Vanessa (Van Epps) Robinson

Product Manager

San Diego, California, United States12 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in HR strategy and project management.
  • Led successful M&A talent integration at Airbnb.
  • Developed first Employee Handbook at Carbon Health.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a strategic HR leader with expertise in M&A and organizational development.

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About

Leveraging a blend of human resources, project management, and strategic thought partnership to build high-performing teams and cultures.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Servicenow

Strategic Project Manager

Dec 2023Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Insulet corporation

Org Transformation Project Manager

May 2023Dec 2023 · 7 mos

Carbon health

Global Head of HR Strategy and Projects

Nov 2020Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Remote

  • Led HR Special Projects (including M&A, org and budget redesigns, and goal prioritization exercises), and served as Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer
  • Project Managed all People/HR aspects of acquisitions from due diligence to early integration including compensation reviews, benefits harmonization, job mapping, assessing risk, leading presentations to impacted employees, and ensuring continuity of business operations
  • Served as Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer, organizing the operational cadence of the People organization, partnering with the CPO on a People Team org redesign, managing the People Team’s budget, and ensuring alignment on prioritization and goals
  • Launched Carbon’s first ever Employee Handbook and internal wiki, creating a centralized source of easy-to-search knowledge for 2,000+ employees
  • Created Carbon’s distributed workforce policy

Airbnb

2 roles

M&A Talent Lead

Promoted

Jan 2017May 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

  • Drove all talent aspects of acquihires at Airbnb from due diligence through early integration stages
  • Partnered with Corp Dev and Business Leaders on all talent aspects of strategic acquisitions from due diligence through early integration execution
  • Project managed interviews, job mapping/leveling/titling exercises, the creation of a compensation philosophy, and offer extension process across three strategic acquisitions
  • Owned the creation of several critical M&A processes and procedures, including an HR strategic acquisition playbook, M&A Tableau dashboard, acquihire compensation philosophy, and acquihire process playbook
  • Managed M&A Recruiter, M&A Sourcer, and M&A Ops and Coordinator

Senior Technical Recruiter

Apr 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Piloted new onsite interview process for engineering in partnership with engineering management and VP of Engineering
  • Led the creation of Airbnb’s first “Senior Women in Tech” tech talk, securing speakers from various top tech companies to discuss career progression for women in highly technical roles
  • Sourced top talent for multiple key roles, including Director of Security, Head of CSIRT, Head of IT Security, and Head of Trust and Safety
  • Expanded Security team from 2 engineers to 11 in one year and created a Security Engineering interview process from scratch

Binc

Project Lead/Senior Technical Recruiter

Jun 2013Apr 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Recruited technical and non-technical candidates for industry-leading start-ups Airbnb, RelateIQ, and Ripple Labs as a full life-cycle recruiter.
  • Owned the entire recruiting process from sourcing through interviewing to offer negotiations
  • Played a key role in workforce planning initiatives, counseling cross-functional hiring managers on team growth roadmaps, interviewing best practices, and assessment guidelines for interviews
  • Planned company-wide HR events, crafted Binc’s mission, vision, and values, and scoped out the necessary attributes for all future Binc hires

American greetings

Marketing Intern

Oct 2009Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Worked on various key promotional initiatives focused on driving organic sales growth and consumer interest.
  • Wrote copy and press releases for card designs and designers for both Cardstore.com and American Greetings
  • Formulated, directed, and coordinated social media work through rebranding of Cardstore.com blog, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest accounts
  • Actively optimized social engagement by creating weekly reports designed to track and evaluate social media performance.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — History

Jan 2009Jan 2013

ICP

Jan 2012Present

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