In-House Project Management

Kellie Ritenour

Kellie Ritenour

Cell: 720-***-**** Email: ******.********@*******.***

Proactive recruitment professional with over 10+ years of extensive experience in both agency and in-house roles across diverse industries including tech, start-ups, telecommunications, sales, healthcare, and manufacturing.

• Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, adept at navigating ambiguity, and adaptable to change.

• Collaborative team player fostering strong relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders. Key Expertise:

• Full-cycle high-touch recruitment expertise covering executive search process stages: from kick-off to onboarding, adaptable to various search sizes and scales.

• Proficient in strategic elements including search strategy development, market mapping, talent pipelines, candidate generation and presentation, interview selection, and preparation for both candidates and interview teams.

• Skilled in conducting behavioral interviews, providing compensation recommendations and justifications, negotiation, and implementing onboarding best practices.

• Proficient in stakeholder management throughout the search process. Additional Contributions:

Led strategic projects encompassing process refinement, procedure development, metrics establishment, reporting, hiring manager interview training, coaching initiatives, recruitment technology roadmaps, and compensation studies. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mattermost

Senior Talent Partner/ Lead

4/2024 – Present

Mattermost, is a secure, flexible platform build for the new era of collaboration. For technical and operations teams who execute high-stakes, collaborative workflows, Mattermost provides integrated team messaging, audio and screen share, workflow automation and project management. Governments, banks and tech giants use our secure collaboration platform to reduce risk and error rates while accelerating technical productivity. Talent Operations Leadership: As the organization’s first dedicated internal/corporate recruiting partner, I lead talent operations and processes. My role involves conducting intake meetings, sourcing top candidates, and managing the offer process.

• Sole lead recruiter focused on: Sales, Engineering, Security, IT, GTM (Go-to-Market), and other G&A (General & Administrative) roles.

• Req Load Management: Currently managing a requisition load of 15+ open roles across all functions.

• Process Optimization: I drive process creation, develop playbooks, and build talent pipelines to ensure efficient and effective hiring practices.

Wind River

Senior Technical Recruiter

5/2023–12/2023

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more thanfour decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.

• Full cycle recruitment; Focused on: Principal Site Reliability Engineers, Software Engineer Managers, Senior Network Engineers, DevOp Engineers and other various roles withing GTM, Program & Product Manager, & Principal Solution Architects.

• Maintained a consistent requisition load of 15+ requisitions.

• Managed client engagement through the Req creation/sourcing/offer/close process Kellie Ritenour

Meta

Global Leadership Sourcing Recruiter/HQ/Global Ops & Business Tech 4/2022-5/2023

Playing a pivotal role in Meta’s growth for scaling our leadership team (Manager and Executive-level roles) for engineering, product teams, and other crucial roles and teams within Global Operations and Business Technology teams. Currently establishing best practices and solidifying business partnerships across the company andhelp build out our leadership team. Partnering closely with our hiring managers and teams to research, source, andidentify qualified candidates converting leads into hires while ensuring a smooth and candidate-first process throughout.

• Source and screen candidates for Director & VP roles for Global Ops & Biz Tech organizations

• Manage relationships with executive leaders to effectively source top talent.

• Utilize various social media tools and talent mapping techniques to source viable candidates.

• Developing and implementing new talent mapping and succession planning

• Employ internal applicant tracking system to organize candidates in the hiring pipeline.

• Developing “Key Criteria” for top priority teams/roles to identify top talent.

• Developed executive summaries for identified top talent to share across the organization Volkswagen Automotive Cloud (Contract)

Senior Technical Recruiter

7/2019 – 4/2022

Lead recruitment efforts for new start-up VW Automotive Cloud. VWAC, LLC, a newly formed entity, and a US based extension of the German Car Software organization of the VW Group of Companies. VWAC’s mission is to shape and revolutionize the future of mobility for people everywhere through the implementation of a proprietary cloud-based platform – designed to deliver innovative, new connected car services and solutions tailored to customer needs.

• Full cycle recruitment; Focused on: Principal Site Reliability Engineers, Software Engineer Managers, Senior Security Cloud Engineers, Program Management, Product Manager, and Software Developers & Principal Developers

• Maintained a consistent requisition load of 30+ requisitions.

• Managed client engagement through the offer/close process

• Strategized additional sourcing techniques to hire in difficult/ highly competitive tech roles.

• Implemented applicant tracking system to generate performance reports, tracking, and analyzing metrics such as qualified screeners and new hire ratios, optimizing recruitment processes based on data-driven insights. ManpowerGroup/Tapfin/Experis (Contract)

Senior Sourcing Talent Specialist

6/2014 –6/2019

Talent Solutions combines our leading global offerings RPO, TAPFIN-MSP and Right Management to provide end-to- end, data- driven capabilities across the talent lifecycle. Leveraging our deep industry expertise and understanding of what talent wants, we help organizations address their complex workforce needs. From talent attraction and acquisition to upskilling, development and retention, we provide seamless delivery, leveraging bestin breed technology, and extensive workforce insights across multiple countries at scale.

• Spearheaded end-to-end recruitment for corporate business sectors across diverse clientele including GE Healthcare, John Deere, Internal MP, and Comcast.

• Oversaw high-volume internal hiring drives for executive and professional roles, collaborating with Internal TA roles (BDMs, Market Managers, AEs, Perm Recruiters) and various Director-level positions.

• Conducted targeted intake meetings with Hiring Managers to align role specifics.

• Ensured OFCCP compliance for postings while developing and executing recruiting strategies to pinpoint qualified candidates.

• Conducted market talent insights, presenting crucial data to senior leadership.

• Partnered with HR and legal teams, facilitating successful compensation negotiations and streamlining the hiring process.

• Recognized for record-breaking success in remote areas, achieving over-hire numbers within a remarkable 6-month average turnaround, unprecedented in the market's history.

• Amplified brand awareness and attracted 150+ new passive candidates monthly across multiple social media channels, resulting in a 50%+ response rate among LinkedIn passive candidates.

• Demonstrated a strong "hunter" mentality, proficient in phone sourcing and cold calling for top talent acquisition.

• Attended virtual sourcing best practices seminars, implementing strategies that notably improved passive candidate response rates by 38%.

Kellie Ritenour

Employ Ease

Agency Staffing Manager, Talent Acquisition

1/2009-5/2014

• Orchestrated end-to-end recruitment across diverse sectors including Life Sciences, Industrial, Operations, and various skilled trades.

• Leveraged network and multiple search engines to curate high-quality candidate pools, ensuring a robust talent pipeline.

• Directed comprehensive offer processes, adeptly negotiating compensation packages encompassing base salary, guaranteed, sign- on, and discretionary bonuses. Evaluated deferred compensation, notice periods, and callback clauses.

• Collaborated seamlessly with HR Business Partners, Compensation, and Resourcing counterparts for exceptional and intricate senior-management placements.

• Served as a liaison with legal counsel, overseeing visa and immigration procedures, implementing best practices for compliance. EDUCATION & TRAINING

DE&I Certification (External) (OFCCP, Diversity, & Inclusion) Associates of Arts (some coursework completed) – Lakeland Community College LinkedIn Recruiter, Hiretual, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook), SuccessFactors, Avature, Taleo, Bullhorn, Brass ring, SuccessFactors, Lever, Greenhouse, SharePoint, iCIMS, Jobvite,Beeline, BrassRing, Peoplesoft & Workday

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