Talent Acquisition Product and Operations Leader
Ryan Stewart
Affintus
Summary
Results-driven Talent Acquisition professional with 15+ years of proven experience developing scalable, efficient hiring operations and training programs in fast-paced, global organizations. Expertise in diverse TA products, building recruiting processes, training stakeholders, and delivering impactful enablement strategies aligned with organizational goals.
18
years of professional experience
Work History
TA Consultant / Product Manager
2 Years 9 Months- Returned to Affintus so support new GTM Strategies
- Handle all GTM efforts, including Marketing, Sales, and Demos. Led Customer Success and Solutions Architect initiatives
- Established TA Consulting Services; full cycle recruiting for small businesses (sample feedback)
- Roles Supported: Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Operations Manager, Data Scientist, BI Developer, Full Stack Software Engineer, and more
- Led candidate support initiatives including partnering with Job Seeker Support Groups
- Created new partnership with Ashby
- Continued previous Product Manager responsibilities for new Product Features
Global Recruiting Operations Manager
2 Years 2 Months- Led the optimization of Celigo's Talent Acquisition Operations, maturing a rapidly scaling organization.
- Supporting hiring in the US, India, Philippines, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, and Australia.
- Reduced global time-to-hire from 49 to 33 days by redesigning operational processes and optimizing Greenhouse ATS through advanced automation and scorecard maturity.
- Decreased cost-per-hire by $6,000 through operational efficiency improvements and elimination of external agency dependency.
- Created full interview methodology and gained executive support to roll out globally. Developed training program for all interviewers up to executive level covering compliance, behavioral interview techniques, operational best practices, and more.
- Managed cross-functional teams in the US and India, driving consistency in global talent acquisition operations.
Recruiting Leader / RecOps / Hiring Strategist
1 Year- Recruited by previous supervisor to provide Talent Acquisition insight for behavioral science assessment platform.
- Led redesign of a behavioral-science-driven hiring platform improving prediction of job success.
- Created Career Guidance Portal to support industry leading job seeker experience.
- Led the integration with Greenhouse, Lever, and JazzHR, led the development of a custom API for additional ATS integrations.
- Created email-only workflow to support clients without an ATS or on a trial period.
Manager - Talent Attraction, SMB Hiring
3 Years 1 Month- Selected by Indeed VP - Product to lead a pilot 'dogfood' project - exclusively using Indeed's SMB products to recruit software engineers for the very products they will be building.
- Established the first embedded recruiting team at Indeed with the SMB Hiring Team, the division responsible for products used by millions of small to midsize businesses globally.
- Created the integrations between the embedded team and the core Indeed TA team to ensure adherence to Indeed's high standards and protect rules of candidate engagement.
- Established and documented all recruiting operations related to Hiring Manager interaction, job postings, recruiter workflow, and partnered with SMB Product Managers and Engineers on continuous evolution of Indeed product.
Technical Recruiting Manager - Indeed Hire
2 Years 5 Months- Founding Recruiting Manager at Indeed Hire, building a highly scalable staffing model from scratch capable of addressing diverse hiring challenges with clients nationwide.
- Built the initial infrastructure to drive the creation of Indeed Hire, including the Recruiter Selection Process, Performance Management Rubric, and Candidate Workflow. This model was used to hire, train, and manage 100+ Recruiters, Recruiting Managers, and Recruiting Coordinators in a matter of months.
- Managed a team of high performing Technical Recruiters delivering roles in Business Intelligence, Software Development, Network Infrastructure, and more - consistently one of the highest net revenue-generating teams.
- Managed geographically dispersed recruiting teams supporting Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Marketing, Professional, Legal, and Education.
- Represented recruiter interests in strategic-level planning; Recruiter side lead for Indeed Hire Steering Committee partnering with Product Managers to build the tools to support the Indeed Hire model.
Director of Recruiting
2 Years 5 Months- Following 5 years as the lead recruiter, was tasked with building a team to address hyper-growth plans in big data consulting, custom application development consulting, and IT staffing.
- Built recruiting operations; managed a team of 10 recruiters through 300% growth in revenue in 2 years.
- 1 in 4 exclusive teams given contract to Fortune 10 client's IT Innovations Centers in 4 markets - placed more employees than other 3 companies combined.
- Selected and implemented Bullhorn as new ATS to manage increased scale.
Senior Technical Recruiter
5 Years 6 Months- Employee #3 creating a boutique consulting organization and grew it into a recognized leader in data warehousing/business intelligence consulting in Austin. Outperformed projections quarter over quarter.
- 5x INC 5000, 2x Austin Fast 50.
Skills
Talent Acquisition Operations
Recruiting Tool Selection
Implementation
Optimization
Greenhouse
ICIMS
Bullhorn
Gem
Product Development
Team Management
Career Development
Hiring Methodologies
Training
Behavioral Interviewing
Hiring Assessments
Work Samples
Timeline
TA Consultant / Product Manager
Affintus
12.2023 - Current
Global Recruiting Operations Manager
Celigo
10.2021 - 12.2023
Recruiting Leader / RecOps / Hiring Strategist
Affintus
10.2020 - 10.2021
Manager - Talent Attraction, SMB Hiring
Indeed
04.2016 - 05.2019
Technical Recruiting Manager - Indeed Hire
Indeed
04.2016 - 09.2018
Director of Recruiting
Intersys Consulting (acquired by Apex Systems)
11.2013 - 04.2016
Senior Technical Recruiter
Intersys Consulting (acquired by Apex Systems)
05.2008 - 11.2013