About TalentSpring

TalentSpring provides recruiters and HR professionals with an advanced SaaS-based candidate sourcing solution that utilizes semantic search technology to find exceptional resume matches for their open positions. Our resume search engine reviews an organization’s open job descriptions, identifies the relevant attributes being sought (experience, skill, location, education, etc.), and then matches those attributes to tens-of-thousands of resumes found on social networking sites, job boards and the organization’s Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). The search results are ranked and ordered based on candidate quality and relevance, saving recruiters and hiring managers time, improving hire quality, and reducing overall time-to-hire.

The power of TalentSpring’s system comes from harnessing the capabilities of semantic-search technology and algorithmic ranking methodology to automate the manual process of finding and reviewing candidate resumes. Today 40% of a recruiter’s time is spent sourcing qualified candidates (searching for and reading resumes). And, with a time limit of just 200 resumes per search, they are often unable to find the ideal candidates.

This inefficiency is the result of limitations in today’s Boolean-search tools, which require that all the keywords searched for must be in the candidate’s profile. Semantic-search on the other hand provides a smart-search capability that includes similar meaning terms to the original keywords search for. The result is that resumes which would normally be overlooked by traditional candidate sourcing are included in TalentSpring searches. TalentSpring’s patent-pending algorithmic ranking system identifies which job attributes are most important for the search results filtering out the ‘close-but-not-quite’ candidates before search results reach the recruiter’s desk.

  • Better Candidates

    By searching a large number of different passive and active candidate sources at once,, TalentSpring is able to provide you with search results on the best matched individuals from tens of thousands of potential candidates.

  • Faster Hires

    TalentSpring resume search engine is able to filter out near-match candidates far more effectively than traditional search engines. Filtered and ranked results greatly reduce the amount of time necessary to sort through lesser qualified candidates, allowing recruiters to focus on recruiting not sourcing.

  • Reduce Hiring Costs

    Organizations waste significant time and money searching through hundreds of thousands of candidates and interviewing near-match candidates. With TalentSpring’s automated search capability recruiters are able to find qualified candidates in a fraction of the time that traditional systems can.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA

TalentSpring is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and is lead by a team of seasoned technology professionals who have a successful history of providing SaaS-based services to the Human Resource Industry. The Company is privately backed by Second Avenue Partners and individual investors. For more information call 1-800-730-4842 or go to www.talentspring.com.

Executive Team

Bryan Starbuck – CEO and Founder

Bryan Starbuck founded TalentSpring in 2007 and currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board. Prior to founding TalentSpring, Bryan worked for Microsoft, first as a Software Engineer and later as a Sr. Development Manager. While at Microsoft, Bryan worked on some of Microsoft's most challenging engineering projects; developing products including Windows Vista, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer, as it grew from 2% to 85% market share. During the height of the spam epidemic in 2001/2002, he started Microsoft's spam filtering effort that later bundled with most applicable Microsoft products (Outlook, Hotmail, Exchange, etc.). Bryan specializes in using advanced mathematics to solve difficult problems that customers face, and leading teams to build mass market products that bring the benefit to customers. Bryan graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Computer Science.

Roger Shanafelt – Vice President TalentSpring Sales and Business Solutions

Roger brings 15 years of Executive Sales, Business Development and Marketing experience with technology and SaaS companies to TalentSpring. Most recently, Roger served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development for The Power Tech Group, where he standardized their sales methodology and continuously grew revenue until the company was successfully acquired. Prior to Power Tech, Roger oversaw Sales and Marketing for Docusign Inc. where he grew the customer base from 100 to 1,000 business customers and over 100,000 individual subscribers. Roger has also served in Executive Sales and Marketing roles at Myrio Corporation, Loud Cloud, Exodus Communications, and has lead Product Management and Sales for the @Work division of Excite@Home. Roger has extensive experience working with both early-stage and Enterprise technology companies to grow revenue and define sales and marketing processes. Roger sits on the Business Advisory Board for CoreWerks and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Pacific Lutheran University with graduate-level course work in Business Administration from the University of Utah.

John Kelly – Vice President of Marketing

John Kelly joined TalentSpring in March, 2009. John is a startup veteran and has held executive marketing, senior product marketing, and product management positions for technology companies in Seattle, Manhattan and Silicon Valley. Prior to joining TalentSpring John served as Director of Marketing for PayScale, Inc. where he was responsible for marketing strategy and execution of PayScale’s business-to-business compensation data service. While at PayScale, John established PayScale’s brand as a leader in providing compensation data for small- and mid-size organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. John was also an integral member of PayScale’s early formation team and was responsible for productizing the core consumer offering and generating online traffic through search engine optimization, keyword advertising, and channel marketing. Prior to PayScale, John served as Vice President of Marketing for iWeb Technologies, a leading provider of push technology for online advertising and critical messaging. John has also served a Sr. Product Manager for Kinko’s/ImageX business print automation division and InfoGear Technology, Corp., the inventor of the original iPhone Internet appliance. John holds a Masters Degree with Honors in International Business Administration from Middlebury’s Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) affiliate. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations from the same graduate school.