Brittany Allen, MIDA

• Employ advanced sourcing techniques to identify and attract senior-level Product, Machine Learning and Infrastructure Software Engineer generalist candidates, with an emphasis on underrepresented talent.
• Utilize LinkedIn Recruiter, Meta's internal Applicant Tracking System (ATS), SeekOut, GitHub, and diverse resources to efficiently source potential candidates.
• Collaborate with hiring managers and team leads across the company to understand position requirements and develop targeted sourcing strategies. Team placements include Reality Labs, Generative AI, Privacy and Monetization.
• Conduct thorough candidate assessments and interviews to evaluate technical skills, cultural fit, and alignment with company values.
• Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
• Partnered with HR teams to determine workforce planning needs, aligning recruitment efforts with business objectives.

• Hit the ground running by creating diverse candidate pipelines (i.e. student candidates from underrepresented backgrounds) for a variety software engineering roles, particularly focused on cloud computing and backend development.
• 16 offers accepted within the first two months (includes intern and full time employee candidates)
• Conducted between 15-25 phone screenings per week

• Engage with and guide over a dozen enterprise clients through a multiple technical projects
• Responsible for project scoping and cross-functional collaboration with sales, recruiting/sourcing and other enterprise teams across organizations
• Handle project drafting and job postings on company platform on behalf of the client
• Resolve client problems and serve as a liaison between enterprise client and freelancer

• Responsible for identifying top talent for Sr. Software Engineers, Architects, DevOps, SDET, and Engineering leadership positions for Roku's Advertising Engineering and Big Data Platform organizations
• ● Carried a 20-30 req load, including new college graduate reqs, and averaged 8 offers extended per month within first two quarters of employment
• Active contributor to Roku’s DEI initiatives, including trainings, workshops and hiring policies
• Partner closely with subsequent recruiters and Hiring Managers to align on role requirements and sourcing strategy
• Contribute to DEI efforts for assigned roles and recruiting-wide sourcing jams
• Utilizing Greenhouse ATS, HireEZ (previously Hiretual) and LinkedIn Recruiter and various external sourcing methods

• Screened candidates for 25 technical and non-technical roles, including software developers, business analysts, stratOps, field sales and business development.
• ● Provided data analytics and insights on the active candidate pipeline to the rest of the Google Cloud sourcingteam and the wider business.
• ● Demonstrated commitment to Google's Diversity and Inclusion aspirational goals.
• ● Source 3-5 UR candidates per week via Ghire.
• ● While on the Active Channels - Campus Team (09/18-12/18), was 1 on a team of 12 that successfully screened125,000 candidates in 3 months.

Highlights while working at Google:

• Project Luna - creator and facilitator of monthly diversity and inclusion workforce training. Developed and organized all content for the Cloud Active Candidates Team training, including research for articles on DEI best practices, statistics, videos and other media. Created a repository of materials for teams outside of Cloud that were looking to duplicate efforts on their respective teams. Developed an evaluation in order to track the efficacy of training.
• Project Top Gun - developed an internal tracking system within Ghire for qualified candidates to be revisited for future role openings. To date, this internal tagging system has been used over 1000 times to identify these candidates, who were mostly members of underrepresented groups.

Served as the ISA Diversity Committee Chair-

• Spearheaded all diversity and inclusion initiatives, designed to boost participation among underrepresented students.
• Led company UR recruitment strategies and created the ISA Diversity webpage.
• Responsible for maintaining all ISA Africa and Middle East online material, promotional/ marketing campaigns, and social media content.
• Created and presented pre-departure orientation for students, parents and university contacts, often facilitating orientations in person by visiting our university partners.
• Advised over 100 students per semester on all ISA Africa and Middle East programs, including course mapping, registration, on-site housing, health and safety, and cultural orientation.
• Advised students from all academic disciplines - primarily political science, economics, business, and international studies.
• Built a summer semester program at the University of Cape Town from the ground up.
• Facilitated all logistics, researched all student and university cost estimates, secured housing and developed curriculum, communicated and coordinated with all overseas staff daily to ensure the quality of program operations. Responsible for all student visa advising.