Heidi Weinstein

Heidi Weinstein

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Head of Global Talent Acquisition
United States

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  • Abacus Insights
    Head of Global Talent Acquisition
    Abacus Insights
    Nov 2025 - Current (11 months)
    Lead global talent acquisition strategy and operations across the US, India, and Nepal, overseeing a distributed recruiting team and partnering with senior stakeholders across HR, Finance, and business leadership on workforce planning and hiring strategy.

    Direct full-cycle TA operations globally, driving a high-performing, data-driven recruiting function.
    Built and lead AI-assisted recruiting workflows while keeping human judgment central to every hiring decision.
    Partner with leadership on workforce planning, shifting business leaders toward proactive talent strategy.
    Establish AI governance for recruiting technology, ensuring compliance and human oversight.
    Build scalable recruiting infrastructure, competen
  • Vetted Advisory Group
    Principal, Talent Acquisition Strategy and Operations
    Vetted Advisory Group
    Nov 2023 - Oct 2025 (2 years)
    Engaged by multiple organizations in both interim leadership and hands-on recruiting capacities, depending on client need — from leading TA strategy and team operations during periods of organizational change, to executing full-cycle recruiting directly when clients needed immediate hiring capacity.

    Led TA strategy, process design, and team leadership during organizational transitions.
    Executed full-cycle recruiting and sourcing directly for clients needing hands-on hiring support.
    Flexed between strategic advisory and individual-contributor recruiting based on engagement scope.
  • Stack Overflow
    Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition / Talent Acquisition Operations
    Stack Overflow
    Apr 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 8 months)
    Built and scaled a high-performing global talent acquisition function, driving a proactive approach to full-cycle recruiting.
    Introduced AI-enabled sourcing and automation tools to streamline the recruiting process and improve hiring velocity.
    Created talent acquisition data and metrics to provide insight and guidance on hiring and workforce/talent mapping.
    Simplified and standardized the recruiting process, elevating the candidate and hiring manager experience.
    Built a diverse, high-performing talent pipeline that allowed the team to scale efficiently.
    Drove employer branding initiatives across social media platforms to strengthen talent attraction.
  • Poly
    Head of Global Talent Acquisition
    Poly
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2022 (1 year 8 months)
    Built global talent acquisition programs that drove inclusive hiring, strengthened employer brand, and delivered a white-glove candidate experience.
    Created and scaled a progressive global talent strategy and roadmap in partnership with HR and senior executive leadership.
    Built a clear, metrics-driven approach to track, monitor, and evaluate the impact of all TA programs.
    Developed talent acquisition data analytics and dashboards to inform HR's and Poly's strategic plans.
  • McAfee
    Head of Talent Acquisition, Americas
    McAfee
    Sep 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 1 month)
    Built and led a global Talent Acquisition team, promoting a high-performing, innovative and growth-oriented environment that consistently delivers results.
    Built and managed an effective, metrics-driven diversity recruiting platform.
    Created and implemented best practices that improve hiring efficiency and both candidate and hiring team experience.
    Created and implemented an effective workforce planning forecasting process that enhances talent acquisition’s ability to meet both quality and timeliness hiring standards for our clients.
  • Cognizant
    Head of Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion CoE - US
    Cognizant
    Nov 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 6 months)
    Built Cognizant's Diversity & Inclusion CoE to unify Cognizant's approach to hiring diversity talent across the nation.
  • Cognizant
    Head of Management Recruitment - Cognizant Digital Systems and Technology
    Cognizant
    Feb 2011 - Nov 2017 (6 years 10 months)
    Led a 50 member global recruiting team recruiting at all levels for the Digital Systems and Technology business group, which included AVM, Agile, CIS, Enterprise Application Services, DevOps, QE&A, and Multi-Service Integration.
    Build the first offshore sourcing model supporting management plus hiring.
  • RenRe Insurance
    Director, Recruiting
    RenRe Insurance
    Nov 2007 - Jul 2010 (2 years 9 months)
    Led the talent acquisition function for US Operations.
    Created and implemented best-practice staffing strategies.
    Reduced dependency on agency hiring by building an internal team and full TA infrastructure
    Established and tracked staffing metrics and processes against key performance indicators.
    Led international HR project teams focused on automating talent management and recruiting processes globally.
  • MRINetwork
    Principal
    MRINetwork
    Aug 2002 - Nov 2007 (5 years 4 months)
    Owned an affiliate of Management Recruiters International, the largest global recruitment firm, specializing in retained and contingency search.
    Placed C-level executives across manufacturing/operations, financial services, insurance, healthcare, construction/engineering, and retail.
    Built key regional/national client contracts, positioning the firm as vendor of choice for recruiting and staffing.
    Led business development efforts, accountable for sales and recruiting results on key accounts.
    Directed all company operations — staffing, training, business development, and customer base growth.
    Built all business processes and systems, including tools, protocols, metrics, and best practices
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • University of North Texas
    BBA
    University of North Texas
  • University of North Texas
    MBA
    University of North Texas
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