Melanie Pavels

2025 - TA Manager for R&D Recruiting (interim for 3 parental leaves), Fintech Recruiting Lead, Product Design Recruiting Lead 2024 - Fintech Lead (R&D & G&A) 2023 - Data Science and Foundations Engineering Lead Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. We are Toasters! Think you could be one too? http://pos.toasttab.com/careers

Tapped to step up and lead a recruiting team of 3, driving the integrated hiring strategy for technical (Engineering/Product) and non-technical (GTM/Ops) functions across the Content Business Org

Focusing on data science, machine learning, and engineering hiring for our Content Business and Ads & Insights organizations. Content is central to everything we do here at Spotify and just one of the ways we’re helping artists and creators to thrive. Music. Podcasts. Video. Editorial content. Our goal is more than just entertainment - it’s creating connections. Artists and listeners. Creators and fans. Storytellers and open ears. We want to be the easy way experiences, opportunities, memories, and new perspectives get shared. Across communities, borders, and the big wide world.

Slice (www.slicelife.com) is on a journey to be the most valuable pizza brand on the planet. We connect makers and eaters to enrich their lives through the power of specialization and pizza expertise. Backed by generations of knowledge and cutting-edge technology, we give makers the platform and voice to take charge of their industry, expand their coverage, and fill the world with authentic cuisine. Slice's team of more than 700 is headquartered in the Flatiron District of NYC, with offices in Belfast and Macedonia.

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC ("Schonfeld") is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across quantitative, fundamental equity and tactical trading strategies.

HBC Digital drives the digital retail/ecommerce and digital customer experience across all HBC retail banners including Gilt, Hudson’s Bay, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue,and Saks OFF 5TH. While it’s clear that the future of retail will rely heavily on new technologies and the internet, we are still discovering how the internet, mobile, e-commerce and in-store shopping will power commerce in the coming years and decades. With millions of customers, both online and offline, HBC Digital is positioned at the center of this reinvention.

Hudson’s Bay Company is one of the fastest-growing department store retailers in the world, based on its successful formula of driving the performance of high quality stores and their all-channel offerings, unlocking the value of real estate holdings and growing through acquisitions. Founded in 1670, HBC is the oldest company in North America. HBC’s portfolio today includes ten banners, in formats ranging from luxury to better department stores to off price fashion shopping destinations, with more than 460 stores and 66,000 employees around the world.