Kasi Riley
Former Head of Recruiting for Block’s Emerging Businesses, spearheading talent strategies that 2X employee headcount, and Stitch Fix’s first Recruiting Program Manager, driving the company’s workforce expansion from 2K to 10K employees.
Dynamic Talent Acquisition Leader with 15 years of proven success in scaling transformative talent strategies across Tech, FinTech, and Retail. Specializing in building high-impact, scalable talent functions for startups, with a strategic focus on driving sustainable, long-term growth while fostering innovation and organizational excellence.
As an expert in recruiting, leadership development, and high-impact talent strategies, I’ve consistently fueled organizational growth by leveraging data-driv…
Testimonials
Kasi stands out as the strongest leader I've collaborated with in my 15 years of talent acquisition. Her exceptional skill lies in articulating a clear vision, devising strategic plans, and executing them with unwavering determination, all while ensuring teams remain informed and engaged.
Lea Phelan
Recruiting Manager, SquareKasi has a multi-faceted and hefty strategic business acumen as it relates to all things recruiting - particular with regard to leading high growth teams. She is a dynamic talent leader who excels in cross functional partnerships. Specifically, Kasi systematically assessed the needs of the Styling & Warehouse businesses that required extreme growth over a 1-2 year period. She mapped out processes and determined where automation or other tools could speed up hiring without sacrificing quality.
Emily Hoffman
Director of Talent Operations, Stitch Fix
Work
Moxii Talent Solutions
https://moxii.comKasi Riley founded Moxii Talent Solutions to transform business growth by delivering exceptional talent and innovative strategies for sustained success. Leveraging her experience with leading global recruiting teams for Fortune 50 companies, early-stage startups, and tech giants, Moxii Talent Solutions offers tailored solutions to elevate hiring processes from day one. As an extension of the …
Experience
Block
Head of Recruiting
Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
Block, Inc. (block.xyz) is a technology company with a mission to empower individuals, businesses, and communities by providing innovative tools that make financial services accessible and equitable. Through its diverse ecosystem of products—including Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD—Block is dedicated to building a global economy that is inclusive, transparent, and decentralized. The company focuses on creating seamless financial experiences for everyone, regardless of their location or background, by harnessing the power of blockchain, decentralized technologies, and digital payments.
- Partner with executive leadership, offering strategic vision and guidance to innovate, refine, and optimize hiring processes, propelling each organization's 0-to-1 growth.
- Lead M&A recruiting initiatives, acting as a strategic leader within the M&A team in integrating new talent to Block, ensuring a seamless transition for new team members into talent processes at the company.
- Architect transformative recruiting programs for Block Talent's 400+ employees, delivering innovative, data-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and boost the Talent team's productivity.
- Build reporting dashboards and analytics that assess ROI on the team’s recruiting activities through measuring key recruiting success metrics including: talent funnel, sourcing, candidate and hiring manager experience, and quality of hire.
Stitch Fix
Director, Recruiing
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
Stitch Fix is an online personal styling service with a mission to help people discover and express their unique style through a personalized shopping experience. By combining data science with expert human stylists, Stitch Fix curates clothing, shoes, and accessories tailored to each individual’s preferences, fit, and budget.
- Provided partnership on talent and succession planning and led all diversity, equity and inclusion efforts for 6,000+ employee organization.
- Launched Stitch Fix’s employer brand team and strategy - revamped all social channels (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Glassdoor) and formed cross- functional relationships to ensure consistent branding and messaging.
- Led international and new market talent expansions resulting in hitting all hiring targets by each launch date.
- Drove organization-wide talent growth initiatives including leading the implementation of the following recruiting system integrations: Eightfold, Modern Hire, Interview Schedule, and TextUs.
- Designed recruiting infrastructure to support scaling hiring across Stitch Fix pre-IPO.
Wells Fargo
Recruiting Manager
Jun 2014 - Jun 2017
Wells Fargo’s mission is to help customers achieve financial success by providing reliable banking, investment, and financial services.
- Led Northern California Community Bank recruiting team. Managed a team of recruiters (8+) to ensure staffing targets were met consistently, focused on providing an exceptional and engaging candidate experience, and created recruiting programs.
Target
Senior HR Manager
Dec 2010 - Jun 2014
Target’s mission is to help families discover the joy of everyday life by offering high-quality products at affordable prices. Committed to delivering exceptional value, innovation, and a superior shopping experience, Target strives to create a positive impact in communities by prioritizing sustainability, inclusivity, and corporate responsibility.
- Managed all human resource operations for Target stores supporting up to 400 team members and 7 human resources leads and team members. Specialized in opening new City Target stores, and establishing and creating human resource operations.
- Empowered all leaders to drive a culture of talent management within their teams, head all succession planning initiatives, and lead the team through ensuring company talent management tools are being utilized by all leaders.