Katie O'Rourke Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, United States

O'Rourkies Cookies combines my two favorite loves: cookies + art. The two come together for a perfect blend of custom-designed & hand-decorated cookies for any and all occasions.

Event Producers at Palantir are the Cultural Engineers who develop programs and events that evolve to match the company’s culture, individual office personalities, business initiatives, and team sub-cultures.• Event production: from start to finish, planned and executed up to 20 events monthly for our HQ office in Palo Alto, Seattle & Santa Monica offices. Working with teams across the organization, events range from 10 - 2,000 attendees from team offsites/overnights, company-wide updates/product talks, Hack Week events, recruiting events, internal & external conferences, virtual events, and office-wide social events.• Communications, Marketing, and Invite management: Creative event promotion and invite management with writing copy, designing event websites & content, flyers, and pushing out email campaigns. Designed a series of pop up events and campaigns to promote larger events and tracking RSVP’s and managing calendar invites for attendees• UX Research projects: developed and project managed several thoughtful programs and initiatives with the intent of increasing new-hire retention rates, intern conversions, team morale, and intersectionality across the office culture.

Palo Alto, Ca

•Built and led of team of 6 global recruiting events strategists to manage and grow Palantir's new grad, intern, and industry hire pipelines•Lead strategist for the university recruiting events vision across Palantir's 30+ US & international target schools. Focused on strategic recruiting event plans for each school, deploying engineering teams, recruiters, and recruiting events to campuses to execute recruiting events and campaigns.• Collectively, oversaw 175 events annually, ranging from 50 person info sessions, career fairs, high value target dinners & individual coffee chats, conferences, trade shows, industry recruiting events, puzzle hunts, tech talks, and hackathons

•Re-imagined and built Palantir’s US & UK college recruiting event strategy, brand, and goals to reflect a 230% increase in interns the following year•Served as sole college recruiter and college recruiting events logistics coordinator for up to 30 schools, with focused/targeted recruiting efforts at 10 colleges (collectively 150+ events annually)

•Owned operations of the intern program and served as POC for all interns from offer accepted to end of internship. Secured corporate housing in surrounding areas, furnished apartments, coordinated all travel, welcome programs, swag, intern gifts, mentor program, and summer events.•Sourced, screened, and scheduled interview for all engineering and business development roles

Event Planning, operations support, and recruiting sourcer for all positions within the company. With less than 150 employees at the company during this time, I served as a jack-of-all-trades for recruiting and operations. From the recruiting role of sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating interviews, and managing candidate follow up, to Event Planning of company-wide outings and office events, to the Operations role of ordering and maintaining the inventory of company swag, internal shipping and receiving

Interviewed talented students for the Art Institute's design programs, while guiding them through the admissions, acceptance, and financial aid process.

As an alumna of the University of Redlands, I worked to identify and encourage philanthropic support for the University’s operating budget, primarily through planning and directing a volunteer committee of alumni and friends, and making personal solicitation visits to high-end Redlands Fund donors and prospects.

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Australian Art