Sabrina Baez
TX
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Co-Founder/Principal Recruiter
Syelo
05.2023 - Current
- Syelo is an investment fund backed by the world's greatest talent leaders. Our mission is to bring together a community of recruiters who grow, build and invest in the most promising startups. Syelo provides tools, resources, and community engagement to support our members
- Embedded Principal Recruiter for two AI portfolio companies (Seed and Series A–B growth stages), leading full-cycle recruiting and building hiring strategy from the ground up; owned sourcing, screening, candidate management, vendor management, event coordination, and Ashby ATS implementation/administration. Partnered across Engineering and GTM functions, hiring 13 engineers and supporting searches for CoreOps, Chief of Staff, Account Executives, and GTM Engineers
- Advised on product as a whole including; design, content, marketing, user base, pricing, etc...
- Managed community, shaping policies and product direction while cultivating a network of 1000+ recruiters for sustainable growth
Lead Recruiter/People Operations
Method Financial
12.2022 - 05.2023
- 8th overall hire and 1st Recruiter/People Operations hired to the team
- Worked across business units to develop and deliver strategic hiring initiatives
- Implemented and managed full life-cycle recruitment for critical roles across all business units
- Worked directly with CEO/COO and interview teams to align on job descriptions and candidate personas
- Researched, demoed, and implemented new sourcing tools and resources to improve efficacy for the team
- Hired and onboarded 6 founding members of the Method team: two account executives, a Marketing Manager, a Software Engineer, a General Counsel, and a Customer Success Manager
- Created numerous policies and procedure documents including; Relocation policy, Referral policy, and Onboarding template for new hires
- Researched, demoed, and implemented new benefits including Method's first 401k contribution plan
Recruiting Manager
Array
06.2022 - 12.2022
- Managed a team of two sourcers, to create robust pipelines of passive top tier candidates
- Held 1:1s with direct reports, to eliminate roadblocks, train on sourcing best practices
- Hired, onboarded, and trained new sourcers on the team
- Created a Sourcing Playbook to include sourcing workflows, library of boolean searches, DEI sourcing resources, candidate reach out templates, and more
- Researched and demoed new sourcing tools and resources to improve efficacy for the team
- Created a layoff tracker bot to automate notifications on recent layoffs in tech - enabling quick reach out to the populations of employees affected
- Sourced high quality candidates, created unique and successful reach out sequences, engaged and managed candidates through the interview process, negotiated for both company and candidate and prepared/extended offers to finalists.
- Hired a Lead Brand Designer and a Senior Product Manager to join the Array team
Talent Acquisition Partner (Lead)
OneTrust
01.2021 - 06.2022
- Team Lead for Product recruiting team (pipeline management for team, 1:1s, mentorship)
- Sourced high quality candidates, created unique and successful reach out sequences, engaged and managed candidates through the interview process, negotiated for both company and candidate and prepared/extended offers to finalists.
- Worked with Product Management team to overhaul entire interview process to ensure we were hiring the highest caliber candidates
- Managed entire candidate pipeline for Product recruiting team
- Enrolled in Mentor program, successfully working with mentee to achieve professional goals
- Exceeded quarterly hiring quotas (6-7 offers accepted per quarter), every quarter of tenure. Successfully hired 30+ professionals ranging from CMO, VP of Product Marketing, Client Executives, UI Designers, Instructional Designers, and Privacy Associates.
Talent Program Manager
DataQuest
02.2019 - 01.2021
- Successfully hired 11 individuals ranging from admins to people managers, within 11 months
- Created a salary range comp analysis for internal employees
- Created and managed an internal Diversity and Inclusion survey via CultureAmp
- Created a career support knowledge base for the Dataquest student community, including resources on : resume reviews, LinkedIn profile reviews, job search, Interview prep, Offer negotiations, etc.
Director of Career Readiness
Lambda School
12.2017 - 11.2018
Career Developer
Dev Bootcamp
06.2017 - 06.2018
Candidate Development Recruiter
VMware
07.2015 - 06.2017
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Beacon Hill Staffing
03.2015 - 07.2015
HR Generalist
Flow-cal Inc.
11.2014 - 01.2015
Sr. HR Recruiter
Lucas Group
07.2014 - 11.2014
Senior Technical Recruiter
Addison Group
06.2012 - 07.2014
Education
Bachelor of Arts - English
Texas A&M University
Skills
- 15Five
- Asana
- Ashby
- Calendly
- CultureAmp
- Docusign
- Fetcher
- Findem
- Google Suite
- Greenhouse
- HubSpot
- Lever
- Mode
- Notion
- Rippling
- Salesforce
- Slack
- Tango
- Trello
- Workday
- ZoomInfo
- ChatGPT
- Jarvi
- Gem
- Gemini
Timeline
Co-Founder/Principal Recruiter
Syelo
05.2023 - Current
Lead Recruiter/People Operations
Method Financial
12.2022 - 05.2023
Recruiting Manager
Array
06.2022 - 12.2022
Talent Acquisition Partner (Lead)
OneTrust
01.2021 - 06.2022
Talent Program Manager
DataQuest
02.2019 - 01.2021
Director of Career Readiness
Lambda School
12.2017 - 11.2018
Career Developer
Dev Bootcamp
06.2017 - 06.2018
Candidate Development Recruiter
VMware
07.2015 - 06.2017
Sr. Technical Recruiter
Beacon Hill Staffing
03.2015 - 07.2015
HR Generalist
Flow-cal Inc.
11.2014 - 01.2015
Sr. HR Recruiter
Lucas Group
07.2014 - 11.2014
Senior Technical Recruiter
Addison Group
06.2012 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Arts - English
Texas A&M University