Denver Metropolitan Area
Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to lead high-performing global teams, scale organizations through periods of hypergrowth and transformation, and partner with executive leaders to solve complex business challenges. Whether building world-class talent organizations or driving enterprise-wide AI and People transformation, I'm energized by creating systems, teams, and experiences that help both businesses and people thrive. At the core of my leadership philosophy is a simple belief: people do their best work when they feel safe, heard, empowered, and supported. High performance and empathy are not opposing forces—they're complementary. The highest-performing teams are built by leaders who create clarity, set high expectations, remove obstacles, and genuinely invest in the success of their people. I'm a results-driven leader who believes in accountability and execution, but I lead with empathy first. I care deeply about developing people, creating opportunities for growth, and building environments where individuals feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work. I believe leadership means rolling up your sleeves, staying close to the work, and never asking your team to do something you're not willing to do yourself. There are no ivory towers—great leaders are in the trenches with their teams, coaching, learning, and celebrating wins together. I'm passionate about leveraging technology, AI, and data to transform the way organizations operate, while never losing sight of the human experience behind every decision. My goal is always the same: build teams that perform at the highest level because people trust one another, feel valued, and are empowered to do the best work of their careers.
Leading Okta's People Experience & AI Transformation organization, a newly created function focused on reimagining how employees experience work through AI, automation, data, and human-centered design. Our mission is to build a high-performance People ecosystem by transforming fragmented processes into seamless, intelligent, and trusted experiences across the entire employee lifecycle. We partner across the business to accelerate organizational performance by combining technology, analytics, and operational excellence with a relentless focus on employee experience. My organization brings together several critical functions, including: -AI Transformation and the responsible adoption of AI across the People organization. Digital Solutions and People Operations, driving scalable, efficient, and technology-enabled People processes. -Employee Onboarding and Manager Enablement, creating exceptional experiences that help employees and leaders succeed from day one. -Employer Brand and Employee Value Proposition (EVP), strengthening our ability to attract, engage, and retain world-class talent. -People Analytics, enabling data-driven decision-making and embedding a "facts over feelings" approach across the organization. Together, we're shaping the future of work at Okta by leveraging AI, data, and innovative employee experiences to unlock performance at scale.
Led Okta's global Talent Acquisition organization, responsible for building the talent engine that powered the company's long-term growth. Oversaw a global team of approximately 90 recruiting professionals supporting hiring across all functions and levels, from early career through executive leadership, with annual hiring volumes exceeding 2,000 hires worldwide. Partnered closely with executive leadership to align talent strategy with business priorities by building scalable, data-driven recruiting operations focused on quality, speed, and operational excellence. Prioritized hiring exceptional talent, anticipating future workforce needs, and creating a frictionless hiring experience through automation, AI, process optimization, and technology. Key accomplishments: -Built a forecasting engine that consistently delivered hiring outcomes within 5% of quarterly hiring targets, significantly improving planning accuracy and executive confidence. -Increased recruiter productivity to an average of 12 external hires per recruiter per quarter, establishing one of the highest-performing recruiting organizations in the company. -Pioneered the use of AI within the People organization, leading the first enterprise implementation of AI-enabled recruiting workflows while establishing responsible AI usage guidelines and governance for recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. -Scaled Okta's India organization into the company's largest global office in just three years by developing a high-performing recruiting strategy and local talent infrastructure. -Led a global Talent Acquisition organization of approximately 90 team members across North America, EMEA, APJ, and India (serving 27 countries). -Oversaw the delivery of more than 2,000 hires annually across technical, go-to-market, corporate, and executive functions while maintaining a strong focus on quality of hire and candidate experience.
August 2023- February 2024- I currently lead the recruiting team in the Americas. This encompasses sales, sales engineering, marketing, customer first, legal, finance, people, development, engineering, product, and design hiring. February 2023- August 2023- I led the global go-to-market and corp functions. This encompassed sales, sales engineering, marketing, customer first, legal, finance, people, and development roles in AMER, APJ, and EMEA. April 2022- January 2023- I led Okta's Product, Marketing, and Customer First Recruiting teams.
Running global recruiting for Optimizely
Running all business recruiting in North America.
Optimizely is the industry-leading experience optimization platform providing A/B testing, targeting and optimization for websites and mobile apps. The platform’s ease of use and speed of deployment empowers organizations to conceive and run experiments that help them make better data-inspired decisions. In five years we’ve grown to become No. 1 in the category, with more than 8,000 customers including Microsoft Bing, NBC Universal and Bleacher Report. We’ve raised $146 million to grow both in the US and internationally, opening offices around the world. We’re looking for rockstars to join our fearlessly creative and data driven team. Come join us!