Viviana Baldarelli
@vivianabaldarelli
SHRM-SCP Talent Acquisition Partner specializing in technical, engineering, AI and games hiring.
What I'm looking for
I am a SHRM-SCP certified Talent Acquisition Partner and technical sourcer with 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience and 10+ years across creative, software engineering and technical production.
I have specialized in engineering, product management, AI, DevOps and games recruiting, building diverse pipelines for high-growth SaaS and gaming organizations through data-driven sourcing, market mapping and recruitment analytics.
I have led hiring for senior and niche roles, reduced placement failures, delivered salary benchmarking and crafted sourcing playbooks, ATS migrations and recruiting SOPs to improve hiring quality and time-to-hire.
I partner with hiring managers, DE&I leaders and cross-functional teams to scale teams, mentor recruiters, and implement structured interviewing and talent operations improvements that align with business goals.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Producer and Game Director
Games For Love
Jul 2024 - Present (1 year 5 months)
Developing browser games for the Jampack platform to support charitable fundraising, leading creative and production efforts for mission-driven releases.
Talent Acquisition Partner
Recruitics, LLC
Nov 2024 - Sep 2025 (10 months)
Partnered with executives to design targeted hiring strategies and filled senior AI, engineering, and product roles, reducing placement failure rate to 12% and accelerating time-to-hire through AI-powered sourcing and structured interviewing.
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Nov 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 4 months)
Placed 50+ senior game design, UI/UX and production roles, managed up to 8 hiring managers and 15 active hard-to-fill requisitions, and authored sourcing playbooks that improved team capabilities and diversity hiring outcomes.
Technical Sourcer
Rupie, Inc.
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021 (10 months)
Sourced specialized game engineering and technical roles, averaging 150 candidates/week with a 27% reply rate and contributing to a 150% increase in company-wide submission rate.
Project Manager
VEIL VR/XR Research Study
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year)
Managed a global VR research project across 9 countries and 20+ participants, evaluating 72 VR experiences and building custom tracking tools to streamline reporting and launch the external project website.
Technical Recruiter
SAG-AFTRA Health and Pension Plans
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020 (6 months)
Delivered six senior IT hires per month ahead of schedule, saving $20K in external fees, and created Korn Ferry-based interview guides to standardize candidate evaluation.
Technical Recruiter
Tutti Quanti, LLC.
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019 (1 year 1 month)
Hired 20+ senior roles with an 80% retention rate beyond six months and reduced candidate tracker conversion time from 3 weeks to 3 days by migrating processes to Zoho ATS.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche (ISIA) Rome
Bachelor of Arts, Industrial Design
Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design from ISIA Rome, focused on product and industrial design principles and practices.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Website
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