San Francisco State University

Vice President at New Level Recruiting

San Francisco Bay Area

New Level Recruiting (NLR) is a boutique search firm that specializes in executive and engineering placements in the esports, gaming, and tech industries.  Our leadership team comprises former internal recruiters who have worked at Riot Games, Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Zynga, Twitch, and PUBG.  In my role as Vice President at NLR, I work on an array of specialized roles, partnering directly with hiring managers to find the best talent. Thus, ensuring our candidates have the right hard skills for the role and are aligned with the company from both a culture and values perspective.

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New Level Recruiting

Vice President

Was responsible for focusing on sourcing for top game design and production talent within the organization and significantly influence and impact across the studio.  Drove the sourcing strategy, identified market trends, procured competitive intelligence, and partnered with team members in the execution of these critical components.  Partnered closely and effectively with sourcing, recruiting and hiring teams to understand staffing needs and develop, build and execute sourcing strategy.
-  Sourced, qualified and delivered highly qualified prospects using multiple tools and techniques for a variety of game development roles at all levels.
-  Built talent pipelines and maintained a network of prospects through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management and sourcing campaigns.
-  Developed and delivered on industry event strategies in coordination with cross-functional partners (talent attraction, talent professionals and operations).

Activision Blizzard

Talent Sourcer at Activision Blizzard

LivePerson is transforming how people communicate with brands.  With Conversational Commerce, brands will begin to shift customer interaction volume from expensive, cumbersome voice channels to conversational interfaces, such as SMS, in-app messaging, Apple Business Chat, Google business messaging, Alexa and FB Messenger, driving huge-efficiencies and high customer satisfaction.

My job was to hire the world’s best technology leaders and engineers. People who are excited by the unknown, who are creative thinkers and problem solvers, and who love to build.

-  Executed on recruitment plans with stakeholders.
-  Owned end to end recruitment process for technical/engineering roles across the business.
-  Implemented and utilized creative sourcing strategies to attract highly qualified candidates.
-  Provided guidance to hiring managers related to candidate selection, interviewing, and hiring.
-  Identified and participated in networking activities, industry conferences, and open houses/events to build relationships and connect with talent.
-  Managed the candidate experience and promoted LivePerson's brand.

LivePerson

Principal Talent Acquisition Partner

Senior Technical Recruiter

Reporting into the Director, Global Talent Acquisition, I work with for our Central Tech hiring teams (and a Senior Recruiters) to help support a large hiring ramp. My contributions were critical to the success of our studios.

-  Manage front-end recruitment processes for open positions, with a specific focus on sourcing passive candidates. This includes initial briefings with recruiters and/or hiring managers, developing sourcing and attraction strategies for positions and sourcing resumes/CVs.
-  Provide a strong focus on sourcing passive and active candidates through networking, complex internet searches, research, name generation and telephone calls.
-  Perform search functions including database mining, job board searches, and functional web site searches.
-  Research and target new talent sourcing channels, constantly working to uncover new hidden talent.
-  Manage the candidate experience by ensuring that all candidates have a positive first interaction with Electronic Arts.
-  Track critical recruitment data, and produce regular (and ad-hoc) reports on recruiting activities.
-  Engage candidates via phone or email and get them excited about the opportunities available to them - and stay connected for future roles if not a match for current role.
-  Utilize provided CRM and ATS tools effectively

Electronic Arts (EA)

Talent Acquisition Sourcer / Recruiter

- In addition to recruiting some of the top talent in the industry (globally), also manage remote engineering recruiters and Talent Coordinators in other Studios. Together we drove a consistent pipeline of qualified candidates, promote our Zynga brand, and are always striving to stay in front of staffing trends.
- Responsible for supporting the engineering function for all teams across the company, such as Words With Friends, Poker, new IP (unannounced projects), as well as Analytics, Ad Tech, Game Services, Client Tech, Payments, and Studio Ops to name a few.
- Actively recruiting and pipelining for Front End Architects/Engineers, Mobile (Android and iOS) Engineers, Unity Engineers, Gameplay Engineers, Akka/Scala Experts, Back-end Architects/Engineers, Engineering Managers, Data Engineers, Senior Software Engineers (Analytics), IT professionals and VP/Director of Engineering roles.
- Focused on branding and evangelizing Zynga through channels such as Glassdoor, our Life@ Zynga video, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
- Regularly hosting events such as Women in Analytics, Girls Got Game Meetup, Unity Engineering talks, etc.
- Won the Zynga “Rockstar” Award for Q4 2015 and Q1 2017.

Zynga

Manager, Talent Acquisition (Engineering Function)

- Responsible for recruiting for some of the largest applications in the world with an incredibly high talent bar.
- Partner with senior level managers, interviewers and team members throughout the hiring process.
- Present to peers, engineers, hiring managers and leadership.
- Create and maintain a strong pipeline of passive talent for all teams in a highly metrics driven organization.

