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TSI TalentFractional Talent Leader and Search Consultant
May. 2023San Francisco Bay AreaTalent consulting for clients such as Kickstarter and Trusted Health. Available for short or long term recruiting assignments, executive search, talent leadership or technical implementations, preferably part time or short sprints.
BlendTalent Acquisition Leader (VP level)
Nov. 2020 - May. 2023San Francisco, California, United StatesVP level role leading Blend’s Talent Acquisition team, including TA Operations, Emerging Talent and Sourcing. Our recruiters are hyper focused on building inclusive teams, creating a wonderful candidate experience and continuously improving our processes.
CrosschqAdvisory Board Member
May. 2020San Francisco Bay Area
California RecruitersAdvisory Board Member
Oct. 2018 - Jun. 2024San Francisco Bay Area
GlassdoorGlobal Head of Talent Acquisition
Nov. 2017 - May. 2020Mill Valley, CARebuilt the TA team with a focus on productivity and polish, resulting in a highly productive and layered team exhibiting true partnership and collaboration. Created pods focused on specific segments of the business, and a program for cross training to ensure continuous and focused support. After taking care of the fundamentals, we were able to layer in employer branding, university programs, technical sourcing and interviewing methods while successfully executing on quarterly hiring OKRs. Utilized a capacity model to effectively predict team needs and allocation across business units, which resulted in consistently high metrics. Developed a cadence of weekly reporting on an Executive dashboard, which incorporated role prioritization to ensure focus on highest priority positions. Built a partnership with Sales Ops and Finance to anticipate needs and keep GTM teams in positive quota ratios for the first time. Continuously innovated to push our team and the company as a whole including amazing employment brand campaigns and effective use of tools (Greenhouse, Karat^, Hired, CrossChq, Altru, SparkHire, and more) which were adopted and celebrated by Glassdoor. Iterated and pressure tested our programs to continually process improve. Embedded our team with Product and Engineering to pilot new technologies, ideate and dog food our own products.
MZ Game StudioDirector of Talent Acquisition, Games
Sep. 2016 - Nov. 2017San Francisco Bay AreaBrought in at the beginning of a scale phase to focus on growing the company’s three business units. As a member of the TA Leadership team. I was specifically responsible for managing the Games Division, which was consistently the highest performing of the TA teams. Wins included building hiring events with impactful ROI and developing (in partnership with People Insight) the company’s first Quality of Hire metrics. Was able to develop leaders who would eventually take over managing the team.
Peet's CoffeeSenior Manager, Talent Acquisition
May. 2015 - Sep. 2016Emeryville, CaliforniaBrought into Peet's to rebuild the TA function, and proved out the team to build a regional recruiting model for Retail, Home Office and Roasting Plant. Developed high touch candidate experience, including branded candidate communication, interview gifts (coffee, of course!) and automated, mobile enabled application experience. Moved the retail team from white paper applications and traditional signage to Peet's quality recruiting signage and mobile and social media footprint. Focus on automation, premium experience and turnover reduction through a Quality Hire lens.
ActivisionSr. Manager, Talent Sourcing
May. 2008 - Apr. 2015San Francisco Bay AreaHistorically supported Activision's SF Bay Area game studios as the sole recruiting partner.
Managed Activision's Sourcing team supporting global studios, as well as managing all recruiting efforts for Sledgehammer Games. Highlights include supporting the Skylanders franchise as it was initially created (I saw the first toy painted!) and building Sledgehammer Games from zero to 250+ employees, shipping two movie quality, billion dollar plus Call of Duty games. Managed Sourcing vendors and implemented the company's first TA CRM, Avature.
LucasArtsEngineering Recruiter
Aug. 2006 - Apr. 2008Recruited game engineers onto our internal game projects in the following areas: AI, Gameplay, Core Engine, Physics/Simulation, Rendering and PS3. Highlights included: successful international recruiting trips, development of a recruiting newsletter and continued work developing a solid pipeline of engineers. Travelled internationally with hiring team to build an amazing engineering team.
San Francisco State UniversityInstructor, Recruitment and Selection
Aug. 2005 - Aug. 2012Taught Recruitment and Selection class for this HR Certificate Program. Covered staffing process, sourcing and interviewing fundamentals and closing techniques. Large focus on group work.
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