Time For a Change and New Opportunities

As some of you already know (and has been reported on Trulia Blog and Property Portal Watch ), I have decided to leave Trulia after 3 great years. I have taken the position of Chief Product Officer with Jobvite, Inc. a leading recruitment services provider.

The past three years at Trulia has been amazing as we grew the team from about a dozen people to over eighty. It does not seem that long ago that the product was just a beta mashup site that just launched in California to today where it is national, added local guide data, built the largest real estate community and creative some really innovative ad products for real estate professionals. To the Trulia team I wish the best and I will be sure to follow Trulia’s ascent within the industry and who know’s I might have time to lend some of my thoughts to the RE.net.

Why move to a recruitment solutions company, you may ask?

The answer is multi-faceted and really begins back with some of the work I did while working at Knight Ridder Digital. I was part of the team that sold off Career Path, then acquired CareerBuilder and Headhunter.net in connection with the Tribune Company. Early on, I was always fascinated with the online recruitment industry and have seen it evolve over the past eight or so years. Just as the real estate industry is trying to survive this economic crisis, as to is the recruitment industry and employers are ever facing more challenges in finding quality candidates in a cost-effective manner.  Jobvite has an innovative way to match talent and jobs which will transform how companies recruit in the future. Lastly, I will be working with a very seasoned team, including Dan Finnigan and Tim Lambert, whom I previously worked with at Knight Ridder Digital.

I have spent the better part of the past 10 years in online real estate in some fashion and it will always be part of my DNA, but I look forward to bringing some of the same innovation to the online recruitment space to revolutionize the way companies hire and job seekers find the ‘right’ position.

I hope all of my business contacts will keep in touch and if I can be of any assistance just drop me a line. Also, I plan to keep this blog more up to date moving forward, so feel free to add it to your RSS readers.

update: here is the official announcement

Jamie