Stephanie Reese Zahn

Employer Brand | Internal Comms | Pickleball Fanatic

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Combining design thinking, strategic storytelling, and behavioral science in the HR space to activate purpose, transform culture, and make work better. Building bridges between Marketing, IT, Communications, Recruiting and People teams to create Minimum Lovable Products and journeys for employee and candidate populations. I’m drawn to big-gulp challenges and feel most inspired observing creative people and wildlife in their element (not together, necessarily). - Lead the vision for employee experience design, optimizing journeys, measuring moments that matter, and solving critical people-related challenges - Develop, design, and implement enterprise employee value propositions to attract, engage, and retain talent - Lead strategy and design of productivity-enhancing tools like employee experience platforms and innovative communication tools to reach employees when, where, and how they prefer - Build teams leveraging data and creative storytelling to reinforce the company’s mission, vision, values, and strategy - Champion and scale brand voice to empower internal communications and recruiting teams to create consistent, compelling, on-brand materials

Experience

  • Wonder (Full-time · 1 yr 11 mos)
    • Director, People Experience, Communications, & Employer Brand
      Apr 2022 - Dec 2022 · 9 mos

    • Associate Director, Internal Communications, Experience Design & Talent Brand
      Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Wonder is a fast-growing food-tech startup that’s making every meal one to remember. We’re creating an on-demand dining experience where fresh, high-quality meals are prepared and served at customers’ doorsteps within minutes through our proprietary approach to home dining. We partner exclusively with the best restaurants and chefs in the world to bring their unique recipes right to you; dishes that perhaps you’ve read and dreamt about but haven’t been able to try without traveling to another city. Meals are prepared in our central kitchens then fired, finished, and presented by chefs from our customized mobile kitchens so you can enjoy while it’s just-cooked. :chef_kiss: Hungry to learn more? Visit our LinkedIn company page to explore opportunities to work with us.

  • Walmart (2 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Manager, Storytelling & Experience Design, Global People Communications
      Mar 2019 - Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Manager, Storytelling & Experience Design, Global People Communications
      Mar 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Founder, CEO at giftworthy
    2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

    Top 10 on Product Hunt Giftworthy is a personalized gift recommendation engine that uses our unique, 6-factor criteria to help you select a gift that's guaranteed to delight.

  • Employer Brand Strategy, Voice, Positioning & Messaging at Jet
    2016 - 2018 · 2 yrs

  • Copy, Content Strategy & Customer Experience Optimization, Lean Labs at Bloomingdale's
    2014 - 2016 · 2 yrs