Katy Kilborn
📱 App-etite for Talent | DE&I Advocate | Recruitment Advisor
- Role
- Recruitment Advisor at Wise
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Katy Kilborn
I help Wise scale by finding the right people and building the right processes. After making 78 hires in my first year and pivoting from Engineering to Operations recruitment, I am now completing a 6-month secondment leading company onboarding for North America.Recruitment Highlights at Wise-Operations Recruitment (Pivoted Sept 2025)Scope: Recruited across FinCrime, Payment Ops, WFM, Account Managers, and Senior Leadership.Successfully built 2x new teams from scratch (Assets & Account Management), landing the first hires of this kind in the region-Engineering Recruitment (Dec 2024-Sept 2025)Made 30+ hires across software engineering, User Technology, Security Engineering, Data Analytics, and Product Engineering/ Product Managment.Partnered with ENG leadership to revamp the interview lifecycle, implementing new Pair Programming and System Design questions.Doubled the engineering interviewer pool by developing and delivering comprehensive training and shadow sessions.Presented to 500+ peers at Mission Days (Estonia) on leveraging AI in recruitment.Established monthly hiring retros (MBRs) to drive data-backed decisions and serve as the team’s go-to specialist for training new hires + data pulls and insights.
Experience
Recruitment Advisor
Dec 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Jan 2026- PresentOnboarding Facilitator (6 month Secondment)Facilitating a 3-day comprehensive company onboarding for all North America (NORTHAM) new hires.Ensuring cultural immersion and operational readiness for new joiners.September 2025- Jan 2026Focus area: Operations RecruitmentRecruited for FinCrime, Payment Ops, WFM, and Account Management.Key Achievement: Built the Assets and Account Management teams from scratch (first hires in region).Dec 2025- September 2025Focus: Engineering Recruitment50+ hires in Year 1.Revamped interview process with Engineering leadership (added System Design & Pair Programming).Doubled interviewer pool through new training programs.
Education
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nursing
Western Governors University
Hospital Management, Business Administration and Management, General
2016 — 2020
Factor 8- #Girlsclub
Gen. 4 Protégé (Sales Management Training Program for Women), Sales Management
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