Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

Yiteng Xu

Screened

Director of Lab Automation specializing in high-throughput assays and NGS workflows

South San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Joined Arsenal into a leadership vacuum (manager fired, only engineer left) and still launched a screening project in 4 weeks while defining team direction. Built an 11-person automation org spanning assay development, engineering, and operations, implementing OKRs/retrospectives/dashboards and navigating major pivots (including a partner pullout) while maintaining delivery and retention.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong systems architecture depth who has reworked core gameplay ability frameworks, shipped across mobile and standalone VR, and solved multiplayer synchronization issues with server-authoritative netcode. Also brings an unusual crossover into AI tooling, having owned an AI-powered debugging assistant at Arm and integrated LLM workflows into CI/development pipelines.”

“Recruiting leader with experience in both large-scale financial institutions (Morgan Stanley/JPMorgan) and a high-growth fintech (CAIS), including managing a 12-person recruiting team and staying hands-on with executive searches. Led a high-visibility Director of Finance search reporting to the President and drove process modernization by implementing AI tools (BrightHire, Metaview) to standardize interviews and improve sourcing. Regularly partners with HRBPs and C-suite leaders on restructuring, compensation alignment, and strategic talent pipeline programs (internship redesign with intern-to-FT conversions).”

“AI/LLM engineer who built and productionized an internal RAG-based knowledge system that ingests diverse sources (PDFs, Markdown, Slack), scaled retrieval with distributed FAISS and parallel ingestion, and reduced hallucinations via re-ranking, grounding prompts, and post-generation validation. Also has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and Kubernetes for reliable ETL/model pipelines, monitoring, and staged rollouts; reports ~15% accuracy improvement and adoption as the primary internal knowledge tool.”

“Senior Technical Recruiter with 15 years’ experience (including 3 years people management) at Amazon, partnering closely with business, finance, and HR on headcount planning, approvals, and hiring strategy. Known for operational problem-solving—redesigned a stalled Solutions Architect workflow (JD + interview panel) to cut time-to-fill to 67 days—and for scaling hiring under pressure (350 hires/quarter) while maintaining quality standards.”

Johnny Davis

Screened

Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager specializing in SaaS adoption and digital transformation

San Jose, CA18y exp

“Enterprise Customer Success leader (10+ years) with experience at Zscaler and supporting Fortune 500 customers, driving high adoption and renewals through metric-driven governance and executive stakeholder management. Known for cross-functional incident leadership (including coordinating with Apple and Product to ship a patch) and for enabling significant expansions (e.g., $600k+ add-on before renewal and a $750k DLP deal) while building Salesforce Marketing Cloud/CRM analytics and enablement tooling.”

Patrick Jose

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLM applications and full-stack systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Built and owned a production LLM/RAG customer support assistant end-to-end, from prototype through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Their work automated roughly 40% of common support queries and cut response times by about 30%, while also creating reusable Python inference services that improved consistency and team velocity.”

“Atlassian ML/AI engineer who has shipped end-to-end production systems combining classical ML, streaming infrastructure, and LLM-based personalization to improve onboarding and free-to-paid conversion. Particularly strong in turning research-style RAG and reranking ideas into low-latency, reliable product systems with robust evaluation, safety guardrails, and reusable platform services for other teams.”

“Former Accenture consultant in bank merger integrations who combined finance and computer science to automate high-stakes command center operations, then earned a Duke MBA and moved into strategy, finance, and product management at Vanguard. Particularly compelling for roles at the intersection of financial services, product execution, and technical enablement, including AI-driven workflow efficiency.”

RC Casey

Screened

Director-level sales executive specializing in digital advertising and GTM transformation

New York, NY15y exp

“Enterprise sales leader with deep Amazon experience who has built and scaled teams from 8 to 75 people and carried revenue targets up to $500M. They combine large-scale leadership with hands-on deal execution, including a $2M net new Revlon win that unlocked broader category expansion, and have repeatedly been brought in to build or rebuild teams in high-growth and post-layoff environments.”

“Product leader with 8+ years across AI, platform, data, and customer-facing products, including personalization, discovery, loyalty, digital ordering, and conversational AI. Notable wins include launching an AI recommendation engine for Baskin Robbins that lifted conversion 20% and AOV 12%, and improving Apple discovery feature adoption by 25% through phased delivery under complex data-quality constraints.”

