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Elevate Talent SolutionsFounder, CEO & Fractional Talent Aquisition Leader
Sep. 2025San Francisco Bay AreaI’m Kim Hoffman, CEO of Elevate Talent Solutions. I help technical leaders achieve successful hiring outcomes so they can deliver on product commitments and drive business results. With over 30 years of experience at world-class companies like Intuit, Adobe, and Apple, I’ve partnered with more than 1,000 leaders and overseen the hiring of 15,000+ engineers. I bring this proven expertise to help organizations build strong, high-performing recruiting strategies that deliver with confidence.
Elevate Talent SolutionsFounder & CEO
Sep. 2025
IntuitDirector Talent Acquisition - Accelerating Functions, Marketing, Product Management & Design
Aug. 2022 - Sep. 2025San Francisco Bay Area-Led professional and university talent acquisition strategy, delivery, and hiring transformation across all Product & Design organizations - Consumer (Turbo Tax), Small Business (Quickbooks, Money, MailChimp), and Mid-Market (~750 hires over 3 years).
-Led talent strategy and delivery across Finance, People, Legal and Corporate Strategy organizations. (~1000 hires over 3 years)
-Spearheaded initiatives to attract and assess top-tier PM and Design talent, developing new standardized toolsets and frameworks for candidate evaluation; creating skill rubrics and bar raising assessments to hire top tier talent.
-Managed hiring metrics from end-to-end funnel to offer, proactively identifying and resolving roadblocks.
-Led a team of 3 Managers and 20+ recruiters; an authentic and empathic leader building a culture of inclusion, career development, trust, empowerment and fun; creating a high performing team that consistently meets yearly hiring targets.
-Led Intuit’s site strategy across the company; using talent intelligence and executing all organization’s site strategies while building governance to adhere to declared site strategies, creating a blueprint and communicating strategic intent to enhance access to talent.
-Grew New York's tech workforce by 525 employees over 3 years, increasing technical hires at site from 30% to 51% in 2025.
-Orchestrated Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) recruiting initiatives, implementing data-driven strategies to identify and close gaps in representation. Cultivated diverse talent pipelines and enhanced the candidate experience for underrepresented groups (URG) across all levels. Achieved a 6% increase in Finance representation, from 15% to 21%.
-Trusted Business partner contributing to the overall success of Talent Acquisition organization partnering with Finance, Strategic Sourcing, Talent Intelligence, Talent Programs & Marketing, and Analytics teams.
IntuitDirector Talent Acquisition - Products and Technologies
Apr. 2015 - Sep. 2022San Francisco Bay Area-In addition to Product & Design, led talent strategy and delivery across Intuit’s Engineering organizations. (~1000 hires per year).
-Partnered with CTO and Engineering executives to build talent acquisition strategies leading consistently hitting quarterly hiring targets.
-Built Data Science organization from the ground up
-Rolled out a new interview assessment process (A4A) across engineering organizations.
-Orchestrated “Pooled Hiring” approach and roadmap, partnering with the business to roll out infrastructure, training managers and assessors to scale engineering hiring leading to improved time to fill and candidate experience. -Partnered with the Women in Tech program office to initiate diversity strategies to increase representation across engineering.
Xactly CorpDirector, Talent Selection
Jun. 2014 - Apr. 2015San Jose, CaliforniaResponsible for leading recruitment efforts across organizations. Hands on leader responsible recruiting for Sales organization in San Jose and Denver. Successfully hired against headcount plan.
AdobeDirector, Talent Acquisition - Products and Technologies
Apr. 2006 - Jun. 2014San Francisco Bay AreaResponsible for leading all technical recruiting for Digital Media, Digital Marketing and Corporate Development and Technology business units. •Responsible for leading North America team of 8 Recruiters and Sourcers responsible for 2000 hires over the last 4 years.
•Team responsibilities included recruiting and partnering with hiring managers and leaders for multiple technical profiles across the business units including Product Management and Product Marketing.
•Ability to be hands on and drive recruitment efforts from planning stage through offer acceptance.
•Consult with hiring leaders and key business partners to drive strategic recruiting initiatives.
•Experience managing remotely with team members in Utah, New York, San Francisco and extended teams in Romania and India.
•Quarterly reporting & metrics to senior leaders and key partners.
•Actively involved in employment branding strategies.
•Responsible for assessment and leveling for potential technical talent from acqui-hire target companies.
•Hiring Integration and on boarding of Adobe acquisitions •Partner closely with University team, Human Resource Business Partners, Compensation, Generalist, M&A and Legal partners.
SymantecCollege and Research Staffing Manager
May. 2005 - Apr. 2006
AppleRecruiter
Jul. 2004 - May. 2005Software Technical Recruiter. Recruit for Software Engineers with the following background, Mac OS X development, unix systems engineering, file systems, core OS and server technologies.
Sun MicrosystemsSr. Technical Recruiter
Nov. 1997 - Jul. 2004Sr. Technical Recruiter for the Solaris Software Organization.
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