May 2022 – Mar 2023 · 10 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

• Vice President of Talent Acquisition reporting to CEO and COO managing a recruitment team of 25 for a startup company with 400 remote employees servicing 300,000+ companies with revenues north of $100 million scaling for IPO.
• Led a 25-person fully remote recruitment team that I reorganized, refocused, and revolutionized the recruitment process to improve hires from 20 a month to 100 hires per month within 90 days from hire.
• Redesigned interview process including scorecards, feedback loop, onboarding workflow, and internal recruitment process to reduce the average time to hire to below 25 days and lower cost per hire to below $2,000 while increasing hires by 400%.
• Updated and automated Greenhouse ATS to increase recruiter efficiency while improving candidate experience, and interviewer experience, and created real-time reporting for data-driven decisions.
• Created ‘single source of truth’ reporting for key metrics including time to hire, time to fill, cost per hire, interview efficiency, applicant source, retention, and performance.
• Reduce recruitment budget by 40% by removing underperforming external search partners, reduce redundant systems, and improve recruiter performance via training on systems, processes, and automation.
• Trained hiring managers and interviewers on the interview process, interview techniques, and Greenhouse ATS resulting in the reduction of interview cycles from an average of 24 days to 7 working days.

Aug 2019 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition reporting to CHRO/COO in a shared services model for a global trading firm with 2000 employees in Chicago supporting 10 companies leading a recruitment team of 25 while handling recruitment for C-level and senior management positions.
• Led recruitment team supporting 200-person company with businesses in Options Trading, Securities Trading, Crypto, Custody & Clearing, Trading Technologies, Flood Insurance, Financial Services, Trading Education, Campus Recruitment, E-Sports, and Poker Education.
• Recruited and hired 22 C-level executives across PEAK6 and its subsidiaries specifically CEO, COO, CMO, CFO, CTO, CRO, and General Counsel.
• Hired 408 in 2021 (a 118% increase from 187 in 2020) (FTE, Contractors, Interns, and campus)
• Led a $2,890,832 reduction in agency spending from 2019.
• Revised recruitment process and trained hiring manager and interviewers on new process resulting in a reduction of time to hire by 48% to 47 days from 92 days.
• Achieved 93% offer acceptance rate.
• Reduced cost per hire to $6,356 from $20,000+ in 2019.
• Built an offshore engineering team in Belfast Northern Ireland from ideation to 85 employees in 2 years. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-53991363
• Led Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion recruitment program implementing unbiased recruitment strategies resulting in 60+ diversity hires annually and an increase in applicants of 40%.

Nov 2013 – Aug 2019 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Greater Chicago Area · On-site

• Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition reporting to the CEO of an 11,000-person Chicago-based company leading a team of 50+ global recruiters for a Digital Media/Ad Tech company delivering 500+ hires annually across americas, Europe, and India.
• Built recruitment teams in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bangalore, and Munich resulting in sales, marketing, and client service hires expanding customer base and revenue in those new regions.
• Led development of best practices for Talent Acquisition and HR Business Partners to ensure optimal performance and candidate experience resulting in a 120% increase in hires.
• Manage external recruiting partnerships and overall department budget while implementing grassroots marketing techniques to drive recruitment brand and candidate awareness resulting in a reduction of cost per hire from $10,430 to $3,212 in one year while tripling the number of hires.
• Implemented behavioral interviewing, recruiting branding, geo-local candidate outreach, Apprentice program, referral portal/gamification, and ongoing improvement of candidate experience.

Sep 2010 – Nov 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Chicago, IL · On-site

• Director of Executive Recruiting reporting to SVP of Human Resources of a 5,000-person Chicago-based company leading a team of 12 global recruiters for a market data company supporting the consumer shopper marketing, analytics, and engineering/technology divisions of the company.
• Recruited executive leadership for senior positions at C-level, SVP, and VP levels while leading a twelve-member team completing other recruiting in specific divisions.
• Built a reputation as an expert in recruiting analytics, technology, and consumer shopper marketing talent and received top recruiting awards.
• Recruited for senior leadership roles embedded with Pepsi, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, CVS, Walgreens, Target, Kellogg's, General Mills, P&G, and other Fortune 100 companies.
• On-shored IT department from India with 142 hires over four months, mainly in Chicago HQ.
• Lowered cost per hire to $2,000 from $6,500 in two years via process improvement, reduction of an external search engagement, and improved efficiencies in the recruitment process.

Jun 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Director of Recruiting reporting to CEO of globally retained and RPO search firm based in Chicago with 50 employees servicing financial services, CPG, manufacturing, technology, and sales clients.
• Responsible for the execution of executive-level retained searches averaging 40 hires a year for clients across the US including Dean Foods, Russell Index, General Mills, SKTY Trading, and CME.
• Recruit, hire and manage five recruiters for retained executive-level searches ranging from Manager to C-Level positions.
• Led RPO program with recruiters embedded onsite at clients delivering recruitment services for all level roles.
• Track company-wide searches, projects, and upcoming engagements to manage research staff and workloads to ensure proper execution.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Vice President of Operations and Recruiting reporting to the boutique owner of 10 employee national retained search firm based in Chicago focused on the CPG and Ingredient industries.
• Develop new business through cold calling, networking, and previous industry contacts resulting in revenue growth from $300,000 to $2 million in revenue.
• Clients developed included Dawn Foods, Kellogg's, General Mills, Silk, Givaudan Flavoring, Darden Restaurants, Pepsico, and Dominos where single searches grew into long-term partnerships.
• Executed recruitment, hiring, and managing two recruiters for retained executive-level searches ranging from Manager to C-Level positions across the United States.
• Interact with hiring managers of clients to develop/present search strategy, presentation of candidates, progress updates, scheduling of pre-screened candidates, and negation of offers to candidates.
• Attend national industry conventions (CO/EX, Presidents Conference, National Restaurant Association, and IFMA) to develop contacts and clients through networking.

Feb 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

• Principal Recruiter reporting to Firm Partner for national retained RPO firm located in Chicago with 100 employees across all verticals executing on searches and managing RPO programs.
• Developed from entry-level Account Manager role to highest recruiting role of Principal in 12 months and winning recruiter of the year award twice.
• First Principal level recruiter for the company by achieving 12 hires in the first 6 months with the organization.
• Go-to-retained recruiter for Fortune 500 companies like SKTY Trading, General Mills, Silk, CME Group, Skipper Bud, McDonald's, and Wal-Mart seeking executive-level candidates for full-time permanent positions in their companies.
• Filled positions by directly recruiting target companies designated by the client, posting on job boards, searching job boards, cold-calling similar companies in geographic areas, researching local associations, and web blogs for potential candidates.