Lisa Kusaba
Senior Recruiter @ Twist Bioscience
About
Strategic and results-driven Senior Talent Acquisition Leader with extensive experience supporting early-stage, high-growth, and publicly traded organizations across Biotech, Medical Devices, Diagnostics, High-Tech, and GTM functions. Proven expertise in full-cycle recruiting, executive search, workforce planning, and talent strategy during rapid scaling and commercialization phases. Recognized for building high-performing teams, identifying and engaging passive talent, and driving exceptional candidate experiences that yield strong acceptance rates and referral pipelines. Trusted advisor to executive leadership and hiring manager, delivering data-informed talent strategies while consistently exceeding hiring objectives. My approach is both strategic and consultative. I partner closely with hiring managers to align on business priorities, job specifications, culture fit, and competitive compensation benchmarking (including Radford data).If you’re scaling, launching, or transforming — let’s connect.
United States
Campbell
Biotechnology
Recruiting, Human Resources, Technical Recruiting, Biotechnology, Hiring, Contract Recruitment, Start-ups, Internet Recruiting, Employee Benefits, Employer Branding, Pharmaceutical Industry, Medical Devices, SDLC, Program Management, College Recruiting, Performance Management, Business Development, Change Management, Workforce Planning, Executive Search
Experience
Senior Recruiter
Twist Bioscience
South San Francisco, CA
Managed full-cycle recruiting for multiple, complex searches and sourced for; Operations, R&D, Regulatory, and Quality. Created Sourcing strategies. Established business relationships with key stakeholders.
Senior Lead Recruiter
Aimmune Therapeutics
Brisbane, California, United States
Responsible full cycle recruitment with a high growth pharmaceutical company. Partnered with hiring managers across the organization to identify top quality talent from Phase II to FDA approval and preparing for product launch/commercialization.
Interim Associate Director, Talent Acquisition
Aimmune Therapeutics
Brisbane, California, United States
Senior Recruiter
Aimmune Therapeutics
Brisbane, California, United States
Senior Technical Recruiter - Consultant
Twilio IoT
Los Altos, California, United States
Electric Imp is building a core connectivity platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) with an innovative solution that delivers a powerful cloud service tied closely to leading-edge hardware, making it simple to connect devices to the Internet.
Senior Technical Recruiter
Reltio
Redwood City, California, United States
Senior Technical Recruiter
Senior Technical Recruiter
A10 Networks, Inc
San Jose, California, United States
Full cycle Recruiter, with sourcing and technical experience
Talent Acquisition & Senior Recruiter
Contractor - Self
San Jose, California, United States
Senior Recruiter, specializing in providing the highest level of full life cycle recruiting within biotech, medical device, life sciences, and technology industries. (Including Vivus Inc.)
Senior Contract Recruiter
VIVUS LLC
Mountain View, California, United States
"Qsymia is the first FDA-approved once daily combination treatment for patients struggling with obesity," said Peter Tam, President of VIVUS. "The degree and severity of obesity and the lack of effective pharmacological interventions that we face as a society were two primary reasons for the development of Qsymia. Full Cycle Recruiter, Regulatory, Quality, R&D, G&A
Human Resources Manager
Entelos
Foster City, California, United States
Entelos is an in silico modeling and simulation software company delivering advanced predictive technologies that dramatically lower the risk, time, and cost of product development in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutrition and consumer markets. The Company's PhysioLab® platforms, in depth systems biology data and models, and virtual individual patient and population human technology provide highly predictive analyses to assist our customers develop safer and more effective drugs, foods and consumer products.
Recruiter / HRBP - Contract to Hire
Genelabs Technologies
Redwood City, CA
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Human Resouces Management
* Benefits Management * Compensation Management * Law and HR Management * Managing Employee Relations * Leading People Through Change * Managing the Staffing Function * Organizational Development and Change
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