Lehi, Utah, United States
I specialize in white-glove strategic recruiting experiences. I have experience in tech leadership recruiting, PhD/university level recruiting, and mid to senior level IC tech recruiting, all at organizations ranging in size. I have experience leading projects, programs, and collaborating with a variety of high profile stakeholders.
(Contract Roles: Epic Games via Eastridge Workforce Solutions & Waymo via Magnit global) Epic Games (10 Months): -Acted as a full cycle recruiter for multiple parts of the business including Unreal Engine, Fortnite, anti-cheat, as well as corporate business roles. -Recruited across multiple levels from intern to Sr Director roles in the product, engineering, and production orgs. -Filled business critical roles across multiple different studios in the US, Canada, UK, and the EU. -Developed and implemented sourcing and recruiting strategies within the org, working closely with high level studio stakeholders and business leaders to fill roles critical to game and engine production. -Communicated hiring strategies, timelines, and goals to leadership as well as hiring partners. -Consistently met all Goals and SLA agreements in relation to my contract role Waymo (4 months): -Acted as a full cycle recruiter for mobile software engineering teams in California & Poland -Communicated hiring strategies, timelines, and goals to leadership as well as hiring partners. -Consistently met all Goals and SLA agreements in relation to my contract role
(Affected by company wide RIF) Served as Senior Leadership Recruiter for product management, product design and data science organizations to recruit directors and above. Co-Lead Discord’s Black Employee Resource Group, responsible for development of all key activations for notable holidays important to the Black Diaspora leading to increased retention of Black and African American employees. Key Achievements: - Instituted a new assessment process in partnership with hiring managers across tech and business teams, leading to a 53 day time to fill, 19 days faster than the tech average over the last 6 months. - Developed a leveling matrix for Recruiter roles to support talent acquisition leaders set expectations and have growth conversations with reports. - Refined organization's diversity recruiting strategy and rolled out diversity recruiting goals and requirements company-wide. - Rolled out applicant tracking system tagging protocols to entire talent acquisition org (70 people) and instituted a diverse slate approach in recruitment processes. - Established new strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and their Product Management MBA program, engaging with 100+ students and Discord senior leadership. - Conducted market analysis to justify the need for Discord intern program, gained c-suite level buy-in and collaborated across functions (legal, HR,
(Affected by company wide RIF) Served as leadership recruiter focused on senior staff level talent. Created and oversaw innovative recruitment events to yield short, medium and long-term diverse talent pipelines. Key Achievements: - Organized first post-covid live tech talk and networking session in partnership with Netflix Chief Research Officer resulting in 70+ highly skilled research scientists attendees who became a part of the Netflix talent pipeline. - Made on average 3 hires per month of highly skilled niche talent (computer vision, graphics research, animation).
Global PhD and postdoctoral recruiter responsible for finding high-level research talent at top tier universities which involved building strategic relationships with key university leaders and programs to build a diverse talent pipeline. Launched the satellite intern program experiences. Key Achievements: - Filled 30-40 niche PhD interns and 4-6 FTE PhD grads/postdocs niche research hires per half. - Oversaw pre, during, and post-conference strategy, activations (6,000+ conference attendees) to increase diversity talent pipeline (600+ candidates). Established new partnerships with computer vision research conferences. - Created and led programming for 70 PhD interns by gaining leadership buy-in, budget approval and hiring manager engagement. - Managed vendor contracts and partnerships for intern experience events (ranging from social to educational). - Built and delivered reports to business leaders that provided actionable insights based on qualitative and quantitative intern program data.