Professional Summary
Strategic talent partner with 13+ years of experience partnering with executive leadership to build exceptional Product, Design, Creative, Research, AI, and executive teams across Gusto, Adobe, Twitter, Amazon, Rakuten, and high-growth organizations. Known for translating ambiguous hiring challenges into scalable systems that improve how organizations hire — combining recruiting expertise, service design, organizational thinking, and AI innovation to strengthen candidate experience, improve decision-making, preserve institutional knowledge, and build recruiting infrastructure that scales beyond individual searches.
Core Expertise
Talent Strategy
Executive Recruiting
Product, Design & Creative Hiring
Human-Centered AI
Service Design
Strategic Sourcing
Candidate Experience
Executive Partnership
Recruiter Enablement
AI-Enabled Hiring Systems
Organizational Design
Portfolio Evaluation
Cross-functional Leadership
Professional Experience
Staff Recruiter, Design
Partner with executive Design leadership to solve complex hiring challenges across Product Design, Content Design, Creative, Service Design, AI, and Brand Studio while designing scalable recruiting systems that improve hiring quality, consistency, and organizational decision-making.
Selected Impact
- Led complex full-cycle hiring across Design, Creative, AI, and leadership-level roles, partnering directly with executive Design leadership on Gusto's highest-stakes searches.
- Built the recruiting foundation for Brand Studio, designing sourcing strategies, calibration frameworks, and portfolio evaluation standards for five first-of-their-kind creative roles.
- Designed and built Hiring Compass, an AI-enabled recruiting intelligence system that externalizes hiring judgment, preserves institutional knowledge, improves calibration, and reduces bias and inconsistency — processing 1,700+ candidates across 6+ PE profiles and endorsed by the VP of Design for Core Experiences and AI.
- Developed reusable recruiting infrastructure — including sourcing guides, kickoff frameworks, portfolio rubrics, sprint strategies, recruiter enablement systems, operating manuals, and standardized hiring documentation — adopted across Gusto's Invite organization.
- Improved search execution and decision-making through direct partnership with Chief Design Officers, Chief Creative Officers, and VP-level leaders — combining market intelligence, calibration, and increased operating visibility across every stage of hiring.
- Reduced time-to-fill on an early flagship search from 65+ days to 41 days through stronger calibration, targeted sourcing, and hiring strategy.
Talent Partner, Adobe Design
Partnered with Adobe Design leadership to recruit Product Design, UX, Content Design, Research, and Creative talent while contributing to organization-wide initiatives that strengthened hiring quality, leadership development, and design operations.
- Led recruiting across Product Design, Experience Design, Content Design, UX Research, and Creative.
- Closed 14 hires in one month, including 11 within one week.
- Contributed to Adobe's Design Organization Playbook and strengthened portfolio evaluation through structured design assessment frameworks.
- Selected for Adobe's Manager Acceleration Program; led Reasonable Accommodations research and served as Seattle Site Lead for Adobe's Intern Program.
Senior Recruiter, Design & Research
- Led Design and Research recruiting across Customer Journey, Lifecycle, Publisher, Growth, Monetization, and related product areas.
- Navigated acquisition-related uncertainty, rescinded offers, and major hiring changes through clear, thoughtful candidate and stakeholder communication.
- Mentored recruiting teammates and strengthened workflows, onboarding, and operating consistency during rapid organizational change.
Senior Design Recruiter
- Led full-cycle recruiting across Product Design, UX, Research, and Creative.
- Used recruiting data, market intelligence, sourcing strategy, and calibration to improve search execution and hiring decisions.
- Partnered with hiring leaders and supported inclusive hiring through the Black Employee Alliance.
Design Sourcing Recruiter
- Built sourcing strategies and passive talent pipelines for specialized Product Design and UX hiring.
- Conducted market mapping, competitive intelligence, and talent research to expand and sharpen target pools.
- Partnered with recruiters and hiring leaders to translate role requirements into focused search strategies and qualified pipelines.
Design Sourcing Recruiter, Alexa & Devices
- Supported full-cycle recruiting across Alexa and Devices Design, including niche and highly specialized Design roles.
- Built market maps, talent intelligence, and diversity-sourcing strategies during the shift to remote work and heightened focus on equitable hiring following George Floyd's murder.
- Supported Design intern hiring while developing stronger closing, mentorship, candidate-management, and hiring-team partnership skills.
Design & Creative Recruiter
- Supported the zero-to-one buildout of creative and game-development hiring for Halo 5 across Visual Effects, Environment Art, Animation, Narrative, Story, Graphics, Audio, Sound Production, and related disciplines.
- Partnered with Art Directors and senior leaders at 343 Industries to define talent needs, establish candidate archetypes and hiring criteria, set early time-to-fill expectations, and manage sourcing, screening, qualification, and submission.
Creative Recruiter · People & Culture Ambassador
- Built the company's complete end-to-end W-2 recruiting workflow from the ground up, including intake, sourcing, screening, interviews, selection, offers, and onboarding, while separately designing a rapid-turnaround 1099 workflow for project-based creative talent.
- Led recruiting across creative production, digital media, client services, and related functions; managed and developed a direct report and served as People & Culture Ambassador, strengthening employer visibility, employee engagement, and candidate experience.
Recruiting & Office Manager
- Joined on an eight-week 1099 contract and converted into a roughly two-year full-time role after the first personally sourced technical candidate was hired.
- Assumed ownership of recruiting after the manager left and built the organization's hiring infrastructure, including workflows, job templates, Boolean sourcing practices, interviews, coding assessments, evaluation standards, offers, and onboarding, while also owning office management, benefits, employee relations, culture, and rebuilding trust.
Recruiting Coordinator / Recruiter
- Progressed from Recruiting Coordinator into full-cycle recruiting, developing the foundations of Boolean search, cold calling, passive outreach, market research, screening, interviewing, and documentation.
- Supported aerospace, engineering, technology, and enterprise clients, including candidate onboarding, team training, and work connected to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Education
Bachelor of Arts — Design & Visual Communications
International Academy of Design & Technology
Selected Innovation
- Creator of Hiring Compass — an AI-enabled recruiting intelligence system that preserves institutional knowledge, standardizes hiring calibration, and transforms how recruiting knowledge compounds across searches. Endorsed by the VP of Design for Core Experiences and AI.
- Originator of AI recruiting workflows that informed the evolution of Offer Positioning Agent, a compensation storytelling tool now adopted across 65+ Invite partners at Gusto.
- Builder of recruiter enablement systems, sourcing frameworks, calibration models, portfolio evaluation tools, and AI-assisted hiring workflows adopted across Gusto's Invite organization.
- Practicing at the intersection of service design, talent strategy, and human-centered AI — building systems that scale trust, not just process.