Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · United States · Remote

• Global Director driving strategy, operational execution, and technology implementation of Talent Acquisition and AI Talent Intelligence worldwide.
• Leading global design and implementation of Eightfold AI Talent Intelligence and CRM across 47 countries, integrating with ATS systems to drive data-driven hiring, process standardization, and strategic workforce planning. Partnering with executives to align talent technology with business growth.
• Executive Relationships Partnering with HR, business, and C-level leaders to align TA technology with enterprise growth strategy, targeting 80%+ recruiter adoption in Q1 and delivering full visibility into global and executive hiring pipelines.
• Change Management: Championed and guided 100+ TA leaders and 47,000 employees through the global Eightfold AI TA & TI rollout.
• Global Implementation Led enterprise-wide design and global implementation of Eightfold AI CRM integrated with Taleo ATS across 47 countries. Ensuring compliance while reducing manual recruiter steps by 20%.
• Training & Development: Led global stakeholder workshops, discovery sessions, and gap analysis, achieving 100% regional alignment and consistent TA process adoption across all business units.
• System Design & Delivery: Translated business requirements into functional solution designs — delivering capabilities that achieved 95% stakeholder sign-off on first iteration and streamlined recruiter workflows by 20%.
• User Acceptance Testing: Led global UAT for Eightfold AI CRM, Eightfold Talent Intelligence, and Taleo ATS, driving an 80% improvement in system effectiveness and measurable ROI. Oversaw end-to-end UAT, deployment, and change management, resulting in a 98% defect-free go-live and rapid stabilization within 30 days post-launch.

Mar 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

• HR Strategy: Led strategic alignment meetings with 10 global business and regional leaders—including 4 VPs across 5 business units—to proactively forecast hiring needs and optimize workforce planning, resulting in a 95% on-time, on-budget role fulfillment rate and stronger cross-functional relationships at the executive level.
• Talent Acquisition Leadership: Reduced time-to-hire from 180 days to 30 days across all departments (Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and HR), enabling accelerated product launch by 6 months for the AI-powered App Builder (low-code/no-code platform) and facilitating the formation of the GTM team, resulting in business churn.
• Performance Management: Led performance management activities—including goal setting, mid-year checkpoints, individual development plans, performance improvement plans, compensation management, salary reviews, and promotions—delivering workforce insights that enabled Finance to improve forecasting accuracy by 30% and optimize compensation planning across the organization.
• HRIS Transformation: Streamlined the hiring process by relaunching SmartRecruiters ATS and migrating onboarding to Bamboo HR, driving organizational efficiencies and enabling data-driven insights. Designed and launched PerformYard, a performance management system, leading activities such as goal setting, development plans, performance improvements, and compensation management, resulting in a 25% increase in employee engagement and 90% adoption.
• Compensation & Job Architecture: Led job analysis and internal benchmarking to standardize titles, align pay bands, and reduce leveling gaps; launched a compensation framework to drive equity and mobility.
• People Analytics & Reporting: Built and launched a real-time leadership dashboard, enabling data-driven decisions on hiring, internal mobility, and retention. Delivered insights that directly supported executive workforce planning and improved time to fill and retention metrics.

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Led a recruitment team of 8+ globally across all corporate functions across 120+ locations across Canada and US (Tech/IT, Product, Marketing, Analytics, G&A, Finance), including executive recruitment and emerging talent/college programs. Developed, implemented, and aligned recruiting strategies, systems and programs.
• Leadership: Led and mentored a high-performing team of 8+ (25 dotted line TA professionals total) orchestrating seamless execution of HR practices aligned with the company's strategic vision across USA, and Canada. Led full-cycle recruitment and organizational development strategies, resulting in a reduction of open roles from 45% to 6% across all departments.
• Recruitment Strategy: Designed and implemented recruitment strategies, updated job descriptions based on leveling, and prepared recruitment materials, achieving a $1M reduction in agency cost for FY 22-23
• HRIS transformation: Successfully led the Success Factors (ATS) and Eightfold (CRM) transformation, resulting in nationwide organizational, automated processes, amplified data accuracy/reporting, dismantled silos, and elevated decision quality, reducing speed to apply from 15 to 4 minutes.
• Data and Analytics: Spearheaded the creation of enhanced people data and insights, delivering actionable information to Senior Leadership, increasing real-time hiring, internal mobility and retention providing actionable insights and improving decision-making processes.
• Diversity Hiring: Created and led the campus recruitment strategy, filling 68+ requisitions within 30 days, across 40 universities and colleges. Over exceeded diversity hiring goals resulting by hiring 89% of underrepresented candidates, an increase of 74% YOY.
• Employment Law: Leading the sponsorship process for foreign employees in 5 countries, guaranteeing compliance with global immigration regulations and facilitating a seamless transition for international recruits. Achieved a 100% retention rate for sponsored talent.

