Frances Kuhn

About

Recruiting leader with experience at Google and YieldStreet who combines people management with a heavy personal requisition load (15–20). Partnered directly with HRBPs and the CFO on international/executive hiring, budgeting, equity decisions, and board-level quarterly planning. Led a department-wide ATS replacement and enforced interview training/compliance and SLAs to improve data quality and time-to-fill.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Led a recruiting team (1 tech recruiter and 1 coordinator)
• Managed recruiting performance via weekly/monthly metrics (time to fill, cost per hire, 30/60/90-day outcomes)
• Hands-on recruiting leader managing 15–20 requisitions while leading the function
• Strong HRBP partnership on international and executive requisitions, including offer negotiation and exec comp approvals
• Executive stakeholder management: partnered closely with CFO on hiring plans, budgets, events, and equity during capital raises
• Board/executive-level communication: presented quarterly recruiting plans and goals to exec team and board
• Implemented a new ATS as a single source of truth to improve compliance, data quality, response time, and time-to-fill
• Drove adoption through structured interview training, guided interviews, SLAs, and accountability mechanisms

Reference Highlights

• built the recruiting department/process from the ground up
• frequent, proactive communication with stakeholders
• strong stakeholder partnership across functions
• deep understanding of business problems and opportunities
• strong attention to detail
• strong people skills
• high EQ
• effective negotiation
• finds strong candidates even for “impossible” roles
• hires come in under budget
• smoothly mitigates candidate issues; keeps process friction-free
• provides timely status updates; high transparency
• always available and helpful
• ensures legal compliance in recruiting
• improves interviewer feedback quality
• new hires onboard quickly
• makes the company feel welcoming and comfortable
• candidates made impact within first 48 hours
• consistently exceeds expectations
• handled recruiting single-handedly for the entire organization
• performed well under pressure during COVID uncertainty
• did not crack under pressure
• met duties and goals despite leadership confusion
• clear communicator
• sets and communicates boundaries and expectations
• effective advocate for candidates in offer negotiations
• able to work with challenging executive stakeholders
• remarkably organized
• hard worker
• helped build effective interview guide and hiring process
• enabled hiring of additional team members and a Head of Customer Success