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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

- Vanilla is a SaaS fintech product and the world’s first Estate Advisory Platform, purpose-built by advisors and estate professionals to help wealth management firms deliver a holistic, modern estate planning experience to their clients. - First full-time recruiting/talent resource, reporting to the Head of HR, joined the organization at 100 employees (Series B).- As a team of one, responsible for the full candidate lifecycle, technology stack and recruiting budget.- Implemented LinkedIn Recruiter to ensure visibility for high priority jobs, increased the quality and amount of inbound applicants exponentially. - Evaluated and selected a new ATS, Ashby, which has resulted in faster scheduling, improved candidate experience, process automation and more. - Additionally, helping to support or lead other programs in the People space including managing LATAM contingent workforce staffing, compensation analysis and strategy, new employee onboarding, learning management system configuration and employee engagement surveys.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Senior Program Manager, Operations, L&D (February 2023 - January 2024) - Reporting to the Director of Client Services Operations, supported a team of 100 employees as the single program manager with a focus on L&D programs, enablement, documentation and process optimization. - Program manager for our company-wide Skilljar Learning Management System implementation, goal to increase customer adoption and self service training. Post launch the percentage of customer self-serve usage increased weekly. - Smartsheet Administrator and Program Manager for ongoing Smartsheet projects and initiatives, goal to improve task management and time to value for implementation teams. - Program Manager and Administrator for Professional Services Administration tool, Planview AdaptiveWork (formerly Clarizen), overseeing 60 usersTalent Acquisition Operations Manager (April 2022 - February 2023) - Reporting to the VP of Recruiting, led talent operations for a team that included in total 15 recruiters, recruiting coordinators and leads at its largest. Directly managed team of 4 recruiting coordinators and recruiting project managers.- Completed a tools discovery and assessment and reconfigured the recruiting team’s toolset to ensure data integrity and automation across our People organization. Tools included: Greenhouse ATS & CRM, Goodtime.io, Calendly, Datapeople, Included, DocuSign and Checkr. While reconfiguring our entire toolset, we kept our spend consistent with the previous year, tools were integrated and optimized. - Partnered with our business analytics team to build in-house data visualization for talent acquisition in Tableau to include time in stage metrics, source of hire, race and gender.

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Reporting to the Interim Head of Talent, single handedly supported recruiting for the Client Services organization and met the goal of hiring 30 people in 6 months, average of 5 hires per month.- Hired two recruiters dedicated to hiring 120 employees within client services in the fiscal year. - Streamlined hiring processes and best practices by enhancing interviewing guides, assigned competencies and assessments which resulted in better candidate experience and better hiring outcomes. - Tools: Greenhouse, LinkedIn, Checkr, Included, Fetcher.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Smartsheet is a collaborative work management SaaS offering that is well-loved and used globally within a wide array of industries. - Reporting to the Director of Technical Recruiting, managed and grew a team from 5 to 8 technical, non-technical recruiters and a recruiting coordinator to execute on hiring plans for the following departments: Product, Marketing, UX, IT, Legal, Compliance, Finance, People & Culture (HR), Customer Support and Operations. - Exceeded quarterly and annual hiring goals with a team average of 10 hires per month.- Additional projects I was involved in included Hiring Manager & Interviewer Training, Competency Based Interviewing, Internal Mobility, Workday ATS/HRIS integration & Recruiter Capacity Modeling.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Joined the organization at 250 employees to be the sole recruiter partnering with the Chief Product Officer to execute on full-cycle recruiting for all levels for Product Management, Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, Brand Marketing, Customer Support, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Strategy & Operations and User Experience (UX) for our Bellevue, Boston and Edinburgh locations.- Averaged 7 hires per month 2018-2019 & 2019-2020 and maintained a 85%+ offer/acceptance ratio.- Global Program Manager for the first ever Hiring Manager and Interviewer training. Created content and delivered training live and virtually in Seattle, Boston and Edinburgh.- Selected to be part of the first Madrona Venture Group 10x TA Cohort led by Shannon Anderson, Director, Executive Talent Network. This was a year long program with extensive workshops around how to be a talent advisor, not an order taker. Much of the curriculum came from the Recruiting Toolbox.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

- Designed and implemented overall recruiting strategy, developed and updated job descriptions and job specifications. - Full cycle/end to end recruiting involving sourcing, screening, scheduling interviews, and presenting and negotiating offers for contract, contract-hire and permanent/direct-hire positions.- Positions filled included java developer, C# developer (junior, mid and senior level), front-end and full stack developer, product manager, technical project manager, business analyst, technical recruiter, and technical support related roles.

Fuschl, At

- Credible product and brand expert. - Knowledgeable in many aspects of the Red Bull business such as marketing and sales.- Able to take ownership of key sampling campaigns and work with manager to ensure successful execution.- Connected with social media on Facebook and Twitter for promoting events.Lead Brand Ambassador (Wings Team Captain) September 2011 - June 2012- Led the team in actively identifying new sampling opportunities in our market.- Assisted manager in solving conflicts and adjusting plans to meet monthly goals.- Administrative work such as vehicle, inventory, and paperwork management.