Jessie Holland
Arlington,VA
Summary
Creative recruiter and team mentor with 10+ years’ experience across disciplines. Strengths lie in strategic thought partnership, business-oriented problem solving, and consistent practices driven through an equity lens. Demonstrated success across industries, functions, and organizational sizes.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder/CEO
Leiman/Holland Search
06.2023 - Current
- Founded a recruitment consultancy, where the following services are offered: contingent search, recruitment advisory, candidate identification research, resume reviews, career coaching
- Work with organizations of all industries and sizes to build/refine processes and place high caliber high potential talent
- Clients include: Hey Jane, J. Crew Group, Delfina, OneSchema, Indigo Events, Zocalo, Lower Eastside Girls Club
- With an emphasis on robust requirements gathering and organizational understanding, leiman/holland search makes placements across functions, leading with an in-house approach and agency speed - instead of a narrow functional focus
Head of Recruiting
The Pill Club / Favor
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Built and mentored team of four amidst period of high growth
- Led team + recruited individually across areas, with individual ownership for all G&A functions, including C-Suite roles
- Established best in class candidate experience based on speed, empathy, and connection to the business; worked with the business to educate and train
- Led recruiting team to grow employee population by 60% in seven months (250 -> 400)
- Established processes, templates, ways of working that are sustainable, replicable, and easy to understand, including implementation and roll out of new ATS
Senior Talent Manager/Head of Talent
SYPartners
09.2019 - 06.2021
- Led full lifecycle recruiting for the firm, inclusive of full-time roles and freelance
- Managed one direct report, advising on recruiting best practices and ways of working
- Led and mentored direct report, enabling them to master difficult business partner relationships and overcome roadblocks to success
- Advised business on necessary changes to set recruiting team and the business up for success, including but not limited to: building consistent recruiting process for the firm, establishing standards for pay recommendations internally and externally, beginning considerations for interview training + interview guides, etc
- Reassessed and rebuilt recruiting practices (as necessary) and partnerships to broaden access and reach
- Built relationships with other kyu collective companies' recruiting teams to assess opportunities for partnership
- Acted as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lead for the People Team
Senior Recruiter
Gap
01.2016 - 08.2019
- Led full lifecycle recruiting across Gap Online (SF-based), inventory management, product operations, product development, strategy, and testing (supported 500 employees, approximately 50% of Gap’s total HQ population)
- Led additional projects to hire 45+ inventory management professionals over three-four month timespans, eventually scaling the total team to 300
- Developed and trained recruiting coordinator to support inventory management recruiting, leading to his promotion to Talent Scout
- Owned entirety of recruiting function for Gap’s digital vertical, working directly with SVP/GM of Gap Online
- Acted as "pinch hitter" in functions lacking guidance due to turnover, leaves, etc.
Talent Acquisition Lead
Gap
10.2011 - 01.2016
- Full lifecycle recruiting across apparel design, merchandise planning, strategy, and ops functions, with ownership of roles Senior Director and below
- Solely responsible for building Merchandise Planning organization in New York from zero, hiring three leaders in three months, and a team of 65 (across levels) over the next four months
- Supported design talent shift under new creative director
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University Of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA05.2009
Skills
- Trusted thought partner leader
- Skilled communicator
- Servant leadership-oriented mentor
- Strong negotiator
- Process builder
- Innovator
- ATS expert: Lever, Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, Taleo
Timeline
Founder/CEO
Leiman/Holland Search
06.2023 - Current
Head of Recruiting
The Pill Club / Favor
06.2021 - 06.2023
Senior Talent Manager/Head of Talent
SYPartners
09.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Recruiter
Gap
01.2016 - 08.2019
Talent Acquisition Lead
Gap
10.2011 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University Of Mary Washington