Discord

Served as Senior Leadership Recruiter for product management, product design and data science organizations to recruit directors and above.
Co-Lead Discord’s Black Employee Resource Group, responsible for development of all key activations for notable holidays important to the Black Diaspora leading to increased retention of Black and African American employees.

(Affected by company wide RIF)

Key Achievements:
- Instituted a new assessment process in partnership with hiring managers across tech and business teams, leading to a 53 day time to fill, 19 days faster than the tech average over the last 6 months.
- Developed a leveling matrix for Recruiter roles to support talent acquisition leaders set expectations and have growth conversations with reports.
- Refined organization's diversity recruiting strategy and rolled out diversity recruiting goals and requirements company-wide.
- Rolled out applicant tracking system tagging protocols to entire talent acquisition org (70 people) and instituted a diverse slate approach in recruitment
processes.
- Established new strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University and their Product Management MBA program, engaging with 100+ students and Discord
senior leadership.
- Conducted market analysis to justify the need for Discord intern program, gained c-suite level buy-in and collaborated across functions (legal, HR,

Sr. Technical Recruiter, Product Management & Leadership

Netflix

Served as leadership recruiter focused on senior staff level talent. Created and oversaw innovative recruitment events to yield short, medium and long-term diverse talent pipelines. 

(Affected by company wide RIF)

Key Achievements:
- Organized first post-covid live tech talk and networking session in partnership with Netflix Chief Research Officer resulting in 70+ highly skilled research scientists attendees who became a part of the Netflix talent pipeline.
- Made on average 3 hires per month of highly skilled niche talent (computer vision, graphics research, animation).

Sr. Technical Recruiter, VFX Research and Engineering 

PhD/Postdoctoral Recruiter (Graphics & Computer Vision Research)

Lucid

Full-life cycle recruiting for the entirety of Lucid tech (Engineering, IT, Data Science, Design and Product). Implemented and revamped operational recruitment processes. Oversaw Lucid’s intern program consisting of 75 interns per season.

Key Achievements:
- Refined the Applicant Tracking System experience by rolling out tagging guidelines for better data integrity and candidate tracking.
- Developed and rolled out the company's first official interview structure, debrief process, and candidate engagement guidelines.
- Worked closely with chief product officer, CEO, and CTO for high impact roles.
- Developed university events program and career fair strategy expanding from local to national and piloting hiring partner engagement.
- Rolled out strategy for attending 10 career fairs across the country, coordinating with hiring teams to ensure each event was staffed with senior talent from the
business for student engagement.

Technical Recruiter - Engineering (Build Engineer, Software Engineer, SDET, DevOps)

Amazon

Full-cycle technical recruiter for ML and Data Science. Led events and operational excellence initiatives.

Key Achievements:
- High volume recruitment, interviewing 7-10 candidates weekly averaging 3-5 hires weekly upon establishing the talent pipeline.
- Developed and managed Tech Talk series (inclusive of branding strategy and collateral) hosted at Cambridge offices for ML/AI space.

Recruiter - Alexa (Machine Learning, Data Science, Linguistics)

Sunrun

Managed account support team managing inbound service for customers and in field sales representatives. Led a 150 person organization spanning from entry-level account support to account managers. Oversaw various human resources and operational functions within the company.

Key Achievements:
- Led recruiting efforts and strategy for the support center, customer success, as well as mid-level leadership.
- Oversaw a team of analysts and supervisors to ensure accurate forecasts and optimal service levels
- Managed social media pages and maintained positive relationship with the Better Business Bureau

Recruiter & Operations Manager

Progressive Leasing

Trained new merchants on our how to utilize finance program.

Led training presentations to increase sales within individual markets.

Managed and motivated a team of Account Managers.

Supervisor, Account Management

I specialize in white-glove strategic recruiting experiences. I have experience in tech leadership recruiting, PhD/university level recruiting, and mid to senior level IC tech recruiting, all at organizations ranging in size. I have experience leading projects, programs, and collaborating with a variety of high profile stakeholders. 

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