Join the Talent Makers

Hear from Jon Stross and Daniel Chait, authors of Talent Makers, on why they believe business leaders will become agents of change in hiring.

Business leaders from Pursuit, Tableau and Fairygodboss share their winning approaches to hiring great talent to build inclusive teams.

Jon Stross leads a discussion with leaders from Alphabet and Airbnb to reveal how structured hiring helped their companies get to the top.

Chief People and Culture Officer at Smartsheet, Megan Hansen, gives an executive perspective on how strategic hiring wins at scale in an enterprise.

Hiring manager-recruiter relationships can make or break your ability to hire great talent. Learn how Wunderman Thompson creates strong relationships to drive results.

Discover best practices to diversify your talent sourcing from the experts at Axon, and enhance your own team’s talent marketing capabilities.

To win top talent, you need to provide an amazing candidate experience. Leaders at Toast, Nielsen and Headway discuss how they’re putting this into practice.

Remote onboarding is here to stay – and vital for new hire success on the job. In this session, discover how to create strong connections even before day one.

Data is powerful. Recruiting operations experts show you how to tell your talent team’s story with strategic reporting to inform and influence stakeholders.

Editor-in-Chief at Glamour

Samantha oversees content, development, and consumer experiences across Glamour’s verticals. Under her leadership, Glamour emphasizes a digital-first focus on original reporting, exclusive features, and unique perspectives impacting women today. She has also strengthened Glamour’s commitment to body positivity by showcasing size-inclusive brands and models across all channels.

CEO and Co-founder at Fairygodboss

Georgene​ is ​obsessed​ ​with​ ​improving​ ​the​ ​workplace​ ​for​ ​women. She’s​ ​the​ ​CEO​ ​and​ ​Co-founder​ ​of​ ​Fairygodboss,​ the largest career community for women, providing millions of women with career connections, jobs, career advice and hard-to-find intel about how companies treat women.

Director, Talent Acquisition Operations at Twilio

Michael is an experienced Human Resources process professional, who has made a career out of building new workflows and scaling up talent teams during times of extreme company growth.

Board Director at Fastly, Gong, Lucid, Even, and Plum Acquisition Corp.

Kelly is a Board Director at Fastly, Gong, Lucid, Even, and Plum Acquisition Corp and an adjunct professor in Go-To-Market & Sales Strategy at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Prior to board work, Kelly spent 12 years at Tableau Software, where she led worldwide sales and field operations as Executive Vice President of Sales.

Chief People and Culture Officer at Smartsheet

Megan is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing world-class talent as Smartsheet grows globally. She has also led the integration and execution of the talent acquisition, total rewards, talent management, people partnerships, people operations, and diversity equity and inclusion.

Managing Director and Head of Talent Acquisition at KKR

KKR & Co., Inc., a leading global investment company that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and, through its strategic partners, hedge funds. In her role, Grace is responsible for developing talent acquisition strategies and implementing recruiting initiatives and hiring plans, across both campus and experienced talent pools.

CEO & Co-Founder at Pursuit

Jukay Hsu is the co-founder & CEO of Pursuit, a social impact organization that enables equality of opportunity and is closing the prosperity gap in America. He also currently serves as a Director of the New York City Water Board, the Vice Chair of Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for New York City Foundation.

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition at Axon

Gabrielle is a senior level global HR professional with experiences of increasing responsibilities in the areas of talent acquisition, program design and implementation, and people leadership.

Author, speaker and musician

Justin Michael Williams works at the intersection of social justice, mindfulness, and personal

growth – with a touch of music that brings it all to life.

SVP, Talent Acquisition at Nielsen

Melissa Thompson is an executive with 25+ years' experience in Global Human Resources and Talent Acquisition. She joined Nielsen in mid-January of 2020 as the SVP, Talent Acquisition for the Media business.

Director of TA Operations at Toast

Lori's team drives efficiency and innovation within the TA function through programs in TA technology and insights, employer brand, campus recruiting, and candidate experience.

