University of San Francisco

Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep

Your Friendly Neighborhood Recruiter- Building Human Connections & Hiring for Technical positions at GrowthLoop!

GrowthLoop is on a mission to democratize customer data by enabling any team within an organization to access customer data in their data warehouse and activate it anywhere. 

I actively support GrowthLoop's mission and success by spearheading technical recruiting efforts and nurturing the expansion of our Engineering and Product teams. I am dedicated to identifying, engaging, and securing top talent.

GrowthLoop (Flywheel)

Senior Technical Recruiter

As a Technical Recruiter at Lattice, I supported our New Product Initiative and Analytics teams in their hiring goals. I had an offer acceptance rate of 100%, which I attribute mainly to candidate experience and authentic relationship building. My hires included:

-M4 Engineering Managers (including Lattice's first UK- based engineering hire)
-L4 Staff Level Software Engineers
-L3 Senior Software Engineers 

In addition to my recruiting duties, I also took a keen interest in recruiting operations. My contributions in this area included co-creating, introducing, and rolling out a Talent Acquisition Team Communications Guide, as well as assisting and submitting content for our monthly Talent Acquisition Team newsletter. At the time of layoffs, I was working on ideating and leading a workshop for the Talent Acquisition Team titled "Building Trust at Work". This workshop was designed to be a thoughtful dive into how we present ourselves, interact with others, and how to build trust through consistent communication, expectation setting, and follow-through. 

In my free time, I became very involved with several social groups and ERG initiatives, including  acting as Events Chair for Lattice’s Latinx employee resource group.

Lattice

Technical Recruiter

As Parkside's founding technical recruiter, I hired for the following roles and skillsets:

-Clojure Developer: Clojure/Clojurescript, Java/JVM languages, Apache Kafka, AWS technology stack
-Flutter/Dart Senior Mobile Engineer: Flutter/Dart, UX, and user testing, Unit and UI testing, CI/CD tools, RenderObjects, Custom Painters, GraphQL
-Senior Cloud Operations Engineer: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS (VPC, ELB/ALB, EC2, S3, IAM), Terraform, Docker-based Microservices, Linux/Unix
- QA Engineer: AWS Cloud Services, Docker, TerraForm, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Cognitect Datomic, experience in Microservices-based technology

Parkside

As the founding full cycle recruiter for Victorious my responsibilities included, but were not limited to:

-Creating a thriving recruiting culture focused on inclusivity, D+I recruiting, and high touch, white-glove experience for candidates and hiring managers alike
-Working with hiring managers to compose and publish job descriptions and open roles over a variety of platforms (LinkedIn and third party job boards)
-Sourcing for candidates via inbound applicant pools, LinkedIn Recruiter, Hired, Vettery, X-Ray Searches, Boolean Searches, and former applicant pools
-Screening all inbound applicant resumes 
-Performing in-person, phone, and video interviews with candidates
-Coordinating interviews, and acting as the sole point of contact for candidates moving through the hiring process
-Coordinating and performing reference checks with previous employers and coworkers
-Conducting offer calls, and negotiating salary with candidates when needed
-Partnering with department heads to determine our hiring needs and plan for future hiring needs
-Partnering with our marketing department to best determine how to roll out internal campaigns for open or soon to open roles
-Training team members and senior leadership on new recruiting technologies
-Vetting new recruiting tools and creating presentations with recommendations for leadership to review 
-Acting as our sole point of contact for University internship partnerships
-Maintaining clean and robust pipelines of currently active and promising future candidates in our ATS, which is currently Greenhouse

**In late 2020, Victorious held its first annual Victorious Value Awards ceremony. I was named the winner of our company's "People First" value award. As a recruiter with a distinctly human approach, this award truly touched my heart, and I was thrilled to see that my coworkers (many of whom were recruited directly by me) recognized my efforts in creating an inclusive, nurturing, and respect-driven atmosphere.

