Alex Zaiken

• Developed and executed workforce plan for ~9,000-person engineering organization to align talent strategy with business goals
• Developed global footprint strategy for entire ~12,000 person company
• Owned and built people data schemas and pipelines in conjunction with Data Engineering
• Created enterprise-wide Tableau dashboards to provide senior leadership with actionable insights and enhance decision-making
• Led implementation of third party workforce intelligence tooling internally
• Implemented AI chatbots in Databricks to streamline access to people data for leadership, improving data retrieval speed and user experience

Directly supported our Head of Recruiting, CFO, Chief Revenue Office, Chief Counsel, and Head of HR as dedicated people analytics partner, leading workforce planning, attrition/retention/reduction-in-force strategy

• Business owner for hiring targets for the company, partnering closely with the Head of FP&A, resulting in > 3,000 hires since April 2022
• Led program team of 30 on redesigning the performance management system from the ground-up for ~11,000 employees
• Led program team of 5 on designing new onboarding program for all new hires, raising new hire satisfaction by >10%

• Developed and executed company-wide hiring-target program from inception, utilizing SQL, Tableau, Python, and R
• Collaborated with Head of Recruiting and Head of Recruiting Operations to align recruitment strategies

• Supported Chief People Officer and recruiting leadership team in headcount forecasting and retention strategy development
• Led HR compliance reporting; designed and implemented global mobility and immigration strategy and process
• Used Spark, SQL, and Tableau to create enterprise-grade dashboards for use by senior leadership
• Redesigned hiring targets program, reducing hours spent on hiring needs assessment and enabling growth from 10k to 30k annual hires

• Developed enterprise-wide headcount projection Tableau dashboards to visualize workforce trends and inform strategic planning
• Delivered quarterly business reports to senior Recruiting and HR leadership, providing insights for decision-making

• Developed SQL and Pandas model to determine optimal compensation packages for 300+ sales staff, enhancing compensation strategy
• Oversaw reduction-in-force efforts, achieving >30% headcount reduction and >50% cost savings during economic downturn