A mid-career recruiter with an expertise in healthcare and technical recruiting. I utilize my communication skills, customer relations experience, compliance, and legal background to find the best and most qualified talent for positions.  I am an expert in event planning, a skill that I utilize to cultivate recruitment efforts for virtual and onsite events.  Additionally, I authored three books of poetry entitled "Vent: The Different Faces of Me", "I Almost Held On", and "Woman". They are books of poetry outlining who I am, my interest, my life experiences and what I plan to accomplish.  

Website: www.iamcletheartist.com

Chenae Erkerd, J.D., RACR

Recruiter 

A diverse and creative mid-career recruiter with an expertise in healthcare and technical recruiting. I utilize my communication skills, customer relations experience, compliance, and legal background to find the best and most qualified talent for positions.  I am an expert in event planning, a skill that I utilize to cultivate recruitment efforts for virtual and onsite events.  Additionally, I authored three books of poetry entitled "Vent: The Different Faces of Me", "I Almost Held On", and "Woman". They are books of poetry outlining who I am, my interest, my life experiences and what I plan to accomplish.  

Website: www.iamcletheartist.com

Technical Recruiter

•Recruit for 40+ job requisitions which consisted of Program Managers, Software Engineers, and Cybersecurity professionals with skill sets in C, C++, C#, Python, Splunk, Spark, Proofpoint, MITRE ATT&CK, Data Science, Applied Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and other technologies and tools for Microsoft Security.
•Provide full cycle recruitment for levels 61-66 using iCIMS while researching documents in Success Factors.
•Conduct 20+ recruiters screens per week to provide hiring leaders with candidate’s background information and expectations for the positions they apply for.
•Schedule full loop interviews for internal and external candidates & conduct personalized kickoff calls for candidates to prepare them for interviews.
•Draft and extend offers to external candidates.
•Submit visa requests for candidates who will operate in their positions under work visas.
•Create LinkedIn projects for each position to successfully source and ultimately hire diverse candidates.
•Provide weekly LinkedIn meetings with prospective candidates to discuss their career goals and possible positions with Microsoft.
•Promoted from level 60 to level 61.

Chenae Erkerd

Qualia

Qualia is the connected title, escrow, and closing technology infrastructure built for real estate and mortgage professionals. The platform makes buying and selling a home a simple, secure, and enjoyable experience by bringing together homebuyers and sellers, mortgage lenders, title & escrow agents, and real estate agents onto a single shared closing system. Over 1 million real estate and mortgage professionals use Qualia to power their real estate closings, and we currently process transactions for millions of consumers every year. 

Since launching in 2015, the company has been named an ALTA Elite Provider, CB Insights Fintech 250, Fast Company’s Next Big Thing in Tech, and has been recognized by Forbes as a Best Startup Employer. Qualia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has offices in Austin, TX, and Superior, CO.

Lead Technical Recruiter

Syelo Ventures

Syelo is an invite-only community of talent leaders partnering to build the first professional organization in recruiting.

Founding Member

ŌURA

ŌURA is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking talented individuals to join us on our journey.

JOIN THE ŌURA TEAM

ŌURA is full of skilled experts and we’re known to share a good laugh every now and then. We always strive to learn more and dig deeper into our research and analytics, to stay engaged and creative in everything we do. We respect our partners, privacy and the scientific method.

We are a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 experts in hardware engineering, software development, machine learning, bioscience, sleep, industrial and UX design, production, marketing and customer experience.

ŌURA Health Ltd.’s HQ and major manufacturing facilities are located in Oulu, Finland. Other locations include Helsinki and San Francisco.

Talent Acquisition (Fixed-Term)

DocuSign

●Leadership Hiring: Consistently exceeded recruiting targets by 135%; hired two to four candidates per month for senior leadership clients: Directors, Senior Directors, Vice Presidents, and Executive Vice Presidents.

● Executive Onboarding: Onboarded multiple executives; partnered to develop a talent acquisition strategy and managed hiring for the Executive Vice President of the BTO (Business Transformation Organization comprised of: Strategy, Pricing, Packaging, Monetization, Data Science), and the Vice President of Communications.