Head of Talent at Sidewalk Labs

Jan is Head of Talent at Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company with unique hiring needs. He as built recruiting functions for growth companies across continents and industries.

Head of Talent at Headway

Formerly the Senior Director of Talent Advisory at Greenhouse, Jacqui discovered her passion for working with people in various hospitality roles and aims to bring that focus on great experiences to hiring.

HR Chief of Staff at Datto

With a background in quantitative and qualitative marketing research, Alice brings an analytical mindset to her role of managing Datto’s Talent Acquisition function, with a view towards maximizing operational efficiencies and effectiveness.

Chief Experience Officer, North America at Wunderman Thompson

Sherine is responsible for creating innovative products and services that scale across digital platforms and physical spaces. Throughout her 20+ year career, she has built, scaled and led high-impact, multifaceted teams for Fortune 500 companies, agencies, foundations and startups including Walmart, Verizon, LG, Electronic Arts, and the Obama Presidential Center Museum.

SVP, Talent Acquisition at Wunderman Thompson

An agency veteran with 20 years of talent acquisition and HR experience, I currently lead Talent Acquisition across the North American region for Wunderman Thompson.

Associate Director, Talent Acquisition at Chewy

Adam oversees TA Operations, Employer Branding and Talent Attraction, and Candidate Experience at Chewy.com. Previously, he led projects for a talent strategy and executive search firm Argosight. Adam has an MBA from Columbia Business School and previously sat on the HR Talent Management Advisory Board for HR.com.

Director, Talent Acquisition and Operations at Flagship Pioneering

My job is to try to make life easier for everyone in the hiring process – recruiters, candidates, hiring managers and all other stakeholders. I love optimization, new tech and will always be a recruiter at heart.

Partner/Cofounder at Growth by Design Talent

Jill specializes in recruiting fundamentals that support growth in alignment with values and mission, and leads executive searches, trainings for hiring managers, workshops and strategic advisement. Previous to GBD Talent, she was the Director of Global Recruiting at Airbnb, growing the company from 150 to 4,500.

Senior Manager, Global Recruiting Operations at SurveyMonkey

Molly Smith an operations leader on a mission to help everyone work smarter not harder. When not solving problems, she enjoys traveling, Pelotoning, rooting for the New York Mets, and exploring the endless beauty of San Francisco.

Product Manager at Greenhouse

As the product manager for the Platform team at Greenhouse, Marvin supports all the tools that enable the hiring cloud, including APIs, webhooks, and data feeds.

CEO and cofounder at Greenhouse

Daniel Chait is CEO of Greenhouse and co-author of the book Talent Makers. Prior to founding Greenhouse, he co-founded Lab49, a global firm providing technology consulting solutions for the world's leading investment banks. Through Daniel’s firsthand experience as an entrepreneur, he has seen how valuable hiring and talent are to building world-class teams.

President and cofounder at Greenhouse

Jon drives the vision and strategy of the Greenhouse product. Jon’s roots in product leadership go back more than 20 years. As General Manager of International at BabyCenter, he led what became the leading site for parents and steered its growth to a global business reaching tens of millions of unique visitors per month.

Chief Marketing Officer at Greenhouse

Carin Van Vuuren is a marketing executive with a passion for brands and a track record in building high-performing B2B marketing teams.

Director of Partnerships at Greenhouse

Garret manages service and technology partners across Greenhouse’s industry leading Hiring Cloud. He has been in the HR technology space for the past four years. Prior to that, he spent his time in the advertising space.

Chief Customer Officer at Greenhouse

Sarah leads the Customer Success and Support functions at Greenhouse. A long-time operations, customer and product executive, Sarah brings a customer-centric leadership approach to every team she leads, including in her previous roles at Jet.com, Snapfish and Hotwire.

Vice President, Professional Services at Greenhouse

Driven by a solution-oriented approach, Kristina leads Greenhouse's service delivery team. She has over two decades of professional experience in information technology and services.