About

Mark G. Perkins is a Senior Technical Recruiter, Diversity Advocate, and Career Coach with over 15 years of relevant experience. He has worked for startups, mid, and enterprise-sized companies, collaborating with various cross-functional teams, including leadership, engineering, product, design, legal, and more. Mark is passionate about improving and building out effective workflows for overall mission and organizational growth. Before getting into technical recruiting, Mark's background was in sales, marketing, and finance. He leverages his empathetic characteristic to provide amazing candidate experiences, building trust, and forward progression as he helps them take their next step in their career. Mark grew up outside of the USA, on the island of Barbados, and has been in the amazing technology silo of the Silicon Valley for the last 10+ years, which has taught him a lot about life. He is empathetic and passionate, and as he continues to build out teams and sell them on the opportunity to join a company, he will forever give the candidate pipeline that amazing lasting first impression, as this recruiting industry is still centered around that real "human touch." Mark is a crypto breather, sim racing lover, karate nerd, and still enjoys playing with cars. When he is not busy during the week negotiating an offer around salary or equity, you can find him on the many trails in the San Francisco Bay Area, hiking, cycling, and just having fun outdoors in general. Mark is proficient in various tools, including Greenhouse, Lever, LI Recruiter, GEM, Goodtime, CodeSignal, G-Suite, SLACK, JIRA, Confluence, Coderpad, HackerRank, Talent Wall, and more. He has experience working with various verticals and methodologies, sourcing passive and active qualified candidates from various platforms, utilizing various drip and direct email campaigns to attract the best talent, screening and filtering candidates based on technical experience and non-technical skills, interview scheduling and coordination with hiring managers, approval of all recruiter screening summaries and scorecards, and has an average fill time of 6-8 weeks across all roles. Mark is currently a Senior Technical Recruiter at Envoy, where they are transforming modern workplaces with products that make office life easier and work more meaningful. Companies like Slack, Pinterest, and Warby Parker rely on Envoy to create an unrivaled first impression and keep their offices safe and compliant.