Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

“HR leader with cross-border (U.S. & Canada) experience who has supported technical and data orgs (engineering, product, analytics/BI) as an HRBP/HR Director. Partnered directly with C-suite leaders to refresh mission/vision/values using a data-backed proposal and led the rollout across processes, policies, and employee resources, alongside driving succession planning, talent reviews, and compliant reorganizations.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered recruiting workflow that ranks resumes against job descriptions, generates evidence-based justifications, and finds "hidden fit" candidates using embeddings + RAG. Demonstrates strong production engineering around hallucination control, latency, and predictable LLM cost management (budget checks, top-K pruning, tenant caps), plus orchestration experience with Airflow/Prefect/Kubernetes and a structured evaluation/monitoring methodology for AI agents.”

“Chief of Staff at DataDome and Onna (founding-team experience) who built executive operating cadences, planning processes, and finance-backed dashboards to drive alignment across fast-scaling orgs (200+ global). Led major transformations including a single-product to multi-product platform shift (improving retention and enabling new market entry) and a sales-led to product-led (PLG) transition, and managed fundraising from Seed through Series B with outside counsel.”

“Product/technology executive who has repeatedly built and scaled engineering organizations from early-stage startups to large enterprises (including Temenos with ~2,000 developers). Led major platform modernizations (monolith-to-microservices) to enable SaaS, resilience, and faster delivery, and launched an innovation hub to build proprietary neural-network biometric algorithms for a payments product enabling "wave of the hand" transactions.”

“Sourcing/procurement professional with hands-on CAPEX equipment sourcing experience, building RFI/RFP packages, qualifying new vendors, and negotiating using market and internal spend data. Demonstrated process-improvement impact by redesigning proposal evaluations into a parallel workflow, cutting sourcing cycle time by ~20% while maintaining evaluation rigor.”

“Partnerships leader (Director of Partnerships at Frontify; previously supported Founder/CEO/President at Modicum) known for driving cross-functional alignment and executive productivity. Built U.S. market presence and expanded agency partnerships while implementing practical operating rhythms (trackers, leadership syncs, streamlined reporting) to keep senior teams aligned and moving quickly.”

“Operations/finance-focused advisor with experience helping early-stage companies build lightweight but effective operating systems—monthly financial reporting, KPI frameworks tied to revenue levers, and forecasting cadences using tools like QuickBooks and Metabase. Has also implemented scalable request-prioritization (Jira) and guided founder/executive org design changes, including transitioning a founder to president while elevating an internal leader to CEO.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 10+ years driving large-scale K-12 district hiring, including staffing across 200 schools and managing thousands of candidates annually. Known for redesigning fragmented recruiting workflows and implementing ATS solutions (Lever, AppliTrack, Taleo, Oracle HCM) to deliver measurable gains: 15% vacancy reduction, 20% faster time-to-hire, 30% fewer compliance errors, and 25% faster onboarding.”

“HubSpot BDR (nearly 2 years) and brief AE stint (5 months, moved countries) who delivered standout performance—12.6x qualified new client target and Rookie of the Quarter in 2023. Builds highly structured, multi-channel outbound sequences (phone, cold email, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Loom, webinars) including vertical-specific plays (real estate) and supports SMB/mid-market with some enterprise multi-threading and strong Salesforce hygiene.”

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Game economy/progression designer for PGA titles who owned equipment and attribute progression plus virtual currency sources/sinks end-to-end. Uses quantitative modeling and telemetry (wallet balances, spending ratios) to tune supply/pricing and hit segment-specific business targets (e.g., conversion and completion-rate goals), and aligns stakeholders via KPI-lift projections and tradeoff-driven presentations.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on buyer/distribution product lines, building scalable purchasing/planning frameworks and modernizing workflows. Drove performance and reliability improvements via queue-based async architectures, external API redundancy, and CI/CD automation, and has led production incident response (cache-related) with follow-up playbooks and monitoring. Experienced in high-growth/startup environments, combining hands-on delivery with mentoring, 1:1s, and performance coaching.”

“People/HR strategy leader with experience in global team management and workforce planning across five divisions at Kantar. Uses data-driven org change (production + engagement analysis) and practical engagement levers (stay interviews, internal mobility, shift redesign) to deliver measurable results, including a 10% production efficiency gain in six months, and has led targeted initiatives to recruit/retain women through focus groups and flexible work options.”

“Recruiting Operations leader in agency owner and licensed sales recruiting who has managed a 9-person sourcing team and driven measurable funnel improvements (35%+ pipeline increase) through workflow redesign. Owns ATS/CRM ecosystems (iCIMS, Yello) and has led major migrations/integrations (SuccessFactors, Oracle) while coordinating across controls, data, engineering, recruiters, vendors, and legal.”

“People/Org leader with hands-on experience managing teams across Europe and the US, often in post-merger consolidation environments. Has repeatedly built product/design/analytics teams from scratch using benchmarking, role templating, and budget/scenario planning with finance, and has led high-stakes change initiatives including reorgs, M&A integration, and RIF execution with structured global communications.”

“Capgemini engineer who helped take a travel insurance platform from prototype demos to a stable production system by clarifying requirements, hardening API contracts, and adding validation/logging to handle real customer data and external integrations. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting of complex workflows (including LLM/agentic-style workflows) through strong observability practices, and in leading practical developer-focused demos that accelerate client integration and adoption.”

“Talent Acquisition leader (former Director of Talent Acquisition at Paramount Global) who has managed recruiter teams (1–7 direct reports) and can jump into high-impact executive searches. Experienced partnering with C-suite/EVP stakeholders and HRBPs on offer approvals and leveling/comp adjustments, and has implemented recruiting process/ATS workflows and team training programs across both startups and large enterprises.”

“HR leader experienced in partnering with senior leaders through restructuring and process standardization, supporting multi-location organizations with diverse teams. Strong in org design/workforce planning, manager coaching, and change communications (talking points/FAQs), with a focus on minimizing disruption while monitoring engagement and attrition trends.”

“Recruiting Operations/Talent Ops leader who owns end-to-end TA process, tech stack, and vendors, with experience managing both small direct teams and 20+ person matrix groups. Led complex compliance-focused workflow redesigns (including consent and candidate-to-req linking with 97% completion in 24 hours) and served as TA project manager for a PeopleSoft-to-Workday HCM transition while keeping the ATS running, aligning US/Canada process differences through security and routing.”

“Talent acquisition leader with multi-industry experience (Thomson Reuters, Universal Music Group, Essential, Assurant, Fubo) who has managed recruiting teams and stayed hands-on with executive search. At Fubo, partnered directly with CFO/CTO to re-price an engineering leadership role using Aon Hewitt data, driving a 25–30% budget increase, and streamlined a cumbersome 7-hour interview loop down to 4 hours to speed hiring and reduce business disruption.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Recruiting leader who builds structured, competency-based hiring systems and can also personally run Senior Director-to-C-Suite searches. Notable for scaling a full hiring season to 175+ teacher hires and for leading a high-stakes CEO succession search, advising a board to define a new leadership vision and landing a CEO who remains successful four years later.”