Savant Recruitment

I help tech startups and scaleups build repeatable, revenue-aligned hiring systems that protect runway and accelerate growth.

Our clients don’t just want hires—they want headcount certainty.

→ We fix broken hiring engines
→ We stop cash bleed from slow processes
→ We help engineering leaders hit roadmap goals faster
→ We eliminate missed forecasts and rebuild trust with stakeholders

Specialties:

→Technical Recruitment across the SDLC
→Strategic workforce planning
→Time-to-hire optimization
→Candidate experience improvement
→Embedded/Fractional TA support

Headhunting top 5% talent (even if they’re not looking)

Clients include: Founders, CTOs, and VPs of Engineering from seed to Series C+ startups

Want to see what’s costing you the most? → Visit [SavantRecruitment.io]

Or DM me to audit your current hiring engine.

Founder | CEO 

TAKEDOWN

By day, I lead Savant Recruitment, a multi-award-winning boutique tech agency, as Founder & CEO (Top Staffing Leaders To Watch 2024 by Candidate.ly, Top Female Founder 2024 & Top 100 Companies 2024 by FoundersBeta)🏆. But on Takedown, I ditch the suit and get unfiltered, raw, and real. 🔥💯

This isn't your average podcast. We're diving deep into the spiciest stories in Tech, Business, and Recruiting – no holds barred. Expect live calls from listeners, candidates, and hiring managers – we're bringing it ALL to the mic.

Ready to be informed and entertained? 

Subscribe to Takedown and get ready for the heat!

Now on Spotify, iHeartRadio, & Google Podcasts! 

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Boardy

Connector

LiveSwitch Inc.

Created by brothers Anton and Jerod Venema in 2008, LiveSwitch has grown to over 80 employees, and 500 customers and 1000s of developers building with our SaaS product worldwide. Through technology and innovation, we inspire and enable development teams through industry leading enterprise-class real-time streaming and analytic solutions. With products built from the ground up, we live and breathe RTC technology. Come work for a company that is built by Developers for Developers!

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the People Team, I am responsible for providing day-to-day leadership, guidance, and mentorship to our employees.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advocate, making hiring intentional across LiveSwitch. 
• Attending DE&I networking events, and allying with BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and Women.
• Implementing Best Recruitment Practices
• Guiding Employer Branding
• Make hiring decisions for the Talent Attraction & Onboarding team
• Oversee the recruitment activity for all open roles including assigning postings to the appropriate team member, providing the necessary support and follow-up and ensuring all roles are moving forward in a timely manner
• Develop and execute a recruitment strategy that will ensure we are able to find the right people at the right time for the right roles.
• Drive content creation for recruitment – job descriptions and careers site content
• Own the onboarding process for all new hires from the employee's start date to the end of their probation.
• Execute the full-cycle recruiting process from resume screening to onboarding for postings as needed
• Proactively generate and present weekly reports and dashboards on all recruitment and onboarding activity
• Work with department leaders to understand and anticipate current and future hiring needs
• Coach hiring managers to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities
•  People Operations Initiatives (Employee Experience)

Talent Attraction & Onboarding Manager

ILLUMITI

Illumiti is a Professional Services Organization and  Platinum SAP Reseller.  Illumiti has been in business for over 20 years, and we have over 250+ employees working for the organization.

Since the beginning of 2020, I have been responsible for Leading and Managing our Campus Recruiting Initiative, on top of my standard recruitment responsibilities of filling hard to fill, senior-level SAP positions.

• Lead and Manage Cross-Functional Teams, comprising of Recruiting, Marketing, HR, Senior Stakeholders, and C-Level Executives.
• Creating and building a best in class vision and strategy for campus recruitment and associate early talent program.
• Foster strong relationships with key schools, events and associations to ensure we have access to the top and diverse talent.
• Market and communicate the EVP in ways that resonate with the target market via fairs, social media, sponsorships and referrals.
• Ensuring Illumiti is competitive in the market with compensation experience and meaningful work.
• Developing and ensuring a great candidate experience for new talent.
• Planning and attending Virtual Career Fairs
• Partnering with Educational Career Centres the EVP strategy
• Compiling an early talent pipeline for future opportunities.

SAP Recruiter 

Agilus Work Solutions (formerly Inteqna)

Responsible for finding the right quality candidates for both Contract and Permanent roles across our various client base. 

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Senior IT Recruitment Consultant

TechHi Consultants

Recruiting in Manufacturing, Pharma, Construction, Technology and more!

Placements include:

Marketing Specialist
Process Engineers (chemical backgrounds)
Project Managers
Medical Science Liaisons - Pharma
Underwriters - insurance and re-insurance
Production Manager/Supervisors
Maintenance Supervisors 
Operations Managers

P. Eng professionals 
Six Sigma Certified (Black Belt and Green Belt) 

And more.

