Karin Rodriguez, Cir Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Us

Global executive recruiter specializing in fast-paced tech companies in The Americas & EMEA.We are a boutique female-owned executive recruiting firm founded in 2004 as Thinque Consulting and rebranded to The UpGroup in 2021. Our team has become a leading tech-focused search, advisory, and networking firm. We have become a trusted partner for a diverse array of technology start-ups, venture capital firms, private equity-owned companies, and listed corporates. Our recruiting journey spans the globe. We focus on a small group of tech clients to give them exceptional service. Specializing in leadership positions within cutting-edge tech sectors, our recruitment strategy is characterized by a collaborative approach and a strong focus on achieving results.The UpGroup's mission is to empower these companies by placing top-tier leadership talent across all organizational verticals. With a keen understanding of the dynamic needs of businesses across the growth curve, from pre-seed to post-Series E and beyond, we excel in matching visionary leaders with innovative companies.We are currently accepting new clients! Please reach out to me directly with questions - karin@theupgrp.com.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Tempe, Az, Us

...Live Passionately...Join Forces...Extraordinary Customer Focus...Work Fearlessly...Own OutcomesMake your own way here at #godaddy

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Wyze Labs is a team of innovators and tech geeks obsessed with making smart home products accessible to everyone. Our products are intuitive and easy to use and are available at prices that won’t break the bank. We believe customers shouldn’t have to compromise – beautifully designed smart home products should enrich people’s lives and be something everyone can afford. • Source a scalable Applicant Tracking System and work through implementation and training for the recruiting team. • Craft and execute creative talent sourcing and recruiting campaigns that scale for attracting quality diverse talent.. Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development to members of the Recruitment team.. Lead organizational transformation with an eye on assessing the current team state and drive toward a future operational structure that aligns with the People team’s strategic objectives and key results.• Create and scale the recruiting program roadmap, creating efficiencies and transparency throughout the end-to-end process.• Define consistent data-driven hiring metrics and goals, aligning both recruiters and business leaders alike.• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and interviewers, build personalized dashboards, team interviewer training, and lead interview debrief meetings. • Determine appropriate performance goals and metrics, timelines, and formal tracking process to measure and manage progress. . Align cross-functionally with Human Resources, Compensation, People Operations, Equity, and Recruiting to identify and set foundational programmatic policies, iterating as needed and as the internal and external environment evolves.. Empower my team to guide and advise our leaders and employees through the recruitment process.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Glowforge is the 3D laser printer that makes it simple for anyone - not just designers and engineers and turn their creative ideas into real tangible products. Anything from a beautiful one of a kind doll house to a wallet or even a pinball machine! Glowforge is the biggest crowdfunding campaign in history, with $27.9M in pre-orders in 30 days.Check out the 3 minute video of how it works as well as products actually made with the Glowforge! www.Glowforge.com • Regularly managed pipeline activity and shared data-centric updates with internal stakeholders.. Collaborated closely with hiring managers throughout the recruiting process to ensure their hiring needs and goals were being met.• Recommended ideas and strategies for recruitment that contributed to the growth of the organization and company goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion.• Researched the competitive landscape and captured insightful recruiting data to drive improvements across all our tech sourcing pipelines.• Built and drove creative sourcing initiatives to engage with passive candidates.• Built and led intensive interviewer training for all employees quarterly.• Effectively aligned each candidate's motivations with Glowforge’s value proposition, role details, and expectations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

. Scouted extraordinarily talented and hardworking people who made our company better in every way.• Provided a seamless experience for candidates: from initial contact, to scheduling interviews, to offer extension, all the way through setting up an amazing first day for them.• Provided mentorship and guidance to teammates—elevated those around me by teaching what I know.• Ensured a fantastic candidate experience for all—formed teams and processes with phenomenal candidate experience as a critical priority.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nl

Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), owns and operates Booking.com™, the world leader in booking accommodations online. Each day, over 1,000,000 room nights are reserved on Booking.com. The Booking.com website and apps attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.• Was part of the Global IT Recruiting team and was responsible for all hiring of technical talent for the office in Seattle, WA. • Drove valuable recruiting for the Product team in Seattle, specifically, software developers, mobile developers, infrastructure, and other technology roles.• Led projects and initiatives for process improvement related to interviews, setting targets, sourcing initiatives, brand building, networking, and more.• Held accountable for personal and office technology team targets• Regularly met with Executives to strategically align HR support with business objectives.• Daily interaction with Sr. Executives, Directors, and global HR team in Europe and across the United States to communicate company vision, strategy, and resolve issues. Traveled to the Amsterdam office to assist in streamlining corporate processes globally.• Analyzed trends and metrics in partnership with the HR group to develop solutions, programs, and policies.

Seattle, Wa, Us

buuteeq is a Seattle based startup, Founded in 2010 that makes the world's first Cloud Digital Marketing System (DMS) for hotels and lodging properties. Since officially launching the Cloud DMS product in January of 2011, buuteeq has added thousands of properties to their system across nearly 40 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices in Palo Alto, California, Santiago, Chili and Amsterdam, Netherlands. (www.buuteeq.com)We are hiring!!!! Check out our openings and contact me directly - karin.rodriguez@buuteeq.com - http://jobs.buuteeq.me/Lead Technical RecruiterReporting to VP of Global HR and TalentResponsible for HR and talent strategyBuuteeq is a Seattle-based startup, Founded in 2010 that makes the world's first Cloud Digital Marketing System (DMS) for hotels and lodging properties. Since officially launching the Cloud DMS product in January of 2011, Buuteeq has added thousands of properties to their system across nearly 40 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices in Palo Alto, California, Santiago, Chile, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. (www.buuteeq.com). • Focused on retaining and hiring technical talent for both Seattle and China. • Worked extremely closely with the CTO, Karim Meghji, to create process and hiring plans for the Product Team. This involved interviewer training, interview process plans, ATS training, and compensation evaluation of the Seattle market.• Grew the team from 100 employees to 175 in 6 months.

