About

Karen Sovath is a results-oriented professional with over 15 years of diverse experience in full-cycle recruiting for all levels from Jr. to Executives, technical and non-technical roles for startups and Fortune 1000 companies. She is a Senior Technical Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Consultant with milestone, RingCentral, Sigfig, Wind River, and Big Fish. Karen specializes in all levels of Software Engineers/Architects (Distributed and Mainframe), Database Developers/Administrators, Network/Systems/Security Engineers, Web Developers/Designers, Data Scientists/Analytics, Quality Assurance/Test Engineers, Hardware Engineers, Embedded Engineers, ASIC Engineers, Product Managers, Technical Program/Project Managers, Business Analysts, C level executives, G&A, and much more. Karen has an extensive background in employee relations, passive sourcing, negotiating offers, recruiting events, scaling startups, and dealing with third-party vendors. She is passionate about helping organizations find good talent and also changing lives and making an impact. Karen has a proven track record of identifying highly skilled, bright, talented job seekers by using direct and indirect sourcing methods and matching them to ideal positions. In her current role, Karen is responsible for full-cycle recruiting of technical and non-technical roles in all disciplines and levels such as Embedded Software Engineers, Full Stack Engineers, UI Developers, UI/UX Designers, Systems Engineers, Data Scientists (ML/AI), Infra/DevOps Engineer, Product Managers, Program Managers, and more. She partners with hiring managers to provide guidance, expertise, and best practices on staffing. Karen recruits passive and active applicants via social media, job boards, internet sourcing, networking events, internal referrals, and other technical resources. She establishes trusted partnerships with hiring managers and provides consultative support to drive the recruiting process forward in a timely and efficient manner. Karen also develops and builds out sourcing strategies to drive candidate pipelines. Karen has previously worked with Facebook, PayPal, Rimini Street, and Oath (formerly Yahoo) as a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner and Sr. Technical Recruiter/Talent Acquisition Consultant. She has also recruited for technical and non-technical roles such as Risk Analyst, Data Governance Director, Commercial Risk Analyst, Business Operations Manager, Software Developer, UI Engineers, Big Data Engineer, Data Scientists, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Technical Program Manager, Product Manager, Salesforce Developer, Executive Support Tech, Systems Engineer, QA Engineer, Applications Engineer (Oracle, SAP, JDE, Salesforce,