Director, Client Services

Hireglyphics Recruiting Corporation

MEAN, MERN, LAMP, Ruby, Python, AWS,  Java, Javascript, ES (EcmaScript)Angular,  1-5, RPA , Blue Prism, SAP, Noc, ERP, Dynamics, Navision, Sage, Node.js  HTML, CSS, Python, Perl, NumPY, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, R, Cloud, Golang,  Infrastructure, Active Directory, BES, C, C++, C#, Python, PHP, PL/SQL, SOA, WDSL, SOAP, REST, JSON, AJAX, XML, API, Linux, Apache Tomcat, Visual Studio, GIT, Go, XML, UML, Windows, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySql, Solr, Lucenem, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, ActiveMQ, Eclipse, Netbeans, Hibernate, Spring, Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Ansible, Saltstack, Zookeeper, JBoss, Junit, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, RUP, SDLC, TOAD, etc...

Emerging Technology Recruiter

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Jessica Smith | Podcast Host | Recruitment Innovator | Multi Award-Winning Leader 

🏆 Accolades:

Top Staffing Leaders To Watch 2024 - Candidate.ly
Top Female Founder 2023 & 2024 - FoundersBeta
Top 100 Companies 2024 & 2025 - FoundersBeta
Emerging Leaders 2024 - People & Culture - The Peak

Money goes where attention flows.

And if your attention isn’t locked on your hiring system, you're already bleeding cash, momentum, and credibility.

Most founders and tech execs don’t realize this until it’s too late:

→$400K+ burned in engineering salaries… and no MVP
→90+ day time-to-hire delays… tanking roadmaps
→Top engineers quitting from burnout and process fatigue
→Hiring forecasts off by 60%, board updates full of excuses
→$1.5M+ ARR left uncaptured due to staffing gaps

Sound familiar?

It’s not because you’re bad at hiring.
It’s because hiring was never designed to scale with your business.

That’s not leadership...it’s survival.

This applies to you if you're currently raising capital, already raised capital, or have had a killer year in ARR.

At Savant Recruitment, we don’t just fill roles.

We engineer hiring systems that:

✅ Protect your runway
✅ Forecast headcount accurately
✅ Prevent $22K–$80K/month losses from unfilled roles
✅ Reduce dropoff by eliminating bottlenecks
✅ Align hiring velocity with product velocity

Our specialty? Building scalable, revenue-aligned tech hiring for startups and high-growth companies across the globe.

Whether you're pre-MVP or post-Series A, we help you build your hiring engine before you hit “Post Job.”

Because by the time you realize you needed it—it’s already cost you.

👇 DM me "Hiring" or visit [savantrecruitment.io]

Before you walk into another board meeting explaining another broken quarter.

TIME KILLS ALL DEALS! I'm going to get you a first-mover advantage the market hasn't seen before. This is sales-intelligence that executes on your behalf, all in real time, all on one platform. 

If you want to beat your competition for a massive fraction of the cost, without the clunky and complex sales motions, we should chat! 

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I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Growth Officer at Fundz!

Jessica Smith

The data told me I was bleeding money. 

I just couldn't see it clearly enough.

For years, I ran the Savant Recruitment sales tech stack. 

Five different tools. 
Constant data cleaning. 
"Verified" emails that bounced. 

I was paying thousands monthly to create problems, not solve them.

Every morning felt like Groundhog Day: export from Tool A, clean in Tool B, verify in Tool C, import to Tool D, pray it works in Tool E.

There were times I cried at my desk. I wanted to rip my hair out. 

My P&L was screaming at me, but I couldn't hear it over the noise of a bloated stack.

Here's what I learned about storytelling with data:

The story your data tells determines everything. 

Not the story you want it to tell. 

The story it actually tells when you can finally see it clearly.

Most executives won't change until the pain becomes unbearable. 

I get it. 

Change is expensive and risky.

But here's the trade-off nobody talks about: 

Staying the same is more expensive. 

You're just spreading that cost across your team's time, your data quality, and your missed opportunities.

This is why I went all-in on Fundz.

After 4 years of telling John D. exactly what was broken in my market, we built what I wish I'd had. 


Data layers the big players don't have. One tool instead of five. A fraction of the cost.

If you run sales like an athlete runs their body, optimized, efficient, data-driven, you already know what I'm talking about.


Your Q1 revenue target isn't going to hit itself. 

Your team's time is either being multiplied or divided by the tools you give them.

The question isn't whether you need better data storytelling.

The question is: how much longer can you afford not to have it?

First mover advantage is still available. But not for long.

What would shift in your business if your data actually told you the truth?

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