Seattle, Wa, Us

FILTER is the West Coast's leading digital solutions agency. We provide creative marketing solutions, consulting and staffing services. From experience design and development, to content management services, to contract staffing and direct hire recruitment, we offer a wide range of services. We have the largest network of top designers, developers and other digital talent on the West Coast, so we can deliver solutions that are both more flexible and more cost-effective than those offered by traditional agencies. We have offices in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Rylem is a Seattle, WA based consulting agency with a strong focus on the Technology and Accounting & Finance markets. With 20+ years of experience from large commercial clients to small start-ups alike, we are very sincere about the connections we develop along the way. We are the bridge between hiring managers and professionals. We are in the business of people… and we know that people are much more than just a resume. We’re grounded in the belief that finding a clear fit involves the dynamics between individual and culture.

Livemocha and RichRelevance have all formed a partnership with Thinque Consulting and have hired us to find them seasoned, best of the class talent across all verticals including but not limited to Executive. Please contact me directly if you are interested in working with amazing teams, cool technologies and high-profile start-ups with outstanding reputations and prestigious recognition. RichRelevance is the leading provider of dynamic e-commerce personalization for the world’s largest retailers, including Wal-Mart, Overstock and Sears. Founded and led by the e-commerce expert who pioneered personalization R&D at Amazon.com, RichRelevance helps retailers increase revenues by powering relevant experiences. RichRelevance is located in SF, with offices in Seattle and London. www.richrelevance.com -Responsible for Sourcing, contacting, screening and qualifying passive Candidates and active Candidates.-Develop expert knowledge of our client's products, goods and services in order to deliver the most qualified resource. -Understanding each client’s technologies and their value -Collaborate with Hiring Managers and account managers to create strategies to fulfill each staffing request.-Create Boolean search strings to search the web.-Research tools include advanced Boolean Searches, professional/social networking sites, conferences, user groups and blogs.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Consultant at Dashwire

Livemocha is an exciting e-learning Web 2.0 startup founded by a group of experienced and successful entrepreneurs based in the Seattle area that was just recognized by Time Magazine as one of the top 50 websites. The company, Livemocha, (www.livemocha.com) addresses a $20 billion worldwide language learning market fueled by rapid globalization, immigration and travel. Livemocha is a first of its kind web based language learning solution integrating online instructional content with a global community of language learners. www.livemocha.com. -Responsible for HR and recruiting, reported directly to the CEO; Michael Schutzler-Built an effective recruiting department from the ground up for a successful start-up with our Director of HR-Providing guidance to executives, managers and HR Director to customize corporate compensation strategy, position descriptions to effectively stay on hiring plan target-Created Employee Handbook for Livemocha-Responsible for all new hire paperwork and insurance liaison for Livemocha-Implemented recruiting programs to locate candidates through extensive sources including but not limited to; cold calling, referrals, networking and maintaining relationships with industry Executives-Responsibilities include interfacing with hiring managers to collect and review requirements, sourcing/prescreening candidates, participating in interviews, assisting managers with reference checks, and developing competitive job offers-The positions successfully filled included Systems Administrator, Principal Java Engineers, Principle Testers, Software Developers, Database Developers and Administrators, Support Analysts and Engineers, Web Developers, Program and Project Managers.Environment: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, JAVA, Javascript, SQL, Memcache, CSS, AJAX

Redmond, Washington, Us

Supported Megan Both, Chief of Staff/GM Operations for Microsoft North America. Responsible for calendar management, project coordination/management for each team member and their assorted events, and projects. Support various different areas of the business including, events, field visits, communications, budget tracking and operations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Helped in developing, managing, implementing and administering internal staffing programs and solutions for clients. Was highly proactive and built close partnerships in all aspects of my position entailing compensation, training, employee relations, and diversity management for internal transfers domestically and internationally. This required me developing strong business relationships with my managers and developing, implementing and overseeing the proactive execution of the business group HR strategy and programs. Other responsibilities included: Incorporating diversity goals and keeping compliant with diversity initiatives, maintain and analyze key recruiting performance metrics for organization, responsible for collection of visa documents and processing visa paperwork. Additionally, Managed end-to-end recruiting process for positions including, but not limited to, screening and offer.

Focused on the placement of Software Engineers/Architects (Distributed and Mainframe), Database Architects/Developers/Administrators, Network/System/Security Engineers, Web Developers, Quality Assurance/Test Engineers, Technical Program/Product/Project Managers, Development Managers, and Business Analysts. Possess strong technical/business acumen and understanding of technical requirements; deep sourcing skills and experience sourcing passive candidates; excellent candidate assessment skills. I possess knowledge of recruiting and hiring processes including sourcing, interviewing, reference checking, tracking, salary negotiations, and closing.