TAYLOR DRIESELL

• Full cycle recruiting from qualifying business requirements, strategic workforce planning, writing job descriptions, creating interview kits, sourcing, candidate evaluation, offer administration, and onboarding.
• Collaborates with hiring partners across all departments to understand position requirements and develop job descriptions for open positions.
• Identifies and evaluate potential applicants through networking, job postings, boolean searches, referrals, and other sources.
• Uses sourcing strategies like tangent sourcing and searching skeleton profiles for past colleagues of current employees.
• Consults hiring leaders on best practices for hiring and recruiting.
• Creates and optimizes hiring processes to increase recruiting efficiencies.
• Provides candidates with a signature candidate experience with Redaptive.
• Assesses candidates based on a pre-determined skills and values competency framework.
• Manages candidates from top of funnel to bottom of funnel via the Applicant Tracking System (Lever).

• I successfully filled seven of their top-priority technical and engineering leadership positions that are pivotal to the company’s goals.
• Partnered with senior leaders across the organization to understand their hiring goals and their team cultures to identify the best talent for their needs.
• Optimized job descriptions/postings, conducted intake meetings, and designed tailored recruiting processes for each hiring manager.
• Created more consistent and efficient interview feedback scorecards for each part of the interview process that was adopted by all other pipelines.

Recruiting Focus: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Software Engineering, and Graphics Engineering (AR/VR+)

Key Accomplishments:

• Achieved 200% of hiring target within the first 6 months.
• Achieved 300% diversity hiring target average spanning entire Meta tenure.
• Consistently received 95%+ Candidate Experience score.
• Graphics Recruiter Onboarding Guide for over 10 new recruiters transitioned to the Graphics team in 2023.
• Continued hiring for select, approved positions during the company-wide 2023 hiring freeze to the AI + Graphics Engineering teams.
• Meta AI Change Management Champion - Worked with Meta’s Recruiting Tools Team in focus groups to improve Meta’s tools for recruiting teams. Lead change management initiatives with the AI recruiting team on new tooling features and functionalities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Initiate and develop relationships with candidates to provide a signature candidate experience with Meta.
• Lead intake meetings with Hiring Managers to fully qualify role requirements.
• Maintain a flush pipeline of past candidates to re-interview in the future.
• Fully prepare candidates for their full loop via interview prep calls, sharing prep materials, and connecting candidates with loop guides/candidate partners.
• Qualify candidate skills and motivators to best align candidates with the right roles/teams.
• Work cross-functionally with Sourcing, Talent Coordination, peripheral Recruiting teams, Total Rewards, Compensation, Engineering Teams and Mission Control teams to: 1) Work on mission-critical projects to improve org-wide hiring processes and 2) Manage PID/POS changes for Hiring Managers.
• Seek opportunities to improve recruiting processes, and lead projects to fill process gaps.
• Partner with sourcing teams to increase candidate flow at top of funnel.
• Leverage our Applicant Tracking System (ATS) FBR for candidate tracking, creating and finalizing interview kits, and scorecard management.

• Conducted full-cycle technical recruiting in all functions/departments within the organization, including posting, sourcing, screening, scheduling, and offers.
• Worked closely with hiring managers to deeply understand the roles, source and attract top technical talent, and build a clear, concise recruiting experience for candidates.
• Partnered with business leaders to define recruiting requirements and assist with staffing plans to ensure goals were achieved.
• Developed and nurtured a pipeline of exceptionally qualified candidates and maintained their level of interest to meet current and future demand.
• Utilized modern, cutting-edge technology and tools in recruiting as provided by Mapbox, and made suggestions for additional tools and more optimal approaches.
• Guided processes, identified issues, and proposed novel ideas to implement within the Recruiting organization to ensure that we successfully hire top talent at Mapbox.
• Provided regular status reports and real-time candidate tracking.

• Worked directly with Software Engineers, Business Leads, and Partners to understand business requirements and translate these requirements into technical/functional specifications.
• Managed multiple ongoing project tasks of various complexities, which required due diligence, consistent communication, and streamlined organization for successful completion.
• Coordinated technical development efforts, track/drove the project, and managed the operational implementation process.
• Anticipated bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and make tradeoffs to meet aggressive timelines.
• Worked with the product managers to launch these projects and provide ongoing technical support as needed.
• Evangelized within and outside Red Ventures to encourage a fast and smooth adoption of the services; be the primary conduit for gathering requirements for future enhancements.
• Actively worked in Jira, Smartsheet, and ProdPad to track project documents, timelines, product information, and customer feedback/use cases.

• Managed recruitment for the Front End Development Department across multiple US offices.
• Worked closely with Front End Development teams in multiple locations to define open positions, create position descriptions, and set compensation expectations and sourcing strategies.
• Full-cycle recruiting ownership included resume review, initial phone interviews, candidate communication/follow-up, leading feedback sessions, conducting offers, and negotiations.
• Identified and effectively managed a strong pipeline of both active and passive candidates
• Led internal teams to generate new ideas to innovate the recruiting and sourcing strategies continuously.
• Owned special recruiting projects ranging from non-profit international recruiting initiatives, interview training programs, sourcing strategies, interview process creation, and the evaluation of new technologies.
• Played an integral role in the development of company branding efforts both locally, nationally, and internationally.

• Recruited for top-priority, highly technical, and/or executive-level roles for the agency.
• Harnessed the full talent attraction lifecycle through the management of candidate experience, expectations, interview coordination, the final disposition, and negotiations.

• Hired one year after college to design, develop, and organize a Recruiting position needed to support the busy eCommerce industry and period of growth at Blue Acorn; a design, development, and optimization company.
• During my tenure, I successfully fulfilled the objective of recruiting 90 individuals for both technical and non-technical roles.