Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · United States

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• Have you experienced:
• Settling for a job that's just "fine" instead of your dream role?
• Knowing your value but struggling to articulate it effectively?
• Possessing immense potential but finding it challenging to showcase on paper?
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• My Background
• With a rich history in HR at tech giants like Google, Lyft, Uber, TikTok, and The New York Times, I've channeled my passion for human resources into a mission. I'm dedicated to guiding individuals through their career journeys via social media platforms and personalized coaching.
• Let's unlock your full potential and propel your career to new heights.

Oct 2022 – Aug 2023 · 10 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• As a strategic HR and Talent Management leader at Dil Mil, subsidiary of Dating Group, I spearheaded initiatives that enhanced talent acquisition, employee development, and workplace inclusion to ensure we thrived in a competitive landscape. Also performed full lifecycle recruitment for all departments.
• In partnership with global HR teams, I integrated Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) principles into our talent management strategy, culminating in transformative outcomes for both our people and the business:
• Optimized Talent Management: Streamlined talent strategies for our diverse workforce, driving a notable 17% surge in employee satisfaction and engagement through the execution of DIB-centric initiatives.
• Revamped Compensation Structure: Devised a comprehensive compensation matrix and refined the career progression ladder. This pivotal change resulted in a 20% decline in pay disparities, a 15% uplift in eNPS, and a noteworthy 10% surge in internal promotions.
• Boosted Employee Retention: Successfully integrated DIB principles into our talent systems, marking a significant 20% increase in employee retention rates.
• Enhanced Recruitment Strategy: Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams and HR Business Partners, pioneering data-driven approaches that reduced talent acquisition costs by 10% and slashed time-to-hire by 25%.
• Succession Planning & Talent Review: Orchestrated Talent Reviews and Succession Planning to identify pivotal roles and talent gaps, promoting 12 high-performing employees to key positions internally.
• DIB Consulting: Functioned as the go-to internal DIB consultant, offering insights and tailoring training materials that galvanized a 30% rise in active DIB program participation throughout the company.

Jun 2021 – Jun 2021 · 0 mo

Apr 2021 – May 2021 · 1 mo

• Guest lecturer discussing: Communication, How To Articulate Ideas Clearly and Effectively

Mar 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Built and scaled a structured recruiting operation across engineering and all corporate functions, establishing processes, infrastructure, and hiring frameworks that became organizational standards.
• Process Architecture & Legacy Impact: Designed the organization's recruiter intake framework from scratch, later codified into Greenhouse ATS as the institutional standard, remaining in active use 3+ years post-departure and influencing every engineering requisition opened since.
• Hiring Infrastructure: Launched end-to-end hiring infrastructure across multiple engineering domains, reducing time-to-hire by ~30% and establishing repeatable, scalable processes where none previously existed.
• Offer Excellence: Achieved 94% team offer acceptance rate (H1 2022) with a personal 100% acceptance rate; closed 23 hires in H2 2021, 61% from diverse backgrounds.
• Inclusive Hiring: Designed and executed hiring strategy for Core Platforms and Delivery Engineering resulting in 60% D&I candidate hires.
• Team Leadership: Led and developed a team of full-time technical recruiters and RPO recruiters/sourcers, including structured evaluations, training, and performance coaching.
• Executive Partnership: Partnered directly with CTO and VP-level engineering leaders to build engineering-specific hiring blueprints prioritizing structured, bias-reduced interviewing.
• Org-Wide Training: Developed recruiter & interviewer training sessions across multiple engineering domains on structured interviewing techniques to ensure consistent, fair candidate evaluation.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Advising on all corporate and startup hiring. Responsible for advising on all internal structuring and scaling.

Jul 2020 – Mar 2021 · 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As the spearhead of recruitment for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) product, I've played an instrumental role in shaping the team's talent framework.
• Dedicated Partnership: Actively supported key leadership figures, including the Global Head of CRM Product & Engineering as well as the Head of Engineering for CRM. My collaboration with these leaders ensured our recruitment strategies were aligned with the company's vision and goals.
• Significant Contributions:
• Successfully onboarded a Global Head of Engineering, CRM for the US Engineering team. This key hire, a female engineering manager, now leads a robust team of 50 engineers, showcasing our commitment to diversity and strong leadership.
• Facilitated the hiring of the Global Operations Manager responsible for pioneering TikTok's Center of Excellence, reflecting the caliber and impact of our recruitment endeavors.

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

• Provide career support for MBA students, in their career exploration, career research process.
• Create and enhance resumes to align with job function and industry targets in addition to enhance LinkedIn usage and develop networking strategies.
• Assist students in honing their interview skills through targeted practice sessions.
• Develop skill building goals and implement rebranding exercises to boost job search performance.

Mar 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a recruiting lead for New Mobilities Global Product Operations (NeMo GPO) and Uber Works, I've been pivotal in shaping and driving our global recruitment strategy.
• Key Partnerships: Collaborated closely with the Director of Global Supply Chain for NeMo GPO and the leadership of Uber Works, including its CEO, ensuring alignment in our talent acquisition strategy with overarching company objectives.
• Strategic Hiring Impact:
• Successfully placed several high-profile roles, including the Head of Growth, multiple City General Managers, and a diverse set of L6 and L5 engineers.
• Maintained a stellar 100% candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) and hiring manager satisfaction, underlining the quality and precision of our recruitment endeavors.
• Enhanced Hiring Processes: Spearheaded the design and execution of NeMo GPO and Uber Works' comprehensive hiring process, introducing innovative tools like tailored selling/closing scripts and an improved candidate project assessment strategy.
• Data-Driven Insights: Led the Data Integrity project to optimize data reporting across platforms like iCims and Salesforce, resulting in a 14% boost in reporting efficiency.
• Internal Training Maven: Teamed up with the Learning & Development unit to curate and deliver invaluable training content, facilitating learning sessions for the Global Talent Acquisition team spanning regions from The Americas to APAC.

Jun 2018 – Mar 2019 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Level 5 is Lyft’s self-driving division with offices in Palo Alto, California; Munich, Germany; and London, UK. Our mission is to build the leading self-driving system for ridesharing. Together, with electric vehicles and Lyft Shared rides, autonomous vehicles will save millions of lives globally, eliminate congestion, reduce emissions, and allow us to rebuild cities around people and not cars.

May 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• HireClub is an online community focused on helping others grow their career. HireClub also offers career coaching where I also contribute. A great place to grow your career, see early job postings and even talk directly with hiring managers. Free to join and growing rapidly - stop in today!

Aug 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Hiring hardware reliability engineers, security engineers, hardware engineers specializing in monitors including modules, SOC architects and game developers for Google and Google X, the Moonshot Factory.

May 2016 – Present · 10 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States

May 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States