Cris McGowan

Head of Talent

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Trilingual full life-cycle recruiter
  • Expert in sourcing diverse talent
  • Passionate about DEI and technology
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Technical Recruiter with expertise in AI-driven recruitment and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical SourcerRecruitingProject Management

Other Skills

LeadershipTrainingSourcingManagementGeology

About

Trilingual full life-cycle recruiter with a passion for DEI, cutting-edge technology and building great engineering teams. Skilled in targeted & high volume sourcing, and candidate/client relationship management in fast-paced and hyper-growth environments. Connecting people with life-changing opportunities is what keeps me going :)

Experience

Effective ai

Head of Talent

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • AI Agents | Employee #1 | Talent, People, Ops… and whatever needs doing

Gem

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Nov 2024Jul 2025 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Gem is the leading all-in-one recruiting platform powered by AI: ATS, CRM, Sourcing, Analytics, Interview Scheduling, Talent Marketing and events, and a career Site.
  • We enable talent acquisition teams to find, engage, and hire top talent.
  • With nearly 100 integrations, Gem works alongside LinkedIn and other places that you source, your email/texting/calendar, and your ATS (or use Gem ATS out of the box!).
  • https://www.gem.com/company/careers

Nirvana insurance

3 roles

Sr. Technical Recruiter

Promoted

Jul 2024Nov 2024 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Recruiter

Jan 2024Jul 2024 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. Technical Sourcer

Nov 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Nirvana’s mission is to make businesses safer & smarter. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.
  • We’re transforming the $300B+ commercial insurance industry through cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030), automation to deliver instantaneous quotes & faster underwriting, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.
  • We’re backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst & Lightspeed Ventures. Our world-class team brings deep experience in technology & insurance, helping scaled multi-billion dollar companies from scratch including Samsara, Rubrik & Root Insurance.

Chime

Technical Sourcer

Dec 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Conducted sourcing, recruiter screen and interview preparation with Software Engineers.
  • Worked extensively and became an expert on sourcing Software Engineers specialized in backend, frontend, infrastructure, mobile engineering, and data engineering.
  • Worked as a Backend Pod Lead providing sourcing updates to hiring managers in Product and Risk Organizations.
  • Partnered with hiring managers and leadership teams to understand business objectives and influence best recruitment/sourcing processes.
  • Maintained large pipelines of passive talent through intensive sourcing and relationship management. •Averaged 15 recruiter screens a week.
  • Sourced diverse talent and analyzed diversity data to help managers hire more inclusively, with more diverse candidate slates and interview panels.
  • Identified new opportunities to add value across the talent team and drove large scale, cross functional projects.
LeadershipTechnical SourcerTrainingSourcingRecruiting

Doordash

Technical Sourcer

Jun 2021Dec 2021 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • During my time as a Technical Sourcer at DoorDash, I sent an average of 250 reach outs per week and had 18 candidates approved for hire.
  • Partnered with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to build sourcing strategies to identify passive qualified backend, frontend, full-stack and mobile software engineers through multiple channels including internal databases and LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • Uncovered candidate’s skills, goals and interests to determine not only technical fit but cultural fit based on overall assessment.
  • Built and maintained a healthy pipeline of candidates that were both actively and passively searching for opportunities.
  • Created a Team Stats Tracking System.
  • Instructed Hiring Managers on sourcing best practices for sourcing jams.
  • Prepared candidates for upcoming interviews by providing insights and tips on what can be expected.
LeadershipTechnical SourcerTrainingSourcingRecruiting

Super lucky

Marketing Project Manager

Feb 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Oversaw the ad creatives process for the user acquisition and marketing design teams.
  • Worked directly with cross-functional teams to create clear and detailed project requests, define objectives, gather requirements, and map timelines into clearly defined project plans.
  • Monitored and tracked over 20 high priority projects a week.
  • Conducted competitive creative analysis, identifying trends and best practices, applying learnings toward developing new creative concepts, while staying up to date on company's games latest features, content, themes, and sales to test new creative concepts.
LeadershipTrainingProject Management

Geoambiente® geologia e engenharia ambiental ltda.

Project Manager

Aug 2014Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Curitiba Area, Brazil

  • Negotiated and finalized 65 contracts per month with new and existing customers.
  • Set project timelines and maintained schedules to ensure that key milestones were being met at every phase throughout the project's life-cycle.
  • Conducted meetings with clients to determine project direction, requirements and budgets.
  • Obtained documents, clearances, certificates and approvals from local, state and federal agencies.
  • Led a team of 5 project analysts, onboard and trained new team members, created personal career plans for each member of the team, conducted 1:1s, reviewed employee performance evaluations and provided feedback on areas for improvement.
ManagementLeadershipTrainingProject Management

Education

FGV - Fundação Getulio Vargas

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Marketing

UC Berkeley Extension

Project Management

Universidade Federal do Paraná

Bachelor's degree

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