Hi, I'm Raisa!

Your next hires. Your recruiting foundation.

I help startups hire their key roles and build a simple hiring system their team can run on its own.

Experience at

  • Everway
  • Google
  • Anaplan
  • Securly

Recruiting consulting

The hires you need. A process you can keep.

For startups with several roles coming up and no recruiter, or one person doing it all.

Recruit for your priority roles

Hands-on recruiting from role intake and sourcing through interviews and offer support.

  • Define the role and candidate profile
  • Build and manage the candidate pipeline
  • Keep candidates and hiring managers aligned

Build your recruiting foundation

A practical hiring plan and a consistent process that fits your team’s stage.

  • Structured interviews and scorecards
  • ATS setup and hiring workflows
  • Role levels, pay ranges, and offer approvals

Equip your team to keep going

Train your hiring managers and hand over the tools and habits that make the process work.

  • Training through live searches
  • Clear owners and short process guides
  • A planned handover with optional ongoing support

Explore the process and ways to work together

Relevant experience

Recruiting experience, with the systems to support it.

I’ve sourced technical talent at Google, run full-cycle searches for engineering and go-to-market roles, and built recruiting workflows inside a small HR team.

Technical sourcing
Engineering and product talent across AI/ML, software, security, and hardware.
Recruiting operations
Greenhouse setup, interview coordination, candidate communication, and offer support.
Team training
Recruiter training and clear guides that help teams use the process consistently.

Recommendations

Kind words from people I have worked with

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Raisa consistently delivers high quality work; she's quick to learn, empathetic and forward thinking.

Sarah GooseManaged Raisa directly at GoogleEx-Google, Career & Interview Strategy · March 2023

Raisa sourced candidates with very niche skills in a competitive market for this type of talent, and she did an incredible job at pitching confidential projects to Engineering Manager + Software Engineering candidates to gain their interest.

Connor McClearyWorked with Raisa on the same team at GoogleRecruiter, Google Research · February 2023

Let’s talk hiring

Planning to hire in the next few months?

Tell me which roles are coming up and where hiring gets stuck. We’ll talk through a practical next step.

Book a 20-minute call