Sam Grimmer
Denver,CO
Summary
Dedicated Talent Expert successful at managing full recruitment life cycle as well as talent processes. Develops and implements customized strategies to meet specific position requirements and source qualified candidates. Offering 10 years of recruitment strategy development.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist
Xero Inc.
05.2021 - 06.2024
- Building out our Product and Software teams through full cycle recruiting on the global scale
- Engineering: Jr - Sr Engineers, Cloud Architects, Frontend & Backend Engineers
- Product: Product Managers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, Product Research, and Product Designers
- Executive: GM of Engineering, Director of Product, Development Team Lead, and Lead Engineers
- Spearheaded recruitment for GTM teams, successfully hiring over 50 A-players in six months utilizing platforms like LinkedIn Recruiter and Greenhouse, reducing time-to-fill by 30%
- Talent Operations: Managed multiple projects to improve talent sourcing and candidate experience
- Training: Was apart of the team dedicated to training hiring manager on interviewing
- Managed support for our Workday ATS system
Technical Talent Acquisition Specialist
Trimble Inc.
06.2018 - 05.2021
- Full-cycle recruiting for executive, marketing, HR, finance and IT positions including; Software Engineers, AWS Architects, Engineering Managers, UX/UI Designers/Researchers, DevOps Engineers, Sales Managers, Product Managers, Director of Production, and more
- Support ATS transition project moving data from Taleo to Google Hire and finally to Workday
- Working to improve diversity and inclusion initiatives
- Managing all Cloud positions while supporting our Construction and Geospatial sectors.
Talent Consultant
The Goal
10.2017 - 06.2018
- Supporting our largest Big 4 Consulting client with their national Digital Practice: Development: Front End Development, Information Architecture, Mobile Development, UI development, Web Development
- Design: Graphic Design, Interaction Design, UX Design, Visual Design, Mobile Design
- Functional/Strategic: Business Analysis, Digital Content Strategy, Product Management, Project management, Site merchandising, User experience research.
Recruiter / Program Manager
Volt Workforce Solutions
06.2014 - 08.2017
- Built strong relationships with hiring managers and qualified each position of need
- Recruited for all positions throughout GKN Aerospace (Engineering, Management, Industrial, and Finance)
- Increased onsite headcount and outperformed even the internal recruiters
- Recruiter June 2014- Sept 2016
- Outperformed my KPI numbers every year
- Full cycle recruiting for the following positions: Lean Managers, Associate Director of Production, Software Engineer, Director of Operations, Machinist, Warehouse, Assembly, Project Manager, Warehouse Managers, and more.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Finance
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CAMasters of Education - Learning, Leadership & Organization Development
University of Georgia
Athens, GA05.2019
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Bullhorn
- Salesforcecom
- Google Hire
- Workday
- Taleo
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Onboarding Process Management
- Behavioral Interviewing
- Remote Hiring
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing
- Executive Search
- Recruiter Training
- Boolean Search Techniques
- Social Media Recruitment
- Strategic Sourcing
- Technical recruiting
- Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
- Pipeline Maintenance
Timeline
Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist
Xero Inc.
05.2021 - 06.2024
Technical Talent Acquisition Specialist
Trimble Inc.
06.2018 - 05.2021
Talent Consultant
The Goal
10.2017 - 06.2018
Recruiter / Program Manager
Volt Workforce Solutions
06.2014 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Business Finance
Sonoma State University
Masters of Education - Learning, Leadership & Organization Development
University of Georgia