Michael Ariale
@michaelariale
I build scalable recruiting and people operations for high-growth technology companies.
What I'm looking for
At Alma, I scaled end-to-end recruiting across Engineering, Product, GTM, Operations, Marketing, and Leadership, supporting 30%–100%+ year-over-year headcount growth while maintaining a 90–95% offer acceptance rate and a 47-day company-wide time-to-fill average.
I’ve led talent strategy and recruiting teams at Alma, Allma, and EverQuote, including executive searches, hiring from entry-level through SVP, internal mobility, headcount planning, and structured competency-based hiring. I built a TA operations stack using Juicebox, Gem, and Gemini that saved 500+ hours annually, and redesigned hiring processes to reduce time to fill by 15–20%.
I’m drawn to startups and growth-centric companies, where I can partner closely with leaders to build thoughtful, high-performing teams.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
-Scaled end-to-end recruiting across Engineering, Product, GTM, Operations, Marketing and Leadership, supporting 30%–100%+ YoY headcount growth while maintaining a 90–95% offer acceptance rate. Maintained 47 day time to fill (TTF) average, company-wide.
-Carried personal reqload of niche leadership and director+ level searches with high focus on sourced candidates, deep profile alignment and rapi
-Successfully led the CTO search and brought the candidate to offer within 60 days of start.
-Organized the inaugural in-person offsite, managing the programming, budgeting, and logistics for 15 distributed employees.
*Left role due to lack of product-market fit for the business
-Led a team of six to execute hiring goals for a 600+ person organization, overseeing all FTE hiring, interviewing, and talent strategy.
-Managed recruitment across multiple functions, including Engineering, Analytics, Sales, Product, and G&A, from entry-level to SVP.
-Launched and managed the inaugural internal mobility program, resulting in three internal hires within the first three months.
Worked as Founding Advisory Board Member at The People Ops Society.
-Reported directly to the CEO and served as the interim Head of People during the search for a Chief People Officer.
-Led the hiring initiative for the inaugural 1099 agent population, hiring over 150 insurance agents in approximately 10 months.
-Led the evaluation and migration from Jobvite to Greenhouse, ensuring zero disruption in data parity or hiring velocity.
-Served as a founding member
Worked as Senior Recruiter at EverQuote.
Worked as Recruiter at EverQuote.
Assistant Director of Career Development & Social Media Outreach
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016 (11 months)
Worked as Assistant Director of Career Development & Social Media Outreach at Northeastern University.
• Counsel students and alumni on a variety of career development topics including job searches, resume/cover letter writing, mock behavioral and case interviews, salary negotiating, networking and social media use
• Deliver ~20 career development workshops and classroom presentations each semester to undergraduate students, graduate students and alumni
• Conceptualized, developed and implemented
• Consult with multiple Fortune 500 companies on the topics of disability-inclusive diversity in the workplace, recruitment and retention of students with disabilities
• Developed and implemented inaugural "Immersion Excursion" program at UTK. This program gave students an in depth, on location, job shadowing experience with local employers.
• Work directly with employer representatives int
• Coordinated with Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD) Executive Director to plan, program and execute the COSD Annual National Conference & FULL ACCESS: COSD Student Summit for Career Exploration
• Conducted student intake meetings through the Disability Careers Office (DCO) at the University of Tennessee
• Planned and executed Disability Mentoring Day and the US Department
• Delivered a companywide recruitment and retention strategy for People with Disabilities (PwD)
• Designed and implemented inaugural Merck Disability Career Day, a higher education outreach program
• Conducted research and training briefs for relevant company stakeholders on the ADAAA, Office of Federal Contracting Compliance Programs Regulations, disability etiquette, disclosure and workplace a
• Supervised a co-ed Residence Hall of 185 freshmen and managed a staff of five Resident Advisors
• Managed residence hall budget of $1000.00
• Administered student behavior management sanctions
• Conducted initial training and ongoing staff training throughout the year
• Facilitated Office of Residence Life weekly staff informational meetings
• Formally evaluated staff with constructive feedback
Worked as Resident Advisor at James Madison University.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Master of Science, College Student Personnel Administration
2012 - 2014
Master of Science in College Student Personnel Administration from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, completed in 2014.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Master of Science (M.S.), College Student Personnel Administration
2012 - 2014
James Madison University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology
2008 - 2012
James Madison University
Bachelor of Science, Psychology
2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Science in Psychology from James Madison University, completed in 2012.
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