Melissa Cappadona

“TA/Recruiting Operations leader who was the first in-house TA hire at Pyant Therapeutics, building the entire function and tech stack (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Gem, Ashby) from the ground up. Managed a 6-person team supporting all business units, redesigned workflows to cut time-to-fill ~50% for urgent clinical ops hiring, and led an EOR rollout that saved ~$1M in year one.”

“Senior/Team Lead SDR at Rippling with top performance (President’s Club FY2025), credited with sourcing the largest closed-won deal in company history and generating $7.95M pipeline / $2.45M closed-won. Previously spent ~8 years in full-cycle recruiting across internal (Hyatt) and agency (Randstad, Kforce) including tech/finance, known for data-driven stakeholder management and persistence on difficult searches (e.g., hard-to-fill Linux Engineer role resulting in offer and later FTE conversion).”

“Education staffing sales professional (4+ years) focused on school districts, selling primarily to Special Education directors and expanding into new departments like Social & Emotional Learning. Known for building trusted relationships and improving operational processes—most notably pre-onboarding talent to cut fulfillment time from weeks to days and exceeding a 2025 growth target by increasing weekly book of business from $35K to $62K.”