Vetted Team Management Professionals

“Performance marketer with experience owning $50K+/month budgets across Google Search, Bing, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, and email for lead-gen and e-commerce. Demonstrated measurable efficiency gains (cut CPL in half from $150 to $75) through GA4-driven optimization and structured creative/landing page testing, and has a track record of quickly diagnosing channel issues (e.g., Performance Max) and reallocating spend to restore ROAS/conversion growth.”

“People/HR leader with experience supporting globally distributed teams (US, Canada, UK) and partnering with senior leaders on org design and scalable people processes. Implemented a formal performance review program, including manager training and 1:1 coaching, to improve consistency, transparency, and performance conversations as the company grew.”

“Recruiting leader managing a team of 3 who stays hands-on in high-impact executive searches, including a confidential CMO search run directly with the CEO. Strong HRBP partnership experience, driving company-wide workforce planning/hiring prioritization and implementing Spark Hire one-way video interviews to speed screening and improve consistency and candidate experience.”

“Recruiting leader with 4+ years of people management experience, leading a team of 8 direct-report recruiters and staying hands-on in high-impact executive searches (including senior engineering leadership). Strong HRBP and executive stakeholder partner who uses KPI-driven reviews, structured interviewing, and dashboards to improve quality and cut hiring timelines ~20–25%, while also reducing agency reliance through source-mix and cost-impact analysis.”

“UE5 gameplay/system designer with an engineering background who has shipped player-facing systems including an enemy weak-point feature (with replication and performance fixes) and a modular spectator minigame framework for Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. Also implemented lobby mode and disconnect team-balancing (AI backfill) for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, leveraging profiling/debug tooling and cross-discipline collaboration to get features to shipping quality.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Recruiting leader managing teams of up to 26 who stays hands-on with high-impact executive searches; recently led and closed a VP of Revenue search in 60 days to unblock revenue growth. Partners closely with HRBPs and executive stakeholders (including CFO) on workforce planning, attrition reduction, and compensation/leveling decisions, and has rebuilt recruiting processes with structured, metrics-driven adoption.”

“HR leader (VP of HR at Joe Coffee Company; previously at Equinox) with hands-on experience implementing two HRIS migrations and configuring timekeeping/HR systems used as an org-wide hub (ATS, performance management, timekeeping, system of record). Drove a major compliance-focused change to break tracking/pay practices using cost analysis and system configuration to reduce liability while minimizing employee dissatisfaction.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”

“Candidate states they have 20+ years of experience in government relations and govtech, but declined to provide details on outbound sales/business development motions, prospecting, outreach campaigns, early-stage process building, or AI/automation usage during the screening.”

“QA engineer with 11+ years (nearly 12) in IT across financial, healthcare, and telecommunications domains, experienced partnering closely with developers throughout Agile delivery. Strong in building/maintaining living test plans, running smoke/regression on new builds, and driving triage with impact-based prioritization using Jira/TestRail/Confluence; targets $100k+ base with standard benefits.”

“Candidate declined to proceed with the text-based/AI screening format and did not share portfolio details, stating a preference to walk a human through their work and assess role/culture fit in a two-way conversation.”

“Recruiting leader who has managed teams of up to 9 and delivered major cost savings by cutting third-party agency spend by $1M+ through proactive pipelining and team-based sourcing. Comfortable operating hands-on in executive search and influencing C-suite/board stakeholders with data, including redesigning an interview process from five rounds to three to reduce candidate drop-off.”

“People/organizational leader with experience managing global, multi-country teams at a Turkey-based startup and building/scaling product and analytics functions. Partnered directly with CEO/SVP Ops/CFO to formalize org structure, clarify decision rights, and redesign performance and compensation frameworks to support scaling.”

“Sourcing/product professional with hands-on experience managing end-to-end contract manufacturing for consumer products (including a pressed eyeshadow palette) from vendor selection and GMP-focused audits through formula approval, pilot batches, claims testing, and launch. Demonstrates strong commercial negotiation (MOQs, tiered pricing, component cost-downs tied to service metrics) and pragmatic risk mitigation, including a COVID-era nutrition drink mix launch pivot to a flavor extension leveraging existing inventory.”

“Lead game designer/producer who shipped a Fortnite TMNT-themed rogue-like dungeon crawler, owning progression, economy, and tuning. Improved retention measurably by replacing a linear points system with an exponential economy formula, increasing playtime by ~50%, and iterated quickly via playtests (mini-boss pacing, weapon drop-rate balance). Also built UE Blueprints for FPS animation montages and state transitions to address clunky movement feedback.”

“Senior designer with experience delivering premium, performance-oriented marketing creative for brands including BFGoodrich, Modelo, Corona, Coway, and HydraFacial. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks for high-volume multi-channel output (web, email, paid, decks, events), and also produces short-form CapCut videos optimized for major social platforms. Has worked fully remote since 2017 and has executed full Spanish-language adaptations of campaigns to expand audience reach.”