Kristen M. Fife Senior Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Professional

AI Sourcing Recruiter

Amazon.com

Jan 2026 - Current (9 months)

• Contract sourcing recruiter for Amazon AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Labs is a specialized unit focused on developing advanced AI agents that can reason, generalize, and operate autonomously.
• Natural Language Engineers (L5/6) in the US; Bilingual early career Data Associates (Label/annotate) L3/4 in The Hague
• Conduct 600+ outreach and associated screens to respondees over 2 mos, manage candidates up to the virtual IV stage

Senior Technical Recruiter

Veeam

Jan 2025 - Jan 2026 (1 year 1 month)

Full lifecycle recruiting for global Cloud/AI data storage and security software company.
• Manage US recruiting for new SaaS software (front end, full stack, platform/cloud, infrastructure) and FEDRAMP business units. Schedule all candidates for client teams, manage debriefs, offer process.
• Over 50 candidates in process in less than 10 days from opening, diminish evergreen pipelines by 35%+ in one week

Sourcing Recruiter

Amazon.com

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 (1 year)

Contract sourcing recruiter for Project Kuiper, the global low earth orbit satellite internet manufacturing/business unit (ITAR/federal export and cleared/eligible candidates – TS/CI, Confidential).
• Sourcing, candidate management/engagement, heavy interactions with hiring managers, facilitating the entire interview process
• 12-15 reqs, 2-4+ hires/month for the Enterprise Software/Infrastructure team SAP specialty, ad hoc roles ie Sr. Process Engineer, Director of Mfg. Quality, Mfg. Software TPM
• 10-20 prospecting/phone screens per week; talent rediscovery, LinkedIn Recruiter, Hireez, Github, internal sourcing campaigns, cold outreach. OFCCP/ITAR federal export compliant environment; heavy proprietary HR tech AI adoption

Senior Recruiter

Zscaler

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)

SaaS Security software industry pioneer/leader in Zero Trust Architecture – “floating” full lifecycle recruiter across multiple orgs. OFCCP compliant, FEDRAMP roles.
• Manage 30-40 concurrent requisitions across all of tech: sourcing ->offer, 4-6 offers/month average
• Greenfield GenAI platform; hired Engg Mgr, Staff SDE, Sr. SDE (x2), Sr. Data Scientist, Data Scientist
• First TA member to engage with Legal/HR on Security FEDRAMP and Canadian Pay Transparency

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Principal Recruiter

MJL Projects, TalentReach

Jan 2022 - Current (4 years 9 months)

• 2026: Talent Advisor to seed stage AI startup; leveraged AI to develop comp equity tool, job description library, competency/values-based interview rubric and interview training resources to scale quickly and within compliance; advised on compensation benchmarking.
• 2026: Less than one week source->hire->start contract Absorb LMS Administrator
• 2025: Source/close roles for AI cloud SaaS clients, Fintech, Series A-C high growth roles
• 2024: end of year 1099 contract with Shopify sourcing GTM roles (pre-sales engineers/Solutions Eng/Architects) in Canada, USA, Germany, UK, and Ireland. Ashby, LinkedIn, 10-20 phone screens/week; 5-7 candidates in interviews/week
• 2022: 3 month PT 1099 RPO contract handling all s

Senior Recruiter

Ibotta

Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Adtech - Ibotta is a performance marketing platform allowing CPG brands to deliver digital promotions to over 200 million consumers. (Series B, pre-IPO)
• 8 hires in 5 months for analytics COE roles
• 70% diversity hires
• Intern recruiting for analytics roles with 100% diverse hires within first 12 weeks of employment
• Work with the TA Ops PM to restructure interview SOP/training after Workday implementation

Senior Recruiter

Twitter

Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (1 year)

Providing support to the Infrastructure team hiring software engineers, SRE, Devops, PM roles in the US, EU and Canada.
• 75% diversity hires in 2 quarters after onboarding; sourcing, evaluation, offer management
• Support 7 hiring managers including 1 newly promoted HM; mentored her on the recruiting process and ATS

Founding Recruiter

Swiftly

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year 1 month)

SaaS series B platform that unifies retail data, enables real-time shopper segmentation, powers omnichannel campaigns, and connects marketing activity to measurable outcomes. Full lifecycle including heavy sourcing.
• Increased the size of the company by 69% in the first 6 months to 65
• Researched, priced, recommended and implemented a new Applicant Tracking System (Lever, as admin); manage RC
• Author and implement structured interviewing processes for Sr. Leadership Team and managers
• Worked with VP’s to implement career ladders/standardized comp for pay transparency law compliance including compensation benchmarking (Culpepper)
• Collaborated with Marketing to develop and release a branded presence on

Senior Technical Recruiter

Redfin

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 (1 year 1 month)

SaaS Redfin is the destination website for real estate transactions in North America.
• Full lifecycle recruiter managing 12-20 concurrent requisitions via Workday supporting the Analytics organization (Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, ML Engineers). Sourcing, screening, offer
• 10 hires completed, 2 pending at completion of 5-month contract

Senior Talent Advisor

TalentReach

Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)

Boutique staffing agency providing contract, direct hire and unique RPO services for local Seattle startups and SMB’s, govcon/fedramp
• Sourcing/submittal: 2-4 offers/month, 5-8 submittals/week on direct hire RPO roles and contractor requisitions

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Senior Technical Recruiter

QVCGroup

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)

Zulily (formerly part of Qurate Group) was an international SaaS e-commerce company specializing in flash sales and exclusive vendors.
• Hired brand new Data Science team of 5 (Mgr., Sr., mid/entry) in 6 mos. at 60% diverse candidates
• 25%-30% internal or employee referral hires
• In 2019 project-managed 100+ -person hosted GirlGeek Dinner resulting in 2 tech hires within 6 weeks
• Comp benchmarking project with our comp analyst/total rewards team for 2018

Contract Senior Recruiter

Astound

Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Sole recruiter for the (~1400 person), fastest-growing fiber optic telecom company in WA/OR/CA (Sold in 2017).
• Carry 200+ requisitions across the business including professional/tech, sales, customer service, and trade roles
• Oversee the transition from a 100% manual process (xls) to an implementation of Taleo Business and OFCCP compliance best practices; created first ever position number system with Finance and worked on comp benchmarking with HR/Finance
• Created the SOP and training materials for managers and IV teams to log interview feedback in ATS
• Vendor management including reduction of agency spend by increasing employee and manager referrals by 45%

Contract Senior Technical Recruiter

Comcast

Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1 year)

Full cycle technical recruiter for Video on Demand/OTT business. Java/Linux stack and Python.
• Took over 2016 summer intern hiring and filled all positions within 2 weeks; industry - 2-4 hires/month
• Planned and executed several invitation-only open houses for tech referrals resulting in 3 hires in 2 weeks.

Senior Technical Recruiter

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016 (1 year 1 month)

Full lifecycle recruiter for the flagship SaaS Cloud business. 89-92% candidate close rate including 54% employee referrals
• 100% OFCCP compliance for three quarters, FEDRAMP compliant
• Lowest agency spend in my organization at $0 for Q2-4
• Significant number of diversity hires including women in technical roles (SWE, SQA, PM, UX)

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