Owen Howe —

I build recruiting functions and hire specialized teams, from defense R&D to The New York Times.

The New York Times

Manager, Talent Acquisition

September 2021 - Present

Washington, D.C.

I have led recruiting across strategic growth portfolios: The Athletic, Wirecutter, our enterprise AI Mission, and the early-career program.

70+ Wirecutter hires in 18 months supporting new product launches

Owned end-to-end talent acquisition strategy for high-growth business units and M&A portfolios — The Athletic, Wirecutter, and the enterprise AI Mission — advising C-Suite executives and VPs on data-driven workforce plans.
Recruit engineers across Core Platform, Storytelling, AI, Mobile, and The Athletic and Wirecutter engineering teams — from associate to staff engineer and engineering manager to VP of Engineering — including the first hires into new AI products and the AI platform mission.
Spearhead an annual program of 50+ interns and an intern-to-full-time pipeline designed to meet non-newsroom entry-level hiring needs.
Lead a 3-person team of recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators delivering 50+ hires annually across engineering, product, and editorial.

Sr. Talent Management Specialist February 2021 - September 2021

Talent Management Specialist March 2019 - February 2021

Administrative Associate November 2017 - March 2019

November 2017 - September 2021

Arlington, Virginia

Where I grew a cyber-defense R&D lab from 60 people to 400+ and built its recruiting engine from scratch.

60→400+ headcount, over four years

Established sourcing and interview practices, ATS infrastructure, reporting, onboarding processes, and hiring-manager partnerships.
Ran 30+ concurrent R&D engineering searches — 80%+ software and hardware engineers — across ML, adversarial ML and model robustness, cyber, mobile & embedded systems, and data privacy.

English Teacher

August 2016 - August 2017

Uijeongbu, South Korea

Taught and developed lessons for students preparing for the Test of English as a Foreign Language.

B.A. Government

Class of 2016

Williamsburg, Virginia

I build and maintain web applications with AI coding agents, directing the product, testing the results, and improving them through use.

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