About Us
With over 40 years of experience, Rincon Talent Group is a boutique recruitment and consultancy firm based in Southern California. We work with disruptive start-up companies and non-profits to
multi-billion dollar public enterprises. No matter the size of the organizations we support, our process remains the same — extreme attention to detail, complete transparency with regular status updates, and a thorough canvassing of the marketplace for excellent talent.
Brandie Smith
Partner, Senior Recruiter
Brandie brings over 20 years of experience to Rincon Talent Group. She has conducted executive level and technology searches across a variety of industries and functions. Earlier in her career, Brandie held positions of Recruiter, Business Development, and COO.
Some of her accomplishments include:
Recruited team for technology start-up from 2 people to over 300.
Recruited and managed team from 5 to 30 at CAFO, a non-profit with over 950 member organizations, 750+ churches and over 200 member organizations.
As the COO and President, managed worldwide business development, operations and team accountability, charity programs, and operations for a technology community product.
Co-founder of two technology companies.
Ken Smith
Partner, Senior Recruiter
Ken has a passion for helping companies architect the right team, while also delivering an awesome candidate experience.
After graduating from the University of Arizona, he started his career at a large technical staffing firm as a technical recruiter and then worked in a client-facing capacity as an account manager. He then went on to recruit and lead talent acquisition teams for VC-backed and bootstrapped start-ups in Silicon Valley and San Diego, with four of these start-ups experiencing successful exits.