Leopard.FYI & Juicebox Present: Talent & People Leaders Happy Hour NYC 🏙️🧃💜
We're co-hosting a low-key happy hour hang at Shy Shy in Chelsea NYC with our friends at Juicebox for Talent & People Leaders across the broader Leopard network 💜
Who is invited? Vetted People & Talent Leaders (including teams of 1 at startups) who believe in inclusivity in tech. Our private people/talent Slack community has 500+ members & includes leaders from Hugging Face, Distyl, Noom, Drivemode, Goalbook, Anrok & VC talent teams.
RSVPs include:
Alyssa Placa Recruiting Lead @ Kaizen Labs ($35M Series A-backed NY–based govtech startup, backed by Accel and A16z)
Colin Murphy, Recruiting @ Method ($60M Series B-backed fintech infrastructure startup, backed by A16z & Y Combinator)
Emily Paik, Recruiting at Kit ($200M-valued, bootstrapped creator economy / email infrastructure startup)
Kristina Maceira, Senior Technical Recruiter @ Mark43 ($257M Series E-backed New York–based govtech startup, backed by Tiger Global & General Catalyst)
Taara Sajnani, Director of Recruiting @ Harvey ($11B-valued SF–based legal AI startup, backed by Sequoia & Kleiner Perkins)
Alexa Lane, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Placements.io (Seed stage New York–based adtech infrastructure startup)
Grant Rivas, Head of Operations at Antimetal ($24M Series A-backed New York–based AI devtools startup)
About Leopard.FYI 💜
Leopard is a community & job search network for senior+ women & non-binary software engineers (and allies!). Our area of focus:
We have 3000+ members (~ 750+ actively looking).
The network is specifically for Senior and Staff-level engineers (4+ years experience) with startup experience across 0→1 builds, early-stage teams & modern tech stacks.
Most of our searches are for Senior+ Backend, Full Stack, Frontend, Infrastructure, ML, Data, and AI Engineers
The biggest candidate markets are SF (1k+ members), NYC (650+ members), and then growing networks in Seattle, LA, Boston, DC and of course remote.
Hiring senior engineers & struggling to build a slightly more diverse funnel? Leopard employer partnerships might be worth exploring! We partner with hundreds of startups like LTK, Abridge, Anrok, Weights and Biases, Bilt, Bubble and more to to help them quickly hire senior engineers from our diverse candidate network.
For more info about partnerships or hosting Leopard community events at your office, grab time with Leopard's CEO Lexi any time! https://calendly.com/lexilewtan/30min (or email her [email protected])
About our Co-Host, Juicebox 🧃
Juicebox is an AI-powered sourcing platform built for modern recruiting teams. Instead of relying on manual LinkedIn searches or large outbound lists, Juicebox uses AI to help recruiters identify high-signal, relevant candidates faster. They've raised over $100 million from top investors to empower recruiters with AI that finds the best-fit candidates, supports data-driven decisions, and reduces time spent on manual work. Today, they're trusted by 5,000+ customers, including Ramp, Samsara, Quora, and Cursor.
You can get in touch with them by booking on their site, juicebox.ai, or ask Lexi for an intro!
How Juicebox 🧃 & Leopard Work Together 💜(Without Competing)
Even though we’re both in the hiring ecosystem, we solve different parts of the problem:
Juicebox = AI-powered sourcing tool
They help recruiting teams find and generate candidate pipelines more efficiently.
Leopard.FYI = curated community for senior women & nb engineers + warm intro marketplace
We connect vetted senior engineers (primarily women and non-binary engineers) with aligned companies through community, events, and direct introductions.