Maria Villatoro

Recruiting Manager @ Remote Leverage

About

I started at Remote Leverage as a recruiter, and over time grew into a Recruiting Manager where my focus is helping our internal teams scale operations while maintaining quality and efficiency.Today, we place close to 200 candidates every month across a wide range of roles. From customer service and operations to senior leadership and founding engineers. My priority is making sure our teams have the right people, processes, and tools in place to consistently hit (and surpass) our business objectives.Earlier in my role as a recruiter, I placed 150+ candidates across industries like Real Estate, IT, Healthcare, Marketing, Finance, and Education. That hands-on experience shaped how I approach recruiting operations today with a focus on structured hiring, strong candidate experience, and building systems that scale.Before Remote Leverage, I worked as a Business Development Representative in the payment processing industry, where I developed strong skills in outreach, relationship building, and pipeline management, skills that now help me work closely with people to understand what great talent really looks like for their teams.Are you looking for your ideal opportunity? Let's connect :)

Country

United States

City

San Jose

Industry

Staffing & Recruiting

Skill

Recruitment Advertising, Global Talent Acquisition, Human Resources (HR), Internal Recruitment, Technical Recruiting, IT Recruitment, Recruiting, Global Recruiting

Experience

Recruiting Manager

Remote Leverage

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

As a Recruiting Manager I lead and mentor a team of 30+ recruiters across multiple global markets, directing daily recruitment operations for ~400 active job requests each month. I design and implement scalable sourcing and headhunting strategies, combining proactive research, talent mapping and targeted direct outreach to secure top-tier talent for clients ranging from boutique startups and scale-ups to mid-market and multinational organizations. My experience spans diverse industries including Real Estate, IT, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Construction, Entertainment, Marketing, Finance and Education. I manage both high-volume hiring programs and highly specialized searches, ensuring process consistency and an exceptional candidate experience at every stage. By building robust candidate pipelines and engaging passive talent through tailored headhunting campaigns, I meet immediate hiring needs while also anticipating future workforce demands. Over the last year, my primary focus has been scaling our internal teams to facilitate revenue growth. I work closely with the leadership team to translate business objectives into focused recruitment priorities, delivering talent acquisition solutions that fit the company's needs at any time. I use data-driven measurement and continuous optimization, I improve placement quality and reduce time-to-hire, while evolving strategies to respond to any shifts and emerging necessities, consistently maintaining strong placement success across teams.