Rapid7 Layoffs Hit Sales, Engineers, Recruiters
Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas has promised in public remarks that the company will invest more in working with MSPs.
Rapid7 employees in sales, engineering, customer success and support, recruitment and other areas of the company who were caught in the vendor’s layoffs have taken to LinkedIn to post about the search for their next roles.
The Boston-based security vendor announced this week cuts of about 18 percent of its workforce—about 470 employees.
CEO Corey Thomas (pictured) has promised in public remarks that the company will invest more in working with MSPs.
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CRN has reached out to Rapid7 for comment.
Rapid7 has about 800 worldwide channel partners, 300 of them in North America, according to CRN’s 2023 Channel Chiefs feature.
Some of the affected workers have been with the vendor for more than five years. Others started recently.
“Yikes! 15 days into the new job I was affected by Rapid7’s restructuring,” Danon Beres, a Rapid7 commercial sales manager for the North Central region, wrote on LinkedIn. “I appreciate everyone’s support and help in liking/commenting on this post. Please reach out if you know of any openings that may match my experience. Thank you so much network!”
The news came as multiple vendors contend with high inflation in the U.S., fears around a potential recession and lowered demand for digital tools since the height of the global pandemic.
“Rapid7 unfortunately laid off 18% of it’s workforce today, and I was included in those impacted. Especially tough news as this is my 2nd layoff, and both in the same year,” Molly Spradling, a Rapid7 senior technical talent acquisition partner with the company since March, wrote on LinkedIn.
She continued: “I’ll be taking some time to recharge and narrow in on what the next (hopefully long term!) adventure will be. To my network full of incredibly kind & talented humans: I would be genuinely grateful if you kept me in mind for openings you come across: recruiting, customer success, or otherwise.”
Engineers who posted on LinkedIn about getting laid off from Rapid7 include:
*Joel Kinzel, senior software engineering manager, with the company since 2016
*Avi Saada, senior software engineering manager, with the company since 2010
*Naz Banu, software engineering manager, with the company since 2021
*Aziz Roziyev, Level 2 technical support engineer for application security, with the company since 2021
*Tim Honker, presales engineering manager, with the company since 2016
*Emal Sangabi, technical support engineer, with the company since 2021
Consulting and customer roles caught in the layoffs include:
*Kory Wagner. customer success senior manager, with the company since October
*Collin Huber, customer adviser, with the company since 2021
*Jeff Foresman, customer adviser and advisory consulting vice president, with the company since October
*Charles Gatrelle, Level 2 customer success engineer, with the company since 2020
*Brett Kaplan, senior customer success engineer, with the company since January
*Darrick Hall, security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) customer adviser, with the company since 2022
*Shane Turner, cybersecurity consultant, with the company since 2022
*Brandon Berlin, senior security consultant, with the company since 2022
*Stephanie Campbell, product consulting resource manager, with the company since 2021
*Anthony Adinolfi, senior security consultant, with the company since December
Recruiters and analysts who posted on LinkedIn about getting laid off from Rapid7 include:
*Cat Rogerson, lead talent acquisition partner, with the company since 2019
*Lauren Coulombe, emerging talent acquisition partner, with the company since 2020
*Michael Perry, business process analyst, commercial infrastructure, with the company since 2022
*Lindsay Kyle, senior business intelligence analyst, with the company since 2021
Other roles caught in the layoffs include:
*Maud Purinton, project manager, with the company since 2021
*Robert Carper, deliverable manager, with the company since 2017
*James Langdon, global support escalations manager, with the company since 2020
*Gianluca Atehortua, Level 1 order management specialist, with the company since 2022
*Zach Dayton, digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) manager, with the company since 2021
*Jenell Green, Tableau lead, with the company since 2021
*Keith Mattes, technical program specialist and Gainsight administrator, with the company since 2020
*Jordan Karlin, business development manager, with the company since 2022
*Mariana De Paiva, proposal coordinator, with the company since 2021
LinkedIn users affiliated with the following companies posted about open jobs at their companies:
*Kion
And multiple vendors and solution providers have openings for channel-related positions.
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