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Panama City, FL, US

San Diego, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Series C, SaaS/AI start-up with a global team in the US, CAN, and UK.

San Francisco, California, US

• Series C, E-commerce SaaS/AI start-up with a global team in US, EMEA, APAC, and Argentina.
• Coached and led a global team of 9 overseeing TA and TA operations across the US, FRAN, and CAN, achieving 25% growth with52 hires. Maintained a time-to-hire at 32 days and an offer acceptance rate of 87%.
• Successfully built and executed the recruitment strategy for the new Argentina office and achieved 100% hiring target.
• Conducted cost analysis resulting in a 60% reduction in external staffing reliance, saving ~$200K.
• Transformed recruiting operations into a data-driven approach by implementing enhanced analytics, automated NPS candidateexperience process, data intelligence, and real-time dashboards.
• Guided team through performance management and quarterly OKRs such as KPIs, ATS implementation, diversity initiatives,talent branding, recruiting metrics, and real-time dashboards.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Mid-market, hypergrowth SaaS/AI data intelligence platform serving SMB’s and enterprise customers.
• Built, coached, and led a team of 21 and achieved 75% growth with 250+ hires. Maintained a time-to-hire at 20 days.
• Designed a high-growth, KPI-driven, sales-based recruiting model that increased hiring efficiency by over 500%.
• Designed a data-driven talent operations model through report automation, full-funnel metrics, and real-time dashboards.
• Partnered with recruitment marketing and provided oversight of the candidate nurture campaign and proprietary LinkedInInMail ad campaign, resulting in 25% total hires per quarter.
• Implemented an incentive-based employee referral program, resulting in 30% New Hires.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Series C, hypergrowth, SaaS MarTech/ABM platform with a global team in the US and EMEA.
• Built, coached, and led a team of 3 and achieved global growth by 78% with 130+ hires. Maintained a time-to-hire at 26 days and an offer acceptance rate of 95%.
• Served as a trusted advisor to the ELT by architecting and implementing global hiring strategies to align with business goals.Designed and executed the recruiting strategy for a new office in the UK.
• Evolved the data reporting strategy and provided visibility and insights to the ELT to maintain team alignment.
• Evaluated the TA tech stack and streamlined the Lever ATS to integrate with the internal tech stack, increasing efficiency.
• Led the design of talent branding touchpoints to strengthen the candidate experience and built an all-encompassing hiringtoolkit to provide transparency into our hiring process.

Winterville, NC, US

• (Rehired) as Global TA Leader to re-design the TA infrastructure for 3 affiliate, high-growth/start-ups servicing the SaaS & Biotech industries, including:
• NantHealth, Inc.
• ImmunityBio, Inc.
• The OpenNMS Group. Accomplishments:
• Led a remote high-performing team of 4, serving an organization of 1,000+ employees.
• Served as a trusted advisor to the ELT by architecting and executing global TA and TA Operation strategies.

Winterville, NC, US

• TA leader appointed by ELT to design and scale the first TA and TA Operations infrastructure for a high-growth, Immunotherapy Biotech start-up.
• Led the organizational design of the talent acquisition model by building roadmaps, streamlining processes, demonstrating data capabilities, and optimizing recruiting tools.
• Developed, scaled, and led a nationwide talent acquisition and onboarding strategy, resulting in 300 hires (900%) growth in 3.5 years and maintained time to fill under 34 days.
• Built and executed workforce planning and talent acquisition strategies through unified, cross-functional collaboration.
• Implemented an enterprise ATS to increase efficiency and provide access to real-time dashboards and analytics.
• Nurtured a culture of recruiting, resulting in an average of 25% referral hiring.

Winterville, NC, US

• Architected and led the first TA and TA Operations infrastructure for a high-growth start-up SaaS company.
• Successfully built the organizational design of the first TA program by creating and streamlining processes, demonstrating data capabilities, and optimizing recruiting tools.
• Recruited and led company growth by 32% with 125 hires and maintained a time-to-fill at 32 days.
• Performed full life cycle recruiting for engineering, product, data, finance, G&A and executive level roles.
• Designed and executed TA strategies and onboarding through unified, cross-functional collaboration with ELT, HR partners, and key stakeholders.
• Built a data-driven talent acquisition function through an enterprise ATS implementation.

Hanover, MD, US

• Technical Recruiter in North Florida/South Alabama market with recruiting revenue averaging over $25,000 per week.
• Provided full-cycle recruitment services for technical positions across all levels, including government contractors of all security clearance levels.
• Developed and executed strategies to identify top accounts for creating additional business opportunities.
• Fueled an uplift of over $1,000,000 in company revenue through innovative recruitment tactics and additional business development initiatives which generated an extra $75,000+.