Keynisha Adebisi

Experienced Tech Recruiter with over a decade of experience in full-cycle recruitment execution, talent acquisition strategy, candidate sourcing, and stakeholder management. Proactive, persistent sourcer who utilizes well-known and uncommon channels to build candidate pipelines. Inquisitive candidate screener, assessing technical skills, cultural alignment, and core competencies.

Strategic consultative partner to hiring teams, acting as a talent advisor who influences decisions using expertise and data. Experienced scaling teams for highly technical competitive niche fields in VC-backed, late-stage startups, and enterprise environments. Self-directed operator who builds modular, flexible hiring systems and executes in the absence of structure with urgency.

Implements and operates recruitment stack including AI-driven automation to save time and eliminate hiring team decision fatigue.

Owns recruiting end to end: proactive sourcing, candidate evaluation, closing and offer negotiation.

Talent Acquisition Lead, Technical Recruiter, Technical Sourcer at FORWARD FLUENT (2023-08 – Present)

Team Focus: Web3, Pre-Seed and Seed-Stage Startups, Engineering and Research

• Ran global, remote-first hiring for Wormhole Foundation for smart contract, backend, developer experience, data science, and ecosystem marketing roles, sourcing and closing across time zones.
• Partnered with engineering, product, and marketing leadership to define requirements, calibrate candidate profiles, define interview processes, and evaluation criteria.
• Developed talent maps across venture-backed startups and adjacent technical ecosystems to identify qualified passive candidates, and guide them through.
• Built 0-1 candidate pipelines for Cro Metrics, utilizing an AI-assisted sourcing campaign that reached an 81% open rate and 25% response rate, improving pass-through rates and hiring decisions.
• Managed recruiting workflows in Greenhouse & Ashby, maintaining hiring activity and data hygiene across multiple concurrent searches.
• Managed concurrent technical and GTM searches across globally distributed teams, and built global pipelines for niche roles.

Technical Recruiter, Product Design and Engineering at MICROSOFT (2021-08 – 2023-07)

Team Focus: Cloud and Artificial Intelligence, Azure Networking, Azure Portal, Azure Edge

• Delivered 70+ annualized hires across six engineering organizations at a 97% close rate and 44-day time-to-fill while exceeding diversity targets.
• Sourced passive candidates through industry networks, social media, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry databases, and Boolean X-ray search, bolstering a strong inbound pipeline with targeted candidates in burgeoning markets.
• Cut time-to-fill 23% while opening the Vancouver market, building local engineering pipelines from scratch through proactive sourcing and strengthening employer brand in a new region.
• Reduced diverse-hire time-to-fill 14% through a hiring overhaul and inclusive-evaluation training, earning recognition for the most diverse interview pipelines on the engineering talent acquisition team.
• Built competency-based interview processes that reduced bias, improved assessment data, and helped hiring managers make cleaner decisions.

Senior Technical Recruiter at MONGODB (2020-07 – 2021-05)

Team Focus: Database Kernel, Query Optimization, Database Drivers, Server Tooling, Technical Services

• Owned full-cycle hiring for niche senior engineering roles across database kernel, distributed systems, and query-optimization teams.
• Sourced deeply technical, passive candidates using Boolean and Google X-Ray search, GitHub, academic papers, and patent databases to create a robust inbound candidate pipeline.
• Partnered with engineering leaders on operational execution and delivery, including interview process design, job description creation, skills calibration, and sourcing strategy.
• Guided candidates from first contact through offer, immigration, and onboarding, protecting the candidate experience through complex closes.

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition (Contract) at EKO INTERACTIVE (2020-01 – 2020-06)

Team Focus: Real-Time Interactive Video, Software Engineering, Product, Data and Business Intelligence

• Stood up the recruitment function from scratch for a scaling video-technology startup, partnering with executive leadership on TA strategy, executing sourcing strategy, building interview process, and defining data reporting.
• Migrated the applicant tracking system from Asana to Greenhouse, building dashboards, creating templates, and defining operational processes, improving overall ability to track pipeline and hiring performance.
• Managed an offshore recruitment process outsourcing team, setting sourcing strategy, calibrating requirements, and opening new talent channels against aggressive targets.
• Designed a behavioral interview process and ran debrief calibration sessions to create a scalable, modular process, aligning hiring teams on bar and hiring signal standardization.
• Built employer branding and built pipeline for niche roles for the burgeoning creator production space, plus engineering, and marketing leadership roles.

Senior Technical Recruiter at XANDR (formerly AppNexus) (2018-04 – 2019-10)

Team Focus: Programmatic Advertising, Streaming and Batch Data, Data Science, DevOps, Infrastructure

• Full-cycle recruitment, workforce planning, and job architecture across eight distributed engineering organizations, designing new roles as the business evolved.
• Sourced senior software engineers for low-latency systems and real-time data platforms in a competitive programmatic advertising market with a 98% offer acceptance rate and 46-day time to fill.
• Established recruitment infrastructure, job descriptions, and interview guidelines for newly created technical groups after large-scale reorganization, upskilling new hiring managers on best practices.
• Chaired marketing and communications for the BlackNexus employee resource group, running quarterly Tech in Color events and internal campaigns.

Technical Recruiter at AMERICAN EXPRESS (2015-12 – 2018-03)

Team Focus: Risk Information Management | Distributed Platforms, Real-Time Payments and Settlements, Platform Modernization

• Full-cycle delivery of 60+ annual requisitions across the North American market at a 97% offer acceptance rate and 42-day time-to-fill.
• Sourced & developed prospects into candidates, conducting thorough technical screening, maintaining compliance documentation standards
• Used Oracle Business Intelligence to analyze funnel conversion, key metrics, and reporting, and to maintain data integrity for compliance.
• Provided high-touch consultative delivery to multiple business units: Risk Information Management, Finance, and Technology intake to onboarding of up to 25 simultaneous roles

Bachelor of Science in Financial Services Management – Johnson and Wales University

Certificate in Principles of Human Resources Success – Cornell University