Darren Pang

Talent Lead @ Etched | AI Hardware Recruiting

Taiwan

About

"In the world of Artificial Intelligence" 14+ years of TA experience across Agency/ RPO/ In-house Management experience for team size of 15+ Global recruiting exposure ( 25+ markets) with hiring volume up to 1000 per year Execution of executive/leadership hirings Trilligual in English,Mandarin and Cantonese

Experience

  • Talent Lead at Etched
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    Building the future of superintelligence by hiring exceptional talents.

  • Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition - Global Supply at Agoda
    Jun 2025 - Jan 2026 · 8 mos

    Lead a team of 12~ with focus on recruitment delivery for Agoda's Supply department globally across 20+ markets.

  • Senior Manager, Recruiting at Coupang
    Aug 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Founding Recruiter for Coupang Taiwan. Grew team from 0 to 20. Delivery on primarily expat executive hirings for Coupang Corp Korea (Tech) and Coupang Taiwan (Non-Tech). Lead a team of 20~ recruiters/coordinators and delivery for all level of hirings for Coupang Taiwan. Co-owner with HQ on Employer Branding localization.

  • Energizer Holdings (Hong Kong SAR)
    • Talent Acquisition Manager, APAC
      Mar 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      • Via Cielo RPO solution and lead a remote team of recruiters based across Asia and responsible for recruitment delivery in APAC (ANZ, Greater China, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia) with a focus on direct hiring to significantly reduce both cost and time to fill (Less than 60 days). • Build and maintain relationships with department and country lead level and serve as escalation point on delivery challenges. • Utilization of dashboards and reporting to stay ahead of SLA and recruitment metrics. • In collaboration with ENR Talent Acquisition leadership team to lead and execute of global/regional recruitment I&D/process improvement/ talent pipelining projects that support the scaling organization while building high performing teams across Commercial and Engineering hires.

    • Lead Recruiter, APAC
      Jul 2019 - Apr 2020 · 10 mos

    • Senior Recruiter, APAC
      Jul 2018 - Mar 2019 · 9 mos

  • Consultant at Redpath Partners
    May 2014 - Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Contingency and retained searches in the Project Management, Construction Development & Cost Management sectors at all level across Asia Pacific.