Michael Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Q2, headquartered in Austin, TX is a cloud-based digital banking solution that has a mission of building stronger communities by strengthening financial institutions in the communities we serve. Q2 has grown through several acquisitions and offers various software products to banks of all sizes across the globeI'm currently hiring for Product Development, Software Engineering and Data Analytics teams. I work directly with managers of these groups to A.) build strategies to find the best talent B.) advise interview strategies to ensure we are providing a quality interview experience and C.) run point on interview logistics and offer letter discussions to perspective new hires.Majority of my technical recruiting experience has been within the Microsoft suite of technologies. We are mainly leveraged with Azure, .net (core), SQL, C# as well Python. **I'm hiring!**https://www.q2.com/careers

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

My mission as the Director of Talent Acquisition at PrecisionLender was quite simple, I was responsible for leading the hiring efforts of a growing SaaS start-up that was pivoting to becoming a mid-sized company servicing some of the largest commercial banks in the world. I partnered with the Co-Founders and Executive Leadership team to build out various teams including, Software Engineering, Product Management, Data Analytics (Data Science/Engineering), Professional Services/Sales and Delivery Operations (DevOps). I successfully deployed a hiring strategy that allowed our teams to effectively evaluate the right talent to join our growing company in way of top of funnel screening, to interviewing to building out full day interviews that focused on candidate experience as well ensuing we were asking the proper questions to hire on great people and talent. Our goal as a team was to get the right people on the bus that adhered to our core values of Being Helpful, Being Humble, Being Honest and Being Human!When we were acquired by Q2 in October, 2019, the company size grew to over 150 employees!

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As a Direct Placement Account Manager my responsibilities included building relationships with decision makers for hiring IT talent and helped create employee value propositions to identify and attract top talent in the Raleigh/Durham community. Implemented a goal based recruiting approach to build a network of IT professionals that yielded meaningful relationships.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

As an IT Applications recruiter, I was responsible for building a network of SDLC IT professionals in Raleigh/Durham. Driving meaningful career conversations allowed myself and the professionals I worked with to identify career opportunities that aligned to what was important to their short and long term goals.

Bachelor, Business Administration; Finance

Activities and Societies: Member of UNCW Track and Field Team Student Finance AssociationScholarship athlete for four years, graduated.

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