WEBINAR

Thinking Outside the Perks: Recruiting and Retention to Improve Employee Tenure

SendGrid's Chief People Officer, Reflektive's VP of Engineering, and Hired's Senior Director of People Operations talk recruiting and retention best practices.

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About This Webinar

For the first time in 20 years there are more job openings than there are people looking for work. As competition continues to heat up, executives are realizing that finding and retaining top talent is even more important than securing additional capital. 

You read that correctly, people are even more valuable than money.

Join SendGrid's Chief People Officer, Pattie Money, Reflektive's Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Erick Tai and Hired's Senior Director of People Ops, Karsten Vagner to discuss how to attract and retain top talent. 




WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • What candidates and employees look for in a career vs. a job
  • Near term tactics to find and retain top talent
  • Long term recruiting and management foundations that will improve tenure

Meet the Speakers

Erick Tai

Co-founder & VP of Engineering
Reflektive

Erick Tai is Co-founder and VP of Engineering at Reflektive, overseeing the real-time performance management platform's development, innovation, expansion and feature delivery. With deep expertise in software engineering, front-end development, and product lifecycle management, Tai is a hands-on leader who excels at inspiring his team in both strategy and execution. 

Before Reflektive, Tai spent 10 years as an engineering manager, first at NexTag (acquired by Providence Equity) and later at StackMob (acquired by PayPal). As StackMob's #2 employee, Tai built and led the engineering team responsible for creating the industry's first mobile backend-as-a-service solution and oversaw the company's lean front-end engineering team, helping grow the company to acquisition in less than 4 years.

Tai earned a degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering at UCLA and a Masters in e-Business Technology as a member of the founding class of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus.

Senior Director of People Operations
Hired

Karsten Vagner

Karsten Vagner is the Senior Director of People Operations at Hired, where he leads both the Recruiting team and the HR Business Partner team. With 10 years of experience in tech startups, Karsten has focused on helping grow small companies into billion dollar businesses by attracting, retaining, and developing top talent all over the world. 


Pattie Money comes to SendGrid with over 20 years of HR leadership experience, spending the last 15 years in the technology sector. As the Chief People Officer at SendGrid, she oversees SendGrid's greatest assets, our human resources, and is responsible for building and implementing the People Operations strategies and programs that support our ambitious growth and evolving organization while preserving and enhancing our core culture. Prior to joining SendGrid, Pattie served as Chief People Officer at TubeMogul, a publicly traded global ad tech company in the Bay Area and Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology company. 

Pattie holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from University of Memphis and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development Degree from Villanova University.

Chief People Officer
SendGrid

Pattie Money

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