Vetted Vendor Management Professionals

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Leader at PENTAX Medical with hands-on experience managing globally distributed teams (Japan, Singapore, Europe, Canada) and navigating cultural/time-zone challenges through structured written communication. Helped drive a major shift from regional autonomy to a global leadership model by defining roles, splitting functions into global teams, and identifying skill gaps—resulting in improved efficiency and reduced overhead. Currently building out an analytics function spanning IT, Sales, Marketing, and Finance, including Power BI and Salesforce ownership alignment.”

“TA/Recruiting Operations leader with 12+ years building and scaling end-to-end talent ecosystems across Celanese, Flex, Children’s Health, and Pierpoint RPO—managing teams up to 40+ and owning people/process/technology. Known for major transformations including iCIMS implementation, RPO integration with rapid 30-day go-live, and a Six Sigma-driven workflow redesign that improved throughput ~30%. Also designed high-volume global hiring programs using automation (hireEZ) and live client dashboards (Avature).”

“Early ING Direct (2001) IT leader responsible for network communication architecture in a Cisco-based environment, building secure, always-on infrastructure for one of the early pioneers of online banking. Strong blend of security/compliance depth (EFTA, GLBA, AML) and operational improvement skills (KPIs, process mapping, cross-functional redesign), with an executive-facing communication style geared toward influencing budget and strategy.”

“Talent Ops/TA leader who has managed a 15-person combined recruiting + operations team and owned major HR tech initiatives, including end-to-end CRM implementations (Phenom People, GEM) and ATS/HRIS compensation-field integrations (PeopleSoft to Taleo). Known for measurable process improvements—cut time-to-fill from 100 to 65 days, increased offer acceptance by 20%, and boosted referrals by 30%—and for building analytics dashboards to pinpoint funnel bottlenecks and hiring manager responsiveness.”

“Engineering/exec leader (CEO experience) who built a lighting controls and building automation platform from scratch, choosing an Ethernet/PoE and Node.js web-centric architecture that anticipated market shifts and later became an industry pattern. Known for rigorous vendor QA (test-to-failure) and for delivering high-profile deployments (e.g., Black Desert Resort, Resorts World Villa 66) while leading globally distributed engineering teams.”

“Global operations/program leader from PSI who ran concurrent transformation initiatives across US/APAC/EMEA—AI-driven proctoring automation, vendor consolidation, and BI/exec dashboards—while overseeing delivery of millions of exams in 120+ countries. Known for KPI-based governance (RACI, steering cadences, shared dashboards) that drove measurable outcomes: +20% throughput, $5M annual cost reduction, and 30% reduction in executive meeting load with faster decision cycles.”

“Operations and general management leader with experience spanning Citibank (Regional VP), a startup COO/GM role, and industrial operations at Tatco. Has delivered high-impact operational and technology changes including a Paychex payroll migration for 150+ employees and an ERP/subscriber migration of 200,000+ records that improved marketing execution and sales enablement, while also managing executive alignment and sensitive workforce matters.”

“C-suite operator across multiple private-equity portfolio companies now raising capital for a thesis focused on meeting AI datacenter energy demand via AI-driven monitoring/inspection and condition-based maintenance for nuclear and natural gas generation. Has early traction with PE firms and is engaging target acquisition candidates, aiming to serve as an operating partner or CEO to execute the value-creation plan. Previously delivered a mobile-enabled workflow improvement for mutual fund valuation using HTML5 responsive design and CAB-driven agile development.”

“Robotics software candidate who built a full MPC-based locomotion controller for the Unitree Go2 quadruped, outputting low-level torque commands. Demonstrated strong real-time optimization skills by profiling the control pipeline and cutting compute time to <5ms per tick, and is integrating the stack with ROS 2 plus MuJoCo/Pinocchio for closed-loop simulation and model linearization.”

“Talent & Recruiting Operations leader currently running high-volume, multi-state hiring at Brink’s, managing a team of 4 recruiters delivering ~1,600 hires/year. Known for operational redesign and analytics-driven workflow standardization that reduced time-to-fill to 32 days, plus leading Paradox AI rollout to automate screening/scheduling and improve speed and consistency across markets.”

“Recruiting leader who has managed a 7-person recruiter team and regularly supports high-visibility executive searches. Currently recruiting for a Head of Employment Law role reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, partnering closely with HRBPs and executive stakeholders and emphasizing culture alignment alongside technical/legal leadership qualifications.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has managed recruiting orgs of up to 25 direct reports and can also jump in hands-on for SLT/ELT executive searches. Built end-to-end recruiting operations from a blank slate at Lumos (SOPs, KPIs, rubrics, ATS workflows) to enable rapid scaling, and partnered with ELT/Finance on a global contractor/freelancer platform rollout with cost, compliance, and worker-classification risk considerations.”

“Talent acquisition leader with experience managing recruiter/sourcer teams (7–13 direct reports) and partnering closely with HRBPs and executive stakeholders on workforce planning, org design, and compensation strategy. Drove measurable recruiting outcomes, including implementing HireEZ to modernize sourcing (18% time-to-fill reduction) and successfully staffing a large government contract requiring ~150 hires by influencing leadership to adjust below-market compensation.”

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with experience across aviation, technology, corporate/finance, and education. Led a 12-person TA org and drove major operational transformations, including a Southwest Airlines pilot pipeline program cutting time-to-cockpit from ~10 years to ~4 and forecasting 400–600 pilots annually at peak. Recently served as primary TA stakeholder for an iCIMS-to-ADP RM ATS migration, simplifying workflows and reducing recruiter administrative work by ~70%.”

“People/HR leader with experience building analytics and product/engineering/design orgs and managing lean global teams across APAC/EMEA/NAMER. Notably helped scale Progyny’s engineering team 4x in under two years by implementing dual career paths and leveling frameworks, repositioning engineering as a strategic partner. Experienced in senior-leader change initiatives (e.g., return-to-office) with strong manager enablement and communication rigor.”

“Operations leader who helped scale Kaseya from ~500 to ~5,000 employees, building and scaling core back-office teams (procurement, risk, corp ops, supply chain) with repeatable operating models and cadences. Combines hands-on "walk the floor" observation with financial analysis (e.g., inventory/balance sheet) to drive scalable efficiency improvements, including evaluating RPA and moving work to a lower-cost location (Costa Rica).”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“Operations leader managing a Northeastern US/Canada region with day-to-day responsibility for 17 facilities while also running multiple country-wide programs (goal/KPI and performance review for 130+ ops leaders, cleanliness across 90+ sites, and cost reduction). Previously led a PMO org reporting to a VP of Engineering and implemented a quarterly prioritization/resource allocation system across 200+ projects for a 500+ engineer organization.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“B2B paid social specialist who has owned $50K+/month+ budgets across multiple accounts, including cybersecurity, using a full-funnel LinkedIn + Reddit approach. Demonstrated measurable impact (2x QoQ lead volume and 150% CPL reduction), rigorous testing practices (stat sig, single-variable tests), and hands-on tracking/debugging via GTM and LinkedIn conversion setup.”

“Customer Success Manager with enterprise experience managing the Walgreens contract at EarnIn end-to-end, coordinating executives/legal/HR/marketing and technical teams through benefits-platform integration, adoption, and renewal. Delivered 85% annual retention (despite store closures) and maintained a positive NPS, supported by usage monitoring, benchmarking, and monthly executive reporting. Also drove expansion at Unison by rolling out new insurance products to homeowners using savings/ROI-based positioning.”