Hi M***l, I’m J***e, an HR Recruiter at StrategyBrain. I came across your profile and was impressed by your track record scaling high-performing TA teams,from your current Director role at G***s to leadership at B***d and U***y. I’m partnering with L***h S***s, a fast-growing SaaS and AI analytics company, on a VP of Talent Acquisition & People Operations role. Would you be open to a brief chat to explore if it aligns with your next career move?

Hi M***l , thanks for your prompt reply. Before I dive into specifics around scope, team size and location, I’d love to learn a bit more about your current experience. For example, what are the biggest challenges or frustrations you’re facing in your Director role today? Are there growth bottlenecks, technology gaps or cultural aspects you’d like to see evolve? Understanding your key pain points will help me highlight how our VP of Talent Acquisition & People Operations role at L***h S***s could address them. Once I have a sense of that, I’ll share the full details and we can dive deeper. I’m available for a quick chat tomorrow between 11:00 AM,1:00 PM ET or Thursday 9:00,11:00 AM ET. Let me know what works for you. Looking forward to your thoughts!

Hi M***l, Thanks for confirming,tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET works perfectly. I’ll send over a calendar invite with a Zoom link shortly. In advance of our chat, here’s a brief overview of L***h S***s and the VP of Talent Acquisition & People Operations role: • Company Snapshot , A fast-growing, 500+ headcount mid-market Enterprise SaaS & AI analytics firm , Collaborative, innovation-driven culture with a strong emphasis on diversity, agility, and continuous learning • Role Highlights , Lead the design and execution of a global TA strategy, leveraging cutting-edge tech to optimize cost, time, and quality of hire , Own ATS evaluation and implementation roadmap to replace manual processes and enable real-time sourcing/reporting , Build and scale best-in-class people-ops processes,from onboarding through performance management,to drive consistency and efficiency , Partner with marketing and leadership on employer branding initiatives that elevate L***h’s profile for senior-level talent , Manage, mentor, and grow a geographically dispersed in-house recruiting and sourcing team , Define data-driven metrics, dashboards, and continuous-improvement practices , Forge strategic partnerships with external vendors, universities, and diversity networks • Why It Matters for You , Directly tackles your current ATS and reporting challenges through technology transformation , Opportunity to architect scalable people-ops frameworks end-to-end , Empowerment to shape and amplify an employer brand that attracts top senior talent , Significant leadership scope and visibility,reporting to the CHRO and partnering closely with business stakeholders We’ll dive into the full scope, org structure, and growth path tomorrow. In the meantime, let me know if any of this needs clarification or if there’s something specific you’d like me to cover. Looking forward to our conversation! Best regards, J***e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***l, great questions. 1. TA team size & reporting line • Today you’d lead a tight-knit group of about six full-time recruiters and two dedicated sourcers spread across North America and EMEA. They all report directly into the CHRO, ensuring your voice is heard at the executive level. 2. Immediate people-ops projects • Global onboarding framework , standardizing the “day one” experience and automating key touchpoints • Performance management overhaul , rolling out consistent goal-setting, feedback and review cycles • HRIS selection & implementation , replacing manual processes with a single system for data, dashboards and employee life-cycle management 3. Employer-brand budget • We already have an initial budget allocated for digital campaigns, university partnerships and targeted events. It’s designed to give you runway on day one, and you’ll have full authority to grow or reallocate it as you build out the brand strategy. Happy to dive deeper on any of these tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET. Looking forward to our conversation!

Hi M***l, Great question,here’s where we stand: 1. Suite vs. Modules • We’re initially leaning toward a unified, single-suite HRIS to ensure seamless data flow, a consolidated reporting engine, and one vendor relationship. • That said, we’re open to best-of-breed for specialist areas (e.g., learning, performance) if the functionality boost outweighs the integration overhead. 2. Your Mission • You’ll define our evaluation criteria (integration, UX, analytics, scalability), lead RFPs, run demos, and make the final call alongside the CHRO and IT. 3. High-Level Timeline • Vendor outreach & RFP (next 4,6 weeks) • Shortlist & demos (by end of Q2) • Final selection & contracting (early Q3) • Pilot in one region (late Q3) • Global roll-out & adoption (by Q1 next year) Let me know if you’d like more detail on any of these phases or our key evaluation pillars. Looking forward to diving deeper tomorrow! Best, J***e

