Christian Lentz

Talent Acquisition Leader - Amazon Worldwide Advertising • Head of Software Development Engineer recruiting for Amazon Advertising, Prime Video, IMDB – North America and Europe • Created highly complex, enterprise-wide recruiting strategies to ensure short and long-term hiring demands are met • Built strategic partnerships with senior business leaders to develop workforce planning initiatives through data driven analysis • Developed and delivered multiple recruiting projects/programs to increase recruiting funnel activity for top tier talent including within the BLNA, DEI space • Increased sourcing effectiveness through deep dive analysis and implementation of new sourcing strategies; highest performing sourcing team across all of Amazon • Experienced with multiple recruiting tools; Beeline, Beamery, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, HireEz • Directly responsible for the development and management of 4 recruiting managers and 23 technical recruiters/sourcers/FLC/Client Leads • Hired and developed over 70 recruiters (204% growth), along with the promotion of 4 recruiters and 1 recruiting manager • Effectively managed req. loads of 300+ across 3 VPs and 13 Directors • 25% increase in recruiting pipeline effectiveness through top of funnel recruiting activity • Improved On-site to Offer ratios by 15% (40% avg) and Offer to Accept ratios by 19% (73% avg) YoY • Successfully met and exceeded net hiring demand by an avg. of 10% YoY • Avg. 97% Manager Satisfaction Score across entire SDE recruiting teams

Top-performing professional with proven track record of success in building cohesive teams, motivating employees, and creating profitable client relationships. Recognized by senior management for continuous growth in highly competitive markets. Excellent leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills. Job Duties include: •Responsible for development and management of a team of full time technical recruiters; including Quarterly and Annual performance reviews. •Allocate all recruiting resources across our Northwest District in order to support our client's requirements. •Lead daily office meetings to summarize progress on client requirements. •Interface with client managers as necessary, and take ownership for providing qualified candidates to meet the necessary requirements. • Help establish delivery process for local and regional offices, including candidate pipeline, recruiter training and development, contractor community involvement, etc. •Set and track office goals on a quarterly and yearly basis and analyze weekly business intelligence to track this progress. •Managed team of third party, offshore resources on a daily basis that were responsible for the sourcing of candidates using web based techniques.

Quickly understood the hiring manager’s skills and background requirements necessary to identify and qualify candidates. Utilized proprietary software, job boards, technical schools, user groups, referrals and other networking tools to identify candidates. Screened candidates to ensure their qualifications met open positions requirements through phone and office interviews, skills testing, and reference checks. Present job opportunities to qualified candidates and negotiated contract terms including salary, job responsibilities, length of position, and location. Coordinated with the Account Manager and managed hiring, payroll, benefits, and termination of contract employees. Mentored and trained my fellow recruiters through Recruiter Training and Development meetings and daily check-ins/meetings.

While attending WSU I worked for the WSU Athletic Department. My job duties were assisting the Director of Business Operations manage the day to day operations of each sports finances and travel arrangements.