Vetted People & HR Professionals

“Recruiting leader with experience at Google and YieldStreet who combines people management with a heavy personal requisition load (15–20). Partnered directly with HRBPs and the CFO on international/executive hiring, budgeting, equity decisions, and board-level quarterly planning. Led a department-wide ATS replacement and enforced interview training/compliance and SLAs to improve data quality and time-to-fill.”

“Operations/HR leader brought into an early-stage company to run a business unit and build HR from zero; drove 40% revenue growth and helped position the company for a buyout offer. Known for pragmatic process redesign (removing approval friction, centralizing contracts) and scaling people operations with tools like Pave and UKG, plus hands-on founder coaching using pilots and Theory of Constraints.”

“People/HR leader partnering closely with CTO and senior engineering leadership on major org transformations, including decentralizing QA/IT Ops and establishing new performance/promotion guardrails. Built and scaled a Returnship program across a tech org (60+ conversions to FTE; +40% diversity hiring) and used people analytics to cut high-performer turnover from 18% to 5% while boosting internal promotions to 20%. Experienced in executive coaching, succession planning, and sensitive ER investigations in partnership with legal/ER.”

“Operations and GTM advisor for early-stage and scaling software companies who implements practical operating frameworks (RACI, OKRs) to translate founder vision into execution. Notable outcomes include cutting sales ramp time from 6–9 months to 3–4 months at OPSWAT through enablement programs and driving 124% of financial plan at Cradlepoint (2022) after cascading OKRs across the organization.”

“TA/Recruiting Operations leader who was the first in-house TA hire at Pyant Therapeutics, building the entire function and tech stack (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Gem, Ashby) from the ground up. Managed a 6-person team supporting all business units, redesigned workflows to cut time-to-fill ~50% for urgent clinical ops hiring, and led an EOR rollout that saved ~$1M in year one.”

“Organizational effectiveness and L&OD leader with experience managing a global volunteer team and partnering closely with senior leaders to drive enterprise culture change. Demonstrated measurable impact improving employee engagement (+31 points in 6 months) and applying Lean/appreciative discovery to streamline regulatory workflows to meet state-mandated timelines.”

“HR operations and human capital leader with Department of Transportation experience who built an HR policy and training infrastructure from scratch (20 policies in a year), enabling ~25% organizational growth. Known for data-driven process optimization (cut processing time by 20 days and improved request responsiveness by ~20%) and for creating scalable manager enablement tools (HR toolkit/quick-reference guides) while aligning senior leadership and reducing overhead via FTE-to-contractor transitions.”

“Recruiting leader with AWS LATAM experience managing teams of ~10 (up to 14) and personally owning executive searches for country leaders across Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Led compensation benchmarking and package recalibration for new-country office launches (e.g., Argentina) and drove a major recruiting operating-model change to a centralized pod/virtual hiring approach to support rapid headcount growth.”

“Talent Acquisition/People Strategy leader who has managed a large recruiting organization (25 recruiters + 3 TA Managers) while staying hands-on with executive search. Known for enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle standardization and for building workforce planning and DEI glidepath reporting that informs executive leadership decisions through data, dashboards, and forward-looking scenarios.”

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with large-scale, multi-region experience at Amazon and Home Depot, specializing in standardizing hiring workflows across 30+ sites. Known for building robust SOP/SLA frameworks and Power BI analytics (40+ dashboards) that drove a 30% time-to-fill reduction and cut agency reliance by 25%, plus leading enterprise ATS/tool integrations with cross-functional partners (IT, Security, Legal, Finance).”

“Talent acquisition leader with experience managing a small recruiting team post-layoffs (1 direct, 3 dotted-line) and staying hands-on in executive search. Led a global expansion to hire 30 roles across the US, UK, and Singapore, and implemented a competency-based, standardized recruiting process for product managers that was validated in real-time and approved by the Chief Product Officer.”