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My Experience

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Talent acquisition leader with 11+ years of experience in recruiting, including 7+ years in management roles, and 4+ years in hiring operations. Proven track record of building high-performing teams, driving operational efficiency, and unlocking business success. Passionate about contributing to the growth and success of organizations through strategic recruitment initiatives.

Professional Experience

Kraken, Remote/Distributed February 2022 - Present

Kraken is a distributed company with over 2,900 people. Founded in 2011 and with over 9 million clients, Kraken is one of the world's largest, most successful bitcoin exchanges.

Senior Manager, Talent Operations

  • In my first year, I eliminated hiring debt and took the hiring machine from -1 to 0. This allowed us to capture the data we need to drive the outcomes we want.
  • In 2024, in nine months,  I led us from a recruiting process NPS of 33 to 82 while the Recruiting organization doubled in size to 57 and brought in over 700 external hires.
  • Implemented headcount and requisition management best practices with FP&A, HR, and Recruiting.
  • Developed an internal mobility framework for retaining people within the company.
  • Implemented approval processes for Role Opening and Offer Approval processes.
  • Researched and consolidated our Talent tool stack eliminating multi-purpose and disjointed solutions while positively impacting all KPIs and performance objectives.
  • In 2022, led directly and via layers a 50 person team of 30 Recruiting Coordinators, 10 project managers, and 10 onboarding specialists. In October, we developed a plan to consolidate our coordinators into a single ticketing system for all requests and reduced the team to six while increasing our SLA response time and global timezone coverage.
  • Built outplacement support services and a team to help employees who were impacted in a 30% RIF. 

Automattic, Remote/Distributed May 2021 - February 2022

Automattic is a distributed company with 2,010 Automatticians in 98 countries. They are the people behind WordPress.com.

Head of Talent Operations

  • Partnered with CFO and team to align headcount planning across all business units and developed a cost per hire model to improve our performance and efficiency.
  • Developed a predictive hiring dashboard that accurately forecasted future hiring volume based on historical passthrough rates and current pipeline. This enabled the recruiters to focus on hitting target inputs to ensure our hiring goals remained on track.
  • Introduced sprint processes and OKRs across the entire Talent division
  • Oversaw new hire screening and implemented Checkr. This led to an 80+% improvement in turn-around time.
  • Built the framework for a Recruiter Activity Dashboard and performance metrics, and recruiting career matrix with competencies for growth and development
  • Introduced candidate and new hire surveys
  • Increased our data usage and reporting allowing us to better track time to fill
  • Built a business case for an onboarding program manager to drive quicker times to impact for new hires. 

Toptal, Remote/Distributed July 2016 - April 2021

Toptal is a network of the world’s top talent. Toptal was the largest fully distributed workforce in the world.

Head of Technical Recruiting August 2017 - April 2021

  • Leveraged data, KPIs, and processes to make our entire corporate recruiting team better.
  • Built and continually upgraded the hiring machine to achieve better hiring outcomes
  • Led the growth of the engineering team from 95 to 240+ engineers.
  • Hired CTO, Director of Engineering, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and individual contributor roles across engineering.
  • 45% of hired candidates were sourced.
  • Developed a Tableau dashboard to understand hiring, attrition trends, and forecasting. 

Head of Global Recruiting  October 2016 - July 2017

  • Led the growth from 250 to 400 all-remote employees by focusing on sustainable recruiting infrastructure and processes.
  • Built the talent acquisition team from three to nine team members.
  • My role was a combination of individual contributor, manager, leader, strategist, and operation engineer.
  • Created team training on Storytelling, Negotiation, Sourcing, Community Building, and Personal Branding. 

Lead Technical Recruiter      July 2016 - September 2016

  • I was hired as the first in-house technical recruiter to eliminate agency spend.
  • Based on my immediate success and knowledge, I was promoted to lead the entire Talent Acquisition function.

ThoughtWorks, Chicago, IL June 2012 - June 2016

ThoughtWorks is a privately owned global software delivery and products company.The company’s primary service is the creation of large-scale mission-critical custom software applications for global corporate clients. Glassdoor ranked ThoughtWorks the second hardest job interview in 2013.

North American Sourcing Lead, Remote September 2015 - June 2016

  • Built a sourcing team and led our North American sourcing strategy to identify, attract, and engage technical talent in partnership with three full-time sourcers.

Senior Talent Scout      October 2014 - August 2015

  • Selected as the lone recruiter to strategize, design, and implement a sourcing plan aimed at our company's most senior-level technical openings in pair with our Head of Technology. 

Talent Scout     June 2012 - September 2014

  • Specialized in recruiting software practitioners in multiple markets and created and delivered the entire recruiting strategy for the North American West market.

TEKsystems, Chicago, IL April 2010 – June 2012

TEKsystems is the leading technology staffing and services company in the United States.

Technical Recruiter

  • I built my professional network in a few niche skill sets, won the perseverance award, and grew my weekly spread to over $11,000. 

Skills/Tools

ATS: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby

Communication: Slack, Zoom, Google Suite, Loom, Trello, Jira, Confluence, Brighthire

Education

  • Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business. I excelled as a student-athlete. I was a captain and the starting quarterback for one of the top programs in the country.