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About me

Engineer. Recruiter. Builder. Photographer.

People-first. Empathy-led. A decade understanding what teams actually need — and building for them.

I started my career as an engineer — building tooling and testing infrastructure. In 2014, I helped a friend build a startup and ended up stepping into a talent operations role. I never looked back.

What followed was a decade at the intersection of people and systems — the person who rebuilds the ATS, redesigns the workflow, ships the internal tool, and then goes and fills the role. At Zocdoc, Spotify, and WMG, I was always the hybrid: part recruiter, part operator, part builder.

At WMG I scaled a greenfield tech org, implemented Lever as the org's first ATS, and built two internal tools from scratch — all while serving as the AI and technology SME for the Global HR and Talent team.

I'm now focused on moving fully into Talent Systems and HR Technology, where the engineering instincts and the talent expertise finally live in the same role.

10+
Years in talent
20+
ATS implementations
2
Tools built & deployed
$0
Licensing cost on my tools
Ari Benezra
Projects

Things I've built.

Locked In.

Interview scheduling platform with a recruiter/coordinator persona split. Ticket queue, availability parsing, dual calendar previews, dashboard, reports, and historic archive. AI scheduling on roadmap.

HR TechSchedulingDual Persona$0 licensing
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S

Scout

AI-powered candidate FAQ chatbot. Handles common questions dynamically via a Google Sheets knowledge base. Reduces coordinator workload instantly.

AIChatbotGoogle SheetsLive
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HC

HC Packet

Automates hiring committee prep by pulling candidate interview feedback directly from Lever via API and generating structured feedback packets using a pre-built company template. Used by engineering leaders during hiring committee reviews.

Lever APIGoogle AppScriptsAutomationLive
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Experience

Where I've been.

May 2023 — Present
Lead Tech TA Partner & Talent AI SME
Warner Music Group
  • Implemented Lever as WMG's first ATS — rolled out to 100+ users, drove adoption across global teams, and built governance and documentation from scratch
  • AI and technology SME for the Global HR and Talent team — built strategy and roadmap for AI adoption, tool evaluation, and responsible implementation across the org
  • Scaled greenfield Global Tech org from zero — first dedicated tech talent hire, built the function end to end
  • Built automation and AI-powered internal tools to drive recruiting efficiency across the talent team
July 2021 — Jan 2023
Global Talent Acquisition Partner
Spotify
  • Product talent owner and hiring analytics lead for Spotify's Music Mission — owned reporting and data across all mission-wide recruiting activity
  • Global Ops lead for LGBTQIA+ ERG — built and scaled programs across a global employee base
  • Global Ops lead for DEI recruiting technology — drove tool strategy and adoption across the talent org
June 2019 — July 2021
Technical Recruiter & Talent Operations
Zocdoc
  • Rebuilt Greenhouse ATS end to end — standardized configs, automated reporting, redesigned candidate experience, and built training videos for the recruiting team
  • Founded Zocdoc's first LGBTQIA+ employee resource group and built community programs from the ground up
  • Built strategy and reporting infrastructure that improved recruiting team metrics by 30–40%
  • Developed brand strategy to improve employer NPS across Glassdoor and external review platforms
2014 — 2019
Earlier Experience
Software engineer · Automation engineer · Talent Ops · NYC startups & software companies
  • Career began as a software and automation engineer across multiple NYC startups and software companies before moving into Talent Operations — a hybrid background that never fully went away.
Skills & tools

What I work with.

Talent Systems & ATS
LeverGreenhouseWorkdayAshbyWorkflow Design
AI & Automation
ClaudeChatGPTGeminiAppScriptsCursorv0VercelAnthropic APIOpenAI APIGemini API
Analytics
TableauSQLGoogle SheetsExcel
Sourcing
GemSeekOutLinkedIn RecruiterJuicebox
Collaboration
Google WorkspaceAsanaJiraSlackGitHub
Building
HTML / CSS / JS / ReactPythonGit / GitHub PagesFigmaFirebaseGoogle APIs
Contact

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