Jeanette Ercila

Spending time with my toddler. Planned Disneyland and Hawaii adventures. Identified a preschool for 2022. Enrolled in music and dance programs for 2021 Summer fun. Learning a ton, laughing a lot, and documenting it.

My global organization hired experienced talent in engineering, product, research, and design positions.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Millions of customers, from Netflix to NASA, currently leverage AWS cloud products and solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. This has accelerated AWS’ pace in machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things, and serverless computing. I led four teams that recruit talent to engineering, product, and design career opportunities across U.S. & Canada. The businesses my team supported built games, enterprise applications, and new products. We built a central Design recruiting team in 2017 that supports all AWS businesses in N. America. Imagine how you can impact the future of cloud computing or launch a new initiative as an Amazonian. Check out AWS Careers to learn more.

Built the People & Talent technology road map for tools and systems that enabled our team to grow Square. My team aimed to ensure a seamless employee and candidate experience across all systems and tools, ie Workday and ATS. Our team partnered with Talent, Marketing, and external partners to attract diverse talent to Square via Square Careers, social media, and targeted campaigns. Direct report of CHRO/People Lead. Serve as co-Events Chair & Treasurer of LatinX, a Square community of belonging (ERG). Check out @SquareCareers on Twitter, Instagram, Glassdoor and LinkedIn to learn more. #LifeAtSquare #JoinSquare

Using data, innovative tools, and an entrepreneurial spirit of transformation my team designed, built and shared the global talent acquisition programs that power the recruiting strategy and amplified the brand to LinkedIn candidates. At first with Talent Acquisition and also in Learning & Talent Development I drove the learning solutions for "Best on Planet" talent acquisition around the globe and led a team of Program Managers. Examples included TA learning and development - training for recruiters & sourcers - as well as rotational, employee referral and diversity programs. Talent Acquisition course examples include: Business Acumen, Influencing & Advising, Attraction: Master Storytelling, Compliance and Closing plus interactive eLearning content. Launched programs in the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin and scaled/adopted globally.

As the recruitment marketing director I led the strategy and programs to attract talent to Walmart eCommerce: Walmart.com and @WalmartLabs (Social + Mobile + Retail). My team managed the relationships with media agencies, brand firms, the overall media spend and ROI measurement. Accomplished a goal of growing social media audiences for the Walmart Labs & eCommerce brands by over 300% in followership, engagement and positive mentions. Prepared business case for employment brand initiative, funding, RFP, agency selection and kick off. Hired and mentored PM who successfully owned the brand development roadmap. Direct report of VP of HR/TA. Led a team of senior managers and ICs who partnered with business leaders, technology leaders, HR, PR and external organizations to position us and achieve excellence in: - Talent Channels, ie Employee Referrals - Diversity - University Recruiting - Employment Branding

Promoted from Disney Interactive in 2010 to lead enterprise-wide projects and programs across all lines of business and within Corporate. With an awesome team, I led global projects and initiatives including: Applicant Tracking System (Kenexa), DisneyCareers.com, Metrics, University Recruitment, Employment Branding (careers website, marketing collateral, social media, messaging), Programs (diversity, learning, referral program) and Recruitment Operations. Positioned The Walt Disney Company as an employer of choice to university and experienced talent audiences. Led media planning, career site, SEO/SEM, social media and corporate recruitment marketing. Managed agency (TMP) and vendor/partners (LinkedIn, Glassdoor, etc) relationships. Led successful systems, programs and operational initiatives to scale recruitment effectiveness in N. America, EMEA and APAC. Member of corporate talent leadership team. Direct report to VP, Talent Acquisition. Senior Recruiter: 9/2005 to 7/2006 for Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG), ie Disney.com.

Full cycle recruiting in Irvine, San Diego, and San Jose for corporate positions such as marketing, regional operational management, finance, sales and tax. Developed and facilitated behavioral based interviewing workshops. Partnered with L&D to build learning objectives, curriculum, and training plan for recruiters and hiring managers across business unit of 300+. Positioned the Irvine Company as an employer of choice for top talent. Led a team of 2.

Full cycle technology and business recruiting in San Jose, San Francisco, and Sacramento for clients such as Cisco, Sun, Infineon, Microsoft, Brocade, HP, Samsung and others. Placed software engineers, project managers, financial analysts, network engineers and tax professionals at individual contributor through to senior management levels in permanent and contract positions. Recognized as a successful recruiter, promoted, and selected to mentor and train new hires.