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Kumi Bailey

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Partner at Wave Talent
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Kumi Bailey is a talent acquisition leader with deep experience scaling high-growth tech companies. A UC Berkeley psychology graduate, she has progressed from technical sourcing at Google to leadership at Airbnb and Quizlet. Colleagues describe her as resourceful, detail-oriented, and empathetic.

Kumi appears passionate about mission-driven companies, particularly in the education technology sector, aiming to make learning more accessible. Her recent work also indicates a strong interest in supporting early-stage consumer startups and helping them build their foundational teams from the ground up.

She was the first full-time technical recruiter at Airbnb, where she grew the engineering organization from 20 to over 100 people.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Partner
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling Tech Teams
Demonstrated this by growing Airbnb's engineering organization by over 400% and building its initial technical recruiting team from scratch.
Education Technology
As the former Head of Talent Acquisition at Quizlet, she was part of a mission to make education more accessible for students and teachers.
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Career

Work history

9-2019
Partner
Wave Talent
3-2015 - 2-2019
Head of Talent Acquisition
Quizlet
1-2012 - 8-2014
Recruiting Manager
Airbnb
11-2008 - 12-2010
Technical Recruiter
AdMob/Google
2-2008 - 11-2008
Technical Sourcer
YouTube/Google
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Education
2002 - 2006
B.A. Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
2006 - 2006
Google Certified Sourcer
Google Sourcer Training Program
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