# Alyssa Alvarez

> Recruiting @ Figma

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alyssaalvarez

## Work Experience
### Business Recruiter @ Figma
Jan 2025 – Present

### Business Recruiter @ Whatnot
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
Hired for Marketing, G&A, Comms, GTM and Categories & Expansion.

### Senior Sourcer @ Pinterest
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Boomeranged back to Pinterest for a short term hiring push within our Business Recruiting team (Sales, GTM, G&A).

### Senior Sourcer - Product Design, Marketing & Creative @ TikTok
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Supported the Monetization & Product Technology org.

Areas of focus: Ads, Product Design, Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Creative, Gen AI, Measurement, Content Design and UI/UX.

### Founding Recruiter @ Joy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Hired as Joy’s 1st and only in-house Recruiter to build and scale the entire Talent Acquisition function from the ground up. I scaled the company from 40 to 80 inclusive of Product, Design, Marketing, Engineering, Go To Market, BizOps, Merchandising/e-Commerce and Customer Service orgs.

Other projects included: Talent Branding, Recruiting Operations, Strategy 

Joy was founded in 2016 and is a Y Combinator graduate. Joy is an All in one wedding registry and wedding website platform with over 1 million users.

### Product Design & UX Research Recruiter @ Pinterest
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Areas of focus: Product Design, Product Marketing, Monetization, Ads and UI/UX.

### Design/Creative & Business Sourcer @ Pinterest
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Areas of focus: Brand Creative, Design, Marketing, Go To Market, Ads Measurement/Performance Marketing, Legal, Sales, Finance, BizOps, G&A, People and Community Operations (mid-level to Exec level roles globally).

Tools: Greenhouse, Linkedin Recruiter, Goodtime, Gem, Trello

### Talent/Recruiting Operations @ Netflix
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Recruiting Researcher @ Netflix
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Gatos, California
I was a hybrid Full-Cycle Recruiter and Sourcer supporting our Corporate Operations and Customer Service organizations. I recruited for both technical and non-technical roles globally (Technical Escalations, Learning and Development, Product Design/Visual Design, Production Support, Marketing, Product Support Operations and Trust and Safety). 

Tools: Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter, Trello

### Talent Acquisition @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California
Tools: ServiceNow, Jobvite, HireIn (Internal ATS)


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Communication and Media Studies
California State University - East Bay


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alyssa-alvarez1

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Last updated: 2026-04-13