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Recruited and scaled the team as LendingClub ranked #5 among the fastest-growing San Francisco tech companies — behind only Salesforce, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yelp.

Advised technology startups on deploying Latin American recruiting resources as a cost-effective alternative to internal headcount — with ongoing oversight to maximize ROI and identify opportunities to scale.

Hired pre-product-launch to build the talent function from zero for a Series A startup — scaled the company through hypergrowth and stepped in as Interim Chief People Officer twice during leadership transitions.

As a member of senior leadership, prepared the people documentation for the FDIC and OCC — covering hiring processes, documentation standards, and comp philosophy — contributing to Varo becoming the first fintech to obtain a national bank charter.

Brought customer support in-house from an outsourced model, scaling the Salt Lake City operations center from under 10 to 300+ FTE — landing in the top 1% of U.S. banks by Net Promoter Score.

Built a custom recruiting analytics system to work around ATS limitations — presented weekly to the CTO and SVPs, tracking hires to plan, pass-through rates, source of hire, time-in-stage, offer-acceptance, competing-offer detail, and engineer-to-QA-to-PM ratios.

Removed credit checks from the hiring process to reduce bias — a pioneering move for a fintech operating under active regulatory scrutiny, expanding access to candidates who would otherwise have been screened out unfairly.

A recruiting enablement tool that centralized institutional knowledge and market intelligence — improving search efficiency, shortening new-hire ramp time, and eliminating redundant work across the team. ROGER stood for Recruiting's Omnipotent Guide to Everything Recruiting, given a human name because it was meant to be a living document and part of the team.

Won "Most Innovative" (1st place) at Varo's annual hackathon. Conceived a first-to-market habit-based savings product, then served as Product Manager — defining requirements, creating mockups, and assembling an engineering team to build working iOS and Android prototypes.

Pioneered the use of video job descriptions at LendingClub, making it one of the first companies to adopt this format for attracting engineering talent in a competitive market.

Ran 20+ employer-branding events — hackathons, conference exhibitions, tech talks, and "Bring a Friend" referral nights — turning community into pipeline and making LendingClub visible before it had the brand to demand attention.

Won "Most Innovative" (1st place) at Varo's annual hackathon. Not a recruiter thing — just an idea that wouldn't let go. Served as PM, built a team, and shipped working iOS and Android prototypes in 24 hours.

Commissioned Varo employees to compose and record original music for customer service hold lines — then released the tracks as a company SoundCloud playlist. A small project that became a beloved piece of company culture.

Partnered with Creative Director to produce Varo's branded employee SWAG items as part of building the employer brand — pieces employees actually wanted to wear.

Pioneered video job descriptions before they were a thing — making LendingClub one of the first companies to use them to attract engineering talent. Equal parts experiment and employer-brand play.

Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers to find the tactics, tools, and routines you can steal. Athletes, investors, authors, military commanders.

Neal Brennan interviews people using a unique format — blocks of comedy, therapy, and debate. Weird, honest, and surprisingly moving.

Lenny Rachitsky interviews the best product managers, founders, and operators in tech. Dense with tactical advice on building products and growing companies.

David Senra reads every biography he can find and distills the key lessons from history's greatest entrepreneurs — obsessively researched, surprisingly emotional.

Chris Williamson explores ideas across philosophy, psychology, fitness, and human performance with some of the world's smartest thinkers.

Most versatile piece of clothing I own. Can be worn dressed up, dressed down, casually, to work. Merino wool is a natural dry-fit type material. I wear these as a layer for snowboarding as well as playing pickleball in the cold because it doesn't absorb moisture.

Beautiful story. Much more than a children's book. It's almost a handbook for life. Author says the book is written for "anyone as young as eight to eighty-eight"

Most versatile piece of clothing I own. Can be worn dressed up, dressed down, casually, to work. Merino wool is a natural dry-fit type material. I wear these as a layer for snowboarding as well as playing pickleball in the cold because it doesn't absorb moisture.

Beautiful story. Much more than a children's book. It's almost a handbook for life. Author says the book is written for "anyone as young as eight to eighty-eight"

Most versatile piece of clothing I own. Can be worn dressed up, dressed down, casually, to work. Merino wool is a natural dry-fit type material. I wear these as a layer for snowboarding as well as playing pickleball in the cold because it doesn't absorb moisture.