Engineering Hiring Strategy & Pipeline: A Night of Honest Conversations
Event Overview
Hosted by Grow at the Mercari office, this session brought together engineering leaders and talent acquisition professionals for a focused night of real talk around one of tech's most persistent challenges: building and maintaining an engineering hiring strategy and pipeline.
With 30+ attendees from across engineering leadership and TA, the room was exactly the kind of cross-functional crowd that makes these conversations worth having.
The Objective
Hiring great engineers is hard. Keeping the pipeline healthy is even harder.
This event opened up that conversation — practically and honestly. Whether you're scaling a team, managing headcount, or building pipelines from the ground up, the goal was simple: leave with something useful.
The Strategy
A panel. Three voices. Three different seats at the table.
Grow brought together a Head of TA, an Engineering Leader, and a CTO — each with a distinct lens on what engineering hiring actually looks like from where they sit.
🎤 Panelists:
Anton Todo — Head of TA at Zeals
Kenji Kiuchi — Engineering Leadership at Mercari
Christine Gerpheide — CTO at Migaku
Looking Ahead
Great hiring doesn't happen by accident — it takes strategy, alignment, and the right conversations. Nights like this are how that starts.
🎙️ Organized by:
Kento Yamada — Recruiter @ Grow
Maxime Perret — Recruiter @ Grow
Ray Sato — Founder @ Grow
Engineering Hiring Strategy & Pipeline: A Night of Honest Conversations
Event Overview
Hosted by Grow at the Mercari office, this session brought together engineering leaders and talent acquisition professionals for a focused night of real talk around one of tech's most persistent challenges: building and maintaining an engineering hiring strategy and pipeline.
With 30+ attendees from across engineering leadership and TA, the room was exactly the kind of cross-functional crowd that makes these conversations worth having.
The Objective
Hiring great engineers is hard. Keeping the pipeline healthy is even harder.
This event opened up that conversation — practically and honestly. Whether you're scaling a team, managing headcount, or building pipelines from the ground up, the goal was simple: leave with something useful.
The Strategy
A panel. Three voices. Three different seats at the table.
Grow brought together a Head of TA, an Engineering Leader, and a CTO — each with a distinct lens on what engineering hiring actually looks like from where they sit.
🎤 Panelists:
Anton Todo — Head of TA at Zeals
Kenji Kiuchi — Engineering Leadership at Mercari
Christine Gerpheide — CTO at Migaku
Looking Ahead
Great hiring doesn't happen by accident — it takes strategy, alignment, and the right conversations. Nights like this are how that starts.
🎙️ Organized by:
Kento Yamada — Recruiter @ Grow
Maxime Perret — Recruiter @ Grow
Ray Sato — Founder @ Grow