PowerToFly
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PowerToFly is a recruiting platform that connects companies to women in tech, sales, marketing and digital.[1] Its founders, Milena Berry and Katharine Zaleski, were among Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2015.[2] PowerToFly sources and vets female engineers and places them in jobs that work for their careers and lives.[3] More than 1,000 companies have posted job listings on PowerToFly including Hearst, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post.[4]
PowerToFly is at the epicenter of two global shifts: the move toward remote hiring[5] and the one billion women entering the workforce[6] who want alternatives to traditional office cultures.[7] PowerToFly is focused on building distributed teams as a way to open an untapped tech talent pool.[8]
Leadership
Katharine Zaleski was the sixth employee at The Huffington Post[9] and Senior News Editor, former Executive Director of Digital at The Washington Post,[10] and founding Managing Editor at NowThis News.[11] Milena Berry is the former chief technology officer of Avaaz.org.[12] They launched PowerToFly in August 2014.[13] Katharine Zaleski’s essay, “I’m Sorry To All The Moms I Use To Work With” was Fortune’s most popular story of 2015[14] and sparked a massive debate about how women are treated at work. The story was shared widely around the world across social[15] as well as more traditional media outlets.[16]
The executive team includes Kylie Maddex, former Account Executive at Salesforce.com, as Head of Sales; Ana Martinez, former SVP of Product at Velocify, as CTO; Rachel Valdez, former Sr. Manager of HR at T-Mobile, as Head of Global Talent Management; Raquel Edora, former Director of Budget & Personnel at The Washington Post, as Head of Operations; Kristin Penney, former Director of Product Marketing TeleSign, as Head of Marketing; and Cathy Sharick, former managing editor at Time.com, as Executive Editor.[17]
Board members include: Darcy Bentley Frisch of Hearst Ventures[18] and Eric Chin of Crosslink Capital.[19]
The company has about 50 employees based around the world.[20]
References
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- ^ De Leon, Pamela. "PowerToFly Wants To Give Women Tech Jobs Wherever They Go". Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur Media Inc. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
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- ^ Addaddy, Michal. "These Were Fortune's Most Popular Stories of 2015". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Marinova, Polina. "How Twitter reacted to the female exec's apology to working mothers". Fortune. Fortune. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ Hall, Tamron. "Tamron discusses female exec's essay: We should feel for working moms". Today. NBC. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
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- ^ "Hearst Executive Bios". Hearst. Hearst.
- ^ Gage, Deborah. "PowerToFly Raises $6.5 Million to Match Women With Jobs". Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
- ^ Dyton, Joe. "5 companies trying to close the tech gender gap". Monster. Monster. Retrieved 5 November 2015.