Pete Ballotta

Staff Technical Recruiter

Pete Ballotta has been a Director of Business Operations at Couchsurfing since 2012. Additionally, the professional has on-the-job experience at more than eight companies in the related field. Pete has a total work experience of 14+ years. Pete Ballotta studied at the Cornell University from 1995 to 2000. Today the professional lives in San Francisco, California region. Find this person's current e-mail and phone with SoftwareOfficial search.
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Peter Ballotta
Last updated Jun 10, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jul 8, 2022
Email
pe**@gmail.com, pe**@gmail.com, pe**@couchsurfing.com
Location
San Francisco, CA
Company

Workplace

Couchsurfing
Director of Business Operations

San Francisco, CA

Industry

Internet

Work History

Director of Business Operations

San Francisco Bay Area
Planning to take the world by storm, one couch at a time... We're currently hiring for new positions to work on new web and mobile apps and support our millions of users. Couchsurfing has g...
from Sep 2012

Director of Recruiting

First member of the Recruiting team and grew the company from 25 to over 260 employees. Directly recruited Exec's, multiple Directors, and dozens of Managers and Team Leads for new teams ac...
May 2011 — Aug 2012

Advisor

• Worked closely with the CEO to define BD and Sales targets for their software offering • Recruited employee # 3 to run Product Management and Messaging for v1 and v2 releases • Provided an...
2008 — 2012

Founder

Teknominds provided strategic consulting to Bay Area software startups, to recruit some of their first engineering and technical hires, or build entire teams. My team worked directly with t...
Mar 2008 — May 2011

Consultant

Reported to the GM, and responsible for all engineering, management, and general recruiting for the multiple development groups [AddictingGames, Shockwave and the Social Games division]. Di...
Sep 2010 — Mar 2011

Manager, Headhunter

Opened business and led technical recruiting efforts for dozens of Silicon Valley software companies. I built the core engineering team for a few startups, and seven clients from my persona...
Jan 2005 — Jan 2008

Senior QA Engineer

Research & Development QA - RichFX.com [Manhattan, NY] Contributed to multiple software releases with the core R&D team. Black/Grey box testing of full lifecycle of software develop...
Aug 2003 — Dec 2004

Project Manager / Sales

Project Manager responsible for multiple accounts with this Manhattan-based firm. Led 200 member national collegiate radio and street marketing teams. Worked on programs with clients such as...
Jan 2002 — Jun 2003

Education

1995 — 2000
1991 — 1995

Occupations

HR Specialist
Technical Recruiter
Executive
Director
Engineer
Architect
Produce Manager
IT Professional
Computer Software Professional
Recruiting Director
Managers
Recruitment
Operations Manager
Production Manager
Software Developers
Personnel Manager

Skills

Management Consulting
Business Development
Competitive Analysis
Technical Recruiting
Product Management
User Experience
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