Aranzazu Ballesteros
Talent Operations Manager at Flagship Pioneering
Talent Operations Manager at Flagship Pioneering
Talent Operations Manager. Bilingual and bicultural. I love to find creative data-based solutions, ensuring their clear communication and storytelling, and making processes more efficient. 

Data analytics bootcamp graduate from the University of Oregon with extensive background in various coding languages, building dashboards, and websites. Professional strengths include creative problem solving, effective communication, adaptability and time management.
Flagship Pioneering
https://www.linkedin.com/company/flagship-pioneering
Head of Talent Operations at Flagship Pioneering. Responsibilities include:
- Work with different stakeholders, inside and outside of HR, to ensure the recruiting process is efficient, operationalized, and flexible to feed the needs of the different companies under the Flagship Pioneering umbrella
- Manage the five-member Talent Operations team, with a focus on efficiency and development
- Manage systems utilized by the Talent team including ATS, support requests, vendor relationships, etc.
- Provide analysis and recommendations for improvements in process, systems, and/or business analytics
- Create any necessary documentation for talent processes, including process maps, best practices, how-to videos, etc.
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Talent Operations Manager
Trilogy Education
https://www.linkedin.com/company/trilogy-education-services
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Teacher Assistant - Data Analytics Bootcamp at UC Davis
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
Talent Acquisition Operations Manager focused on driving the Reporting & Analytics pillar for the team:
- Design and develop the Global TA strategy for Analytics, including development of new dashboards, new metrics, and communication to stakeholder.
- Establish program to develop data literacy within the Global Talent Acquisition team.
- Lead reporting for global Talent Acquisition, including running reports, providing business analytics, and automating processes.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Manager Talent Acquisition Operations - Reporting & Analytics
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
Assistant Manager in the Global Operations team in Talent Acquisition (TA). I work cross-functionally with regional TA teams to deliver global projects and globalize existing processes.  

- Developing a reporting and analytics strategy for the global TA organization, including the planning and creation of Tableau dashboards that serve over 200 users
- Project management of the People foundation in adidas United Against Racism work. This includes planning, stakeholder analysis, keeping track of deliverables, and preparing analytics reports for the Board
- Executed internal communications for the global team with over 200 members including but not limited to global calls, newsletters, the creation and updates of a global SharePoint, amongst other things.
Portland, Oregon
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Assistant Manager Global Talent Acquisition Operations
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
- Manage the Employee Discount Program customer service and relationship with vendors. This includes answering employee’s questions, updating our records, and processing biweekly files
- Analyze data reports to provide information on retail employee matters
- Design a program for the adoption of a standardized performance management process for the Retail Back Office
- Submit purchase orders, order supplies, own the office calendar, update and communicate organizational charts, along with other administrative tasks
Portland, Oregon Area
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HR Coordinator
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
Responsibilities & Accomplishments:
- Worked cross-functionally with team members across five regions to drive process changes and globalize processes
- Designed a solution to migrate information and allow communication across a global team of more than 200 people. This involved designing an agile SharePoint, collaboration with the design team and regional stakeholders to embed its use, and planning the communication of the new tool.
- Developed a global Talent Acquisition Coordinators Network, where over 20 coordinators from 5 different regions shared best practices, solved issues, and collaborated to globalize processes
- Co-built, launched, and tracked a global onboarding process for the Talent Acquisition team that contemplated the nuances of the different regions to ensure alignment and collaboration
- Structured team meetings, drafted global team communications, created and maintained resource allocation tracker, coordinated online meetings with over 200 attendees, and maintained relationship with vendors
- Designed communication materials for internal communications following brand guidelines
Portland, Oregon Area
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Talent Acquisition Operations Coordinator
Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/advanced-call-center-technologies
High-volume recruiter and administrator at a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Contacting potential employees, creating requisitions and job postings on CareerBuilder, ZipRecruiter, Indeed, amongst other websites, interviewing potential employees, and getting them through the hiring process
- Onboarding new hires into the system, including the processing I-9s, E-Verifies, tax information, and direct deposits on ADP
- Organizing events to position our brand within the community
Douglas, AZ
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Recruiter
Advanced Call Center Technologies, LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/advanced-call-center-technologies
Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Established an interview scheduling process to increase candidate experience and recruiter effectiveness
- Built a report that allowed the HR Manager to seamlessly track attrition and gather information for the branch and company
- Answered incoming calls and provided information for candidates regarding requirements, interviews, amongst other topics
- Welcomed candidates and assisted them through the hiring process
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HR Administrator
Colorado Democratic Party
https://www.linkedin.com/company/colorado-democratic-party
Recruited, trained, and mobilized volunteers to register voters, make phone calls, and knock doors to successfully win Colorado for Secretary Hillary Clinton, Michael Bennet, and to promote the rest of the 2016 Democratic ticket in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District.