● Recruiting Pipelines: Technical, G&A, GTM, Engineering, Leadership, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Cloud Encryption, Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Storage, Strategy, Pricing, Packaging & Monetization, DevOps, TechOps, Data Science, AI/ML, Frontend, Backend, Mobile Engineering, UX/UI, Design, Data Science, Product Management, Communications, Partner Alliances. Hired the Infrastructure / Storage team for the DocuSign On Prem-to-Cloud Migration (Microsoft Azure).

● International Hiring: Recruited Leadership, Software Engineering, and Communications talent for North America, LATAM, EMEA, APJ, and the DocuSign IDC (India Development Center).

● Team Lead | Sourcing Innovation: Led 100+ Recruiters and Sourcers for Sourcing Jams, increased passive talent pipelines by 40%, created a workback calendar and metrics reporting, increased Recruiter efficiency and TTF by 30%. Served as a Mentor to early in career TA teammates, shared recruiting / sourcing best practices, black belt techniques.

● Project Management – Talent Acquisition Operations & Optimization – Process Design: Managed multiple Talent Acquisition Projects, redesigned Talent Acquisition framework to create recruiting process efficiency with a DEI focus. Increased TTF metric from 90-120+ days to 45-60 days, providing a white glove hiring manager and candidate experience.

Principal Recruiter - Tech, G&A, GTM

Twilio Inc.

Leadership sourcing for R&D Engineering Leadership, Sales, GTM. Primarily focused on engineering talent and product management roles in the R&D Engineering SaaS space. Technology focus: Kubernetes, Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, AWS, Kafka, Go, ML, Cloud, Java, CDP, programmable voice, programmable video (list represents highest focus area, is not exhaustive).

Senior Talent Research Partner, Leadership Recruiting

Nike

●	Recruiting Targets & Pipelines: Consistently exceeded recruiting goals by 150%. Led diversity coordination, sourcing, and hiring team to hire over 100 diverse, highly specialized, FTE Engineers for Nike Global Footwear Product Creation: Chemical, Polymer, Mechanical, Textile, Material Science, Rapid Prototyping, Footwear Technical Development, FEA (Finite Element Analysis), Computational Analysis, Injection Molding, R&D, Engineering, Footwear Development, Materials Development, Product Testing, Product Management.

●	Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Driver: Founding Member of the NIKE Diversity Equity and Inclusion Task Force. Partnered with NIKE Leadership to operationalize and expand the NPCE (NIKE Product Creation Experience) for underserved communities. Managed a Diversity Sourcing Team of 5 to 10 Sourcers and Recruiters to build a robust pipeline of diverse candidates across all functional technical specialty areas of footwear product creation.

●	Talent Acquisition Operations & Systems | Process Efficiency: Drove large scale transformational changes that directly impacted business growth; performed SWOT Analysis of Global Footwear Hiring Processes and Operations. Redesigned and operationalized new sourcing, recruiting, hiring, interviewing, and candidate experience processes for Global Footwear Product Creation. 

●	Interview Guides & Candidate Scoring System: Designed new Interview Guides for each Footwear Product Creation Department: Footwear Development, Category Engineering, Product Testing, Materials Development, Flyknit Engineering, Cost Engineering. Created an automated, enterprise-scalable anti-bias scoring system for panel interviews that saved an average of five hours per requisition per Recruiter and Hiring Team.

Senior (Principal) Recruiter, Global Footwear

●	Territory Leader Talent Acquisition: Recruited and led a team of remote, high performing, high-volume Recruiters (NYC, Washington D.C., Boston) to exceed recruiting goals for NIKE Direct (DTC/Retail), and Converse NE Territory NA by 135%; 65 stores, revenue $1B. Served as a Coach/Player and consistently carried 30+ requisitions: Sales, GTM, Retail Leadership (visual, FOH, BOH, all areas of retail / DTC). 

●	TA Player | Coach | Servant Leader: Recognized for leading teams with a Servant Leadership methodology; proven track record of leaning in to assist team members. Led teams of Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinators to consistently exceed hiring goals by 125%. Trusted advisor, highly skilled in stakeholder management, executive high visibility recruiting and leading the recruiting process in close partnership with HR Business Partners and Executive Team Leaders.

