Felicia Daniele

About Felicia Daniele

Talent Acquisition Professional with 7+ years of recruiting experience and 3+ years of experience managing recruiting teams, with an emphasis on technical positions, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Experienced with the end-to-end recruiting cycle including sourcing, posting jobs, screening candidates, scheduling interviews, offer negotiation, placement, and post-placement follow-up within the technology and entertainment industry sectors. Comfortable working with business leadership at all levels on the development and execution of recruitment strategy to build high-growth, high-performing teams.

Experience

1. Recruiting Manager, Amp

   Amazon Music

   Sep 2022 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Joined Amazon Music Recruiting December 2021 as dedicated SDE Recruiting Lead for Amp, achieving 90.9% offer acceptance rate (L4/L5 SDEs) in first two quarters - Led Amp recruiting resources (both FTE and contract) beginning March 2022, managing 9 direct reports - Revamped Recruiting Activity reporting for Amp Engineering teams, launching new hiring report for L8 leadership in Q1. Owned and led biweekly engineering updates with L8 leadership and directs, and two additional biweekly updates at local levels with L6/L7 managers across SoCal and Atlanta - Owned MBR reporting and doc writing from Q1 2022 onward for Amp, leading MBR meetings with L10 leadership and L8 directs MoM - Drove successful adoption of LI Hiring Manager partnership with Amp Engineering teams with 10+ hiring managers alongside 5-7 Amp recruiters. Achieved highest sell call-to-offer acceptance rate for Amp - Worked with Employer Branding PM to launch Amp Landing Page for beta-product launch increasing product visibility and application conversions - Partnered with L7 Business leaders to onboard and hire 4 SDE/Tech Interns to Music teams as part of the Morehouse/Lincoln College Music Internship Program - a VP-level DEI initiative to strengthen partnerships with HBCU’s and increase BLNA representation in ATL - Drove adoption of interviewer training programs in partnership with L8 & L7 engineering leaders for Amp, reducing interviewer churn for SDE hiring - Promoted (officially) to Recruiting Manager September 2022 - Led recruiter training sessions as guest speaker/trainer on topics including Immigration and advanced sourcing techniques using HireEZ and Beamery - Mentored and actively continuing to mentor several L4-L6 recruiters across Amazon Music - Created candidate req and activity report for MPAD Recruiting Managers that was later used to initiate and manage the cancellation of SDE pod interviews as a result of the August ‘22 hiring pause, and to successfully rehome candidates

Education

• Woodbury University

  Communication