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Joined as employee number 65 and the first member of the People team, establishing the HR infrastructure to scale culture and people programs across five global offices. Partnered with the VP of People to drive the people strategy during a period of 5x growth.- Established the HRBP function globally, leading to improved employee satisfaction and performance. - Designed and executed core HR programs and initiatives: performance reviews, engagement, manager training, onboarding.- Designed, implemented and managed comprehensive compensation infrastructure to support the company's growth and strategic goals. Created the company's compensation philosophy and introduced job levels and salary ranges.

Develop people strategy for early stage startups that reinforces business and operational goals and ensures they have the right set of behaviors, systems and practices in place to effectively scale. Provide guidance on talent acquisition, development, employee relations, and HR compliance matters. Clients include series A e-commerce startup Dote Inc. and YC-backed Symple Inc.

Head of talent development for 80 person MoPub team within Twitter. Partnered with stakeholders to design and implement initiatives to support business goals, including cultural alignment, operational excellence, talent consulting, sales enablement and employee engagement. - Designed and implemented new hire orientation and training program. - Conducted ongoing needs assessment with cross-functional stakeholders to design, develop and facilitate employee, management, and leadership development programs and trainings. - Produced significant programmatic events, including Twitter’s first female leadership program for global sales team and MoPub’s first cross-functional global onsite. - Coached managers on effective performance evaluations, internal communications, and career pathway development.

Responsible for hiring 50+ people for the MoPub Business and Twitter Direct Sales Org teams across four global offices.- Managed recruitment life-cycle, including job posting optimization, initial candidate assessments, compensation packages, and offer negotiations. - Advised managers on hiring best practices including interviewing methods, compensation standards, and candidate selection. - Implemented standardized interview framework with Twitter managers. - Designed interviewer training curriculum for MoPub Business team. Provided 1:1 coaching on hiring process, interviewing and feedback best practices, and evaluation rubric use.

Employee 25 at mobile advertising startup. Directed all elements of the people and recruiting functions including performance coaching, employee relations, compensation, HR compliance and employee development. Only recruiter to support company during growth to 100+ people across four offices globally. Promoted from Recruiter in December 2012. - Owned recruiting cycle and processes for Engineering, Product, Sales, and Client Services roles. Served as in-house recruiting expert; trained and coached hiring managers and interviewers on best practices. Designed hiring framework to delineate hiring needs and standardize interviewing and feedback practices.- Managed global relocation and worked with external legal team to process H-1B visas and address employee immigration challenges. Hired first employees in London and Singapore offices. - Supported MoPub executive team during due diligence process; partnered with Twitter HR during and after acquisition to ensure role and job family alignment.

Supported Engineering Staffing team by generating a high volume, high quality pipeline of leads. Focused on research and data generation using Boolean search techniques. Maintained and updated internal applicant tracking system.

Oversaw operations of language development research lab in East Palo Alto focused on the origins of communication in Spanish/English bilingual infants. - Managed all aspects of research projects including participant recruitment, subject screening, study implementation, data collection, and follow-up.- Streamlined data entry processes to standardize operations between main and satellite labs. - Recruited, trained and supervised colleagues and student research assistants on software, lab protocols, and experiment administration and scoring.