Michelle Smith
Strategic Culture & Talent Architect
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Smith is a Strategic Culture & Talent Architect with nearly three decades of Silicon Valley experience and 11 years focused on building talent functions that scale. She partners with CEOs and executive teams to preserve cultural DNA during hypergrowth, designing hiring frameworks, leadership alignment processes, and Culture Compass tools that turn values into operational decision rules. Michelle has led recruiting at high-growth companies from pre-IPO to public scale—driving 90%+ YOY hiring targets at Zscaler, launching ERGs, and building early career pipelines—while consistently improving candidate experience and employer brand. As a fractional leader and consultant she has placed C-level and specialized technical talent for voice and multimodal AI startups, and revitalized recruiting workflows to shorten time-to-hire and elevate pipeline quality. Notably, she combines deep programmatic rigor (automated dashboards, productivity tools, and centralized TA operations) with hands-on search and ERG founding experience, giving her a rare blend of strategy and execution. Based in San Francisco, she helps growth-stage companies expand from dozens to hundreds of employees without losing the traits that made them successful.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Archbishop Mitty High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (19)
twist9
binding9
html-webpack-plugin8
extendscript8
redux7
webpack-plugin7
react6
babel-plugin6
observables6
eslint-plugin5
coding-style5
loader5
webpack5
javascript5
typescript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/react-twist
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
It's React... with a twist!
Contributions:34 commits, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 month
reactextendscripttwistjsxreactjs
adobe/react-twist-webpack-plugin
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
Webpack plugin for React-Twist
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
webpack-pluginreactwebpack3html-webpack-plugincode-splitting
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