Bobby Kimani

Director, Talent & Development at Rescue.co, leading People Ops, Talent Acquisition, and Development. I drive org design, change management, payroll compliance, and analytics to scale a high-performing, compliant, and inclusive culture. Focused on aligning people strategy with growth across remote, hybrid, and onsite teams.

Assuming the mantle of Global Lead of Talent Operations and Analytics, my mission was to elevate the strategic framework of Talent Acquisition. I embraced the challenge of orchestrating end-to-end hiring best practices, meticulously establishing the Talent team, refining processes, and implementing analytics. The overarching goal was to create a scalable infrastructure, fostering the hiring

I became a part of Sendwave with a singular focus – to optimize and elevate Talent Acquisition. Through strategic systems enhancements, seamless integrations, and fostering a robust distributed team, I achieved the goal of establishing stellar hiring practices. The result was a remarkable 35-day average time to fill and a noteworthy 50% enhancement in process utilization, enabling efficiency.

I embarked on a journey with SunCulture, leading the charge for People Operational excellence across the entire spectrum of HR. Within this role, I effectively facilitated and streamlined Culture improvement initiatives, spearheaded policy development, and enhanced employee relations. Simultaneously, I orchestrated the successful expansion into three new countries, enabling performance management,

As Head of People at Sunculture, I led a transformative operational redesign for 300 employees, resulting in a 70% efficiency boost and substantial cost reduction. My strategic frameworks in Talent Acquisition and People Operations drove a 70% increase in organizational effectiveness.

As Andela's Recruiting Coordinator, I enhanced hiring efficiency for 1100 employees and 500 partners by 40%. Automated Greenhouse ATS, integrated Zoom and Starred, reducing scheduling time by 60%. Training initiatives improved the candidate experience by 20% and decreased bias incidents by 12%.

I joined Andela to support the VP of People with all matters of management of her calendar and ensuring that all her travel and meeting logistics were met within the set SLA. I was also supporting key culture engagement People Team projects.

I joined Global Partner Solutions as a Business Development Specialist dealing with key clients within the EMEA region in setting up key global industry matching of market research. I got promoted to the internal Talent Development Manager, dealing with Capacity assessments, HR and Learning for the team.

Grade: 3.6

Graduated with Second Class Honors