At Mongoose, we empower colleges and universities through our intuitive, AI-driven engagement platform built to boost authentic connections with students, parents, and alumni.Over 4,000 teams across over 950 higher education institutions partner with Mongoose to Make Every Message Count.Leading the People and Talent function with an emphasis on employee development, experience, and engagement, talent infrastructure and operational optimization.

CALSTART works with its member companies and agencies to build a high-tech clean-transportation industry that creates jobs, cuts air pollution and oil imports, and curbs climate change.Served as a Talent Strategy Advisor to the CEO and executive team, leading a team of four recruiters. Partnered with the COO and CFO to redesign the FY headcount budgeting and capacity framework. Acted as a partner and advisor to functional leaders, supporting initiative goals and challenges through the implementation of various workforce solutions such as succession planning, people resource sharing, billable rates, and addressing skills gaps.Redesigned and implemented a talent framework from the ground up, establishing a talent philosophy, best practices, and SOPs optimized for efficiency, high-touch experiences, and high-quality hires. Engineered a comprehensive forecasting model and automated recruiting dashboard, delivering daily insights into performance-to-goal, close rates, and time-to-fill metrics. Redesigned the interviewing framework to focus on skills-based hiring and core competencies, ensuring a dynamic and adaptable workforce. Successfully implemented a new ATS, Lever.

Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 183,000 courses and 40 million students. As a global destination for online learning, we connect people through knowledge.Led recruiting for Global Product Design and Engineering, partnering with the CTO and eight VPs across Engineering, Data, Analytics, Product Management, Product Design, Mobile, and Infrastructure to drive strategic hiring initiatives that supported the company's rapid growth and innovation.Managed a global team of four managers and 25 recruiters across the US, Dublin, and Turkey, filling an average of 30 positions per month despite recurring changes in headcount and hiring cadence. Increased the offer acceptance rate from 59.5% to 93.3% in less than two quarters.Built strong partnerships with PDE leaders, fostering a culture of alignment and shared accountability. Developed a cadence for quick pivots and acceleration in hiring processes.Introduced a forecasting model and recruiting dashboard with built-in automation for daily reporting of key metrics, increasing hiring efficiency by up to 300%. Developed a global training and enablement program focused on business fundamentals, operational best practices, and learning opportunities from diverse leaders.Launched a university internship recruiting program using sourcers as recruiters, offering learning opportunities and internal mobility. Managed the US AAP program, ensuring legal compliance, and partnered with BEDI teams to ensure diversity.Enhanced employer branding by hosting prospecting events, mock interviewing events, a reverse mentorship program, and participation in Afrotech and Out in Tech. Partnered with the Employer Branding team to revamp the career site, develop branding videos, and implement Puck, a modern job posting experience.Eliminated costly third-party agency hires by bringing all recruiting activities in-house, optimizing processes, and reducing expenses.

Partnered with the C-suite and VPs across D2C Marketing, Finance, IT, Legal, Corporate Communications, Global Customer Operations, and People. Led a team of six recruiters and two sourcers. Built out a recruiting best practices framework from the ground up, achieving successful adoption within four weeks. Implemented an effective onboarding program for new hires within our teams, resulting in the first two recruiters closing five roles within their first month. Maintained a 90%+ offer acceptance rate.

Chorus.ai is the No.1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth Revenue teams. Chorus’ proprietary AI captures and analyzes customer calls, meetings, and emails so Revenue teams can identify what top performers do and replicate it across the team. Chorus was acquired by ZoomInfo (Nasdaq: ZI), the global leader in go-to-market intelligence solutions.As the Global Director of Talent, oversaw the strategic transformation of the Global TA team by building out the global talent infrastructure. Built out scalable processes, data & metrics model, sourcing, interviewing and hiring framework designed to support company wide DE&I goals, and overall best practices. Talent team of 8 supported global teams (Tel Aviv, Toronto, SF, SLC, Boston) across Engineering, Product, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and G&A. Successfully transitioned out post Zoominfo acquisition, per agreed upon separation agreement.

Heap powers business decisions with truth.We’re building infrastructure to automatically capture customer interactions, make sense of them, and make them actionable for anyone. We want to enable everyone to understand their millionth customer as well as they understood their first.Joined to lead GTM recruiting efforts as the company looked to grow its employee count by 50%. Worked with CRO & CMO to fill key positions including VP Enterprise Sales, VP Rev Ops and VP of Product Marketing as well as all other key sales and marketing roles.

Tessian is building the world’s first Human Layer Security platform to automatically secure all human-digital interactions within the enterprise. Today, our products use stateful machine learning to protect people using email and to prevent threats like spear phishing, accidental data loss due to misdirected emails, data exfiltration and other non-compliant email activity. We’ve raised $60m from legendary security investors like Sequoia and Accel and have over 150 employees located in San Francisco and London.As a London based company, hired as the 1st US talent Manager to open and build the San Francisco Talent team and GTM team. Responsible for developing, implementing and driving overall recruiting strategy, methodology and process. Managed all hiring for the US Go-to-market team, across sales, marketing, operations and talent. Hired 10 sales professionals within first month and 40+ employees including senior leadership across sales, sales ops, enablement, marketing, and customer success within 5 months. Laid off as Covid pandemic began.

TargetX is a higher education CRM company that provides an enterprise-wide solution to help colleges build relationships with their most important constituencies, including prospective students, current students, alumni and donors. The company’s Enterprise CRM is built on the powerful development platform of Salesforce.com - the worldwide leader in Customer Relationship Management and a pioneer in cloud computing. With its 15-year reputation for innovative technology and industry expertise, TargetX has become one of the most trusted CRM providers in higher education.As the first in-house recruiter and Head of Talent, brought all recruiting and HR functionalities in-house and developed and managed company wide recruiting and onboarding infrastructure and strategy. Managed recruiting across engineering, product, professional services, customer support, sales, marketing and G&A. Oversaw the growth of the team from 20 to 200 within the first 2 years, with a 97% candidate acceptance rate and average cost per hire at 50% or more below industry average.Reporting initially to the CEO and subsequently to the VP of People and Finance, also owned the people partner function across onboarding, benefits administration, employee relations, company culture and social events.

After the birth of my twins, and with 3 children under the age of 2, I decided to step away from the corporate world to explore and fulfill a couple of pipe dreams through entrepreneurship. I obtained my real estate broker's license and built out a strong client base and referral based business. I also opened a brick and mortar retail business which was eventually licensed to The Hudson Group, the country's premier airport concessionaire, who funded and opened a second store at SFO international airport under a licensing agreement.

The Princeton Review is a leading provider of educational services that helps students prepare for the college admissions process. Responsible for the multi-million P&L of Northern California operations overseeing teams across recruiting, sales, marketing, and operations, and over 200 part-time employees and instructors. The regional office served the North Bay, East Bay, San Francisco, Davis, and Sacramento areas and operated at over 20 different sites.

Stride & Associates is a nationwide technology and finance recruiting firm. Managed a recruiting team of 6, specializing in placing full-time permanent software and network engineers at many of Silicon Valley's top tech companies. The team was responsible for business development and account generation as well as candidate recruitment and relationship management.