Christina Galarneau

PRINCIPAL RECRUITER

Christina moved to the Bay Area in 2007 to attend the University of San Francisco and never left. She began her career in search at a technical agency recruiting software engineers and shortly after made the switch to healthcare. She spent five years at a healthcare recruiting firm where she met her husband. In 2018 she moved back into the technical recruiting space at Facebook recruiting Software Engineers and then Engineering leadership for Infrastructure, Machine Learning and Product teams. Christina joined Swing in May of 2021 and is excited to use her technical recruiting background to place Engineering and Product leaders in startups.

Notable Placements:

Head of Engineering
VP / Director of Engineering
VP of Product
Head of Sales
Head of Customer Success

If I had one motto to live by:

“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

Favorite interview question:

What’s the most valuable lesson you’ve learned from a failure?