Michelle Yu - HR consultant, Aspire Talent

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Aspire TalentCEO & Principal

Jun. 2021Boutique HR and People Operations advisory, specializing on growing startups, SMBs and supporting underresourced People functions. Solving people related challenges during periods of transition, change and growth. Services include: - HR Consulting (interim/fractional HR support and project based work) - Executive Coaching -HR/People function due diligence and auditing Clients/past clients: Survios (Series A), SucceedSmart (Seed), Hellman & Friedman (Private Equity $80B AUM), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (public), PSG Equity (Private Equity), Allspring Global Investments (Asset Management $550B AUM), Palo Alto based Venture Capital firm ($2B AUM) Get in touch: michelle@aspiretalent.io

Michelle Yu CoachingLife and Leadership Coach

Jun. 2020Coached 100+ professionals, over 500+ hours across growing start-ups to large corporates like Netflix, Sony, Flexport, New York Times, NBC Universal... to name a few! My coaching philosophy is integrative and holistic, blending my HR/business experience with various coaching techniques like positive psychology, mindfulness, yoga and spirituality. Work therapy, but fun ;) Focused on helping leaders with discovering and finding your unique voice, vision and clarity, presence and confidence. Specialize in supporting underrepresented corporate working professionals (women and people of color) during times of change and transition. For serious inquires, connect with me at www.michellekyu.com

SoftBank Group InternationalHead of HR Operations

Jan. 2019 - Jun. 2020SoftBank Group International (SBGI) partners with some of the world’s most ground-breaking growth-stage companies to turn ingenious ideas into transformative businesses. With significant stakes in companies like Sprint, Alibaba, WeWork, SoFi and Lemonade, our portfolio companies are not only disrupting the tech space but changing the world as we know it. SBGI, with the support of some of the leading business minds in technology, provides these companies with the guidance, autonomy and long-term vision to let them do what they do best – creating the companies of tomorrow. Director-level HR business partner role. First HR hire, transferred from the Vision Fund to set up SoftBank Group infrastructure and centers of excellence model. Scale domestic US (CA, NY, FL, MA, DC) and global offices (UK, India, Brazil). Oversee a team of ~7, across benefits, onboarding, global mobility, performance management, and HRIS. Advisory and support across all levels of the organization, including point person for external audits. Learned a breadth and depth of HR related topics across various verticals. Strengthened my understanding of global business. Learned how to organize teams and individuals for optimization, and how to rapidly iterate, scale and grow.

SoftBank Investment AdvisersHR Business Partner | HR Operations Lead

Jun. 2016 - Jan. 2019San Carlos, CAAt SoftBank Investment Advisers, we seek to catalyze technological progress for the benefit of humanity. Through the SoftBank Vision Fund, we are investing more than $93 billion in the businesses and technologies that we believe will enable the next stage of the information revolution. We offer the operational expertise, global network and patient, long-term capital required to help innovators build transformative companies. First HRBP for the SoftBank Vision Fund. US and Global HR Operations. Set up, built and scaled internal HR processes, policies, systems and infrastructure for the Vision Fund's US and Global offices (UK, Japan), growing and scaling the company by 6x. Work cross functionally with Finance, Legal, Compliance and REWS to streamline, automate, and execute on strategic projects. Workforce and change management projects. Request for proposals, External Vendor Management, implementation and Project Management experience. Lead HR systems, employee transfer/restructuring, internal/external audits and benefits design setups.

Imo messengerHR and Recruiting Lead

Mar. 2013 - May. 2016Palo Alto, CAAcquired by Bigo imo is an all-in-one messaging app co-founded by one of the first 10 employees at Google, Georges Harik. Available for free on Android and iOS. Learned how to operate in scrappy, resourceful environments, to be creative and get results. - Only point of contact for all internal employees and external candidates in regards to anything people operations related for the last 14 months of my tenure - Single handedly doubled the size of the full time engineering team and built out internship program (58+ Offer Accepts), onboarding 47+ full time employees and interns. Oversaw 35+ international interns from over 10 countries - Responsible for: full life-cycle talent acquisition, onboarding, payroll, immigration and visas, employee benefits and managing the internship program - Create and improve company processes and policies, individually lead implementation and set up Greenhouse ATS and Zenefits HRIS.

GoogleTechnical Recruiter (contract)

Mar. 2012 - Mar. 2013Mountain View, CAI source and look for exceptional software engineers and get them excited about working at Google. Learned how to recruit and identify top talent. - First in training class of 17 to get a sourced hire (without having prior recruiting/tech knowledge) - Meet and exceed expectations through collaborating with other teams, producing a total of 18 full-time engineering offers (1 engineering intern, and 1 hr sourcer role) in 11 months - Ranked 5 of 62 contract sourcers in incentive contest 2012 Q3

LivingSocialSales Specialist

Apr. 2011 - Feb. 2012Santa Monica, CAAcquired by Groupon Full life cycle sales representative responsible for signing up local merchants to be featured on Livingsocial.com. Learned how to sell and learned how to hustle. - Meet and exceed monthly quotas; was to be promoted to "senior specialist" - Generated over $370K in revenue and created over 250 deals in 10 months - Awarded first place (and won a 42" tv!) in internal office competition for most monthly dials (2510 total dials, averaging 156 calls/day)

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