Feb 2023 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area · Hybrid

• Joined series A - HQ SEA - Our team is hybrid, with our employees based throughout the US and internationally
• Managing the People Operations/Talent function at Union.ai as their first Head of People
• Independently own all full-lifecycle recruiting efforts for leadership and non leadership roles [getting my hands dirty since 2012]
• My incredible team and I support all facilities, onboarding, off-boarding, training, employee events, employee pulse survey planning, immigration, performance reviews, benefits, board meetings, all hands, internal hackathons, employer branding and so much more
• I thrive as a builder, inclusive people leader, high performing IC when the job calls for it and more recently part time janitor(we all have hidden talents)!
• Depth as a Recruiter and leader, currently acquiring breadth across HR
• Tools: Rippling, Ashby, Linear, G-Suite, Ramp, Tipalti and more

Sep 2022 – Feb 2023 · 5 mos

• Company ceased operations - October 2023

Aug 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Joined series D - HQ in SEA (remote covid)
• Built and executed hiring strategy for all Product, Engineering, Design, Science and University functions across Convoy. Partnering closely with CTO, CoS, Senior Directors and various leaders across compensation, finance, legal and other stakeholder teams
• Leading a team of Recruiting Managers, Coordinators and Sourcers to set and achieve hiring goals
• A track record of coaching and motivating high performing teams, leading to successful promotions and excellent team retention
• Build and set hiring strategy, recruiting retros, talent mapping, branding tactics and other initiatives that bolster our hiring funnel and overall talent community
• Responsible for overseeing and hands on hiring of T2 SWE interns through T8/M8 Technical Leaders
• Influence and define strategy involving compensation, DE&I, Event hiring and other programs and process aligned closely with Talent
• Leveraging data to drive operational efficiency and effectiveness in the hiring process
• Projects include: Internal pay parity workbook, Recruiting Jira project tracker, Recruiting service desk, Mandalorian efforts, Entelo, Greenhouse and additional trainings to #RTB across Recruiting, Glint survey breakout sessions and roadmaps, hiring events, career page redesigns, P&E quarterly newsletters and more!

Mar 2020 – Jul 2020 · 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Brief time with great people but I made the choice to leave and go to Convoy for personal reasons.
• Joined series D, HQ in SEA
• Build initial version of Highspot's DE&I hiring strategy
• Worked with stakeholders as part of the DE&I crew responsible for assessing and choosing a vendor to conduct employee DE&I training
• Initiated the build out of the teams talent spot (informational hub for Talent related information)
• Player coach - Managing a small team of Technical Recruiters while actively recruiting for P&E pipelines

Oct 2017 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• HQ in SF - Started at L6 and promoted to L7 (Sr. Manager) before leaving. Stakeholders: Engineering VP's, Directors, CTO, HR, Legal and others.
• Joined pre IPO through IPO
• Helped Lyft achieve a 98% increase in personnel over the last year
• Build things, ship things, question things
• Manage a team of managers and IC's (technical SWE recruiters) in SEA + SF + NY
• Collaborated with recruiting ops to build Lyft's referral program acting as the POC from tech recruiting
• Member of the "green team" - implementation of Greenhouse ATS from Lever
• Launched pooled hiring and worked with engineering leadership to define ROI/goals of this structure
• A contributing member of building out the recruiting team's career pathway at Lyft
• Experience promoting team members and driving productivity through times of ambiguity and change
• Responsible for overseeing and hiring T4 SWE's - M7 Technical Leadership roles

Feb 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote · Remote

• Joined series A, HQ in SF
• Started at the company when there were 200 people and left when there were 600+ employees. Stakeholders: CEO, Org Directors, VP's, HR, Legal, Onboarding and more
• Hire, hire, hire (Product, Engineering, Technical and non Technical Leadership, Solutions Engineers, Sales, HR, Recruiting and other functions)
• Talent leader for a team of 3 - conduct 1:1's - set clear vision + goals, improve quality and delegate impactful work to grow and develop my team
• Built and shipped our metrics project - establishing recruiting SLA's and metrics for 2016/2017, recruiting team wiki, and end to end webinar for SHPE, the inception and launch of Beamery CRM
• PM for migration from Lever to Greenhouse ATS
• Recommending product features to improve the application process for external candidates, resulting in changes to our overall application process
• Developed and led training classes for online diversity sourcing tactics and other sourcing tools
• Spearheaded external branding efforts by initiating company Glassdoor reviews, went from 0-14+ reviews and increased page views by %90
• Designed and launched Linkedin careers page, averaging 3K+ views per job posting
• Designed and launched company Glassdoor. Taking company from 0 reviews and 600 views to multiple reviews, a 4.8 rating and 40K+ views a month

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• HQ in SF - Hired into a contract role and was asked to convert to FTE within first 2 months. Left this role when GitHub reached out to me (I have always been a super fan of their product)
• Sourced all candidates I hired while at Climate, outside of internal referrals, working as part of a distributed recruiting function with HQ in SF
• %90+ offer acceptance rate on all offers extended
• Manage full cycle recruiting process for Engineering organization, ensuring an excellent candidate experience
• Evaluate skill level; manage offer process, including salary recommendations, offer letter generation and offer acceptance/declines
• Build strong pipeline in innovative ways to source and connect with potential candidates
• Work internally with hiring managers and leadership to understand positions and team needs

Sep 2013 – Mar 2014 · 6 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Contract corporate recruiter for e-commerce Internet Company (3 month original contract that was extended until I moved back to Seattle when my partner got a job offer)
• Highly skilled in picking Andes Mints from communal candy dish
• Organizer and maintainer of the Santa Monica .NETwork on Meetup.com
• I have many connections on Linkedin, and many leather bound books, and my apartment smells of rich mahag……oops, got off track

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

• •Strategically sourced and placed technical candidates for well established clients in the LA area.

Jun 2012 – May 2013 · 11 mos

• Sourced a high volume of Administrative and legal professionals for placement at Microsoft from the following methods (Linkedin, Career Builder, Monster, Dice, Boolean Strings and candidate referrals)
• Successfully took RHI market share at Microsoft account from #3 at 16% to #1 at 27%

Feb 2012 – Jun 2012 · 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area