Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Recruiting leader in the agency/media space (Omnicom/Hearts & Science and WPP Media) who manages a small recruiter pod and builds operational systems to improve hiring outcomes. Known for process standardization and change management (Greenhouse templates, SLAs, automation) and for measurable stakeholder impact—e.g., cutting hiring manager response lag to 48 hours and partnering with a CFO to prioritize/stagger hiring based on capacity and budget.”

“Former Division I athlete with 30 years in basketball and 20 years building a career training and mentoring players, including multi-season youth coaching and recruiting. Brings a character-first recruiting philosophy shaped by mentorship from high-profile coaches/players and is eager to create on-camera/social content to help families navigate the recruiting process.”

“Growth/partnerships leader with experience across Hootsuite, SMART Technologies, and Spinify, building partner ecosystems and GTM programs tied directly to pipeline and revenue. Notably created agency partnerships that drove 21% of total revenue and ran a data-backed self-serve SMB experiment that produced an 18.4% lift in conversations.”

Eboni Mallett

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive HR Leader specializing in talent management, total rewards, and DEIB

Houston, TX18y exp

“HR/People Operations leader with experience standing up core HR infrastructure at startups, including implementing ADP Workforce Now and Lever plus workforce planning and recruiting strategy frameworks. Known for pragmatic operational diagnostics (interviews/SOP review), change management, and measurable impact—e.g., creating budget discipline for a graduate development program and driving $100K+ in savings while improving goal alignment, development planning, and recruiting efficiency.”

“Senior product leader with experience at Discover and Capital One, focused on platform modernization, partner onboarding, and AI-enabled workflow automation in regulated financial environments. Particularly compelling for roles needing a 0-to-1 builder who can align engineering, design, compliance, and executives while shipping human-centered AI products with measurable impact like 50% faster onboarding and 40% lower design load.”

“Candidate comes from SaaS and healthcare analytics rather than game development, but has strong end-to-end ownership experience building real-time, high-availability systems in Python/AWS. They highlight measurable impact across performance, throughput, uptime, and cost reduction, including queue optimization and predictive ICU utilization pipelines, and are looking to transfer that systems engineering foundation into Unity/gameplay work.”

“Product leader with a strong track record of modernizing legacy SaaS platforms, including an API-first rebuild that increased engagement by 40% and reduced support burden. Also led AI-powered workflow automation that delivered 80-90% time savings through human-in-the-loop design, showing a pragmatic, user-centered approach to applied AI.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership across React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node microservices, and production ops on Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/CloudWatch). Built real-time healthcare eligibility and analytics systems at Cigna and an early-stage seller onboarding platform at Flipkart, driving measurable performance gains (35–40% latency/throughput improvements) through event-driven Kafka pipelines, Redis caching, and strong reliability/observability practices.”

“Founder/product manager building an operational longevity nutrition startup with a 500k community, growing primarily through organic social content and rapid weekly funnel experiments. Has launched a detox bundle via a major partnership with Hurom (expected to drive ~$500k ARR) and is building a pipeline of partnerships plus planned corporate sales; preparing to raise $500k–$1M and applying to accelerators.”

“HR professional currently at Intuit supporting global teams on escalated cases spanning LOA, employee relations, performance management, and change management. Previously partnered with executive leadership at Care/of to execute a RIF and ultimately a full company closure, owning selection criteria, WARN/separation documentation with Legal, and employee communications with a strong empathy-first approach.”

“Unity/VR gameplay engineer with shipped Ubisoft experience on Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, improving core interaction systems (doors) for comfort and predictability and iterating mechanics (pickpocketing) using player feedback and analytics. Also prototyped Photon Fusion multiplayer features for a Rainbow Six Siege-related project, focusing on synchronization and tactical-feel networking tradeoffs, and has experience setting up project architecture and collaborating closely with design/UI teams (including at Sumo on a football manager project).”

“Operations leader and consultant with deep experience scaling a PE-backed services business: as COO at Access Information Management, introduced KPI-driven management, industry-specific software/client portal, and incentive compensation to lift margins from 25% to 40%+ and help grow the company from ~$2M to $100M+ EBITDA. Later advised executive teams in Australia using open-book management and a rigorous accountability/metrics cadence to drive improved results.”

“Game QA professional who shipped AAA (Overwatch 2) as quality feature owner for Campaign missions, owning high-risk areas like mission progression stability and preventing soft-lock/state desync issues. Also shipped Stormgate and caught a critical Steam achievement integration failure near RC by recreating the issue in an anti-cheat, live-mirroring environment and driving it through fix + regression verification.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who shipped a civic-tech Next.js/TypeScript app (Boston Police Index) with SSR, dynamic routing, and server-side data fetching, then iterated post-launch with UX and performance improvements. At Walmart (Seller Center micro-frontends), drove large-scale React/TypeScript refactors—standardizing state management, improving hook usage, and cutting type errors ~50%—and earned trust to serve as a code reviewer enforcing quality standards.”