Red Rover

Founder

CYMATRAX	
Biotech SaaS transforming audio experiences through advanced technology, fostering enhanced memory, reduced stress, and heightened focus for optimal productivity. 

Product Designer
Enhanced user experience by addressing usability issues and executing strategic design processes, including stakeholder interviews and design system evolution.
- Prevented a potential $100,000 annual revenue loss and 175 customers, saving 240 developer hours, and avoiding a 2-month project delay by emphasizing user-friendly designs and workflow.
- Drove a UX redesign and design system implementation, ensuring brand consistency. Established a unified identity, potentially expanding market share in brand initiatives for the company.
- Mitigated dissatisfaction, resolving 22 usability issues, fostering ongoing feedback in stakeholder interviews, and enhancing clarity and information architecture for a intuitive product experience.

WAGS UNITE	
A social meetup app connecting dog owners through vibrant community and positive experiences. 
  	
Product Designer
Elevated UX, launched app at WebSummit 2023, attracting investors, driving expansion, and loyalty.
- Uplifted user experience, advancing accessibility with a 90% improvement. Revitalized screens, encouraged collaboration for streamlined interfaces and intuitive design enhancements.
- Debuted app at WebSummit '23, revealing growth potential with a favorable user experience. Enhanced information architecture and optimized designs, attracting investor attention.
- Optimized clarity, minimized errors and accelerated development, saving 320 work hours. Organized screens and fostered collaboration, improving workflows to enhance team's efficiency.

Product Designer

Mission Box Solutions

Catalyzed growth and visibility, revitalizing engagement by tripling brand recognition and amplifying web traffic through strategic marketing initiatives.

- Boosted platform engagement by initiating, designing, and launching three educational e-books, resulting in 500+ email sign-ups and 100+ leads within 24 hours, enhacing customer attraction..

- Amplified brand awareness 3X through strategic content placement on industry blogs, podcasts, and online magazines; yielding increased visibility and recognition among the target audience.

- Increased website traffic by  50% through analyzing organic content strategy, crafting targeted content for personas, and mapping buyer's journey—boosting online visibility and engagement.

Marketing Strategist & Senior IT Recruiter

Full Desk Technical Recruiter

Cadensi

Inspired client growth by developing compelling storytelling-focused content, fostering brand loyalty, and substantially increasing web traffic for enhanced online visibility and engagement.

- Transformed social media engagement, captivated the target audience, and achieved a 2,200% growth rate over two months by developing a storytelling-focused content strategy for clients.

- Pioneered and executed a B2B subscription-based social media platform, slashing planning time from 3 days to under 15 minutes monthly in four months, ensuring posting consistency for clients.

- Heightened brand recognition by 80% between 12 clients, strategizing and designing 1,700+ visuals over 12 months, enhancing online visibility and engagement.

Social Media Strategist

Air Essentials, LLC

- Streamlined the delivery of service presentations to a digital format, improving customer communication by 30%

- Increased sales ROI by over 40% through cross-functional team meetings, feedback, and collaboration

Executive Sales Manager

STARK Industries

• Project Build Out - Planned, organized, and executed the build-out of a new location including the coordination of contractors and vendors, monitoring to ensure costs and timelines stayed on track, and implementation of new systems and processes to improve efficiency and reduce operating costs.

• Contributed to strategy development by identifying 200+ product opportunities, and creating partnerships with 30+ third-party vendors, to accelerate time to market by 2 months. 

• Conducted a series of meetings with key stakeholders to solve complex project scheduling issues and establish 100% project track realignment.

• Counseled support teams to ensure issues and client feedback were addressed, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction.

• Streamlined the design revision process by 50%, reducing the time to complete design requests from 2 weeks to 1 week, by creating a design request form and a monthly design revision calendar.

• Spearheaded directing teams to address client issues, resulting in a 25% increase in client satisfaction.

Assistant Program Manager

🔥 Product Designer | 3 Years of Visual Design Excellence | Proficient in Figma & Protopie✨ | Open to Remote Opportunities

I'm a Product Designer with 5+ dynamic years crafting impactful designs in SaaS, social apps, tech recruitment, and startups. 

I've averted $100,000 in potential losses, launched an MVP app at WebSummit, and 3X brand recognition through strategic marketing. I also recently obtained certifications in HTML/CSS and am currently learning Javascript.

Most recently, I played a key role in improving the user experience of a bootstrapped Biotech SaaS startup by tackling usability issues and implementing strategic design processes, which included conducting stakeholder interviews and evolving the design system. Drove a UX redesign and the implementation of a design system to ensure consistent branding, thereby establishing a cohesive identity that could potentially enhance the company's market share in brand initiatives.

I specialize in designing intuitive and engaging digital products, with a primary focus on language learning apps, travel planning apps, and recruitment marketing software. 

As a Product Designer, I excel in both UX and UI design, particularly emphasizing information architecture, accessibility, and skeuomorphic elements. My sweet spot lies in creating consumer-facing experiences for adult users. I thrive in remote work environments and prioritize collaboration with developers, marketers, and leadership. 

