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San Francisco, California, US

As a Product Advocate at Sanity, I specialize in enabling companies to deploy solutions that drive revenue, reduce costs, and streamline operations. Utilizing Sanity’s headless CMS, CDN, and omni-channel experimentation platform, I ensure businesses implement scalable content delivery strategies across all channels. My focus is on showcasing real-world use.

Mountain View, WY, US

• Led the design of TalentSyncAI a pioneering AI recruitment software platform, AI matching tool, and job description generator for instantly sourcing across millions of energy sector-specific professionals and employers.
• Designed technology to leverage cutting-edge data enrichment services, incorporate our own proprietary large language model, and utilize real-time search aggregators.
• Managed the end-to-end software product lifecycle, from ideation to MVP.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Hired 105 positions as a team globally, achieving a 75% offer acceptance rate while owning talent acquisition strategies for AI/ML products, hardware & software. Led sourcing, recruitment ops admin, and the Greenhouse.
• Generated $4.7M in agency savings by employing data-driven sourcing, increasing response rates from 11% to 40%.
• Reduced time-to-hire by 50% across multiple global offices. Led training of a diverse and detail-oriented team of 7 recruiters. Designed talent metrics, executive reporting dashboards, and the new employee interview.

San Mateo, California, US

• Delivered a 300% increase in workforce enabling the company's expansion into three new markets.
• Proactively hired more than 70 scientific PhDs and medical AI specialists to establish a variant detection business unit.
• Grew R&D group by 40%, which earned FDA approval. Generated pipeline and scheduled for 10 teams.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Hired 5 key executive leaders, scaled the company from 280 to 710 employees, and expanded healthcare delivery to all 50 states. Sourcing lead and managed talent acquisition for engineering, product, design, and medical.
• Recognized by the CTO and VP of HR for driving exceptional customer service and scaling strategic talent planning.
• Affected by a company-wide 30% RIF due to COVID-19.

Los Angeles, US

• Built out a recruitment team of 7, doubled the workforce to 175 in six months, and expanded talent acquisition capabilities across 2 different offices after the Series C funding round.
• Produced a 30% decrease in time-to-hire, saved $400k on agency spend, and created the data analytics group.
• Placed key executives across 15 business-critical teams, and managed talent acquisition function to build out each group.
• Featured speaker at UC Berkeley Haas Business School.
• Focused on lead generation, strategic planning, pipeline management, training, and employer talent branding.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Hired 95 people, 12 new executive positions after joining as the first (sole) recruiter and people ops leader. Owned People Operations, HR, and Talent Acquisition during the growth phase from $55M to achieving $250M in.
• Major contributions include leading the formation of the web app team which consists of 33% of our total revenue, and establishing an in-house creative team resulting in a 1,200% increase in creative performance that.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Awarded “Rookie of the Year”, and “Top Software Biller”, led professional services practice, trained 5 senior recruiters.
• Built a $20M west-coast professional service practice for Apttus (1,500 employees), specializing in Enterprise CPQ on Salesforce
• 1,200+ leads per month, owned full desk recruitment, developed team approach, 4-8 hires per month

San Francisco, California, US

• Generated $2.1M in ARR from 400 new customers as the first sales hire and helped design new product features.
• Collaborated with product and customer success teams to design new product features critical for enterprise customer requirements (EEOC, OFCCP, reporting, automation, deployment, integrations, visualizations)

• Oversaw 25 startups, placed 130 engineers at early software teams, and co-founded with Mark Gentry Partners (MGP).
• Hired and trained a team of 12 recruiters.

Embarked on an epic journey with my brother across Central America, from Mexico City to Panama. Immersed in local culture, regained Spanish fluency, and traveled on chicken buses. Explored each country, connected with locals, and achieved P.A.D.I. Rescue Diver certification. Managed on a $30/day budget, treasuring every moment. Highlights include.

• Managing a team of 15, hired and trained over 50 new employees. Developed 2 referrals for $350k ARR.
• Supervised operations and security for more than 145 live events