Kaitlin Mar
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Results-oriented Talent Acquisition Leader with 7 years of experience in enterprise recruiting across cloud infrastructure, engineering, and data center sectors. Delivered over 525 hires while managing multiple concurrent requisitions and collaborating with senior leaders to address complex talent challenges. Skilled in leading recruiting teams, developing AI-driven solutions, and enhancing operations to achieve strategic business objectives.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Recruiter Team Lead
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12.2023 - Current
- Manage a portfolio of 30 concurrent requisitions while delivering approximately 60 hires annually.
- Partnered with directors and executive leadership to devise workforce strategies that supported critical cloud infrastructure hiring across four business organizations.
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for cloud infrastructure organizations across Infrastructure Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Center Operations, Network Engineering, Technical Program Management, Solutions Architecture, Software Engineering, Sales, and Cloud Engineering roles.
- Coached and developed 16 sourcing contractors through biweekly performance reviews and mentoring, enhancing recruiting capabilities.
- Analyze recruiting metrics and market intelligence to improve pipeline health, hiring outcomes, and operational efficiency.
- Achieved recognition for exceptional business partnership by filling 12 critical positions within two months.
- Built AI recruiting assistants that standardized recruiter phone screens and reduced administrative work.
- Automated recruiting workflows and reporting using generative AI.
- Designed reusable prompt libraries for recruiting and stakeholder communications.
- Created AI-driven onboarding resources that accelerated recruiter ramp time.
- Developed sourcing heat maps to prioritize talent markets.
Technical Recruiter
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
03.2021 - 11.2023
- Led recruiting across 12 job families, partnering with business leaders to develop targeted sourcing strategies and negotiate competitive offers.
- Designed training programs and tools for 50+ sourcing contractors across North America and Latin America, enhancing recruitment capabilities.
- Delivered 76 Senior and Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect hires.
- Created and scaled the Shadow Cohort Program, increasing hiring capacity by 80%.
Technical Recruiter / HR Specialist
Aerotek
05.2017 - 03.2021
- Delivered 135+ technical hires annually across engineering, architecture, construction, science, and automotive industries.
- Managed full-cycle recruiting, ensuring timely sourcing, offer negotiation, and onboarding processes.
- Built diverse technical talent pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Hiretual, Boolean search, referrals, and networking to meet hiring goals.
- Partnered with clients and account managers to develop tailored recruiting strategies that addressed specific workforce needs.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Skills
- Cloud Talent Acquisition
- Infrastructure Recruiting
- Technical Recruiting
- Executive Hiring
- Talent Strategy
- Recruiting Analytics
- AI-Enabled Recruiting
- Recruiting Operations
- Talent Forecasting
- Offer Negotiation
- Candidate Experience
- Employee onboarding
- Process Improvement
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Leadership
Selected Achievements
- Delivered 525+ hires across engineering, infrastructure, sales, and corporate organizations.
- Managed 30 concurrent requisitions while averaging 60 hires annually with an estimated 45-day average time-to-fill.
- Partnered biweekly with directors, senior leaders, and hiring managers across four organizations to develop hiring strategies and workforce plans.
- Coached 16 sourcing contractors through biweekly performance reviews and conducted contractor phone screens.
- Designed and scaled the Shadow Cohort Program, training 175 interviewers and increasing hiring capacity by 80%; program is still active after three years.
- Built AI-powered recruiting chat agents, sourcing heat maps, recruiter phone screen templates, workflow automation, POD tracking, and onboarding tools.
- Recognized by business leadership for filling 12 critical roles in two months.
Timeline
Recruiter Team Lead
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
12.2023 - Current
Technical Recruiter
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
03.2021 - 11.2023
Technical Recruiter / HR Specialist
Aerotek
05.2017 - 03.2021
Bachelor of Science - Communication
University of Hawaii at Manoa