Vetted People & HR Professionals

“Full-lifecycle recruiter who recently led the end-to-end search for newly created Internal Executive Guide roles at Pathways (leadership development), partnering closely with an executive team. Strong in executive alignment and process design—interviewed leaders individually to unify the role vision, coached interview frameworks, managed offers/references, and onboarded the final hire.”

“HR Business Partner with experience supporting and scaling product, design, analytics, and technical orgs, including global stakeholder management across the US, Australia, and the UK. Known for bringing consistency to performance/ER/leave practices across regions by partnering with Legal/Payroll/People Ops, and for stabilizing teams during major org changes through role/reporting alignment and manager toolkits.”

Elizabeth Abend

Screened

Director-level HR leader specializing in people operations, compliance, and HR systems

New York, NY16y exp

“HR/People leader with multi-industry experience (boutique fitness, retail multi-location, bakery/manufacturing) who partners closely with senior leadership on major change. Has led acquisition integration of people systems, executed org redesign without layoffs, uses people analytics to drive leadership decisions, and manages sensitive ER investigations with a transparency-first approach.”

“High-volume full-cycle recruiter promoted to lead, managing a team of 4 and serving as primary client POC while filling 30–40 roles per week. Built pipeline dashboards/trackers, introduced a structured screening questionnaire focused on people skills, and optimized job board spend to reduce costs while maintaining candidate flow. Also owned JazzHR ATS operations and data-quality process documentation, troubleshooting workflow gaps (e.g., RTR generation) to keep hiring moving within a 2–3 day submission SLA.”

Yarisbeth Sagardia

Screened

HR Director specializing in HR operations, talent management, and organizational development

Brooklyn, NY13y exp

“People/operations leader with experience managing multi-site teams and supporting international offices (Germany and London), known for building connection and culture in distributed environments using structured comms and engagement programs. Partnered with senior leadership through two executive transitions (succession planning, town halls, retreats) and worked closely with finance on restructuring decisions including 2020 layoffs handled with a human-centered approach.”

Michelle Jimenez

Screened

HR Director specializing in HR strategy, benefits/payroll, and industrial security programs

New York, NY21y exp

“People/HR leader focused on retention, engagement, and organizational effectiveness—partnering with executives to implement performance review systems, redesign teams for growth, and improve hiring/onboarding. Brings strong employee relations experience (including harassment investigations) and uses people metrics and market research to optimize benefits and drive participation.”

“Recruiter with strong full-desk search ownership, including a recent enterprise-level Senior Director of Warehouse, Inventory and Logistics search for Vibrant Ingredients completed in 6-8 weeks. Demonstrates particular strength in passive talent mapping within food and beverage manufacturing, hiring-manager calibration, and using market data, scorecards, and process discipline to unblock stalled searches and close candidates in competitive situations.”

“Founding People leader at two companies with hands-on experience building talent pipelines and scaling org practices. Led global people & culture across the US, India, and Canada, including creating flexible holiday policies and virtual community-building programs. Partnered with CEO/C-suite to diagnose leadership gaps via listening tours and engagement data, then built manager training programs with 100% completion and reported improvements in clarity and feedback.”

“Talent/recruiting operations leader with 3 years of experience managing 5–6 recruiters and owning client/vendor relationships, KPIs, and process improvement. Notably cut time-to-fill by redesigning interview workflows and solved a hard-to-fill rural cryogenic technician search by shifting requirements to HVAC talent and building a train-up pipeline—an approach still used today.”

Rahul Vashisth

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in data-driven and AI-enabled recruiting operations

Arlington, VA12y exp

“Recruiting leader who has managed a 23-person team and drives performance through servant leadership, coaching, and recognition. Partnered with HRBPs on employee-care initiatives to embed assessments/certifications and improve team capability, and successfully pitched the CEO to build a dedicated LinkedIn Recruiter/social media sourcing team that delivered results within months.”

Jade Butler

Screened

Senior Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Leader specializing in full-cycle hiring and onboarding

Jersey City, NJ16y exp

“Recruiting leader who managed 12 direct-report technical and corporate recruiters, focused on developing recruiter capability (training, coaching, candidate management) and driving strategy execution. Partnered closely with HRBPs on learning & development planning and implemented an ATS workflow change that improved hiring-manager feedback speed and candidate experience. Comfortable engaging executive stakeholders on sensitive compensation/incentive decisions.”

Sean Maguire

Screened

Senior HR & Benefits Professional specializing in payroll, HRIS, and retirement plan administration

New York, NY17y exp

“Operations and people leader with experience managing a 300-person cross-border workforce using HRIS/PEO infrastructure, including hands-on reconfiguration of payroll setups. Also led interior design teams serving high-net-worth clients and delivered measurable business impact through operational streamlining ($500K payroll savings) and restructuring that improved margins while reducing customer churn.”

Iasha King

Screened

Director-level talent relations and booking professional in sports, entertainment, and fitness

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“Operator focused on founder sourcing, screening, and partnership development across accelerator and enterprise innovation programs. They helped drive nearly 300 applications and 75 founder calls for the Real California Milk accelerator, and managed a P&G founder engagement in the AI/marketing space that ultimately led to an investment.”

Robert Lewis

Screened

Director-level executive search leader specializing in manufacturing and CPG talent

Carmel, IN11y exp

“Recruiter with full-desk search ownership experience, including a recent Director of Product search closed in 30 days. Demonstrates a structured, metrics-driven approach using market mapping, scorecard-based evaluation, and ATS pipeline management, with comfort navigating shifting requirements in startup environments.”