing in executive hiring and placed Robinhoods first independent board member, former SEC Commissioner Dan Gallagher, who ultimately became the company’s Chief Legal Officer. To close out his tenure at Robinhood, Josh led and managed a 40-person product recruitment team.
For Josh, the work he enjoys most as a builder is when he’s helping people swing for the fences and bet on themselves.
Highlights
The challenger sale conversation.
Robinhood was an underdog for a long time, and Josh loved talking through the validity of the product with candidates as he was growing the team. Josh applies that experience to all of his work today; he thrives at showing people a product’s differentiated perspective in the market, which he finds naturally aligns with folks across design, product, user research, and content.
Thinking through the larger ecosystem.
Josh excels at sussing out how a product is going to fit and be different in the market. He enjoys working with founders who are self-aware enough to make the right decisions, and who are willing to co-design a recruitment process that’s mutually beneficial for both the company and employees.
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING