Nicole Polizzi
Head Of Talent Acquisition at Quizlet
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicole Polizzi is a talent leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15+ years of experience scaling high-growth SaaS teams and a nine-year track record of hands-on recruiting leadership. She has repeatedly built and led global recruiting functions—from early hires to scaling companies past 500 employees—using a data-driven, human-first approach that balances speed, operational rigor, and stakeholder alignment. As Head of Talent at Quizlet and former Head of Global Talent at LaunchDarkly, she has grown teams across EMEA and APAC and driven workforce planning tied to revenue impact. Nicole also advises startups and runs a talent consultancy, blending strategic hiring playbooks with practical coaching for executives and recruiters. An under-the-radar strength is her ability to translate hiring metrics into organizational redesigns that align team structures with long-term product and business strategy.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology at San Francisco State University
Github Skills (14)
binding7
structural-biology6
bioinformatics5
pdb4
surface4
c-library3
difference1
python1
greedy1
union1
edit-distance1
julia1
pairwise1
to-do1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
polizzilab/design_tools
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 28 pushes in 2 months
npolizzi/Combs
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Convergent motifs for binding sites
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes, 4 comments in 10 months
binding-sitesmotifssitesconvergentbinding
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