Kasi Riley

Experience

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  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.
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  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.
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  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.
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  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.