●	Operational Efficiency | Talent Acquisition Operations: Designed and implemented new efficiencies for hiring, talent acquisition operations, candidate experience, and recruiting events for the NYC and NE Territory Marketplace which were implemented across the entire North American Retail Fleet. Created new Interview Guides for NIKE Direct/Direct-to-Consumer teams.

Territory Leader Talent Acquisition 

●	Recruiting Targets: Consistently exceeded recruiting targets by 125%: sourced, recruited, hired over 49 NIKE Technology / Consumer Digital Technology FTEs over a period of 18 months.

●	Recruiting Pipelines: Core Engineering, Front-End, Back-End, Full Stack, Mobile, iOS, Android, UX/UI, BC/DR, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Cyber Threat, IAM, Risk, Governance, Cloud Encryption Architects, AI/ML Engineering, Data Science, Platform Engineering, Cloud, Technical Project Management, FinTech eCommerce, Technical Product Management, BSAs. 

●	Recruiting Event Management: Managed all large-scale recruiting events and conferences (RSA, BlackHat, GDC, etc.) for NIKE Technology NA; managed teams of 200+ (Recruiters, Sourcers, Coordinators, Hiring Managers/Business Leads) and budgets of $200K-$500K to hire for explosive growth goals. Washington Post article – Nike is Partying in Vegas with Hackers

Technical Recruiter, Events Manager, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Platform Engineering

R&W Engineering, Inc.

Managed all aspects of utility coordination and environmental testing projects for over 3,000 defined sites for the Unified Communications Team for clients AT&T and Verizon Wireless to project scope, budget, and schedule.

Achieved multiple efficiencies by creating streamlined field operations environmental test schedules and technician routes throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; received commendation from clients on multiple occasions.

Project Manager (Contract)

Tektronix

Project Manager, Services Quality Division, Calibration and Testing. PT/ILC Coordinator (Proficiency Testing / Interlaboratory Comparison); managed scheduling and coordination of multiple PT/ILC artifacts between 70 labs worldwide.

ASL (Approved Supplier List) Manager, interfaced directly with medical, aerospace and defense clientele; proficient with ISO 17025 and 9001 Standards.

Elwood Staffing Services, Inc.

(Formerly SOS Employment Group) Full-Cycle recruiting for Technical, IT, Healthcare, Human Resources, Financial, Mortgage, Sales and Sales Management positions. Utilized social media outlets as well as creative sourcing campaigns to recruit talent. Consistently exceeded recruiting plan goals.

Staffing Manager / Recruiter

Skies America Print and Digital Media Solutions

Prospected (cold called) and closed publishing contracts with the Los Angeles Lakers, New York Yankees, Financial Planning Association, Museum Store Association and other professional association publications and magazines.

Director, New Business Development

I’m a global Talent Acquisition leader who thrives on solving complex business problems and bringing structure to fast-moving environments — always with servant leadership and a sense of humor. Over the last 15 years, I’ve scaled recruiting teams across North America, EMEA, LATAM, APJ, and India, partnering with executives to build the strategies and pipelines that fuel growth.

At Nike, DocuSign, Twilio, and ŌURA, I’ve delivered 125–150% of hiring goals year after year, reducing time-to-fill from 80+ days to under 55 and consistently exceeding diversity and quality-of-hire targets. My work spans executive search, technical recruiting (AI/ML, cloud, cybersecurity, product engineering), and G&A recruiting (sales, GTM, finance, strategy) — giving me a unique ability to flex across functions and geographies.

I lead with data and process rigor, but never at the expense of candidate and stakeholder experience. Whether I’m building dashboards that uncover bottlenecks, running global conference sourcing campaigns (RSA, BlackHat, GDC), or advising executives on workforce planning, my focus is on creating scalable, repeatable systems that attract world-class talent.

Tools & Platforms: Greenhouse, iCIMS, Taleo, Workday, SuccessFactors, Avature, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, SeekOut, Hiretual.

“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made…” – Mandela

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