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United States

Fremont, Us

• Builds and executes green hydrogen company’s talent strategy for its expanding global operations.• Partners with vendors worldwide to meet company’s ambitious hiring goals and surge labor needs. • Manages and develops teams of recruiters and coordinators in the US and India. Meets with teams regularly to prioritize workload and implement strategy. Leads with context over control. • Works with multiple outside counsels and employers of record to secure work visas globally. • Designed and leads Engineering Task Force cutting time-to-fill for critical roles by 30%. • Built comprehensive hiring manager training with a focus on Workday fundamentals, enhancing the candidate experience, legal compliance, and behavioral interviewing techniques. • Led Workday TA module implementation, including integration of scheduling, Checkr background checks, and DocuSign employment offers, to create a true system of record for all hiring activities. • Created company’s first ATS-driven reporting to track and manage key recruitment metrics and trends. • Calculates and issues all new hire equity grants using job grades and company valuation for Board approval. • Acts as Company Administrator for employer of record in non-entity foreign countries; partners with international outside counsels to draft employment contracts, benefits packages, and other employment documents as mandated by local law. • Works cross-functionally to draft and implement policy, including expatriate and international internship programs. • Serves as Executive HR Business Partner to leadership, including Chief Commercial Officer, Chief of Product Servies, and Vice-President of Systems Engineering, and their 26 hiring managers.

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Filled this new talent management role at quantum computing startup, leading the daily activities of the Talent Operations and Recruiting teams and executing the TA strategic plan.• Managed and developed a team of HR coordinators and technical recruiters responsible for all domestic and international recruiting.• Built out and managed back-end recruiting operations capabilities, including sourcing and coordination functions.• Designed and delivered ongoing, comprehensive management trainings with a focus on DE&I, enhancing the candidate experience, legal compliance, and behavioral interviewing.• Improved ATS functionality and ensured team’s adoption through ongoing training and support.• Leveraged data to improve and report on key recruitment metrics including time-to-hire and fill, diversity hiring and retention, offer acceptance and decline rates.• Developed and implemented sourcing strategies for international and local markets.• Designed company’s first comprehensive DE&I roadmap, partnered with leadership to implement initiatives that drive achievement of diversity hiring and retention goals.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

• Conceptualized, pitched, built from scratch, and led new Retail division for company, resulting in gross revenue of $1.4M in 2021, with projected revenue of $2.5M in 2022.• Recruited, hired, and led teams of Managers and Associates across three stores in two states.• Built strong relationships with customers to achieve a 22% month-to-month return rate.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

• Proposed this position consolidating two roles resulting in annual company savings of $65,000.• Oversaw the Talent Acquisition and Administrative Operations teams; developed, implemented, and refined systems and procedures to ensure an efficient, white glove experience for candidates and employees alike.• Developed and enforced budgets, managed projects, and planned company calendar of events.• Rebid janitorial contract in first 60 days for 55,000 sq. ft. headquarters and 140,000 sq. ft. production facility resulting in annual savings to company of $63,000.• In response to Covid-19, maintained regular contact with ELT; implemented major changes in cleaning protocols across ourfacilities to ensure safety of all employees.• Played an important role in morale and engagement, created a continually better place to work, and made sure that the market knew about it.• Member of B Lab, a small, cross-functional team that was tasked with and successfully acquired B Corp status for Charlotte’s Web in less than one year.• Unwavering, people-focused, champion of culture with the ability to balance that with the needs of the business.• Co-founder and permanent member of The Vibe, a rotating team tasked by CEO to study and transform employee engagement; launched a company-wide Gallup engagement survey in 2020 and mapped out strategies to address employee concerns while considering business interests.• Founding member of DE&I Action Committee.• Designed, pitched, and launched the Builder’s Circle Award, which was the company’s first formal employee recognition program; awarded to those who embody the company’s stated values of Trust, Compassion, Courage, Vitality, and Excellence.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