“Enterprise Customer Success/Account Manager with deep Braze martech expertise, driving adoption, renewals, and expansion across major consumer brands. Notable wins include growing a nationwide coffee retailer account from $400k to $1.2M, securing a $100k+ TAM upsell through expectation resets, and turning a churn-risk DTC onboarding into a case study and conference speaker via cross-functional execution and product feedback loops.”

Bennett Smith

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning high-traffic FastAPI APIs (Postgres/Redis/Kafka) and serverless+container deployments (Lambda/ECS) managed via Terraform and CI/CD. Has built Glue-based data lake ETL (S3 Parquet, Athena/Redshift) with schema drift/data quality controls, modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity validation, and demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (60–90s down to 3–5s).”

Alberto Alanis

Screened

Director-level Global Talent Acquisition Operations leader specializing in AI and shared services

Dallas, TX21y exp

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader with experience at Uber and Workday spanning global hiring process reengineering, ATS/analytics implementations (iCIMS, Tableau, Paradox), and large-scale recruiting coordination leadership. Managed a 90+ person coordination organization across North & Latin America and redesigned the operating model (queue to pods) to double productivity while maintaining strong stakeholder experience.”

Rohini Rajagopalan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity

Santa clara, CA8y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.”

BHABANI Dash

Screened

Principal Enterprise Architect specializing in AI, cloud strategy, and digital transformation

Lake Villa, IL20y exp

“Aspiring AI product builder interested in LLMs and deep learning, exploring forming a team (including fresh graduates) and leveraging crowdsourcing to develop ideas. Has not raised capital and has no VC/accelerator experience yet, but is thinking ahead about funding needs and partnering with an operational co-founder while potentially joining an existing team.”

Hanna MacNamee

Screened

Mid-level Client Implementation & Customer Success specialist in FinTech and private markets

New York, NY3y exp

“Client-facing operator with strong pilot conversion and user engagement experience who translates product adoption work into founder-style sourcing and relationship building. They use behavioral data to drive highly personalized outreach, have managed 50-100 outbound touches per week, and have turned disengaged or at-risk users into super-users and referral sources, including in law firm/operator contexts.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of a high-spend ($50K+/month+) financial services account running integrated campaigns across paid search, paid social, and programmatic (Google/Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon Ads, and more). Experienced driving new account openings against cost-per-open targets through audience/creative testing, sequential messaging and influencer-led upper funnel, and rigorous tracking/measurement in a highly regulated environment.”

“Engineering leader in cloud security at SysTech with player-coach experience spanning cross-team data/ownership standardization and reporting platform user-journey improvements. Stays technically deep through observability (SLA/SLOs, dashboards, alerting), rigorous code reviews (including AI-assisted coding), and end-to-end incident ownership in IAM/agentless cloud event collection. Targeting $270K–$300K base plus bonus/equity.”

James Hallahan

Screened

Director-level Product & Growth Marketing leader specializing in gaming and consumer tech

Remote14y exp

“Growth and brand marketing leader with senior experience across gaming (PlayStation Plus; Head of Marketing at Devsisters; also mentions Imangi), known for data-driven UA scaling (LTV/ROAS), systematic creative testing, and integrated multi-channel launches that drove app store #1 rankings and improved retention/revenue. Also an active DJ and event producer with hands-on creator/influencer program experience, bringing strong creator-culture intuition to performance marketing.”

Greta Skousgard

Screened

Senior Change Management & Recruiting Leader specializing in global adoption and talent operations

New York City, NY17y exp

“People leader with large-team management experience (15 direct reports) and recruiting leadership responsibilities (4 indirect) spanning onboarding, coaching, performance management, and KPI delivery. As a Sr Recruiter, stepped in as a change facilitator to turn around adoption of a new scheduling system, boosting engagement by 50%+ through retrospectives and working sessions. Also partnered with senior leadership at McKinsey on AI product adoption communications to drive alignment across functions.”

“Enterprise product leader focused on rebuilding complex operational platforms and AI-assisted workflow systems for support and operations teams. Particularly strong in messy, cross-functional transformation work—aligning engineering, design, operations, leadership, and compliance around measurable outcomes—and brings a clear human-centered AI philosophy centered on augmenting expert judgment rather than automating it away.”