Michael Newman
Castle Rock
Summary
Strategic leader with a background in the improvement of Talent Acquisition/Human Resource processes. Strong leader, with a history of developing new workflow processes and scaling operations to meet demand during times of extreme company growth. MBA graduate, with a proven ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Vice President, Talent Strategy & Operations
Insight Partners
09.2022 - Current
- Designed organizational objectives to the firms mission by collaboratively developing teams strategic vision and objectives.
- Owner of several programs to help make HR/Talent a more strategic function at our portfolio companies so they can more rapidly and sustainably scale.
- Led operational team in creation, roll out and management of new solutions to add value to our portfolio companies.
- Identified and solved issues with production, workforce and resource sourcing to drive business objectives.
- Established performance goals for department and provided methods for reaching milestones.
Sr. Director, Talent Operations
Blend Labs, Inc.
04.2022 - 09.2022
- Oversee the following areas of operations: Recruiting Processes & Programs, TA Analytics, Candidate Experience, New Employee Onboarding, Employer Branding, and Employee Experience.
- Developed a global recruiting process to identify efficiencies and support reporting capabilities.
- Established the organization's first-ever goal-setting strategy.
- Designed our recruitment capacity model in order to support strategic investment in right sizing the talent acquisition team.
- Consulted businesses on successful recruiting and retention practices to help minimize turnover.
- Serve as cross-functional liaison between multiple business units including Finance, Compensation, People Ops, Facilities, HRBPs, and Marketing.
Director, Talent Acquisition Operations
Twilio
06.2018 - 04.2022
- Oversaw the following areas of operations: Recruiting Processes & Programs, TA Analytics, Candidate Experience, and New Employee Onboarding
- Served as cross functional liaison between multiple business units including Finance, Compensation, People Ops, Facilities, HRBPs, and Employer Brand
- Owned change management activities for department and staff of over 340 team members with the launch of a consistent global talent acquisition process and dashboards, Bar Raiser program, internal mobility workflow, global employee referral program, and a new hire onboarding solution
- Designed recruiter enablement training to maintain high productivity and performance metrics to reduce the time for new team members to achieve hiring goals
- Led Talent Acquisition vendor relations while managing a budget of over 13M annually
Program Manager, Employee Experience
WP Engine
01.2017 - 06.2018
- Led all project planning for Human Resources to improve the employee experience and retention rate
- Created campaigns and collaborated with marketing team to cultivate unity among staff and employment engagement resulting in a 96% employee engagement score
- Provided detailed reports on HR metrics including information on headcount, attrition, diversity and talent acquisition
- Implemented HR department's problem solving strategy based on the Agile Framework
- Successfully launched company's first ever performance development program process with end-to-end management of vendor selection to implementation
- Assisted in yearly and quarterly objective planning for entire Human Resources department
Program Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations
WP Engine
08.2014 - 06.2018
- Partner with recruiting leadership to optimize the workflow process relating to hiring and interviewing, and led a company-wide initiative to standardize the interview and candidate evaluation processes, reducing instances of losing promising candidates to competing companies
- Established first reporting mechanism for tracking most common mediums for job applicants resulting in 45% referral rate among current employees and located other high volume talent pools
- Improved new hire experience by implementing tool to measure on-boarding experience and addressed poor scoring areas to increase overall effectiveness
- Oversee partner/vendor relationships including management of recruiting programs budget
- Help drive employment branding strategy to promote the company culture outside of WP Engine
Education
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
University of The Incarnate Word
San Antonio, TX2015
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration and Management
The University of Texas At San Antonio
San Antonio, TX2010
Skills
- Recruitment/staffing
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Employee engagement
- Talent management
- Resource planning
- Pre-employment screening
- Benefits and compensation
- Team leadership
- Training programs development
- Interviewing
- Human resource operations
Certification
- SHRM-CP
Timeline
Vice President, Talent Strategy & Operations
Insight Partners
09.2022 - Current
Sr. Director, Talent Operations
Blend Labs, Inc.
04.2022 - 09.2022
Director, Talent Acquisition Operations
Twilio
06.2018 - 04.2022
Program Manager, Employee Experience
WP Engine
01.2017 - 06.2018
Program Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations
WP Engine
08.2014 - 06.2018
MBA - Masters of Business Administration
University of The Incarnate Word
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration and Management
The University of Texas At San Antonio
- SHRM-CP
Additional Information
- Expert knowledge of Greenhouse
- Background in project management within various operations for the technology industry including recruitment, HR, and account management
- Proficient in Agile practices and procedures; possess strong ability to problem solve utilizing the Agile framework
- History of well-rounded leadership focused on listening well, excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Experience building positive and lasting relationships with key stakeholders
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