Brad Owens

CEO

Cleveland, Ohio, United States18 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI workforce strategy and digital labor.
  • Proven track record in Salesforce and recruiting solutions.
  • Host of a popular hiring podcast with industry leaders.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven workforce solutions and recruiting technologies.

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Core Skills

SalesforceRecruiting

Other Skills

Public SpeakingApplicant Tracking SystemsConsultingFuture of WorkAsymbl ATSInternet RecruitingTalent AcquisitionInterviewsTechnical RecruitingBenefits NegotiationResume WritingEmployee BenefitsTalent ManagementStaffing ServicesBusiness Networking

About

I help leaders turn AI into real digital labor that does actual work inside their organization. Most teams are stuck treating AI like software. They configure it, give it a prompt, and hope the output is good enough. That usually leads to work slop, mistrust, and tools that never make it into the flow of work. My background spans recruiting, solution engineering, and enterprise AI strategy. I have built and operated businesses, sold and implemented enterprise software, and led teams responsible for deploying AI agents that own real responsibilities. That experience shapes how I think about AI adoption. Less theory. More operational reality. I approach AI the same way I approach hiring. You define the role. You design what success looks like. You onboard it into the day-to-day workflow. Then you coach it, review its performance, and improve it over time. When AI understands nuance and context, it stops being a demo and starts being a teammate. At Asymbl, I work with companies to design bespoke digital workers across sales, recruiting, service, finance and operations. This includes defining inputs and outputs, setting KPIs, embedding agents where work gets done, and building the coaching loops that make performance improve week over week. I spend most of my time with executives who are frustrated that their AI investments are not delivering results. The pattern is almost always the same. The problem is not the tool. The problem is the role design and the lack of ownership once the agent is live. If you are thinking about AI as part of your workforce strategy and not just another tool purchase, we should connect.

Experience

Asymbl

4 roles

Vice President, Digital Labor Strategy

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

Vice President, Salesforce Alliance

Promoted

May 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

Public SpeakingApplicant Tracking SystemsSalesforce

Director, Salesforce Alliance

Feb 2024May 2024 · 3 mos

  • Asymbl is furthering our commitment to help Salesforce win in staffing and recruiting by creating my new role as the Director of Salesforce Alliance. What that means is I’ll now be fully committed to working alongside salesforce teams to help them win more business in staffing and recruiting. I’ve been at this for years now. I know the pain points. I know the talk tracks. I know the demos that work. I get to bring my unique skillset of not only being a recruiting software buyer but also being a salesforce seller and combining those two experiences to help Salesforce win.
Public SpeakingConsultingSalesforceRecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Director of Solution Engineering

Jun 2023Feb 2024 · 8 mos

  • Leading the group responsible for introducing the recruiting industry what an applicant tracking system is capable of when built on the worlds leading CRM, Salesforce.
Public SpeakingConsultingSalesforceRecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Salesforce

Lead Solution Engineer

Jul 2020May 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • Directly responsible for helping shape the staffing and recruiting vertical at Salesforce.
  • Designed multiple solutions for the recruiting industry using Salesforce.
  • Go-to internal resource for shaping the narrative around Salesforce for recruiting and staffing.
  • Chosen to be the Recruiting and Staffing speaker on stage at Dreamforce.
Public SpeakingConsultingSalesforceRecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Lee cardinal

Vice President of Business Development

Dec 2019Jul 2020 · 7 mos · Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • Freelance Salesforce Consultant.
  • Designed data model and external application integrations for Crelate recruitment CRM.
  • Established workflow best practices and marketing automations.
  • Created and administered company website using custom HTML and CSS modified Wordpress instance.
  • Built and implemented custom server for business use.
  • o Designed and administered data architecture.
  • o Configured Apache HTTP server, Firewall, Dynamic DNS with a wildcard SSL certificate for remote root server access, and dual-factor authentication
Public SpeakingConsultingSalesforceRecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Site centers

Director of Talent Acquisition and Development

Sep 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Beachwood. OH

  • Maintained ongoing, agile communication with VP, SVP and C-Level executives to gain an understanding of business needs in relation to both talent gaps and development plans.
  • Organized, facilitated and participated in a national Diversity and Inclusion Roundtable for the commercial real estate industry and the Northeast Ohio Recruiting Leadership Roundtable.
  • Worked with senior leadership and HR to develop a new manager training series to better equip our managers with the skills they need to lead a team.
  • Coached managers to appropriately handle performance assessments, performance management and employee development discussions with their teams.
  • Provided leadership and direction to the recruiting team, hiring managers and candidates throughout the recruiting process to ensure effective candidate assessments, a positive candidate experience and successful selection of top talent for all positions.
  • Championed the implementation of Salesforce Trailhead for company wide LMS and transitioning to the Lighting platform.
  • Designed and facilitated “Salesforce for Leasing” and “Excel: from Beginner to Expert” training courses.
  • Administered the Silkroad application tracking CRM.
  • Managed personnel and HRIS related child cases in Salesforce enabling 30% faster case resolution.
Public SpeakingConsultingSalesforceRecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Hr coaching

Chief Operations Officer

Aug 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Cleveland

  • Selected as a hiring industry expert and contributor for multiple sources including Forbes, HR For Small Business Podcast, Small Business Success, DisruptHR, Recruiter.com, SparkHire and the Top 1% Podcast.
  • Host and creator of the “Small Business Hiring” podcast with over 20,000 downloads and 120 episodes. Interviewed the top companies in the world that have been voted a best place to work, industry experts and top CEO’s to understand their methods for building top performing teams.
  • Applying Analytics to the Hiring Process – DisruptHR Presentation, https://bit.ly/33ttwTv
  • Designed data schema for custom Hubspot CRM implementation and integration with multiple external data sources which reduced time to close workflow by over 50%.
  • Automated marketing, business development and external sales to increase recurring revenue by over 80%.
  • Created and administered company CMS using custom HTML and CSS modified Wordpress instance.
  • Sourced and managed a team of external 1099 contractors for client work.
RecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Duval search associates

Recruiting Director

Jun 2007Jan 2018 · 10 yrs 7 mos

  • Completed full cycle recruiting for Fortune 500 and higher education organizations including: The Coca-Cola Company, Freddie Mac, Nationwide Insurance, TIAA-CREF, Northrop Grumman, Carnival Corporation, Bank of America, Ingersoll-Rand, Capital One and Time Warner Cable.
  • Transitioned legacy CRM to cloud hosted applicant tracking CRM.
  • o Designed and implemented data schema, custom views, workflow automation, marketing automation and data visualizations.
  • Designed custom corporate website using Java, HTML and CSS which integrated with our CRM.
  • Implemented business process modernization through the use of cloud hosted apps and workflow best practices.
  • Created and maintained relationships with hiring managers and key stake holders at all client organizations. Regularly interfaced with individuals at the Senior Manager, Director and C-Suite level.
RecruitingApplicant Tracking Systems

Education

University of Virginia

BA — Psychology

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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