Nov 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Promoted due to exceptional performance. As a key member of the Global HR Leadership Team, strategically led a team of 8 Talent Acquisition and Talent Management professionals supporting 27 countries across MEA, NOAM, APAC. Received 2 notable awards – FY 22 & 23 Excellence in Sales Support.
• HR Strategy: Established a strong foundation of TA strategy, policy and procedures across 27 countries ensuring compliance, and developing compensation approach to facilitate a remarkable 2X growth expansion in new countries.
• Global Talent Acquisition: Spearheading global hiring of 500+ regular FT employees in a year; Reducing days-to-fill for all organizations from 125 to 39 days.
• Talent Acquisition Leadership: Skillfully managing high-impact HR projects spanning legislation compliance, policies, and procedures for the organization, led a dedicated team of 8 resulting in meticulous project execution and saving the company over $1.6 Million dollars.
• Data and Analytics: Spearheaded the creation of enhanced people data and insights, creation and development of a leadership metrics-reporting dashboard.
• HRIS Implementations: Designed and implemented an all-encompassing agile strategy for global talent acquisition. Simultaneously, orchestrated the optimization of internal systems, Succession Planning, Performance Management (Bullseye), and Applicant Tracking System (ATS GreenHouse), to enhance functionality but also facilitate the measurement of analytics and KPIs for the entire company, enabling gauging of overall success.
• Talent Management: Led calibration and succession planning discussions and development plan content for all positions.
• Culture/Branding: Played a pivotal role in shaping the company culture and values, contributing to the organization being recognized as an employer of choice in the industry. Strategize to drive Employer Branding initiatives across social media channels resulting in increase in Glassdoor ratings from 2.9 to 4.3 in less than 18 months.

Apr 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Jun 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area - Sunnyvale,CA

• Recruited by the Head of Talent Acquisition to lead a team of 5 recruiters and support global expansion, awarded global responsibility in 12 months for the UK, Finland, and France.
• Cost Savings: Delivered a $2M YOY savings by spearheading the Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) transition from 30% to 100% internal teams; reduced cost of hire by 200% and limited agency spending to less than 10% of costs annually.
• Talent Acquisition: Developed a recruiting team to operate the full lifecycle of recruiting and onboarding, filling 70+ positions nationwide in less than 6 months, with 70% of positions coming from internal recruitment.
• Mergers and Acquisitions: Supported acquisition, focusing on change management, integration and optimizing the employee experience. Managed the redundancy of 100+ employees in France and Finland by quickly learning EMEA redundancy law, partnering with law firms and unions to create documentation, developing communications and support materials, leading to the smooth resolution of a sensitive and complex matter.

Apr 2012 – Jul 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hayward, CA · On-site

• Promoted from Contract Recruiter to Manager. Managed a team of 5 recruiters within a fast-paced environment, achieving a 4X growth over 3 years.
• Full-cycle recruitment: Successfully managing end-to-end talent acquisition, from client engagement and search strategy development to strategic sourcing, interviewing, negotiation, and successful placements. Improved time-to-fill metrics by reducing it from 90 to 45 days, hiring over 150+ hires within the first 10 months in the role within a fast-paced environment.
• Budget and Workforce Planning: Strategically managed a $1M budget, spearheading short-term and long-term recruitment planning, resource allocation, and deployment, which supported a 150% increase in corporate headcount over two years period, optimizing financial resource allocation for the organization.
• Engagement and Retention: Managed the candidate and employee experience from start to finish, representing the organization positively and significantly reducing turnover and receiving positive feedback from employees consistently and increasing employee referrals by 15% year over year.

Jul 2009 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Oct 2007 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Jose, CA

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Sep 2006 – Sep 2007 · 1 yr · Mountain View, CA