Seattle, Washington, United States
Recruiting for Applied Research and Fundamental Applied Research teams focused on Speech, NLP, Machine Learning, and Fairness/AI ethics. Managing stakeholder relationships with AI Research teams, Compensation, and XFN teams in Talent Acquisition to achieve PhD Research Scientist, Postdoc Researcher, and Intern hiring goals. Providing performance management and onboarding support to 20+ AI PhD Research Interns and their Managers across AI and RL during Summer/Fall internships. Refined AI Intern and FTE/STE hiring processes to adapt to changing business needs. Identified and implemented large-scaled Emerging Talent specific DEI initiatives as a part of a steering committee that contributed to Meta’s broader recruiting DEI goals. Owned the 2021 PhD Ambassador Program that gave additional Research/Engineering mentorship support for 420 PhD Interns by overseeing multiple workstreams focused on mentor training, comms, mentorship pairings, and branding to achieve a 98% intern sentiment score with 84% of participants receiving offers.
Senior Technical PhD Recruiter for University Recruiting's ML PhD team supporting multiple locations across SEA, MPK, and NYC. Experienced in driving adoption of effective hiring practices and resources for new grad and intern PhD ML recruiting to achieve YoY hiring goals. Advised ML Managers and Site Leadership on University hiring strategies, progress to goal, and process changes to increase alignment between the business and recruiting. Provided performance management support for 30+ ML PhD Interns and Intern Managers with 93%+ average intern satisfaction YoY. Delivered programmatic changes to ML PhD Internship Program by creating comprehensive intern assessment frameworks and resources that led to increased number of interns receiving FTE offers. Supported change management plan of Meta's Internship Program during COVID pandemic by executing specific ML PhD strategies on adapting performance assessment guidelines and intern experience in remote settings that resulted in 90%+ satisfaction results from PhD Interns and Intern Managers. Experienced in executing DEI initiatives for Emerging Talent Recruiting (UR) org that focused on manager development in building inclusion. Provided mentorship matches and training resources for the PhD Ambassador Program from 2019-2021 for PhD interns resulting in 8%+ in PhD Offers YoY. Actively mentored teammates on the ML PhD Recruiting team while also partnering with other UR Recruiters in streamlining onboarding experience for New Hires across Emerging Talent.
Led client meetings with Amazon’s Global L&D and Talent Management Leadership to report hiring progress and executed recruiting strategies effectively across multiple teams within the organization. Consistently met 1-1 with HMs weekly to review candidate profiles and effectiveness of sourcing strategies based on top of the funnel health and pass-through rates. Successfully filled 30+ positions for the Global Talent Management’s Career Ambassador Program that was implemented across Amazon through sourcing, screening, interview preparation, hiring reviews, and closing offers with 90%+ AR. Hired Senior Program Managers, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Communications Specialists positions specializing in I/O psychology, performance management, and organizational design by conducting Boolean searches, tailored outreaches, organized referral drives, and strong sell strategies.
Technical Recruiter with Amazon EU supporting International Consumer Retail Technology businesses. Responsible for the technical hiring efforts of the Amazon EU Headquarters in Luxembourg and software engineer development centers in Berlin and Madrid. Owned the technical hiring of industry, recent college graduates, and interns in Luxembourg. Responsibilities included developing long term talent acquisition strategies that focused on passive candidates, branding, and diversity hiring for Amazon's EU headquarters. Developed the internship and graduate tech hiring program in Luxembourg by collaborating with Engineering teams in developing internship assessment best practices and executing EMEA specific campus strategies to connect with students about Amazon career opportunities. Full Lifecycle Recruiter specializing in hiring Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Data Engineers, Systems Engineers, TPMs , Support Engineers, Web Developers, and Software Development Managers.
Technical Recruiter in Amazon Services Marketplace division for Seattle and Detroit. Specialized in identifying Software Development Engineers (SDEs), Data Engineers, Systems Engineers, TPMs , and Dev Mgmrs. Experience in recruiting Product Managers, Program Managers, and Business Analysts. Led the software development engineer hiring for Marketplace's Detroit office. Developed long term talent acquisition strategies that focus on passive candidates, branding, and conferences for our Detroit office. Responsible for extending and negotiating offers for Marketplace in addition to candidate generation and assessment for business critical roles. Developing recruiting domestic and international strategies across Amazon Services recruiting teams. Reporting on recruiting headcount health, recruiting performance, and hiring goals across Amazon Services.