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Jacob Arnall

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Head of Talent at Decagon
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Jacob is the Head of Talent at Decagon, specializing in scaling teams for high-growth AI companies. A University of Washington alumnus, he has a proven track record building talent functions from scratch at firms like DoorDash and Lyft, with a focus on engineering and machine learning.

He has a strong background in the San Francisco and Seattle tech scenes, having moved to San Francisco to be part of the AI boom and previously establishing DoorDashs Seattle office from the ground up.

As the first talent hire at Decagon, he grew the company from 30 to over 250 employees in a single year.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Head of Talent
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Hyper-Growth Scaling
He has repeatedly built teams from the ground up, scaling Decagon's team 8x in one year and establishing DoorDash's entire Seattle engineering office.
AI Talent Acquisition
He focuses on recruiting for the AI space, having led talent at AI agent companies Decagon and Adep, and previously owned Machine Learning hiring for Lyft.
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Career

Work history

10-2024
Head of Talent
Decagon
3-2024 - 9-2024
Talent
Adept
12-2020 - 2-2024
Technical Recruiting Manager
DoorDash
11-2018 - 12-2020
Technical Recruiting Manager
Lyft
6-2015 - 11-2018
Senior Technical Recruiter
iMatch Technical Services
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Education
2011 - 2015
Bachelor’s Degree
University of Washington
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