Ej Sander

About Ej Sander

I’m passionate about people and about having the opportunity to be the conduit of life-changing professional experiences. I value being authentic and engaged, treating people with respect, creating spaces for growth, and holding myself and others to high standards. I’m a leader who can build and drive a big vision through targeted actions that keep us always moving forward. I’m a recruiting and organizational leader with 17 years of broad experience with startups, mid-size and large complex enterprise organizations. After 10 years as an internal recruiting leader, I founded Monocle Search Group in 2015. We’ve built a successful boutique executive and leadership search firm partnering with such companies as Airbnb, Meta, Snap, WarnerMedia, Procore, Shippo, Faire, Lyft, RIS Rx, SavageX, Laurel.ai, The Walt Disney Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Premera Blue Cross, Zillow and HBO. Throughout our history more than fifty percent of the leaders we’ve hired are from underrepresented groups. We believe having vibrant diverse talent pipelines to be the best way to hire the right person for a company’s talent needs. I’ve led large internal recruiting organizations, managers and individuals supporting 900+ hires annually and managed small agile teams. As well as owning recruitment strategy end-to-end, I’ve built recruiting programs focused on diversity, early talent development, marketing, recruiting operations and leadership rotational programs. While still very hands on as a recruiter, I lead from a high-level strategic perspective yet can easily transition to tactical action. I lead with compassion coupled with accountability. I set clear measurable goals, value metrics & data, create space for people to succeed, to fail, to be creative, and to be vulnerable and support both personal and professional growth. There will always be challenges — that will never change. But we always have the opportunity to influence how we approach our endeavors. Whether pursuing a personal or professional goal, leading a meeting, interacting with a co-worker, dealing with failure or success, finding a solution, taking ownership, giving support, being creative, or supporting others. And if done right, always having a little fun while we do it.

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Monocle Search Group

   Mar 2016 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   We founded Monocle Search Group in 2015 as an executive and leadership search firm supporting companies from startups to Fortune 500. Our expertise is in technology, product, and recruiting leadership but we also support human resources, creative, design, marketing, and communications. We’ve partnered with Airbnb, Meta, Snap, WarnerMedia, Procore, Shippo, Faire, Lyft, RIS Rx, SavageX, Laurel.ai, The Walt Disney Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Premera Blue Cross, Zillow and HBO. Throughout our history, more than fifty percent of the leaders we’ve hired are from underrepresented talent groups.We are a retained search firm, specializing in hiring all levels of management and senior level individual contributors. We know that strong talent and impactful leadership are keys to the success and growth of any company.With our extensive networks, creative search approach and proven ability to foster meaningful relationships with both our client and candidate base, we pride ourselves on our ability to unearth hidden talent that will help you build exceptional leadership teams and add talented senior professionals to your organization.

Education

• Washington State University

  B.S.

Skills

• Staffing Industry
• Employee Relations
• Recruiting
• Networking
• Sourcing
• Head Hunter
• Screening Resumes
• Staffing Services
• Search
• Contract Recruitment
• Recruitment Technology
• Consulting
• Team Management
• Resource Management
• Interviews
• E-Commerce
• Creative Sourcing
• Account Management
• Web Mining
• Candidate Generation
• College Recruiting
• Resume Writing
• Job Search Strategies
• Career Development
• Internet Recruiting
• Benefits Negotiation
• Career Transitions
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Recruitment Advertising
• Staff Augmentation
• Peoplesoft
• Business Networking
• Boolean Searching
• Technical Recruiting
• Industrial Sector
• Temporary Staffing
• Business Development
• Talent Acquisition
• Career Exploration
• Internet Mining