Kristina Stephan

About

TALENT PROGRAMS, TECH RECRUITMENT STRATEGY, EVENTS & OPERATIONS I’m a high-impact Tech Recruiter who is addicted to lifelong learning, passionate about emerging tech, early talent, and scaling talent programs🚀 Talent & Data Nerd. My expertise is crafting Tech Talent Strategies + Recruiting for roles within: ★ Software Development & Engineering ★ GenAI, LLMs, NLP, Machine Learning, ML Research ★ Product & Design ★ Cyber Security, Fraud & Risk, Legal & AI Policy Industry Expertise: 🦄 AI Start Ups & FinTech (Cohere, Wealthsimple, Intuit) 💼 Tech Consulting (Deloitte) 💊 Pharma, Medical Devices & Consumer Healthcare (Johnson & Johnson Inc) 💡Innovation Labs (JLabs @ MaRs, DSpace @ Communitech) _______________ Passionate about Talent or Tech? LET’S CONNECT💬 ☛IG - @KS_TechRecruitment ☛Twitter - @KS_TechTalent ☛Web - www.kstechinsights.net

Experience

• Senior Talent Partner at Wealthsimple
  Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

  Keepin it simple🤑 Hiring engineering, design, crypto & AI/ML talent!

• Relocation at Career Break
  Feb 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

  Moved down under!

• Cohere (Permanent Full-time · 1 yr 6 mos)
  • Manager, Talent Programs
    Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    🏗️Building Talent Programs & Partnerships at Cohere: Leading Early Talent, Global Compensation, Talent Analytics & Operations, DEI, Events-Hackathons-Partnerships lead 🚀 Hiring top AI & Research talent from across the world: ML, Data Eng, Product, GTM, AI Policy, Executives

  • Senior Talent Partner
    Sep 2022 - Oct 2022 · 2 mos

    👉 Making NLP a part of every developers toolkit! Recruiting & Sourcing top AI & ML Talent across the world: MLE, SWE, Research, Product/Design, GTM, AI Policy & Legal, and leading Intern & New Grad Recruitment

• Talent Attraction Business Partner at Wealthsimple
  Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 · 9 mos

  Keepin' it simple 🤑 Talent Programs & Attraction🦄 Sourcing & Hiring top talent for: • R&D Leadership Roles • Data Science & Engineering • Blockchain & Crypto Engineering • Product & Design

• Sr. Campus Recruiter - Canada & U.S at Intuit
  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  Led Early Talent strategy and recruitment for all of Intuit's Campus hiring in Canada, and US Co-op! Redesigned Canada's Campus Attraction strategy & interview process. Increased acceptance rates by 50%, and tripled Canada's Campus DEI numbers, hiring the most diverse student cohort in Intuit's history. Led North America's high impact School Selection & Diversity Analysis, used to inform and rebuild a new Early Talent Engagement strategy for Canada and the US.