Lia Economos

Enthusiast
DISC Type : i

Talent at Anysphere

San Francisco, California, United States

Overview

Lia Economos is a talent acquisition leader specializing in building technical and executive teams for early-stage startups and high-growth companies like Anysphere, Replicate, and Airbnb. A UC Berkeley graduate, she focuses on frontier tech and AI recruiting. People who have worked with Lia describe her as proactive, high-energy, friendly, and helpful.

Lias professional focus is on the intersection of AI and talent acquisition. She actively discusses how generative AI is transforming technical interviews and recruiting systems, sharing her insights on podcasts and professional platforms to help others navigate the evolving landscape.

She once had to completely redesign the entire technical interview process at Replicate because generative AI made the old tests obsolete.

Personality Overview

Amiable & Agreeable

Story Driven

Non-Confrontational

Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials.  They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional. They agree with others often, so exercise caution when relying on their word.

Topics They Care About

AI in Recruiting
Appeared on the "Talk Talent to Me" podcast to discuss how AI is changing technical interviews and the need to redesign hiring processes.
Early-Stage Startups
Her career is centered on building foundational technical and executive teams for fast-growing, early-stage companies in frontier technology and AI.
Technical Sourcing
Focuses on creating scalable infrastructure and operational systems for high-volume technical sourcing, previously enabling a team to contact 2000 candidates per week.

Media Appearances

Lia has no verified media appearances

Work History

6-2025
Talent at Anysphere
10-2024 - 6-2025
Lead Recruiter at Replicate
1-2021 - 4-2023
Principal / Executive Recruiter at Growth by Design Talent
1-2018 - 2-2020
Product Operations Manager at Sourceress
1-2015 - 1-2018
Product and Leadership Recruiter at Airbnb

Education

Bachelor’s Degree from University of California, Berkeley

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Insights For Selling To Lia

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Refer to interesting customer testimonials and stress on great customer experience
  • Ask them how their day is going or exchange some other pleasantries
  • Invite them for a lunch or a drink/coffee

DONT's

  • Don’t be too formal with them, they trust informality more
  • Don’t push them for a direct ‘no’, take lack of ‘yes’ as ‘no’ after some time
  • Avoid overloading them with too much information

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Lia is

  • Relationship and rapport are valuable for them, but so is proven product value.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Lia

  • They probably won't say no directly.


Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Lia move?

  • They are not the ones to make fast decisions, even while they stay committed.
  • Can Lia take some risk or not?

  • They can take some low-probability risks if needed.

You And Lia

Personality Compatibility


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