My problem-solving expertise centers around AI integration, innovation, differentiation, and ensuring optimal usability and accessibility. Proficient in Figma, Protopie, and Marvel, I am committed to continuous learning, including expanding into web development with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I'm open to fully remote, flex-schedule opportunities. Please send me a DM or email me at sanders.samc@gmail.com.

Samantha Sanders

Full lifecycle recruiting for Enginieering, Sales, GTM, Manufacturing, Leadership, and Front Line roles internationally.

Consulting to multiple companies on Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, Recruiting Strategy, Candidate Experience, Customer Experience, Veteran & Military Spouse Attraction/Recruiting/Retention.

Principal

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Board Member

Elanco

Supporting the sourcing and recruitment of manufacturing and quality leadership in this Animal Health leader.  Conducting senior-level and confidential searches to support the goals in this pharmacuetical company.  Previously, supported the recruiting efforts for sourcing, screening and hiring sales representatives across the US.  Also supporting EMEA shopper insights hiring.  Provided sourcing training to the recruiting staff.

Talent Acquisition

DISH Network

Building and leading talent acquisition strategy and hiring across key talent segments to build the pipeline for University Relations & early talent, Employment Branding, internship programs, veteran & military spouse hiring, apprenticeship programs,  diversity sourcing and other strategic channels.

Sr. Manager Talent Acquisition - Talent Channels & Programs

Wintrust Financial Corporation

Wintrust Financial Corporation (Wintrust) is a financial services holding company based in Rosemont, Illinois, with assets above $30 billion. 
Leading a team of talented Talent Acquisition professionals both on-site and remote.  Built and executed talent attraction programs including veteran & military spouse and diversity.  Full life-cycle recruiting of financial, analytics, business development, sales, audit and human resources professionals for locations in the greater Chicago, Illinois and southern Wisconsin metropolitan areas. Assist in the development and implementation of new talent acquisition processes.

Director Talent Acquisition

Nestlé

Nestlé is the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers and their pets with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories. 

Lead a world-class team of remote sourcing specialists supporting manufacturing operations, engineering and supply chain recruiting across the United States.  Developed and implemented veteran & military spouse outreach & attraction programs to drive Nestle to being an employer-of-choice for veterans and military spouses.

Recruiting Supervisor, Talent Sourcing

Kraft Foods Group

Recruiting Relationship Manager driving veteran employment outreach.  Supporting the Supply Chain and Manufacturing organizations for Kraft Foods Group.  Military Recruitment Lead for 30+ plants and two headquarters locations.  Lead the Kraft Veteran Employment Outreach programs including representing Kraft on the Veteran Employment Advisory Council of the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation and other national initiatives.  Assisting in the development of an enhanced veteran hiring initiative and drove veteran hiring across the organization and doubled veteran hiring since 2014.  Manage multiple sourcers supporting Integrated Supply Chain, manufacturing, Engineering and Manufacturing Quality across North America.

Recruiting Relationship Manager ISC/Military Recruiting

Heartland Technologies, Inc.

As a partner in this firm was responsible for Business Development, Talent Acquisition leadership, Talent Acquisition consulting and HR functions.  Expanded our client base to over 30 companies supporting hiring for technical roles in IT and Software Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

Acquired talent for this industry-leading Business Analytics division.  Managed the staffing for Cognos 10 and SPSS Sales and Presales professionals across the US.  Supervised three sourcers across the U.S..  Consulted on projects in Australia and Canada.  Consulting position.

Recruiting Program Manager - Software Group - Business Analytics

Unilever (formerly Alberto Culver)

Source and recruit for positions within this leading CPG company.  Staffed positions in Manufacturing Operations, Marketing, IT and R&D.  Sourced Manufacturing Operations professionals for the new, state-of-the-art plant in Jonesboro, AR.  Staffed positions at all levels in Alberto Culver facilities across the U.S.

Talent Acquisition Consultant

With a passion for process improvement and a keen eye on change management, I have driven initiatives that equate into business success.  Plain and simple, the right Talent drives strategic and tactical business success.  That's right, "The right people = business success".  Talent Acquisition is NOT a cost center.

After 18 years in consulting, I have worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies to help them understand how to implement Talent Acquisition solutions.

Developing effective programs drives qualified people to the opportunity.  I've accomplished results through programs targeting  Veteran/Military Spouse, diversity, early-career, university relations programs and also through effective/efficient employment branding to "Tell the story" to achieve your business goals.  

I've spent the last 20 years working with veterans and military spouses to gain employment opportunities by  helping to translate competencies built by military service to the civilian workplace.  Also working with civilians to understand military capabilities and how to evaluate them for the civilian workplace.

I've worked to become the leader I wanted to have earlier in my career.  Whether that is mentoring early-career talent, being an Individual Contributor SME or leadinging an experienced Talent Acquisition function, I help make people and companies successful.  Working closely with stakeholders to implement talent acquisition strategies to fit the company's specific needs.  Partnering with executives, hiring managers and HR to ensure the most efficient and cost effective recruiting focus.

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