IC2 is a team of seasoned recruiting leaders who have led talent for some of the most successful global companies. Between us, we have over 100 years of experience across industries and companies that have one thing in common - their business growth is driven by their ability to scale with high-quality employees in consistently competitive talent landscapes. We want to partner with customers to help them achieve recruiting success whether through interim/fractional Head of Talent arrangement, or by running our propriety talent diagnostic, or by delivering consulting/advisory projects, TA leadership coaching, or executive/niche search services.

Provide strategic direction and guidance to the talent acquisition team, aligning recruitment efforts with the organization's goals and growth objectivesBuild, lead, mentor, and manage a team of managers, sourcers, recruiters, and coordinators fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture while maintaining a focus on results and continuous improvementChampion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all recruiting efforts including being the SOMOS Chair for our Employee Resource Group (ERG)Develop and execute comprehensive sourcing strategies in collaboration with the Vice President of TA to attract top talent across various software engineering roles, including full-stack, backend, mobile, machine learning, embedded, and engineering managersCreate and execute a methodology for talent mapping for critical software skillsets into pipelines and then built top-of-funnel sourcing strategies to engage passive candidatesWork closely with recruiting and hiring managers, recruiters, and HRBP’s to strategize on offers and use market insights into key competitors to ensure offers are competitive and in line with internal equityCollaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as HRBP’s, compensation, analytics, and HR leadership to align recruiting needs, workforce planning, offers and talent requirementsChampion an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment process, ensuring seamless communication, timely feedback, and data integrity to measure successImplement a candidate and hiring manager survey (Starred) across the entire company to better measure and ensure a world-class candidate experienceEstablish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of recruitment efforts, regularly providing data-driven insights and recommendations to improve processesCreate leadership dashboards for reporting and trendsManage relationships with external sourcing vendors such as LinkedIn Recruiter and HireEz

Drive and execute a recruitment strategy across the Machine Learning Engineering Champion diversity recruiting initiatives, develop and execute strategiesConsistently hit hiring goalsOversee the management, coaching and continuous development of managers, leads and sr IC’s.Demonstrated success in developing teams within a recruiting function and effecting change throughout the organization. Drive re-engineering & process improvements to ensure optimal productivity and best practice across the teamPartner with the sr engineering leaders to develop and drive innovative recruiting methods and strategiesStrategize and execute the entire end to end recruitment processes through direct and matrix teams

Build a candidate and client experience that upholds Samsung’s missionPassionately drive results, think and act quickly, operate long-term and in the best interest of our objectivesBuilding teams to support our long term strategyUphold a high hiring bar and continuously drive process improvement to improve hiring pass thru rates and time to hire metricsEstablish a collaborative work environment where individuals earn trust of othersBuild business partnerships to make the best hiring decisions for the organizationHelp build and develop an overall consistent Samsung recruiting brand both inside and outside the organizationApplying both planning & performance analytical rigor to determine resourcing requirements and build the annual hiring plan Samsung is a place where individuals think hugeApply innovation to recruiting process and supports business team project goals and strategy Develop an innovative and sustainable sourcing and placement strategy across a variety of challenging & competitive positions

Hiring Lead for R&D, software and hardware in the Canada, Brazil, Mexico and rest of Latin AmericaExecutive Level RecruitingDevelop sourcing strategies for engineering hiring in the SF Bay AreaProvide workshops and training session around recruiting process and best practicesOversee the transition and execution of Qualcomm’s recruiting programs and processes into emerging markets and acquisitionsExecute recruiting best practicesFull life cycle recruiting for high visibility and key positions

Built and implemented recruiting strategy for growth organizationLed recruiting efforts for a growth organization from a 200 employee company to 1000 personDeveloped the internal recruiting infrastructure including process, policies, resources and technology to execute an long term recruiting goals.Implement strategic sourcing strategy with the hiring managers to identify candidates from associations, networks, third party resources, websites and referrals.Managed a team of up to 12 fulltime and temporary resources Prepare and execute specific staffing development plans and workforce planning models to increase productivity for TriNet.Utilize social networking vehicles to create employment branding.Successful build out of national sales recruiting model to recruit top sales talent for a national sales expansion that included over a hundred hires of sales executives within 12 months.Conducted executive searches for engineering, sales, product development, HR and marketingArchitected a change management model transforming for an outsourced recruiting solution to an in house internal solution.

Created, implemented and managed recruiting process for startup organizationCreated procedure and policy for staff augmentation service lineImplemented and migrated applicant tracking system to a scalable solution.Hired and trained a team of 4 recruitersManaged vendor selections and negotiations of multiple recruiting and sourcing resourcesManaged Onsite resources and engagements at Cisco systems around key projectsNegotiated milestones and deliverables; Statement of WorkCreated, tracked and managed budget

• Provided Telecommunications and IT Contractors and Managed Service Solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. • Responsible for the entire sales cycle: lead generation, cold calling, sales presentations, and closing while maintaining existing relationships. • Managed and developed a team of technical recruiters.• Negotiated local and national contract agreements with fortune 500 companies.• Won the highly coveted National Sales Contest in 1999, 2000. Less than 10% of all Account Managers achieve this goal.

• Conducted in-depth phone and personal pre-screening as well as referencing of potential consultants for contract and permanent positions and assessed their ability to perform specific job requirements as directed by the client. • Negotiated salary and benefits with consultants and billing rates with clients.• Excelled in building and maintaining strong relationships with both consultants and clients. • Negotiated salaries, wages, benefits, completion bonuses, and per diem with potential candidates. • Trained and developed junior recruiters on the Telecommunication industry and recruiting processes according to company and industry standards.