Jackson Best
Google
Market HR Lead | San Francisco, New York, Cambridge, Boston
Jackson is currently the Market Human Resources Lead for Google's offices in San Francisco, New York, Cambridge and Boston. Jackson was previously a member of Google's Leadership Staffing organization, where he led all strategy and operations, as well as executive recruiting for YouTube and the general business, operations, and administrative organizations.
Prior to Google, Jackson was Director of Research for the global talent consulting firm, Egon Zehnder. He began his career in talent as a boutique executive recruiter, focused on placing Creative Directors and Chief Design Officers in luxury and lifestyle organizations such as LVMH, Dior, Herman Miller, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jackson has served as a guest lecturer at FIT, Pratt, and Parsons, and occasionally appears on the Fifth-Dimensional Leadership podcast with Google-alum Ginny Clarke. In a past professional life, Jackson was a stand-up comedian and a musicology professor. He lives in Westchester with his husband, Scott, and their many cats and dogs.