Andy Legg

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About Andy Legg

Senior Quant, AI/ML, Tech Recruiter with over 15 years of experience in successfully delivering talent in highly competitive markets (Quantitative Finance, AI / ML, and Engineering). With an onus on headhunting top talent at FAANG, Buy-Side, and Sell-Side firms. My differentiation is i've been placing ML/AI talent for 13 years across Finance-Tech!From a candidate perspective - I seek to understand your aspirations, motivations, push vs. pull factors relating to your career goals and skill set. What differentiates you in a competitive market? How can I advocate for you as a person and a professional to tell your story? Then coach you through challenging interview processes, feedback, and decisions.From a client perspective - I’m skilled in sourcing, assessing, advising, and understanding the talent you want to hire. I have built interview competencies, scorecards, and assessments from scratch. Consistently figuring out how to position each opportunity relative to its need, and how to get conviction on those we’re assessing. No matter the complexity of the role, through market mapping I can uncover the right talent from different industries to accurately source.As the markets have evolved, I have kept pace and continued to place talent in positions that include: AI/ML Research Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, ML/AI Research Engineers, AI Operators and AI Enablement for PE value creation, Software Engineering (full-stack, front-end, back-end), Data Engineering, Data Science, Quant Development, Quant Research, Portfolio Management, Electronic Trading, Quantitative Risk, and Product Management.I'm a firm advocate for DE & I, and attendee of industry conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, Grace Hopper, Quant Strats etc).