Talia Abraham Zuker
New York,NY
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
HR Business Partner, Engineering, Vice President
Two Sigma
01.2024 - Current
- Identifying, proposing and implementing career development, talent management and organizational design initiatives and strategies for Infrastructure, Reliability, Platform, Enterprise and Security Engineering (37% of the engineering org). Partnering with Employee Relations, Compensation, and Recruiting to address attrition and retention initiatives. Support 360+ employees in NY, Houston, London and Tokyo.
- Owning several engineering-wide talent processes including mid-year and year-end promotion and performance management processes. Specifically, finalizing promotion benches, selecting, training and running promotion committees, presenting info session materials to 400+ engineers, reviewing promotion packets, managing calibration sessions, conducting post-promotion cycle postmortems and future improvements, etc.
- Proactively enhancing health of employee organization using tailored approaches. Ex: facilitated external coaching pilot in partnership with L&D to provide manager coaching for an organization struggling with change management. Also organized a Psychological Safety workshop for senior leaders in effort to retain junior employees.
HR Business Partner, Engineering
Two Sigma
02.2021 - 12.2023
- Own internal mobility philosophy and processes.
- Optimized job functions by spearheading the creation of a new job family and retiring bespoke job families. Built out a new rubric and worked with senior leaders, compensation and immigration to ensure job family alignment. Adjusted job family for 100 employees to ensure better use of internal resources, improved career trajectory, and more standardized compensation.
- Led a group of senior engineers to reevaluate how we apply 'Community & Culture' to performance and promotion process across engineering. Defined new criteria and language to impact the way 1,000+ engineers contribute to TS culture.
Specialist Engineering Recruiter for Experienced Hires
Two Sigma
04.2019 - 02.2021
- Hired 16 specialized engineers by utilizing sourcing techniques, reviewing over 100+ resumes/week, conducting phone screens, managing interview processes, engaging in compensation negotiations and developing offer strategies
- Advised hiring managers on building effective evaluation rubrics and closing approaches in order to drive process efficiency and increase offer acceptances, making sure to constantly and deliberately manage client expectations
- Standardized the process for starting new searches by partnering with HRBPs and created a hiring manager wiki and recruiter wiki
Software Engineering Campus Recruiter
Two Sigma
06.2016 - 04.2019
- Hired over 90+ software engineering interns and 40 entry-level campus candidates by driving the offer process, developing sell strategies, generating offer paperwork and closing candidates.
- Created the first London intern program by independently developing a recruiting strategy, training interviewers, leading hiring, and advising senior management, which led to a class of 50% women, exceeding diversity goals.
- Designed the first On-Campus Interview program, making interviewing more convenient for candidates while maintaining the highest quality candidate experience; interviewed 60+ candidates to gain an acceptance rate over 90%.
Campus Recruiting Coordinator
Two Sigma
06.2014 - 06.2016
- Managed full recruitment life cycle for internship candidates including candidate outreaches, scheduling interviews, monitoring on-site evaluation feedback and assisting in internship programming coordination
- Executed 40+ campus events per year as well as launching first annual Women in STEM @ Two Sigma Symposium which included a networking session and panel
Education
MA - Organizational Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY08.2022
BA - Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, NY05.2014
Skills
- Communication skills
- Workday
- GSuite (sheets, docs, slides)
- MS Office
- Avature
- Taleo
- Coaching leadership
Timeline
HR Business Partner, Engineering, Vice President
Two Sigma
01.2024 - Current
HR Business Partner, Engineering
Two Sigma
02.2021 - 12.2023
Specialist Engineering Recruiter for Experienced Hires
Two Sigma
04.2019 - 02.2021
Software Engineering Campus Recruiter
Two Sigma
06.2016 - 04.2019
Campus Recruiting Coordinator
Two Sigma
06.2014 - 06.2016
MA - Organizational Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University
BA - Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
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