Bridget L. Jones
Los Angeles
Summary
Mission-driven talent acquisition executive with 15+ years of experience building and scaling high-performing, inclusive recruiting teams across fast-paced startups, mid-size firms, and global enterprises. Proven success leading full-cycle hiring across technical, product, executive, and corporate functions-aligning TA strategies with business goals to fuel growth. Known for optimizing recruitment operations, enhancing candidate experience, and cultivating values-aligned teams that support long-term organizational success. Recently completed graduate studies in HR, broadening capabilities across people operations.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Contract Recruiter
ThymeCare
10.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Healthcare tech startup
- High-volume recruitment for clinical and non-clinical non-exempt positions, as well as exempt People Ops roles
Recruiter III - Recruiting Manager
Amazon
07.2021 - 12.2022
- Led diversity sourcing efforts for Amazon ads business-critical roles (i.e. tech product & program mgrs, systems engineers, data engineers, and business intelligence engineers)
- Partnered with Amazon Ads Global Diversity & Inclusion leadership to launch strategic sourcing initiatives
- Coordinated and hosted Amazon Ads DEIB recruitment events
- Project managed, sourced & led full life-cycle global recruitment efforts for systems engineering roles across the Intelligent Cloud Control (ICC) org within Amazon's eCommerce Foundation team (eCF)
- Tracked and reported recruitment metrics for monthly business review meetings
Head of Recruiting
Peerstreet
01.2017 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Real Estate Start-up
- Scaled team from Series A through Series C, tripling company headcount within 12 months; hired across all departments, including C-suite (CFO, GC, Director of People Ops, Engineering, Product)
- Designed and implemented company-wide TA infrastructure: sourcing strategies, interview frameworks, ATS optimization, candidate experience, and onboarding.
- Built and led a recruiting team while coaching hiring managers on compensation, equity, and hiring best practices
- Drove international sourcing efforts (LATAM) for engineering talent.
- Supported HR functions, including employee relations, severance, workforce planning, and leave management, contribute to the People Ops strategy.
- Promoted from Lead Recruiter to Head of Recruiting within 18 months
Contract Talent Acquisition Projects
Various Tech Firms
Los Angeles
02.2012 - 10.2016
- AWS (Jan 2016 to October 2016, 10 months): recruited SDE II & SDE III's for network infrastructure team
- Pandora (March 2014 to Sept 2015, 18 months): recruited enterprise systems engineers & QA engineers
- Edgecast now Verizon (Aug 2013 to Dec 2013, 5 months): recruited Information security engineers
- Yahoo! Entertainment (August 2012 to July 2013, 12 months): recruited front-end engineers
- AEG (Feb 2012 to August 2012, 7 months): recruited marketing mgrs, product development, and SWE's
Sr. Recruiter
Disney ABC Television Group
04.2007 - 11.2011
- Led full life-cycle recruitment (source, recruit, interview, extend & negotiate offers) for digital media business segment (i.e. engineering, product management, content, and design roles). Successfully closed 90% of offers extended
- Collaborated with hiring managers on hiring trends, recruitment strategies, and workforce planning
- Coached and counseled hiring managers on the overall recruitment process
- Developed and hosted a monthly Digital Media Lunch & Learn series
Technical Recruiter, University Programs
Google
09.2004 - 03.2007
- Recruited undergraduate and graduate computer science students for project-based software engineering roles, achieving a 96% offer acceptance rate
- Partnered with university programs to enhance brand recognition and student engagement by organizing on-campus tech talks and events, with a focus on supporting women in computer science and increasing ethnic diversity in engineering talent pipelines
- Contributed to strategic hiring goals by tracking and reporting recruitment metrics, delivering actionable insights on the effectiveness of campus events and overall recruiting efforts
Education
Master of Science - Human Resources
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA08.2024
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Marketing & Human Resources
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK08.2006
Skills
- Recruitment & Talent Acquisition
- Lead Generation
- Cold Calling
- Engaging Passive Candidates
- Employer Branding
- Building Talent Communities
- Enhancing Candidate Experience
- Top-of-Funnel Talent Pipelines
- Team Collaboration
- Training
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Coaching
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Training Recruiters
- Training Hiring Managers
- Best Practices
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Greenhouse
- Jobvite
- Taleo
- Vurv
- ICIMS
- Amazon HIRE
- Sourcing Tools
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Beamery
- HR/Payroll Platforms
- BambooHR
- Rippling
- ADP
- Productivity Tools
- MS Office
- Google Drive
- Slack
- Zoom
- HR Generalist
- Employee relations investigations
- ERG Support
- Coaching for Employees
- Coaching for Managers
- Event Coordination
- Planning Recruitment Initiatives
- Executing Recruitment Initiatives
- Career Fairs
- Campus Hiring Events
- Internal Referral Drives
- Talent management
- Candidate tracking
- Resume scanning
- Candidate pre-screening
- Compensation packages
- International recruiting
- Full-cycle recruitment
- Candidate pipeline development
- Relationship building
- Effective communication
- Team collaboration
- Employment branding
- Talent acquisition strategies
- Diversity recruitment
- Interviewing techniques
- Candidate sourcing
Personal Information
Citizenship: US Citizen
Timeline
Sr. Contract Recruiter
ThymeCare
10.2024 - Current
Recruiter III - Recruiting Manager
Amazon
07.2021 - 12.2022
Head of Recruiting
Peerstreet
01.2017 - 07.2021
Contract Talent Acquisition Projects
Various Tech Firms
02.2012 - 10.2016
Sr. Recruiter
Disney ABC Television Group
04.2007 - 11.2011
Technical Recruiter, University Programs
Google
09.2004 - 03.2007
Master of Science - Human Resources
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration, Marketing & Human Resources
Oklahoma State University
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