Edna Yan

VP Global Talent Acquisition & Operations | AI-Powered People Leader | Scaling Mission-Driven Tech Companies | MIT AI Certified | People Strategy & Workforce Architecture

Corona del Mar, California, United States

About

Work with Executive Team to lead/build high performing Global Talent Acquisition Team Expertise: Working with Executive Leadership on employer branding, global hiring strategies across all functions, best position hiring source while balancing the hiring budget with the best quality hires. Implement best practice of DE&I Mentoring & Training junior and senior recruiting teams Create BI and Competitive Analysis of hiring competitions and trends Extensive experience Labor Relations, partnership with HR business partners.

Experience

  • VP, Global Talent Acquisition at Redis
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Redis, home of the popular open-source database "Redis", helps organizations reimagine how quickly they can process, analyze, make predictions with, and take action on the data they generate. Redis is a Series G "unicorn" valued at more than $1 billion with more than $347 million in funding. WE ARE HIRING!

  • Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Cribl
    Nov 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • DataRobot (2 yrs 9 mos)
    • Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition
      Aug 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Oversee all hiring strategies for GTM, Engineering, Customer Success, G&A, and all other functions of the business. Scale and reset Talent Acquisition hiring, retention and DE&I practice. Restructured TA and TA Ops teams to maximize proficiency, while crafting DataRobot's next-gen talent acquisition vision, strategy, and roadmap in collaboration with executives and senior leadership. Serving as a trusted talent leader to DataRobot's executive team. Drive TA Branding and Recruitment Marketing functions to help promote company's culture and value

    • Vice President, WW GTM Talent
      Mar 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

      DataRobot is the leader in enterprise AI, delivering trusted AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises competing in today’s Intelligence Revolution. Its enterprise AI platform maximizes business value by delivering AI at scale and continuously optimizing performance over time. Learn more at datarobot.com.

  • Sr. Director, Global Talent Acquisition - GTM at AppDynamics
    Feb 2018 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Lead and build AppD's global sale talent team and recruiting strategies to meet all hiring needs under the CRO and other revenue generating business units. Award: Living Our Value - Champion Award December 2018. Design, develop and implement talent programs, projects and company initiatives globally while collaborating with HRBPs and business leaders to drive these initiatives to meet end goals.

  • Founder / Managing Partner at MDY Partners International
    2015 - Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    High touch, low volume retain search firm for high growth enterprise software companies Series A to Series G (ranging from $20MM to $700MM in revenue) and public tech companies. We specialized in helping clients scale their worldwide GTM organization from building to growing their Corporate Sales, Enterprise Sales, Channel Partners, Sales Enablement, Marketing, Solution Architect/SE, CS/PS, Sales Directors, AVP, EVP and CRO. The goal is to thoroughly understand their business needs in order to map the approach and deliver high quality A players while not wasting our clients’ time. We stay current on the market dynamics and hit 90% close ratio on all searches.