Other responsibilities & achievements:
- Coordinated and staffed events with over 3,000 attendees
- Delivered a field pitch to over 800 attendees at President Clinton's political rally to get out the vote
Pueblo, Colorado
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Field Organizer
West Coast Trial Lawyers
https://www.linkedin.com/company/west-coast-trial-lawyers
Legal assistant and receptionist who requested clients' medical records, interviewed prospective clients and informed current clients on their case status, and translated legal documents and interpreted for Spanish speaking clients. 

Other responsibilities:
- Managing office supplies, answering and redirecting phone calls, and handling mail
- Managing the partners’ schedules
- Designing employee’s e-mail signature and business cards.
Los Angeles y alrededores, Estados Unidos
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Legal Assistant
Tecnológico de Monterrey
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tecdemonterrey
Paid communications intern and social media manager. 

Responsibilities & Achievements: 
- Organizing and supervising 10 volunteers to coordinate events and achieve team goals
- Boosting community engagement by designing a monthly newsletter with a total audience of over 1,000 members and an open rate of 45% (industry average: 22%)
- Coordinating events for community activation with up to 1,000 attendees and with the involvement of up to 200 local businesses
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Communications Intern at DistritoTec
Periódico ABC
Paid web reporter intern who authored the first cover of the newspaper’s redesign, researched and published stories for web and print, and proofread reporter’s content before uploading it to the website.
Web reporter (intern)
Consejo Cívico
https://www.linkedin.com/company/consejociviconl
As a paid communications intern I researched and assisted with the development of monthly reports regarding crime rate, promoted and educated the community on our actions and findings through social media, photographs, designs, monthly newsletters, and web content, and staffed press conferences and events with the attendance of Mayors and City Officials. Along with this, I acted as editor-in-chief of “Amor de lejos” a project involving members of the community living abroad.
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Communications Intern
El Horizonte Newspaper
https://www.linkedin.com/company/el-horizonte-newspaper
Proofreader
Local news reporter
Proofreader and reporter (intern)
Bachelor’s Degree
Journalism and Media Studies
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Tecnológico de Monterrey
https://www.linkedin.com/school/tecdemonterrey/
Certificate
Data Analytics Boot Camp offered by the University of Oregon in partnership with Trilogy Education Services.

Core areas covered are Excel, Python, JavaScript, SQL Databases, and Tableau. Throughout the course, I completed projects using real data sets from the worlds of finance, healthcare, government, social welfare, and more.
Data Analytics & Visualization
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University of Oregon
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-oregon/
Development and launch of a dashboard for the Global Talent Acquisition team using Tableau. This dashboard was built to allow recruiters and their leaders to visualize their data and understand their workload. Being a global project, the discovery phase involved Talent Acquisition members of all regions, and it's approval involved work with Data Privacy.
Global Talent Acquisition Dashboard using Tableau
With elections around the corner, we wondered how machine learning could help us understand the voting populace. Election predictions are typically determined by polling data, but they often do not really capture the nuances of how people feel. Given the difficulty and complexity of predicting election results, we decided to explore social media comments about presidential candidates in order to find additional insights into voters decision-making.

We used a pre-trained natural language processing (NLP) model to predict the sentiment of individual reddit comments that included the keywords "Joe Biden" or "Donald Trump".

This process assigned the goodness level of individual words in a reddit comment on a score from -1 to 1 (negative sentiment to positive) and calculated the average sentiment for each user's comment.

