Raj Kawa

Recruiting at scale

• Helped lead Talent and Culture as Orium grew from 60 to 300+ employees at its peak; onboarded 100+ new hires in 2022 as the company nearly doubled in under a year.
• Hold a 95% offer acceptance rate; built pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles that cut time-to-fill by 25%.
• Managed up to 30 open roles at once, from developers, product, and design to VP of Sales and Director of Product Management.
• Optimized Greenhouse and LinkedIn integrations, lifting recruiter output by 40%.

AI-enabled people systems

• Recognized twice in Orium’s AI Spotlight program: L2 AI Innovator and L1 AI Practitioner.
• Built a recruiting toolkit now run independently by our recruiter and used by technology and product hiring teams; scorecard turnaround fell from 3 to 5 business days to within 24 hours, with zero follow-up reminders.
• Built a recognition workflow that drafts, translates, and delivers personalized recognition in Slack with human approval; eight recognitions in under an hour, six of them bilingual.
• Built an onboarding system with separate hire and manager check-ins from Day 1 to Day 83, health scoring, and early risk signals across Canada, Mexico, and Brazil; plus a new-hire onboarding game.
• Co-launched an AI for Managers program to help leaders embed AI in their own teams.

Culture, belonging, and employee experience

• Led the DEI and belonging portfolio, including inclusion workshops, bias training, a multicultural calendar, and belonging groups; achieved the highest engagement scores in more than five years.
• Designed a full employee lifecycle roadmap from Day 1 through Year 1, lifting engagement to 85%.
• Host of the weekly company Lightning Talk since 2021; led the shift of company culture to remote-first; ran hybrid events for 200+ people across 12 locations.
• Refreshed the employee value proposition from 40+ interviews and surveys, and turned Culture Amp data into action plans.

Leadership, integration, and operations

• Built and led a Talent and Culture team of up to five with a 100% engagement score over three years.
• Led the talent integration after Orium’s FY24 acquisition of a Mexico-based company, the first function fully integrated across both entities, including the move from Workable to Greenhouse.
• Saved $300K by renegotiating recruitment vendors, 35% on LinkedIn and Greenhouse renewals, and $200K a year through a systems review during the acquisition.
• Trusted people partner to VP and Director leaders across technology, delivery, product, design, sales, finance, and marketing, helping them make better decisions about people, teams, and structure; designed and delivered leader training on interviewing, inclusion, and engagement.

• Ranked the number one rookie recruiter in Canada, generating $10,000 a week in revenue within the first year.
• Full-cycle recruiting for federal, provincial, and municipal clients; 100% client satisfaction across 15+ clients.
• Ran biweekly training for 20 recruiters across Alberta; led the regional diversity and inclusion employee resource group.
• Team Player of the Month five times in 2020.

• Americas Rising Star 2019, one recipient across six countries, and Rookie of the Year in Canada: 30+ placements and $200,000+ in fees.
• Built client relationships with CFOs, controllers, and HR directors; mentored two new consultants.
• Volunteered with CPA Alberta advising newcomers to Canada on career transitions.