Jessica Dodd is a Head of Talent at Collinear AI. She possess expertise in team leadership, management, recruiting, leadership, public speaking and 31 more skills. She is proficient in Chinese. Colleagues describe her as "I manage a team, Corporate Projects, that builds in the highly ambiguous "ZERO-to-ONE" space of new product/business development (think: an incubator of new opportunities within Amazon). We are not a moon shot group, rather we field a cross-functional team of scientists, engineers, and other technologists to quickly determine if a new idea has validating signal. Jess was instrumental in helping our team identify, recruit, loop, and onboard academic talent in the statistics and machine learning fields. Over the course of three years, I worked directly with Jess to develop a strategy for the hiring of scarce talent across a number of highly competitive disciplines including robotics/automation, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and applied statistics. What sets Jess apart from others I've worked with on Amazon's Science, Design Leadership and Academic Partnerships (SDLAP) team is her ability to be an end-to-end critical thinker. She never saw an engagement with our team as "just hiring a person", but rather, she saw an opportunity to bring a force-multiplier to a team that is moving fast, that is solving very discrete, high-stakes problems, and that can ill-afford a bad hire. She always took the initiative to understand before being understood, and that made her highly effective as a partner to our efforts. Over the time we worked together, Jess helped my team hire six ML/Statistics scientists, and I represent only one team across dozens who she worked with. While I worked with Jess in a context where she partnered with my team to build us stronger, her superpowers stretch far beyond the scope of executive recruitment. Jess is a highly-adept critical thinker who brings passion and compassion to her work while delivering tangible results. She actively seeks feedback to make herself and those around her more successful and is able to consistently get the best out of her business partners.", "Jess and I worked together on the Academic Hiring team and she was the first Recruiter leading the Postdoc program. Jess is highly productive, organized, scrappy, detail-oriented and versatile. She built solid relationships with partners across the company as she was always looking to collaborate and get stuff done. Jess is a dynamic team player, highly resourceful and has a proven track record of success at Amazon. She will make an outstanding addition to any TA organization.", and "Jessica is incredibly resourceful and is great at bringing creative solutions that can simplify workstreams. Her high energy and collaborative nature helps her build relationships with partners and peers. Jessica is passionate about her work and always pushes herself to continue to learn."