Victorious

Full Cycle Recruiter- GTM/Technical

Full- Cycle Recruiter (GTM/Technical) - Office Manager

From May to December of 2018, I had the privilege to be a part of CrossCountry's San Francisco team as Operations and Recruiting Coordinator. In my role, I was able to expand and enhance my knowledge of recruiting, HR, and onboarding.

My responsibilities included, but were not limited to: 

- Working with the national wide recruiting team to coordinate phone, video, and onsite interviews for our San Francisco and DC offices. Planning all travel, and ensuring that they enjoyed personal, white-gloved treatment during our communications.
- Using Lever heavily to keep track of my candidates' movements through our pipeline. Designed multiple templates for candidate communication, and maintained the Lever account for the San Francisco office.
- Participating in sourcing efforts for open roles in our San Francisco office. While sourcing, I made use of LinkedIn Recruiter and became very familiar with it. Additionally, I purchased a copy of "Full Stack Recruiter" by Jan Tegze, and became well versed in non-LIR sourcing, including boolean searches, and X-ray searches of Google and LinkedIn.
- Participating heavily on the backend of onboarding all new San Francisco hires; prepared equipment, swag, paperwork. Additionally, I had the pleasure of being the first face they saw in office, and saw them through their first week, providing access to any and all resources needed.
- Directly supported two West Coast partners in scheduling and administrative tasks, including Salesforce documentation, PowerPoint presentations, editing work, and the like.
- Maintaining a happy, well- run office and coordinating multiple team events, parties, and meetings.

CrossCountry Consulting

Recruiting and Operations Coordinator (Technical Implementations& Advisory Support)

From 2017 to 2018, I was a proud member of Team Bitnami! As the San Francisco office manager, I had the pleasure of being the first friend in the office our new team members make, as well as the first point of contact with any outside visitors, calls, or communications to the office.

My responsibilities included, but were not limited to: 

-Providing EA/ Administrative assistant support to 2 C-level 2 executives, and 1 VP. Tasks included: booking and managing all travel, owning calendars, and completing personal errands/tasks.
-Providing heavy onboarding support to new employees; including tutorials, welcoming packages, and equipment setup.
-Planning large and small scale company events; including onsite and offsite occasions, from start to finish. Travel, lodging, food, activities, calendaring under my purview. 
-Working with vendors to design and complete custom company swag orders.
-Cultivating a sense of company culture in the office and at events, and being an example of living the company’s core values.
-Ensuring excellent written and verbal communications to all parties I interact with.
-Greeting all guests to the office with a sense of hospitality, making them feel welcomed and comfortable.
-Answering and routing all calls for the company, including sales, personal, and technical support.
-Coordinating with all vendors, including landlord, to negotiate deliveries, onsite repairs, etc.
-Receiving and routing all mail, assists finance team with paper invoice documentation.
-Purchasing and keeps running inventory of whatever supplies the office/its employees need.

Bitnami

Office Manager

From February 2016 to February 2018, I owned and organized the meetup group SF Microservices (https://www.meetup.com/SF-Microservices/), a thriving and growing community passionate about new advancements in the microservices world. In addition to group ownership, I also happily manned the group's Twitter account; creating, curating, and posting new content and updates frequently.

Although I have had to step aside due to time constraints, the meetup lives on through its current amazing organizer! They are always on the prowl for awesome speakers, places to host, and companies for sponsorship- don't hesitate to reach out to them if you are interested in any of those opportunities!

SF Microservices

Community Organizer

From January 2016 to May 2017, I had the pleasure of being Buoyant, Inc's first office manager! In addition to being the creators of open source projects Linkerd and Conduit, Buoyant is a rapidly growing company filled with amazing people. 

Responsibilities included, but were not limited to: 

-Providing heavy calendar support, managing domestic and international travel.
-Interacting frequently with clients and vendors over phone, email, and in person. Ensuring positive and successful relationships were built.
-Acting as executive assistant to CEO and CTO, and being amenable to running personal errands as well as managing their extensive schedules, meetings, and phone/video calls.
-Acting as financial manager of team expenses. Completed monthly reports and general ledger.

Kathleen Nolan