Harvey Nash is a global professional recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider. We are committed to delivering the very best talent and IT solutions to a broad base of international clients. We are a trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading businesses, governments and institutions. We operate from 30 offices covering the USA, Europe and Asia. Our talented professionals pursue the highest levels of integrity and quality in providing a unique portfolio of services: Executive Search, IT Recruitment and IT outsourcing.

Business Development Manager (4/13 - Present)
- Specializing in Information Technology staffing — Contract, Contract to Hire, and Direct Hire.

Manager of Recruiting (7/09 – 4/13)
- Responsible for managing a team of recruiters.

Senior Technical Recruiter (4/07 – 7/09)
- Full life cycle recruitment for contract and full time placement within the San Francisco Bay Area via multiple channels including the Internet, social networking, referrals and job fairs.
- Source, qualify and submit 1-3 candidates within 24-48 hours on all open job orders by exhausting a search in the Bullhorn database, job boards, social networking sites and the Internet.
- Identify and attract top talent while effectively managing the recruiting cycle from beginning to close including initial contact, conducting in-depth behavioral interviews (15 a week) to determine skills, knowledge, interest, market value, availability, check references, submit for position, and pre-close after interview.
- Ensure quality staffing needs are met by creating candidate profile/formatted resume and evaluate applicants work history, education and training, job skills, desired salary/hourly rate, and personal qualifications against open requirements.
- Diligently utilize networking events, social networking sites, company lists, cold calling and creative internet sourcing techniques to find passive candidates.

Harvey Nash USA

Full life cycle recruiting for both contract and permanent positions.
Responsible for identifying and attracting the highest caliber talent through creative sourcing techniques.
Candidates recruited for included Project Managers, Business Analysts, Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Engineers, Database Developers, Java Developers, .Net Developers and QA Engineers.

Modis

Senior Recruiter

Genesis10 is a business and technology consulting firm with 10 offices nationwide and one in Canada.

-  Full lifecycle recruiting, utilizing a variety of resume database subscriptions, job posting (Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder, Hot Jobs, Net-Temps), candidate referral and Internet email list memberships to obtain hard-to-find candidates and consistently research, job bards, user groups and professional associations, screen, interview, test, reference and background check candidates.
-  Negotiate rates and salaries with candidates as well as offer and contract terms.
-  Resume and other document preparation, including evaluating resumes, checking references, creating executive summaries/emails and other documents to be sent to Clients.  This includes formatting and proofreading.
-  Responsible for nationwide recruiting of contract IT and finance candidates for a large healthcare organization.
-  Consult with hiring managers to understand their business area and tightly define their requisitions.
-  Work with other Genesis10 branches (New York, Minnesota, North Carolina) to assist with their hard to fill requirements.
-  Updated Prohire database with resumes and Consultant/Candidate pipeline to create complete profiles, including all pertinent information, availability, real title, profile of skills, rate, location preferences, expectations and limitations.

Genesis 10

- Target a 24 to 48 hour turnaround time to qualify and submit candidates on open job orders by exhausting a search in NSP's database and on the Internet.  Also responsible for networking with other consultants for referrals, negotiating rates and terms of contracts, and coordinating client/consultant interviews.
- Create complete profiles for Consultants in the database Candidate module, including all pertinent information such as updated contact information, availability, real title, profile of skills, rate, and location preferences, etc.
- Perform resume and other document preparation, including evaluating resumes, checking references, creating executive summaries/emails and other documents to be sent to NSP customers and consultants.  This includes formatting and proofreading.
- Conducting face to face interviews and meetings with consultants prior to client interview.
- Research SIG (Special Interest Groups) and User Groups of the Bay Area
- Engagement Management

NSP Staffing

Resource Manager

- Right hand person to Account Manager, keeping them informed of Consultants placed at their Client sites, status on all projects, and any issues that arose for Consultant.
-  First point of contact for more than 60 Consultants on assignment.  Contacted new Consultants within first week of official start date, met Consultants on-site on an on going basis, handled payroll issues, green card and H1 Visa issues, and benefits questions.
-  Acted as liaison between the Consultant and Client including negotiating extensions, handling rate changes, resolving conflict between both parties, and obtaining Client evaluation at the end of Consultant assignments.
-  Responsible for pro-marketing of Consultants for re-deployment on next assignment.
-  Followed up on all Client and Consultant referrals.
-  Knowledgeable of payroll procedures, HR procedures and company benefits for W2, Incorporated and Per Diem Consultants.
-  Maintained all system updates for the Consultant base, including extensions, rate changes and Client evaluation notes.
-  Gathered any relevant information to build modis' Consultant base within Client organization.

Melissa Cardiff

Melissa Cardiff