Roni Smith Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Foster City, California, Us

Hired by the SVP of Talent to enable and improve the performance of the Global Talent Acquisition Team. This included developing a series of metrics to determine what "great" looks like across the Talent Acquisition organization as well as managing a team of delivery experts dedicated to capability uplift of the Global TA organization to map to that talent bar.Created the Key Performance Indicators for measurement of success across the organization with the guidance that "you can't improve what you don't measure."Advisor on the Transformation Team with new HRIS tools ensuring that the rollout for new systems was smooth and effective across the goal. Responsible for implementing the Subject Matter Model across TA globally that allowed for real time advice and feedback during the training period for Avature.Created the TA Training Uplift Curriculum for the Global TA Organization to upskill the TA organization with best practices for government compliance and process efficiency. Key facilitator in the roll out of the new Employee Value Proposition (EVP) across the organization from both a content creation and change management perspective.Member of the Global Talent Acquisition Leadership Team responsible for setting the direction of the strategy of the organization worldwide.

Chicago, Il, Us

Head of Recruitment for the North America region of Thoughtworks; a forward-thinking custom software development consulting and professional services firm with offices in 40+ cities around the world. Responsible for the daily management of 25+ individuals (including team leads) located in 8 different locations of the United States which includes sales, executive, experienced, diversity, and university and college hiring efforts.Defined the strategy and roadmap for the North American hiring plans to increase our diversity footprint across the region.Implemented key performance indicators for the team and have achieved consistent delivery results finding the right talent, at the right time. Consistently delivers 4X the talent per month by only doubling the size of the team.Member of the Global Recruiting Governance Organization and mentor to Heads of Recruitments for other regions responsible for creating training and support for the global team of influential talent advisors.Executive sponsor for a variety of annual "bets" including Enablement of Recruiter Growth, and Recruitment Transformation which required working across time zones and borders to be successful.

Seattle, Wa, Us

8 -36 direct reports including managing managers. Responsible for performance reviews, career growth conversations, and ensemble functionality.Co-creator and founding manager of the Amazon Recruiter Academy Program. This initiative is a training program within the Consumer Talent Acquisition Team at Amazon that has been designed to deliver highly qualified “on demand” recruiters. The target talent pool for this program are hires from the Talent Acquisition Development Program, individuals (either internal to Amazon or external) who wish to make a career change, and current members of the Talent Acquisition Staff who wish to take the next step in their career. Single-threaded talent leader responsible for growing the Prime Air Delivery project team world-wide since 2013. Developed strategic direction for hiring talent for a new program for autonomous drone delivery of packages. Selected to lead the recruiting efforts for new automation and robotics tools in the Fulfillment Centers. Responsible for weekly reports of data analysis examining trends and historical comparison of sources, placements, and industry trends.Responsible for initiating and monitoring progress of employment based work authorizations for US Employees and Intracompany transfers for the businesses supported. Knowledge of requirements and process of each VISA category required.Created a unique recruiting process tied to the American Economic Association Annual Conference to interview and attract recently graduated PhD’s from the top 25 Economics Departments in the United States. This was outside of the normal processes for Amazon and has become the standard for hiring Economists.In 2014 as an individual contributor, achieved >350% of hiring goal with an 86% offer/accept ratio.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Recruited by the Director of Program Management for the Executive Recruiting Team to “step in” for an employee on leave.Assigned three confidential projects which were many months behind schedule and completed them before the deadline. These three projects were Recruiting Business Intelligence projects surrounding former employees and senior technical women. Extensive research was required to complete the “Partner Departure Report” investigating the current location and employer of all former Partner level employees for the last 6 fiscal years. Raw data was pulled from the internal HRIS systems requiring knowledge of the fields within the system to pull appropriate data. All data was analyzed, parsed, and fleshed out with extensive internet research. Trends for the departures were reported on during weekly meetings with the other members of the Executive Recruiting Team.Managed an external vendor who assisted with one of the confidential projects. This included milestone creation and weekly meetings to ensure deliverables were being met appropriately. Provided complete documentation, and program recommendations for the next phase of the project including bound copies of the research provided to the Executive Recruiting Team. This brought phase 2 of the project to a close after kicking off in 2007.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Business Manager and sixth employee for cloud-storage endeavor funded by OVP Venture Partners in Kirkland, Washington and Longworth Ventures in Waltham, Massachusetts.Responsible for day to day operation of the office including all full cycle recruiting, Human Resources, Payroll, Accounting, Administrative, and Business Operational issues. This required robust business acumen spanning across all company operations.Designed and implemented the first company-wide benefits package including a Health Reimbursement Account plan to provide excellent medical and dental coverage while being cost effective to the company.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Program Manager for the Technical Community Network (TCN); a strategic part of the Executive Recruiting Team at Microsoft. TCN is a unique Human Resources organization within Microsoft chartered by the Office of the CTO with designing and managing the recognition and retention programs for the senior technical executives including the Distinguished Engineers and Technical Fellows.Responsible for management of $4mm budget for 32 annual events including technical conferences, recognition events, small executive gatherings, and internal Partner functions. These events were multi-faceted projects with the primary stakeholders being the senior executives and their families.Conceptualized, designed and implemented two entirely new programs for TCN (Northwest Flavors and MS Flex: The Family Field Day) which have been added to the event repertoire for the organization. These programs were designed to impact and influence the Partners, their spouses, and families as a demonstration of appreciation for allowing the technical employees to spend extended hours away from the family to bring success to the corporation.Supervised and managed third party vendors (production houses and logistics firms) during larger events to ensure flawless execution of work product. This cross-boundary collaboration endeavor included weekly meetings, conference calls with speakers and other entertainment as well as developing relationships with hotel and venue management to ensure that our senior technical employees were treated with the appropriate level of service.Selected from thousands of applicants for enthusiasm, and passionate communication style about the company to be a recurring guest speaker for New Employee Orientation (NEO) for Microsoft New Employees. Commitment was at least once a quarter for a two year duration.

Us

Third employee of a 25 person start-up security software endeavor. Funded by OVP Venture Partners, Outlook Venture Partners and the Arcatha Group.Manager of Staffing, Human Resources, Facilities, Legal, Immigration and Administrative Services for organization.

Houston, Texas, Us

Sixth employee of a 38 person organization acquired by Hewlett Packard less than two years from incorporation. Funded by Ignition Partners, Matrix Partners and Intel.Sole staffing resource responsible for recruiting and hiring 26 employees in 11 months.Created, implemented and maintained all human resources and payroll policies to ensure compliance with government regulations.Managed the fund raising process for Series A financing coordinating meetings with 18 Venture Capital Firms resulting in 60 face to face meetings over the course of 6 weeks.Designed and implemented a semi-annual review process to ensure performance successes and challenges were documented for merit increases or improvement plans.Created a compensation matrix currently used as a “best practice” model for other portfolio companies from the Board of Directors’ Venture Capital firms.Developed and maintained relationships will all investors, advisors and board members to facilitate communication and expedite decisions and processes.Assisted in managing the acquisition process into HP to ensure the transition was efficient and painless.Supervised facilities coordinator and group assistant.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us