Brad Williams

3x HIGHER Talent 100 TA leader awardee building global teams at Apollo.io.

Greater Boston

About

2023 - 2025 HIGHER Top 100 awardee with deep recruiting expertise, in addition to a strong understanding of talent management. Well known for the ability to source, train, mentor and manage recruiters and sourcers in both corporate and agency recruiting settings. Partners effectively with C-level leaders and hiring managers to deliver exceptional results critical to the success of the business. Execute strategies that establish talent acquisition as a strategic business partner. Strong capability for understanding software/systems requirements and translating them to my team and candidates at any level. Built and lead the team who grew Software, Systems and Analytics from 70 to 1,200 employees in six years (2011 - 2017) at Wayfair. Key architect of Cybereason's People team who grew headcount from 375 to 1,400 in 3+ years. Additional experience includes global talent acquisition, sourcing and training new recruiters, employment/immigration law, developing direct candidate sourcing strategies, and talent management knowledge (HR, L&D, compensation, HRBP).

Experience

  • VP, Talent Acquisition at Apollo.io
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    Global TA leader for Apollo.io, an AI-driven GTM platform backed by Bain, Sequoia, Tribe, and Nexus. Check out our remote-first career opportunities at https://www.apollo.io/careers.

  • HIGHER Talent 100 Talent Acquisition Leader at HIGHER Community
    Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

    HIGHER and the Talent100 was created to empower talent leaders around the world to manage every eventuality while building the influence of this business-critical industry in the world’s best companies. The Talent100 recognizes the most innovative talent leaders in Europe and the USA. HIGHER looked across the full spectrum of leaders, from Fortune 500 to startups, showcasing the leaders that we feel are pushing the envelope of talent acquisition. Each person awarded was interviewed and referenced by the HIGHER leadership team. HIGHER is driven by a community of TA leaders from the world's fastest growing companies. HIGHER's goal is to provide a leveling up for the TA function by by amplifying the impact of the most ambitious professionals in this space.

  • Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Forcepoint
    Jun 2022 - Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

    Leading a global recruiting team to provide critical talent to build a world class data first SASE platform. We focus on critical data by using behavior intelligence and risk analytics. Our mission is to foster safe and trusting environments through a comprehensive security solution that understands digital identities and their cyber behaviors to protect employees and critical data everywhere. Forcepoint ONE is a true all-in-one cloud platform that makes security for distributed organizations with remote and hybrid workers. It gives employees, contractors, and other users safe, controlled access to business information everywhere—on the web, in the cloud, in private applications—while keeping attackers out and sensitive data in. It delivers this security from one unified cloud platform that integrates Zero Trust and SASE Security Service Edge (SSE) technologies so that organizations can manage one set of policies, in one console, with one endpoint agent.

  • Cybereason (3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Head of Talent, Americas & EMEA
      Aug 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Cybereason delivers a proprietary technology platform that automatically uncovers malicious operations (Malops™) and reconstructs them as a clear image of a cyberattack in context. This enables enterprises to discover sophisticated targeted threats at a very early stage, disrupt them at the stem and significantly reduce the costs and damages caused by such attacks. https://www.cybereason.com/careers to learn more about all our exciting opportunities!

    • Head of Talent Acquisition
      Oct 2018 - Aug 2019 · 11 mos

  • Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant (Remote) at athenahealth
    May 2018 - Oct 2018 · 6 mos

    Helping athenahealth build their Talent Acquisition team, in addition to working on VP level Engineering searches.