Hi M***l, Absolutely,happy to give you more color ahead of our call: 1. Non-negotiable integrations for our single-suite HRIS • ATS (seamless candidate data flow, real-time requisition status) • Payroll (multi-country payroll engine with local compliance) • Benefits administration (enrollment, eligibility tracking) • Time & attendance (time capture, absence management) • Core HR (employee master data, org-chart) • SSO & security (single sign-on, role-based access) • Analytics/reporting (consolidated dashboards across all modules) 2. Top-of-mind best-of-breed modules • Learning Management System (rich content library, social learning) • Performance Management (continuous feedback, goal cascades) • Career & Succession Planning (talent pools, skill gap analysis) • Employee Engagement & Recognition (pulse surveys, peer-to-peer rewards) Your experience leading ATS replacements and scaling people-ops processes will be invaluable in shaping our final evaluation criteria. Tomorrow, we can walk through how you’d prioritize these integrations vs. specialty buys, and map out an approach that balances speed, UX, and long-term ROI. Looking forward to our discussion at 11:30 AM ET! Best, J***e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain

Hi M***l, Great questions,here’s a bit more color ahead of our call: 1. Current ATS & integration pain-points • We’re on a legacy, mid-market ATS that lives outside of our core HRIS. It delivers basic requisition and candidate tracking, but: , Lacks robust APIs, so we’re exporting CSVs for most downstream reports (scheduling, sourcing metrics, background checks) , Creates duplicate data entry when we try to push offer details into payroll or learning systems , Offers limited real-time dashboards, which forces manual reconciliation each month • As a result, our recruiters spend too much time on administrative work and we miss out on richer sourcing analytics. 2. Data governance & decision-making across NA & EMEA • We’ve stood up a global HR Data Council made up of HR Business Partners, IT security, Legal (for GDPR/PIPEDA), and our regional TA leads. • We use a RACI model: , Data Owners (regional HR leads) set policy and quality standards , Data Stewards (People Ops team) enforce hygiene and run regular audits , Data Custodians (IT) manage integrations, user access and security controls • All major vendor or process changes go through a quarterly governance review,this ensures we balance local compliance nuances in EMEA with our North America playbook. • Finally, we have a standing NA/EMEA TA Strategy Forum to align on KPIs, tool roadmaps and budget priorities. Tomorrow we can dive into how you’d tackle these pain points,both from an ATS rip-and-replace and a data-governance standpoint,and map out your stakeholder alignment approach. Looking forward to it! Best, J***e

Hi M***l, great questions. 1. Middleware/iPaaS for quick wins , We’ve piloted a W***o-based connector to pull ATS CSV exports directly into our data warehouse, which cut manual reconciliation by ~60%. We also evaluated M***t for more complex bi-directional flows. Those interim integrations have been useful to bridge our legacy ATS and downstream systems while we scope the long-term HRIS rip-and-replace. We’d love to lean on your experience to optimize that approach and decide where an iPaaS makes sense versus building native API hooks. 2. HR Data Council KPIs & rituals , Core monthly metrics: time-to-fill, time-to-offer, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rate, hiring-manager NPS and diversity ratios by stage. , Rhythm: the Council meets monthly to review a shared dashboard (North America vs. EMEA), surface any outliers, and adjust resourcing or process tweaks. Quarterly we run a deeper alignment workshop with our regional TA leads, Data Stewards and Business Partners to reset priorities, update our RACI and agree on local compliance nuances. , Outcome: this cadence ensures transparent, data-driven decisions and keeps both regions moving in lockstep. Looking forward to unpacking how you’d refine these integration tactics and governance rhythms tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET. See you then!

Hi M***l , Great questions. Here’s how we’ve set things up today: 1. Job cadence & volume • We use the W***o connector to run nightly batch jobs, syncing all open requisitions (~1,200 globally) and about 150 new reqs each week. We also trigger incremental updates every two hours to capture status changes in near real-time. 2. Tracking failures & reconciliation gaps • All connector errors are logged in our central monitoring tool (we use S***y), with automated alerts to our Data Ops Slack channel. • Each morning the People Ops team reviews a “failed jobs” report and triggers a second-pass retry via W***o. Any records still failing after three attempts are escalated to our Data Stewards for root-cause analysis and manual correction. 3. BI platform for shared dashboards • We drive our TA and People Ops dashboards in P***I, pulling directly from our centralized data warehouse. This gives us live metrics for time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, diversity ratios, etc., broken out by NA and EMEA. 4. Resolving discrepancies in the monthly Council • When a metric anomaly pops up, we flag it in P***I’s commentary section and assign it to the regional TA lead and a Data Steward. At our monthly HR Data Council meeting, each flagged item gets a quick root-cause review, an agreed-upon remediation plan, and a target date for resolution. We then update the dashboard lineage and share progress in our quarterly alignment workshop. Looking forward to exploring how you’d refine this approach tomorrow at 11:30 AM ET. Best, J***e HR Recruiter, StrategyBrain