James Rossetto

Senior Director of Operations @ Paydirt Games

About

• Experienced HR Manager and Talent Acquisitions lead who is able to lead HR and Recruiting solely in small organizations. • Extensive knowledge of benefits, leaves, CA HR laws, on-boarding, coaching and employee relations. • Employee event planner including weekly meetings, town halls, seasonal parties and awards celebrations. • Over 15 years experience in full-cycle recruiting, sourcing, effective posting strategies, promoting open positions on social media, and offer negotiations. • Known as an effective communicator and advisor to hiring managers with high professional standards. • Ability to function in a fast paced, client focused, service-based environment and adept at constantly changing priorities. • Provides a great hiring manager and candidate experience through the recruiting process. • Possess strong skills in direct sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter; able to entice passive job seekers with new opportunities.

Country

United States

City

Laguna Beach

Industry

Computer Games

Skill

Talent Management, Recruiting, Integrated Marketing, Human Resources, Leadership, Advertising, Management, Creative Direction, Talent Acquisition, Event Planning, Creative Strategy, Executive Search, Employee Relations, Strategic Planning, Personnel Management, Team Building, Business Development, Negotiation, Interviews, Fundraising

Experience

Senior Director of Operations

Paydirt Games

2024-11 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Orange County, California, United States

Head of Talent

Paydirt Games

2024-2 - 2024-11 · 10 mos

Orange County, California, United States

Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

GAN

2022-3 - 2023-12 · 1 yr 10 mos

California, United States

Director - Talent Acquisition

GAN

2020-9 - 2022-3 · 1 yr 7 mos

Irvine, California, United States

GAN (GameAccount Network), is a global supplier of industry leading casino content, fast and flexible gaming systems, and turnkey social gaming. The company was founded in 2002 with the aim of capturing the emerging online skill-games market. Having led the market in backgammon and regional skill games in Italy and Spain, we broadened our product portfolio to offer a full gaming software system as well as becoming a leading developer of online casino games.

Manager of Recruiting

Marketing Instincts, Inc.

2019-12 - 2020-4 · 5 mos

Recruited Marketing, Operations, Creative, and Sales positions for promotional products and controller gear divisions.

Manager of HR and Recruiting

Space Jam Juice, LLC

2017-5 - 2019-12 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Oversaw Human Resources and Recruiting for an organization that has Sales, Marketing, R&D, Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Executive and Warehouse Departments. • Recruited and filled over 30 positions including C-level executives down to associate level employees. • Managed Administrative Department and oversaw on-boarding of new employees. • Facilitated benefit review which allowed the company to add LTD, STD, and life insurance without any additional costs and lowered employees contribution rate. • Oversaw department reorganizations and reductions in force.

Senior Creative Recruiter

The Wonderful Company

2015-11 - 2017-1 · 1 yr 3 mos

Greater Los Angeles Area

I recruited for creative and digital positions for The Wonderful Agency. The brands included Fiji Water, POM Wonderful, JUSTIN Wines, Wonderful Pistachios, Halos, Teleflora, Wonderful Almonds, Landmark Wines and Wonderful Sweet Scarletts.

Manager Talent Acquisition

Advantage Solutions

2012-12 - 2015-11 · 3 yrs

Irvine, CA

Work with hiring managers on strategy for filling open positions Direct source candidates for professional roles inculding creative, strategy, account services and technology Interview candidates and submitt profiles of qualified applicants to hiring managers Compile offer information and present them to candidates Oversee that onboarding is completed after offers are accepted

City Manager

Creative Circle

2012-5 - 2012-11 · 7 mos

Orange County, California Area

Client development for new Orange County office Oversaw two Recruiters and one Account Executive Exceeded billing hours goal

Recruiting, HR, Advertising, Marketing

Freelance/Consulting

2011-1 - 2012-5 · 1 yr 5 mos

Orange County, California Area

Consulted with various companies and individuals on differnet project types including recruiting for advertising talent, fund raising for non-profit Vocational Visions, and marketing and advertising advisement

HR National Manager

INNOCEAN USA

2008-10 - 2011-1 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Huntington Beach, CA

Oversaw HR and Administration and IT Departments for an organization that handles Media, Promotions, Autoshows, Advertising and Interactive for the Hyundai account Recruited, and hired over 100 employees both regular and freelance Found new office space, hired architectural firm to design and oversaw construction and move of 130 employees Opened new office in Toronto and Chicago including securing office space and hiring staff Grew company from 25 employees to over 150 while maintaining a 1% turnover rate Set up policies and revised company handbook and oversaw department reorganizations

HR Manager

David&Goliath

2006 - 2008-8 · 2 yrs

Los Angeles, CA

Managed all aspects of human resources for 100 person company including: benefits, recruiting, compensation, compliance, workers comp, new hire and termination, annual reviews, promotions, planing of company events, organizational development and operations.