Anna Lee Hedderman
Omaha
Summary
Senior Talent Acquisition Partner with experience in leading sales and GTM recruiting and developing hiring strategies across diverse markets. Expertise in candidate experience, process improvement, diversity hiring, and building strong relationships with hiring managers. Committed to fostering a cohesive team environment and streamlining recruitment processes to drive efficiency and improve hiring outcomes. Seeking a new opportunity where I can bring meaningful value, support business growth, and continue advancing my expertise as a Talent Acquisition Partner.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
SENIOR TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
WP Engine
Austin
07.2021 - Current
- Lead sales recruiting hiring talent for SMB, MM, and ENT roles based in the United States and Australia along with additional GTM roles
- Managed high-volume sales recruiting across XDR, closers, and leadership roles, achieving the highest requisition load on the team with year-over-year hires: 2021-27, 2022-75, 2023-48, 2024-57.
- Collaborating with hiring managers to create unbiased, effective, and a more streamlined interview process for candidates and hiring panels
- Heavily sourcing for passive candidates with unique outreaches via LinkedIn and other tools
- Developing hiring playbooks for managers that include all resources from job kick off, recruiter and manager questions, to candidate communication
- Pivoted sales hiring strategy from 100% remote during COVID to sourcing candidates from hub locations and implementing a hybrid schedule in Austin, TX and Omaha, NE.
- Enhanced candidate experience to drive referrals, resulting in 47% of 2023 hires sourced through referrals.
- Analyzing market data to align talent acquisition strategies with industry trends along with capturing compensation data to provide to our Total Rewards team
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Milan Laser
Omaha
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Focused on high volume recruiting filling roles in sales, medical, and various corporate positions from entry level to leadership positions
- Built out recruiting operations with projects including internal candidate processes and more
- Managed Indeed vendor, postings, and budget for the entire team
- Implemented strategic sourcing techniques, achieving noticeable improvements in candidate quality and hiring efficiency
- Analyzed recruitment metrics to identify bottlenecks, enabling targeted process enhancements and reduced time-to-fill
RECRUITER
Spreetail
Omaha
09.2020 - 12.2020
- Supported the Supply Chain department hiring a variety of roles ranging from Fulfillment Warehouse positions, Inventory Analysts, Senior Supply Planners and more
- Partnered with hiring managers on a weekly cadence to drive alignment with sharing dashboards and sourcing focuses
- Focused on deep dive sourcing and led recruitment campaigns to attract top talent including targeting East and West Coast talent to Nebraska
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Toast
Omaha
05.2018 - 04.2020
- Collaborated with hiring manager in order to create strong partnerships and recruiting strategies
- Recruited across multiple departments from high volume sales and customer support to technical roles like software configuration and implementation engineers
- Brought on around 100 new Toasters for the Omaha and Boston office as well as remote employees
- Responsible for full lifecycle recruiting: sourcing, screening, interviews, debriefs, offers and closing candidates
- Sourced and built quality candidate pipelines using LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse and more
- Found best candidates and long term employees from sourcing efforts via LinkedIn by improving Boolean search strings as well as creative and captivating LinkedIn messages
- Hit quarterly KPIs that include hiring goals, process improving projects, and personal development
- Grew Omaha and campus recruiting through community networking events, career fairs, and involvement in classrooms
- Worked towards developing the Toast brand and culture of the Omaha location by focusing hiring and daily actions that would reflect the company's core values
- Developed current Toasters with internal mobility by leading workshops covering resume, interview, and LinkedIn trainings
Education
MASTERS OF ARTS - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
BACHELORS OF FINE ARTS -
Holy Cross College
Skills
- Employer Branding
- Process Improvement
- Diversity Hiring
- Stakeholder Management
- Candidate Experience
- Process Optimization
- High-volume recruiting
- Candidate experience
Websites
Timeline
SENIOR TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
WP Engine
07.2021 - Current
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Milan Laser
01.2021 - 07.2021
RECRUITER
Spreetail
09.2020 - 12.2020
TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
Toast
05.2018 - 04.2020
MASTERS OF ARTS - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
BACHELORS OF FINE ARTS -
Holy Cross College