• Managed the recruitment and hiring process for more than 300 new hires in 2019, doubling size of the company. • Acted as executive recruiter to fill high-visibility roles including: Director of R&D, Director of HR, Sr. Director of Quality, VP of Marketing, Director of Internal Audit, and Director of Education.• Developed a best-in-class, scalable recruiting function to align with the company’s high growth business priorities to fast-track us toward our ambitious goals.• Established key relationships with HRBP's, business leaders, and hiring managers to understand the recruiting needs of the company.• Established Charlotte’s Web as an employer of choice in our industry, in Colorado and beyond by championing our employer brand.• Launched initiatives and established relationships with universities to strengthen the diversity of our talent in all stages of recruiting, and reinvigorated our employee referral program.• Assessed competitive landscape for talent across industries and strategizes how to consistently attract top talent.• Defined and drove industry best practices continuously monitoring market trends.• Deployed innovative tactics in sourcing candidates, including social media, marketing campaigns, public meetups and events, trade shows, employee referrals, and campus recruiting.• Developed enterprise-wide contingent hiring strategies and maintained relationships with external recruiting agencies.• Established recruiting KPIs and metrics to monitor applicant flow, selection, and quality of hire to drive decision making and measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting program and recruiting team productivity; continuously improves upon programs, policies, and processes.• Led, coached, and developed a growing team of recruiters to build a highly efficient and metrics-driven recruiting team.

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Supported the business by providing proactive candidate sourcing, relationship development, and pipelining.• Executed strategic workforce planning by analyzing supply and demand, compensation, and other market data.• Worked closely with stakeholders to source, select, hire, and retain an exceptional candidate for each role.• Heavy marketing through LinkedIn, professional associations, and virtual and traditional career fairs.• Contributed to program development initiatives to improve processes, systems, and measures.

Denver, Co, Us

• Partnered with hiring managers nationwide to create job requisitions, defining and validating key position requirements.• Used traditional and nontraditional resources to source, recruit, and pre-screen candidates for a variety of skill sets and positions.• Actively participated and contributed to process improvement strategies and projects within the recruiting team as well as the human resources team.

Addison, Texas, Us

• Partnered with hiring managers nationwide to create job requisitions, defining and validating key position requirements.• Used traditional and nontraditional resources to source, recruit, and pre-screen candidates for a variety of skill sets and positions.• Actively participated and contributed to process improvement strategies and projects within the recruiting team as well as the human resources team.

Australia - China (Including Hk) - New Zealand - Singapore, Au

• Twice awarded the Hudson Award, organization’s highest North American honor, for “exceptional performance and gross margin contribution.”• Awarded Chairman's Award, organization’s highest global honor, in 2010 for embodying the company's stated values of “integrity, respect, collaboration, empowerment, and responsibility.”• Opened Hudson’s Dallas Legal office in June 2007, and grew it from 4 employees to more than 200 permanent and contract employees by 2012.• Successfully managed and completed close to 100 large-scale document review projects for corporate clients involved in complex litigation.• Successfully filled dozens of in-house positions for corporate clients.• Built and maintained a talent pipeline of more than 1000 vetted area professionals available for assignment.• Developed recruitment and management strategies for more than 200 direct reports.• Conducted semi-annual employment reviews based on performance measurements.• Standardized recruitment processes, training, and metrics for recruiters across the organization.• Collaborated on organization’s internet and social networking strategy.• Presented to law firms and student groups to promote organization to candidate community.• Developed and maintained strong direct relationships with hiring managers and client leadership.• Developed strategic recruitment and retention tools and techniques, and maintained knowledge of market conditions and candidate motivations to attract and retain best applicants.• Collaborated to develop and implement metrics for reporting to clients.• Resolved concerns of clients and permanent and contract employees.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

• Actively and passively recruited and interviewed attorneys and other legal professionals.• Developed and implemented innovative staffing plans to generate a qualified pool of candidates for current and future job openings.• Maintained and marketed pool of “Most Placeable Candidates.”• Managed the full life cycle of recruitment processes including strategies, methods, sourcing, qualification, pre-employment verification, offer, close, and on-boarding.• Contributed to program development initiatives to improve processes, systems, and measures.

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Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) Candidate, Political Science And Government

Juris Doctorate Candidate, Law