Sentiment analyses are used to understand the general feelings that people have about a certain topic or brand in order to drive changes processes to increase.

Our work can be used to understand how people feel about the presidential candidates in order to:
- Change campaign tactics to shift people who are on the fence
- Find common ground and identify what's important to voters
- Filling in information gaps left behind by polling
Machine Learning with Presidential Candidates
https://lnicholsonmesm.github.io/machine-learning-presidents/index.html
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
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Hiring and Recruitment Lead at the Hispanic-Latinx Employee Resource Group
adidas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/adidas
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Communications Lead at LGBTQ Employee Resouce Group
Poverty Alleviation
TECHO | TETO
https://www.linkedin.com/company/techo-teto
TECHO is a youth-led organization that seeks to overcome poverty in slums through the joint work of families living in extreme poverty and volunteers. I joined TECHO in 2012 almost by accident and, since then, I became passionate on subjects such as poverty, community psychology, and community development. This is why I have been involved in the area of construction, communications, and in the organization of the annual fundraiser.
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Construction and communications
Pro Journo
https://www.linkedin.com/company/projourno
Reporter at the World Resources Forum at Davos Switzerland for Student Reporter, now ProJourno. Trained and edited by Sally McGrain, freelance writer for The New York Times, Bloomberg, among others.

http://projourno.org/author/aranzazuballesteros/
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Reporter at the World Resources Forum
Nueva Prensa
Nueva Prensa is the largest student-lead multimedia in Mexico. I joined in 2012 as an economics writer, later becoming a photographer and editor in chief. I also contributed with "Casa de muñecas" (Doll's house) a column of gender equality and privilege.  

http://nuevaprensa.net/?s=aranzazu
Editor in chief, columnist, reporter, and photographer
LinkedIn
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Unconscious Bias
http://www.linkedin.com/learning/unconscious-bias
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Having Difficult Conversations (2013)
http://www.linkedin.com/learning/having-difficult-conversations-2013
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Diversity and Inclusion in a Global Enterprise
http://www.linkedin.com/learning/diversity-and-inclusion-in-a-global-enterprise
LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
Project Management Foundations
http://www.linkedin.com/learning/project-management-foundations
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        I was Aranza's instructor for an intensive, 6 month bootcamp geared toward data analytics and visualization. Most students, like Aranza, came in with little to no programming experience, which is a required skill for data analytics these days.

I found that Aranza was an ideal student. She was unafraid to ask questions, ok with saying she didn't know the answer to something, and open to having her work critiqued. Her curiosity, desire to learn, and ability to turn around and apply the new skills were evident; she shared examples of how she was able to use the tools and techniques we learned in class almost immediately in her current role. Most importantly, she did all this with a positive attitude and with no sense of competition with her classmates, which can be rare these days. Instead, she actively encouraged other students and assisted them in their own learning.

Although I haven't worked with Aranza in a professional setting, the traits that she demonstrated in the classroom are clearly valuable in a business environment - the ability to ask the right questions, the capacity to learn new skills and understand how they relate, the understanding that if your teammates do better then everybody does better. If Aranza approaches her professional goals in the same manner as her educational ones (and I have no doubt she does!) then I would not hesitate to recommend her as a strong addition to any organization. Angel Lawler
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aranza has the unique talent of thinking with her left and right brain simultaneously. I have been so impressed by Aranza's ability to listen to the needs of my team, and come up with actionable solutions that both respond to the needs we have expressed and anticipate needs we had not yet considered. Aranza has become my go to point of contact on the Operations team as I trust her work and appreciate her relational approach to data. Ultimately, Aranza is sharp, thoughtful, consistent and a genuine pleasure to work alongside.
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Vigo
Aránzazu Izard Ballesteros
Administrativa en ASISTENCIAS DIANA SL
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Greater Vigo Metropolitan Area
Aranzazu Escobero Ballesteros
Empleada hogar en Silvia Estevez
Boot Camp Network - Alumni
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adidas Alumni + Employee Network
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Amnesty International - working to protect human rights worldwide
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adidas Careers: Shape the Future of Sport
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TECHO.org
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Online Journalism
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Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations
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Changemakers
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