Danielle Nau
Vice President, Human Resources @ Zillow
About
I’m a strategic and people-centered HR executive with a proven track record of building high-performing teams and driving organizational transformation. Over my career, I’ve led complex people strategies across talent management, operations, and employee experience, helping businesses scale effectively while fostering cultures where employees thrive. As Vice President of Human Resources at Zillow, I lead teams across HR Business Partners, People Operations, and Employee Services to design and deliver programs that strengthen leadership capability, streamline operations through innovation and automation, and advance equity and belonging across the organization. I’m passionate about creating environments where leaders grow, teams perform at their best, and every employee feels connected to a shared purpose. My leadership style is rooted in collaboration, accountability, and authenticity - because strong teams start with trust and clarity.
United States
Denver Metropolitan Area
Internet
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Experience

Vice President, Human Resources
Denver, CO
Leads HR Business Partner teams for Product, Engineering, Design, Zillow Home Loans, Rentals, and Shared Services, along with the People Operations and Employee Service Center functions. Drives people strategies that strengthen leadership capability, optimize operations, and enhance the employee experience.

HR Manager
Greater Chicago Area
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. Groupon enables real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. As a HR Manager Danielle partnered with senior leaders along with their respective leadership teams to develop and execute HR strategies that fostered growth, innovation, and organizational effectiveness while leading and developing a team of HRBP professionals. She oversaw HR processes including performance management, compensation review, employee engagement initiatives, and organization design work. Danielle provided coaching to leaders on performance management, employee relations issues, disciplinary matters, and terminations.

Human Resources Business Partner
Greater Chicago Area
As an HR Business Partner Danielle served as a strategic partner to multiple business and functional heads to establish HR business objectives that aligned with the overall company plans and objectives. She helped to identify and deploy impactful people strategies and policies that enable the organization to perform effectively and scale efficiently. She built and maintained strong relationships client groups to understand their needs and challenges while providing guidance and coaching for managers on performance management discussions, employee relations issues, and discipline matters. In her role as HRBP she collaborated with teams and other HR Business Partners to drive a coherent global culture based on a shared set of values and company mission.

Director of Recruiting
Greater Chicago Area
As the Director of Recruiting Danielle managed a team of 50 recruiters and recruiting coordinators in which she developed recruiting strategies to attract, engage, and acquire top talent. In her role she Implemented performance objectives and metrics to measure performance of her team while also creating, preparing, and presenting accurate staffing data including time to fill, sourcing, and pipeline information. She also established various recruitment programs focused on acquiring sales talent such as campus recruiting initiatives, and the sales employee referral program.

Corporate Recruiter
Greater Chicago Area
Lightbank is a financial organization that specializes in making venture capital investments in "disruptive" technology companies in the United States including seed investments, Series A round and late-stage investments. Danielle was promoted to join the venture capital firm behind Echo Global Logistics & Groupon, to be the sole recruiter for their early stage portfolio companies. In her role she was responsible for managing the full cycle recruitment process, from sourcing and interviewing, to offer negotiations, and the successful on-boarding of new hires. She partnered directly with the founders of early stage companies to understand their business goals to make key initial hires.

Corporate Recruiter
Echo Global Logistics is a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services. Echo maintains a proprietary, web-based technology platform that compiles and analyzes data from its network of over 40,000 transportation providers to serve clients across a wide range of industries and simplify the critical tasks involved in transportation management. Danielle was promoted internally into the Corporate Recruiter role in which she developed and executed recruiting plans and strategies in partnership with senior executives, human resources, and training departments.

National Account Manager
Greater Chicago Area
Danielle was responsible for acquiring new business accounts and then retaining them through the development of strong relationships and excellent customer service. She provided training and consultative services on the portfolio of technical solutions Echo offered.

Interactive Sales Specialist
Greater Chicago Area
CareerBuilder is a global, end-to-end human capital solutions company focused on helping employers find, hire and manage great talent. As an Interactive Sales Specialist Danielle worked directly with small business C levels to develop a total recruitment solution for their company and provided customer service and product expertise.
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